The Washington herald., 1912-04-17
BY ABA LEE.

I have Just met and talked TO a REAL
woman. When instructed 10 interview
Marjorie Hamilton, who has won fame
and fortune by teaching fat people how
10 grow slim BY her drugless treatment,
/ didn't know just what kind Of a person
expected TO meet; but l do know that,
no matter what my expectations were
was most agreeably disappointed
/ was ushered into her rooms and
slim, exquisite, girlish young creature,
radiant with health and youthful beauty
and with the most beautiful skin / have
ever seen, came toward me with gen
ulne sure-ire smile beaming at me across
her outstretched hand. marveled to
buoyant slip OF a girl be the most dis
cussed beauty specialist In the world?
Could this hght-hearted picture OF un-
spoiled young womanhood be the marvel
Of commercial acumen and enterprise
whose success had startled business men
by the originality and soundness OF Its
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 il is the out
policy. Il owe my success to the fact
that I have built. NOT ON THE TEARS
OF RIsAP I1fG RI PA 46T 3S BIT
WHO CAME TO Me NOT IN VAIN.
1t Is my proudest boast that the best ad-
vertising / get is not what l pay for to
the newspapers and the magazines, but
the free and unsolicited testimonials
given by word Of mouth to those who
suffer from fat by those I have reduced
why 1 have succeeded where others have
failed. I have really relieved people of
their burdens Of fat, and have done it
without drugs, without tearing the bodies
Of delicate women TO pieces with strenu-
Gus and Injurious exercises. without
starving them.
that ! used to be calendar model,
posing for photographers. My pictures
pleased so well that they were used by
one big firm in Chicago on one entire
my nickname OF The Calendar Girl
The posing brought me big returns,
and II was lazy work. The result was,
model. My last sittings had been fall
ure-I was too fat. You can imagine how
broken-hearted j was. My means OF sub
sistence was vanishing. and could see
only life of drudgery ahead. Then I
rushed frantically to the files of a news
paper to look for fat-reducing ad.
II found It'll found dozens OF them.
tried one. tried ten; they none Of them
benefited me The drug nostrums ruined
my health and / grew sallow and Ill
! couldn't eat, ! couldn't digest what food
me. but 1t left me haggard and ugly.
and the pretty lines Of my figure sagged
and seemed to lose their symmetry.
Then I tried exercises. l was always
fond OF sports and outdoor games, but
the dreary monotony OF these exercises
grew every day more trying. as fol-
lowed out the courses laid down by the
physical torture experts until every bone
in nay poor little body ached, and de-
cided even fat was better. I tried starv-
ing myself, but the result, while 1t took
n h "
checked and dim-eyed, and felt my
vitality slipping away from me.
IT was desperate. story appeared
tragedy. The wife had killed herself be-
cause her husband had ceased to love
her. Pictures OF the unfortunate woman
s gfGs printed AND SHE WAS VERY
THAT was the moving factor IN my
life. The thought that /, too. some day
heart would remain closed TO me because
my ungainly, ugly fat body robbed me
of that attractiveness that all men de-
me I went to work to solve the prob
lem of how to regain my sltmness- I
can't tell YOU all that did-the expert
ments. the studying. the eGnsnitatio ions
letes, books on medicine, the theory OF
body building, and degeneration of the
human system: II beams esans mania a Win
ments, my diversions, my pursuits. and
worked night and day, weighing and
watching. snalyzing and studying and
trying to apply to what 1 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. think
results speak for themselves! and she
stood up straight and slender as any
carnate health and beauty. the most glor-
ious young creature I 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 fnd?"
well. 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 dam
ger from the same cause. That led me
to thinking of the other people who suf-
fer from too solid fesh, as Shakespeare,
calls IT, had spent one summer Of
intense discomfort when was fat. slen-