The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-08-29

/ what cured me OF being too stout
would swallow one OF those pills like I
| swallowed In DR.. Millions private
Office, II they could only get one. But
ushl when I think of taking that pill
and DR.. Million looking on in his gen.
tlemanly way, | feel dreadful ashamed
of myself and dreadful angry at him.
The strangest thing about Il was.
Or. Million gave every one of his pa.
ticnts 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
corilng TO directions.
knew OF only one lady who took
the pills. and truly enough she stopped
right away growing slenderer, and
stood stlll for over two weeks. Then
she began to grow stout again, and
now shc Is much stouter than before
she went to DR. Million.
That is why | am afraid to touch
those green pills dislike to be as
slender as | am. considering I am quite
tall woman but | should dislike
more to grow as stout as | used TO be.
So | have put those green pills away
In my bureau, and every little while
| look at them and wonder II | could
dare take them.
once asked DR. Million what II was
that he gave his patients to make
them so slender. hut he only laughed
and said that that would be to give
away his great secret, which had cost
him over sl.000,000, and OF course he
couldn't do that. But he told me not
to worry. as II was natural remedy
for stoutness. and as old as Egypt. and
that II | 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
I had paid DR.. Million as much as $500
no said that I 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 II | knew what II was that
DR.. Million gave us ladies to make US
slender.
OF course, didn't know, and
said as much, whereupon she whis
pered something in my ear that made
mo almost slap her face. so vexed AND
mortified was l. But she persisted
that II was true-every word OF II
Why. she herself had weighed nearly
300 but seven months before, while
now she weighed scarcely so pounds
50 slender she had grown.
OF course | thought she had takeL
some offense at DIR. Million. or was
sent in by some other doctor to fright
en- away his patients. and | was rea
rude to her. But since then hav,
learned that she was Just an honest
high-spirited lady like myself, trylns
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 went again
t. call on DIR. Million to ask him to
his face II It was true; but he was
gone.
| never was 80 much astonished II
all my life; gone for good. the janitoi
o: the building told us. Why. believ,
| would have trusted DIR. Million with
my eyes. However, he was gone ant
there was no use crying over split
milk; and, besides, | was as slender
as 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 II must be so. DR..
Million-it is enough, think TO make
proud'spirlted woman blush with
shame-had given every one OF us. In
those big capsules we swallowed In
his private Office. a 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
W. hdu hil uttpiht bh bltnutT hh hnhu
ows. And those green pills were to
kill the snake when we had been
esten-as II were-out OF house and
home. and didn't want to grow any
slenderer.
Mercy! | have heard OF men having
the snakes, but | never dreamt that
should some day have them myself
ard can hardly keep my hands on
that little box of green pills. But /
know II should take those pills and
the snake In my stomach be killed,
| should weigh 275 pounds within
year. and do so want to stay slender.
Eighty.nine pounds for a fairly tall
woman. as women go, is too slender.
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 II.
Cheap Ice for the Poor.
The problem Of producing Ice in
small quantities quickly and cheaply
has, apparently, been solved by a