The Washington herald., 1912-04-16
By ABA LEE.

have just met and talked 20 a REAL
woman. Whel. instructed to interview
and fortune by teaching fat people how
TO grow slim by her drugless treatment
] didn't know lust what kind of a person
/ expected TO meet: but 1 do know that
no matter what my expectations were,
was most agreeably disappointed.
1 was ushered into her rooms and a
slim, exquisite, girlish. young. creature,
radiant with health and youthful beauty
and with the most beautiful skin have
ever seen, came toward me with a gen.
uine sure-fire smile beaming at me across
myself. NCould this fresh. wholesome
buoyant slip of a girl be the most dis
cussed beauty specialist IN the world2
Could this light-hearted picture of IN
spoiled young womanhood be the marvel
Of commercial acumen and enterprise
whose success had startled business men
by the originality and soundness OF its
methods? 1 was gc.ng TO find 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 Hamilton" 1 asked.
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 firmly established business
policy. Il owe my success 10 the fact
that / have built; NOT ON TaE, TEARS
ON THE SMILES AND JOY OF THOSE
WHO CAME TO ME NOT IN VAIN.
IT is my proudesT boast that the best ad-
vertising / get is not what / Pay for to
the newspapers and the magazines, but
the free and unsolicited testimonials
given by word of mouth to those who
to the slimness they desire. That Is
why I have succeeded where others have
failed. / have really relieved people of
their burdens of fat, and have done it
W hOdiae
of delicate women to pieces with strenu-
Gus and injurious exercises, without
'T suppose YOU know" she continued,
that I used to be calendar model
posing for photographers. Ny pictures
pleased so well that they were used by
one big firm in Chicago on one entire
issue Of calendars one year, and won me
my nickname of The Calendar Girl
The posing brought me big returns,
and 1t was lazy work. The result was,
that one day the photographer had a new
model. My last sittings had been a fall
ure-I was too fat. You can imagine how
broken-hesrted / was. Ny means Of sub
sistence was vanishing, and / could see
only q life Of drudgery ahead Then 1
rushed frantically to the files of news
Il found it'll found dozens Of them.
] tried one, tried ten; they none Of them
benefited me. The drug nostrums ruined
my , health and ,i grew Ssilow and I'll III
I forced myself 10 take. Some fat left
me, but II left me haggard and ugly,
and the pretty lines of my figure sagged
Then I tried exercises. 1 was always
fond of sports and outdoor games, but
the dreary monotony OF these exercises
lowed out the courses laid down by the
physical torture experts until every bone
in my poor little body ached, and I de-
ing myself, but the result, while It took
pounds on fast enough, left me hollow
checked and dim-eyed, and / felt my
vitality slipping away from me.
Il was desperate. A story appeared
about that time telling of a domestic
tragedy. The wife had killed herself be-
her. Pictures of the unfortunate woman
were printed. AND SHE WAS VERY
THAT was the moving factor in my
might fall in love with some man whose
heart would remain closed TO me because
my ungatnly, ugly fat body robbed me
of that attractiveness that all men de-
sire in the woman of their hearts, chilled
me. I went to work to solve the prob
lem of how to regain my slimness. I
ments, the studying, the consultations
with eminent experts, physicians, ath-
letes, books on medicine the theory Of
body, building, and degeneration of the
hCman system. 1t 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 I 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. was my first patron. think |
results speak for themselves" and she |
stood Up straight and slender as any |
nymph OF the woodlands, a picture OF in 1
carnate health and beauty, the most glor-
ious young creature ] have gazed on in |
many long moons.
Teaches Others to BE slim.
And how did you happen to go into |
the business OF exploiting your find?"
Wei, the fate of my 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 euf- |
fer from too solid flesh. as Shakespeare |
calls IT, ! had spent one summer of
intense discomfort when was fat. Slen-