Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-16
BY ADA LEE

4 udY0 1ubI met ana talked TO a hEAb
woman. When instructed TO interview
Marjorie Hamilton. who has won fame
and fortune by teaching fat people how
to grow slim by her drugless treatment.
I didn't know just what kind of a person
I expected to meet; but do know that,
no matter what my expectations were, I
was most agreeably disappointed
I was ushered into her rooms and a
slim, exquisite, girlish young creature,
radiant with health and youthful beauty
and will the most beautiful skin l have
ever seen, came towards me with a gen
uine sureflre smile beaming at me across
her outetretched hand. / marveled to
myself. Could this fresh, wholesome,
cussed beauty specialist in the world?
Could this light-hearted picture of un3I
spoiled young ,womanhood be n marxel
whose success had startled business men
by the originality and ~soundness OF It's
methods? I was going to find out
shoals of conventionality I put my first
real question to her:
How d3 y9q a afGoT9!, 1or geSr great
Success Built on Smiles.
There was no hesitation in her answer,
which shows that the secret Is not the
result Of chance, but that It Is the out
come of a firmly established business
tpboat I have built Nor on THE TEARS
OF DISAPPOINTED PATRONS. But
ON THE SMILES AND JOY OF THOSE
1t is my proudest boast that the best ad-
vertising l get is not what I pay for. TO
the newspapers and the magazines, but
the free rec w ana o 9ns moetS to te thoIe Who
suffer from fat by those | have reduced
to the SHINES they desire That is
why 1 have succeeded where Others have
failed. / have really relieved people Of
their burdens of fat, and l have done II
without drugs, without tearing the bodies
Of delicate women to pieces with strenu-
Gus and injurious exercises. without
II suppose you know" she continued,
"that l used to be a calendar model,
posing for photographers. My pictures
pleased so well that they were used by
one big hrm in Chicago on one entire
Issue of calendars one year, and won me
nickname Of The Calendar Girl
THE posing brought me big returns
and it was lazy work. The result was.
that one day the photographer had a new
model. Ny last slttings had been a fail
ure-I was too fat. You can imagine how
broken-hearted l was. My means Of SUB
only a life of drudgery ahead. Then |
rushed frantically to the files of a news
paper to look for a Introducing ad.
'I found it, found dozens or them
I tried one. I tried ten: they none of them
benefited me. The drug nostrums ruined
my health and I grew saHow ana III
l couldn't eat, / couldn't digest what food
1 forced myself to take. Some Fat lett
me. but 1t left me haggard ana uglys
the pretty lines of my figure saggee
and seemed to lose their
Then ] tried exercises. / was always
fond of sports and outdoor games, but
the drearY moDotonE OF these exercises
out the courses laid down by, the
physical torture experts until every bone
in my poor little body aehed. ana ! 9e-
ing myself. but the result, while II took
pounds off fast enough, left me hollow
and dim-eyed. ana l leit my
Il was desperate. A story appeareo
about that tine telling OF a domestic
tragedy. The wife had killed herSeif De
cause her husband had ceased to love
were printed. AND II WAS NERH
t.STThat was the moving factor in my
life The thought that I, too, some day
might fall in love with some man whose
heart would remain elqsea 20 n,ohbed me
III that attraetivensss that all men De
lire in the woman of their hearts. chilled
IF how to regain my slirnness. /
amt tell yen all that did-tne experl-
nents, the studying. the eonsulsauops
etes. books on medicine. the theory OF
,odv building, and degeneration OF ny
numan system. It became a mama WI
ne. / gave up my friends, my ANUS
nents. nv diversions. my pursuits, ana
night and day, wa
Watching, ana .g aho T'9le ~ rnsd Che
RNII2 lN||L2HlAA ~
rood plain horse sense with which nature
md nv ancestors had endowed me.
At last | saw what l thought Was
! way out, I decided to experiment. on
was my first patron l Shsh hS
ISL mn straight and slender as n
,vmnh Of the woodlands, a picture OF IN
srnafe health and beauty. the most glor-
Young creature I have gazed on IN
many long moons.
Teaches Others To Be SLIM
And how did you happen to so into
he business OF exploiting your
@sWel. the fat of the unhappy wife
ed me- to think a great deal, and /
that she must not be the only
wife whose happiness might be IN oan-
,er from the same cause. That led me
q thinking of the other people who suf-
'er from a too solid flesh, as Shakespeare
,a1s II. I had spent one summer OF
discomfort when I was fat Slen-
ief people have ne idea how fat people :