The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-14

is: Because those who are out of it want
to get in, and those who are in want to get
out. So those who are thin want to get
fat, and those who are fat want TO get
thin.
STILL ANOTHER CURE FAILS.
Upon my return to New York of course
sauntered up dear old Broadway. Ny
eye was caught by the display in the win
dows of certain drug store. This dis
play consisted of the photograph OF an
enormously fat man as he appeared before
taking the Marienbad pill for reduction OF
fat; another photograph showed him
quite emaciated after taking it. More con-
vincing still were the photographs of ex-
Queen Isabella, representing her as almost
slender after Matchmaking, Inquiry
brought forth small pamphlet compiled
by the official physician OF the
Marienbad Springs fromm the sui
plated sodic salts of which the pill is COM
posed. This doctor claims that the ex-
queen of Spain was under his care in Paris
for eight weeks, and during that time lost
seventy pounds in weight and decreased
seven inches around the waist. This al
legged reduction of well-known immensely
stout woman inspired me with hope and
the desire to try again just once more to
rid myself of the corpulence which was
now not only burdensome TO carry, but
seriously affecting my health.
Upon the druggists assurance that the
pills were harmless / bought seven boxes
of them. price $2.25 box, each box con-
tanning fifty pills. Success was guaranteed.
provided the directions were followed
and the diet adhered to- I adhered to
everything. Here is the Marienbad re-
duction cure:
DIETARY TABLE.
Breakfast-one cup tea or coffee, with sugar
and milk: bread. two or three slices, with a
little butter; one egg (yelk only or one ana
half ounces of meat.
Dinner-Meat or fish, seven ounces; plainly
cooked vegetables, as much as desired (spinacfi,
lettuce, string beans, beet tops, cabbage, toma.
toes, etc): farinaceous dishes, not to exceed
three ounces potatoes, rice maccaronl, etc. j.
salad plainly dressed, one ounce; cooked fruits,
with very little sugar, as desired; water spar
ingly.
ounces lean meat salad (radishes, pickles, etc),
small quantity; bread, one slice fruit (preier-
ably cooked, four ounces; tea or coffee, one
cup.
No beer. ale, cider, champagne, sweet wines
or spirits; light acid wines (claret hook, etc.,
in great moderation; no milk except in tea or
coffee
The result of my first weeks dosing was
hardly so marked as in that of Isabella 8
case, as lost but one ounce. The second
week / lost one pound, and began TO take
heart of grace. The third week that
mound came back, and for the balance of
the time | was Matchmaking that pound
and the pill kept playing battledoor and
shuttlecock. Back it came and went, until
at last the pound won, bringing with it
to emphasize its triumph, rs it were
three more rounds.
l had taken $50 Marienbad reduction
pills and had gained three pounds
Now" said to myself, "when next / am
lured into initiating any ex-queen, fat or
lean. will buy an article of home manu-
facture." And with that / nailed my
colors to the mast. They bore this strange
device:
Eternal starvation is the only price of
leanness." CELIA LOGAN.