The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-08-20


Office. If they could only get one. But,
ugh! when 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
ttcnts a 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 &C.
cording to directions.
l 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 stcuter than before
she went to DR.. Million.
That is why l am afraid to touch
those green pills. l dislike to be as
slender as am, considering am quite
tall woman, but l should dislike
more to grow as stout as l used to be.
So l have put those green pills away
in my bureau, and every little while
l look at them and wonder IL l 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 100000, and of course he
couldn't do that. But he told me not
to worry, as 1t was a natural remedy
for stoutness, and as old as Egypt, and
that if I wished to grow stout again.
ali had to do was to take those green
pills. But daren't.
Well, things went on, as my friends
said, from thin to thinner, and when
l had paid DR.. Million as much as $500
he said that was cured, and after
that must come to see him only as .
friend, and no longer a patient. And.
indeed, l was quite fond of him, and
did go to see him quite often, and he
always seemed to have as many pa
t1ents as he could possibly attend to;
but, finally, one day, lady in the
Office got ME out into the hallway, and
asked me il l knew what it was that
DIR. Million gave us ladies to make us
slender
OF course, l didn't know, and I
said as much, whereupon she whis-
pered something in my ear that made
me almost slap her face, so vexed and
mortified was l. But she persisted
that 1t was true-every word Of 1t.
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 thought she had taken
some offense at DR.. Million, or was
sent in by some other doctor to fright
en- away his patients, and was real
rude to her. But since then I have
learned that she wss 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
t. call on DR.. Million to ask him to
his face If it was true; but he was
gone
never was so much astonished in
all my life; gone for good, the janitor
o: the building told us. Why, 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 l ever wish to be, weighing only
about 80 pounds with my clothing ON.
The day after the doctor was gone.
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
proud-spiriled woman blush with
shame-had given every one of us, in
those big capsules we swallowed In
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 eft
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! have heard Of men having
the snakes, but l never dreamt that I
should some day have them myself,
aid can hardly keep my hands OF
that little box of green pills. But I
know If should take those pills and
the snake in my stomach be killed.
should weigh PTS pounds within .
year, and do 90 want to stay slender.
Eighty nine pounds for . fairly tail
woman, as women go. is too slender. I
think, and my husband says that it's
too thin, too, and am MORALLY afraid
that he will learn about those green
pills and put them in my food without
me knowing anything about 1t.