The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-16
BY ADA LEE

I have just met and talked to a REAL woman. When instructed to in : terview Marjorie Hamilton. wno has as people how to grow slim by her drug less treatment l didn't know just what kind of person l expected 70 meet; but I do know that, no matter what my expectations were, was most agreeably disappointed
 r I was ushered into her rooms ana a slim, exquisite, girlish young erect ure, radiant with health and youthful beauty and with the most beautiful skin l have ever seen, came towards beaming at me across her outstre tened hand. marveled to myself, Could this fresh, wholesome, buoyant SID or girl be the most discussed beauty specialist in the world? NCould this light-hearted picture of unspoiled young womanhood be the marvel of whose success had startled business men by the originality and soundness of its methods? l was going to Ind out.
 After we had passed safely over the shoals of conventionality, I put my first real question to her:
 How do you account for your great success, Miss HamiltonY 1 asked.
 Success Built on Smiles
 There was no hesitation in her an swer which shows that the secret is the outcome of a firmly established business policy. "I owe my success to the fact that I have built NQT T., Q oS !, PATRONS, BUT ON THE SMILES AND JOY OF THOSE WHO CAME TO ME NOT IN VAIN. It is my prondest Is not what I pay for to the. ne ewspa pers and the magazines, but the free and unsolicited testimonials given by word of mouth to those who suffer from from fat fat they desire. That is why I have sue ceeded where others have failed l have really relieved d people of dond the, without drugs, without tearing the bodies of delicate women to pieces with strenuous and injurious exercises without starving them.
 T suppose you know" she continued that l used to be calendar model posing for photogra phers. My pictures by one big firm in Chicago on one en- tire issue of calendars one year, and won me my nickname of The Calendar Girl'
 The posing brought me big returns that one day the photographer had 8 new model. My last sittings had been imagine how broken-heart I was My means of subsistence was vanish ing,, and I could see only life oi tically to the files of a newspaper to look for a fat-reducing ad.
 ."I found it--I found dozens of them
 
 them benefited me. The drug nostrums ruined my health and I grew sallow and i'll; I couldn't eat. l couldn't di- gest what food I forced myself to take Some fat left me, but it left me hag- gard and ugly, and the pretty lines oi my figure sagged and seemed to lose was always fond of sports and out door games, but the dreary monotony of these exercises grew every day rYpdg ad do@n by fRoTsd Re pnaea Sa @ a ture experts until every bone in my poor little body ached and I decided even fat was better l tried starving pounds off fast enough. left me hoi. low checked and dim-eyed and I fef my, vitality slipping away from me. about. that time telling. of a domestic tragedy. The wife had killed herself her. Pictures of the unfortunate wom- VERY STOUT.
 That was the moving factor in my life: The sa ', thought that l; too, some day whose heart would remain closed to me. because. my ungainly. ugly, fat body robbed me of that attractiveness that all men desire in the woman of their hearts, chilled me. l went to work to solve the problem of how to regain my, slimness. l can't tell you studying, the consultations with em- inent experts. physicians, athletes books on medicine, the theory Of body building, and degeneration of the hu- man system. It became a mania with me. I gave up my friends, my amuse- ments, my diversions my pursuits and worked night and day weighing and watching, analysing and studying and trying to apply to what l learned the good plain horse sense with which nature and my ancestors had endowed me. When at last I saw what thought was a way out. I decided to experiment on myself. I was my first patron. l think results speak for themselves!' and she stood up straight and slender as any nymph of the wood lands, picture of incarnate health and beauty, the most glorious young creature l have gazed on in many long moons.
 Teaches Others To Re Slim
 And how did you happen to go into the business of exploiting your find p'
 Well, the fate of the unhappy wife led me to think a great deal. and realized that she must not be the only wife whose happiness might be in dan. ger from the same cause That led me to thinking of the other people who suffer from "a too solid flesh, as
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