The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-16
BY ADA LEE

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
to grow slim by her druglees treatment.
didn't know just what kind OF person
I expected 10 meet; but do know that.
no meter what my Siso sEpGGsa,19nss nno,niss were
was ushered Into her rooms and
slim. exquisite. girlisll young creature.
radiant with health and youthful beauty
ever seen. came towards me with a gen
uine sure-fire smile beeming at me across
her outstretchcd hand. marveled to
myself. Could this fresh, wholesome.
cussed beauty specialist in the world?
Could this light hearted picture OF un,
spoiled young womanhood he the marvel
OF commercial acumen and enterprise
by the originality and soundness OF It's
methods? I was going to find OUT. =.
After we had passed safely over the
shoals OF conventionalfty. / put my first
real question TO her:
~How do you account for your great
success. Miss Hamilton?" 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 II is the out
policy, 81 owe my success 10 the fact
that have built. NOT ON THE TEARS
OF DISAPPOINTED PATRONS. But ON
The The SMILES AND JOY OF THOSE
II is my proudest boast that the best ad
vertising | get is not what | pay for 10
the newspapers and the magazines, but
the free and unsolicited testimonials given
by word of mouth toe those who suffer
from fat by those l have reduced to the
slimness they desire. That is why ] have
succeeded where Others have failed. I
have really relieved people OF their bur-
dens OF fat. and ! have done 1t without
drugs. without tearing the bodies OF deli
cate women 10 pieces with strenuous and
Injurious exercises without starving them.
II suppose you know" she continued.
that ! used TO be calendar model pos
ins for photographers. My pictures pleased
50 wen that they were used by one big
calendars one year; ard won me my nick
name OF The Calendar Girl
The posing brought me big returns.
a sba, nne ~ss & aSy Ky WorS the r result sd was
model Ny last sittings had been a fall
ure-l was too fat You can imagine how
broken hearted ! was. My means OF sub
only life Of drudgery ahead. Then
rushed frenticaliy 10 the files Of a news
paper 10 look for a fat-reducins al.
them. tried one. tried ten; they
none of them benefited me: The
drug nostrums ruined my health and
I grew sallow and III, ! couldn't eat
\
self TO tnke Some fat left me- but II
left me hagsard and ugly. and the pretty
lines OF my figure sagged and seemed tc
loss their symmetry Then tried exer
eises. was always fond OF sports anc
outdoor games, but the creary monoton!
trying. as I followed cut the courses isit
down b. the physical torture experts up
Ill every bone In my poor little bod,
ached. and | decided even fat was better
| tried starving myself but the result
me hollow checked and dim eyed. and
felt my vitality slipping away from mo.
u was desperate. A story appcaret
about that time telling OF q doinesti
because her husband had ceased to low
her Pictures OF the unfortunate woma,
we're Ssn, printed AND SIZE WAS YER!
That was the moving factor in M
Hfe. The thought that l. too. some da
might fall ir love with some man who's
neart would remain closed to me becaus
ny ungainiy, ugly fat. body robbed me
that attracuveness that all men desir
ia the woman OF their hearts. chilled m,
went to work to solve the problem
how 10 regain nv shrness. | can't te
You all that / dld-the experiments. M
studying. the consultations with eminer
experts, physieiens. athletes. books Q
degeneration Of the human system
became a mania with me. / gave 1ip n
friends, my amusements my diversion
Weighing and watching. analyzIng ar
studying and trying 10 Apply 10 what
learned the good plain horse sense wi
which nature and my ancestors had e-
doved me. When al last ] saw what
thought was a way out. I decided to Q,
pertinent on myself. ! was my arst %
trou. ! think results speak for ther
selveHr' and she stood up straight q,
slender az any rymph OF the woodland
a picture OF incarnate health and beaut
the most glorious young creature I ha
gszed on IN many long moons
Teaches Others To BE Slim.
And how did YOU happen 10 GO In
the business Of exploiting your aud %
We'll. the Is te Of the unhappy wife
ne 20 think great deal and ! reaiIz
that she must not he the only wife whr
happiness might be In danger from /
same cause. That led me 20 thinking
The other people who suffer from
~ Solid flesh. as Shakespeare calls n. I \
/. .'S-Sysnt, 9r.e sr1Irf>er OF intense dlscornfI
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