The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-10-22


grow, and some who, after they learn
what cured me OF being. too stout,
would swallow one OF those pills like
swallowed in DR.. Millions private
Office, If they could only get one. But,
ugh! when I think of taking that pill
and DR.. Million looking on in his gem
tiemanly way, feel dreadful ashamed
Of myself and dreadful angry at him.
The strangest thing about It was,
DR.. Million gave every one Of his pa
ttents little box Of green pills, and
said that whenever any one of us
wished to stop where we were-that
is. not get any slenderer-all we had
to do was to take those green pills ac,
cording to directions.
I knew of only one lady who took
the pills, and truly enough she stopped
right away growing slenderer, and
stood still for over two weeks. Then
she began to grow stout again, and
now she is much stouter than before
she went to DIR. Million.
That is why l am afraid to touch
those green pills. / dislike to be as
slender as am, considering am quite
a tall woman, but I should dislike
more to grow as stout as ] used to be.
So I have put those green pills away
In my bureau, and every little while
l look at them and wonder If could
dare take them.
once asked DR.. Million what it was
that he gave his patients to make
them so slender. But he only laughed
and said that that would be to give
away his great secret, which had cost
him over $1,000,000, and of course he
to worry, as it was natural remedy
for stoutness, and as old as Egypt, and
that If wished to grow stout again,
all had to do was to take those green
pills. But l daren't
Well, things went on, as my friends
said, from thin to thinner, and when
had paid DR.. Million as much as $500
he said that l was cured, and after
that must come to see him only as
friend, and no longer a patient. And,
indeed, was quite fond of him, and
did go to see him quite often, and he
always seemed to have as many pa
tients as he could possibly attend to;
but, finally, one day, lady in the
Office got me out'into the hallway, and
asked me if knew what it was that
DR.. Million gave us ladies to make us
slender.
OF course, 1 didn't know, and
said as much, whereupon she whis-
pered something in my ear that made
me almost slap her face, so vexed and
mortified was 1. But she persisted
that it was true-every word of it.
Why, she herself had weighed nearly
300 but seven months before, while
now she weighed scarcely 80 pounds,
50 slender she had grown.
OF course I thought she had taken
sent in by some other doctor to fright
en- away his patients, and I was real
| rude to her. But since then l have
learned that she was just an honest,
high-spirited lady like myself, trying
to warn trusting folks away from the
tolls of an evil doctor.
Now, you will want to know what
this lady said to me, and the day after
she got me into the hall l went again
I to call on DIR. Million to ask him to-
his face if it was true; but he was
gone.
l never was so much astonished I'M
all my life; gone for good, the janitor;
o. the building told us. Why, l believe
l would have trusted DR.. Million with
my eyes. However, he was gone and
there was no use crying over split
milk; and, besides, l was as slender;
as ever wish to be, weighing only
about 80 pounds with my clothing on.
The day after the doctor was gone,
a number of we ladies who had been
his patients all met together at my;
house, and we talked the matter over,
and all agreed that it must be so. Dr.:
Mlllion-it is enough, think, to make,
a proud-spirited woman blush with
shame-had given every one of us, in
those big capsules we swallowed in
his private office, little snake, and
the snake had grown and grown and
grown in our stomachs and eaten up:
everything we had put in our mouths,
until there simply wasn't anything left
for our bodies to live on, and of course
we had all become as slender as shad-
ows. And those green pills were to
kill the snake when we had been
eaten-as it were-out of house and
home, and didn't want to grow any
slenderer.
Mercy! l have heard of men having
the snakes, but l never dreamt that
should some day have them myself,
aid can hardly keep my hands. of
that little box of green pills. But
know if l should take those pills and
the snake in my stomach be killed,
| l should weigh 275 pounds within
year, and do so want to stay slender.
Eighty-nine pounds for fairly tall
woman, as women go. is too slender,
| think, and my husband says that it's
too thin, too, andI am mortally afraid
| that he will learn about those green
pills and put them in my food without
me knowing anything about it.