The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
BY ADA LEE

/ have just met and talked to REAL
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
matter what my expectations were, I was
most agreeably disappointed.
/ was ushered into her rooms and a
slim, exquisite, girlish young creature,
radiant with health and youthful beauty
and with the most beautiful skin I have
ever seen, came towards me with a gem
uine sure-fire smile beaming at me across
her outstretched hand. I marveled TO
myself Could this fresh, wholesome
buoyant slip of girl be the most dis
cuSsed beauty specialist in the world !!
Could this nght-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
methods? 1 was going to find out.
After we. had passed safely over the
shoals of conyentionality, I put my first
real question. to her:
How do you account for your great
success Miss Hamilton I 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 y owe my success to the fact
OF DISAPPOINTED PATRONS, BUT
ON THE SMILES AND JOY OF THOSE
WHO CAME TO ME NOT IN VAIN.
1t is my proudest boast that the best ad-
vertising I get is not what I pay for 70
the newspapers and the magazines bu+
the free and unsolicited testimonials given
by word of mouth to those who suffer
from fat by those I have reduced to the
slimness they desire. That is why I have
succeeded where others have failed. I
n1nTlA al hIIr
dens of fat, and I have done it without
drugs, without tearing the bodies of deli
cate women to pieces with strenuous and
injurious exercises, without starving them.
Il suppose you know" she continued,
that I used to be a calendar model, pos
ing for photographers. 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
1.-The posing brought me big returns,
and it was lazy work. The result was,
that one day the photographer had new
model. My last sittings had been fall
ure-I was too fat. You can imagine how
broken hearted I was. My means of sub
sistence was vanishing, and could see
rushed frantically to the files Of a news
paper to look for fat-reducing ad.
IT found til found dozens of them.
I tried one, tried ten; they none of them
benefited me. The drug nostrums ruined
my health and I grew sallow and III.
7 couldn't eat, couldn't digest what food
L
me. but it left me haggard and ugly,
and the pretty lines of my figure sagged
and seemed to lose their symmetry. Then
I tried exercise. I was always fond OF
sports and outdoor games but the dreary
of these exercises grew every
day more trying, as I followed out the
laid down by the physical torture
experts until every bone in my poor little
body ached, and decided even fat was
better I tried starving myself, but the
result while it took pounds off fast
enough left me hollow-cheeked and dim
eyed and T felt my vitality slipping away
from me-
ct was desperate. A story appeared
a bout that time telling of a domestic
tragedy. The wife had killed herself be-
cause her husband had ceased to love her.
Pictures of the unfortunate woman were
printed AND SHE WAS VERY STOUT.
''That 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 closed to me because my
ungainly, ugly fat body robbed me of that
that all men desire in the
woman of their hearts, chilled me-
went to work to solve the problem of how
to regain my slinness. can't tell you
all that I did-the experiments, the study
ing the consultations with eminent ex-
Derts. physicians, athletes, books on medi-
cine the theory of body building, and DE-
generation of the human system. 1t De-