The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-04-16
BY ADA LEE

BY ADA LEE =
:, I ! have Just met and talked to. a
interview Marjorie Hamilton who
has won fame and fortune by teach
ing fat people how to grow slim by
her drugiess treat ment. Il didn't
know just what. kind of asperson I
expected to meet; but 1 do know that
no matter what my expectations
were. / was most agreeably disap-
pointed.
was ushered into her rooms and
a slim, exquisite, gfrlish young Gre
Youthful beauty and with the most
beautiful skin I have ever seen,
came towards me with genuine
sure-fire smile beamipgS at me
across her ,eoutstretched hand. I
marvefed to myself. Could this
girl be the most discussed beauty
specialist in the world? Could this
light-hearted picture of unspeiied
young womanhoed be the marvel Of
commercial acumen and enterprise
whose success had startled business
men by the originality andFsound-
ness of its methods? I was going to
find out.
After we had passed safely over
the shoals of eonventionality, 1 put
my first real question to her:
How do you account for. your
great success, Miss Hamilton" I
asked.
Success Built onn Smiles
There was no hesitation in her
answer. which shows that the Sec
ret Is not the result of chance, but
that 1T is the outcome of a firmly
established business policy. IT
owe my success to the fact that
Ray haye but, p not ,,T ON THE TEARS ABS
But ON THE SMILES AND JOY
OF THOSE WHO CAME TO ME-
NOT IN VAIN. 1t Is my proudest
boast that the best advertising
get is not what l pay for to the
the free and unsolicited testimoni-
ais given by word of mouth to
those who suffer from fat by those
l have reduced to the slimness they
desire. That Is why I have sue
ceeded where others have failed. 1
burdens of fat, and / have done it
without drugs, without tearing the
bodies of delicate women to pieces
with strenuous and injurious exer-
cises, without starving them.
Il suppose you know" she con-
tinued, that 1 used to be a calen-
dar model, posing for photogra-
pliers. My 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 re-
turns, and 1t was lazy work. The
result was, that one day the pho
tographer had a new model. My
last sittings had been failure-I
was too fat. You can imagine how
broken hearted l was. My means
of subsistence was vanishing. and
I could see only a life of drudgery
ahead. Then l rushed frantically
to the files of a newspaper to look
for a fat-reducing ad. 81
Il found it, found dozens of
them. l tried one, I tried ten; they
none of them benefited me. The
drug nostrums ruined my health
and l grew salIow and i'll. couldn't
eat. l couldn't digest what food !
forced myself to take. Some fat
ugly, and the pretty lines of my
figure sagged and seemed to lose
their symmetry. Then | tried ex-
ercises. l was always fond of
sports and outdoor. games, but the
dreary monotony of these exercises
grew every day more trying, as I
followed out the courses laid dawn
by the physical torture experts I'M
til every bone In my poor little
body ached, and I decided even fat
was better, 1 tried starving my
rself, but the result, while, Il took
pounds off fast enough, left me hol-
low checked and dim-eyed, and I
felt my vitality slipping away from
me.
IT was desperate. A story ap-
peared about that time, telling of
a domestic tragedy. The wife had
killed herself because her husband
had ceased to love her. Pictures of
the unfortunate woman were print
ed. AND SHE WAS VERY STOUT.
That was the moving factor in
my life, The thought that L too
some day might fall in love with
some man whose heart would re-
main closed to me because of my
ungsinly, ugly fat body robbed me
of that attraettveness that an men
desire in the woman of their hearts,
chilled me. / went to work to solve
the problem OF how 20 regain my
slimpess. l can't tell you all that
did--the experim ents, the study
ing. the consultations with eminent
experts, physicians. athletes. books
on medicine, the theory OF body