The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-12
DIED AND CAME
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SAYS GIRL
Fever Girl Tells Of Her Expert
ence With Death Saw
Fathers Vision.
BY LOLA BULLARD,
Cosmopolitan News service.

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ESCANABA, Mich. March H..
Did Evelyn Lyons, twenty-six, the
mysterious fever girl, Of the TIP
per Peninsula, die and come hack
to life?
Were the gates Of the other
world ajar to receive her?
And did her remarkable will
power recall her from death to life
again? Ever since four weeks ago,
Evelyn has startled the medical
world by running q continuous tenn.
perature OF 114 and 116 degrees.
Now comes Evelyn with q new
STARTER she says she was dead;
that she was being waited to the
ssother world and that she came
back to life. saw Evelyn today
as she lay, restless and fidgety, on
the bed in the dining room Of the
little home Of her widowed mother
Mrs. n. j. Lyons.
Girl Is Real Fighter.
Evelyn had her bed moved to the
dining room, where she might keep
her fingers on the pulse Of the house
hold. Evelyn was not feeling as well
today as she has been for the last
week. She complained OF the pain
about her heart, in her back: OF q
Tightening Of her throat But
EVELYN Is game she is d fighter.
Near BY sat her w1ite-haired
mother and attractive sister Cecil,
twenty-three years old.
1t was the mother who took up
the narrative.
1T was about d week ago
stated Mrs. Lyons. Evelyn had
fidgeted and worn herself all out
during the day That evening she
grew worse. 1t was some time
after midnight that we called the
doctor for the second time that
night. but she kept sinking. She
was muttering now and then, and
suddenly we saw her face light up
with q slow smile and she barely
whispered: Father. father-hoWI
pretty your teeth look.
1T ii the end said the DOCTOR
as he drew me aside in the kitchen.
I've done all can. Prepare for
DEATH OF course, we cried ana
some of the neighbor women con-
soled US. telling US it was all for
the best. Then we called the priest,
who administered the last sacra-
ments.
eve knelt by the bed. Then
came the death rattle-it could be
heard all over the house.
Her lungs filled up. Her jaw
dropped down; her eyes rolled back:
breathing stopped, and she grew
cold all over / placed candle
at her head. My girl was dead.
Lasted About 10 Minutes.
"That lasted for about ten min
utes, when one of the women point
ed. Look, she breathes!' she cried,
and sure enough, there was slight
fluttering. Then there was a sort
of choking cough. We rushed
with hot applications; we chafed
her hands and wrists, and slowly
her eyelids fluttered open--she was
alive
Evelyn. even though the fever
consuming her still runs the limit
of DR.. Harry j. Defnet's thermom-
eter, like a regular. woman, still
likes to talk. She took up the mar
rative from here.
1T seemed to me that there was
a long pathway leading right to me
from way out in the nowhere"
said Evelyn, lighted candles, hum |
dreds of them, formed this path |
way OI1A uOWH IL i saw - l
cross--just a bright light forming !
a cross. It came nearer and nearer |
to me, and then saw, just back /
of it, my fathers face, all lit up
with smiles. And / noticed his |
kindly eyes and his lovely teeth.
IT seemed there was a wreath Of |
roses about his head. The cross |
came nearer and nearer, and finally |
1t lay over me-and I was ex-
quisitely happy. Isn't it funny?
IT knew neither you nor Cecil |
was there, mother, but yet was
so divineiy happy. And a great |
peace filled my soul. II that is
death, 1t is very wonderful.
"And do believe that is death. |
I believe the dear ones we lose on |
this earth are waiting for us just |
on the other side'-and that was |
papa waiting for me-
Mr.. Lyons died fourteen years |
ago this month.