The Washington times., 1923-03-10
FEVER GIRL HAS
FUN OVER HER
ILLNESS
Though Temperature Con
tinues at IFS, She Insists
She's Not Sick.
By LOLA BULLARD.
Coalnopolltsa News Service staff
COrr4sp0ndent.


CoalnopOlltsn News Service staff
Correspondent.
ESCANABA, Mich, March TO-
Evelyn Lyons, Escanaba's battling
''tever girl" is having the time OF
her life. She ID q 'mystery'-and
what woman doesn't love to be term
ed ''nystery?" She's the most
talked-ot woman in the Upper
Peninsula"~-and wouldn't that
please the vanity Of any woman?
And Evelyn II a regular" woman.
What does Evelyn care whether the
heads OF the therlnonn meters the doc
tors stick in her mouth pop off?
That's the doctors lookout" says
Evelyn, land anyway, what's q few
notchee more or less on the Their.
nlometer? That doesn't bother me.
Die? / should say not. I'm not
even considering II as q remote pos
sibility. Just because have a little
more heat in my body than anybody
else isn't any reason shuld pass
out Of the picture. is 1t? I'm not
sickA-just q bit weak is al. The
thing that botters me il that the
pesly doctor wants to keep me in
bed, and | don't want to stay. We
fight about it all the time. But
fighting ID fun, so don't know az
/ mind much"
An Attractive Girl.
Evelyn is an attractive girl Of
tWenty.six. Her dark brown hair
is prematurely shot through with
gray. Her eyes protrude slightly
due, the physicians say, to 4 goitor
1IpHs ;.ab uH- a vH 4aY1 f1Ia SsN
moved about five years ago. She
is TALL and slender.
Evelyn lives with her widowed
mother, Mrs. N. J. Lyons, q pretty,
motherly little, woman with wavy
white hair and q sweet face, and
her younger sister.
What does the thermometer say
today, doctor?' Evelyn asked Of
Or. Harry j. Defnet, the attending
physician, who has had the case
SINCE the girl first came to him
almost four weeks ago when her
temperature registered 109 degrees.
Since that TIME her tempera ture
has gone, and now continually
hovers around lis.
see for yourself replied DIR.
Defnet as he held out the
Thermometer.
Jokes With Doctor.
"Gee--only 1142. That's the
same as 1t was yesterday. Can't !
beat that today?
SHAW. people will quit thinking
about me il / don't do better"
With an impish grin, full OF fun.
battling medical science by running
uD q Temperature that would mean
death to the ordinary individual, 10
The least OF the girls worries.
Anyhow, I'm different" says
Evelyn. But say, doc, why have
you got me down in bed like an
invalid?" she queries at every visit
the doctor nakes-and half the
time the girl meets him at the door.
fully clothed and with an elaborate
bow and nnischievous grin, ushers
"Aw. don't seold me. doe-1'm
"say. ia be q cheap one for a
landlord, wouldn't II" said the girl
today. Wouldn't. have to spend
any money to keep my house warm.
I'm plenty hot. But honestly,
they'll make me sick IL I have to
hold many more of those thermom'
eters under my tongue while lot
of curious people stand around and
say, Amt she marvelous?' You'd
think / was the wild woman from
Borneo--and say. there's a way tc
make money--I'll just charge adj
mission to see me. How's THAR
with another smile, for Evelyn's
good humor is irrepressible.
But honest, I'll never be able to
look a chicken in the face again
i've eaten 90 many soft boiled eggs.
/ eYfNf
| square meal would do me a lot OIL
good right now"
1t was four weeks ago Saturday
night that Evelyn walked into DR.
Defnet's office.
Got a headache most all the
time. DOCTOR she greeted him
"And that's when first had a
speaking acquaintance with the
thermometers" said Evelyn, "for
then the doctor, without a word
popped one into my mouth.
thought he was giving me stick
of candy and started to suck on
the thing until the doctor stuck
his finger at me.
You're a sick girl-go to the
hospital, were the CHEEKY words OF
the doctor. But you know me-
went home"
The thermometer, says DR.. Def
net, had registered 100 degrees, but
the girl refused to go to bed. The
next day she returned to the doctor
and was ordered to the hospital, and
again refused, this kept up for a
week until finally she consented to
go. She stayed exactly two days
| and on the morning of the third.
put on her clothes and walked out.
Don't like it--not sick-no sense