The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-16
LOSES FAT---WINS FORTUNE;
The Amazing Story Of How Marjorie Hamilton Compelled
to Reduce Her Weight Or Lose Her Employment Found
Drugess Treatment for Making Fat Vanish
ACTRESSES AND SOCIETY WOMEN REJOICE OVER THEIR NEW SLENDER FIGURES
She Has Built NOT the Fears Disappointed Patrons But on the Smiles
and Joy OF Those Who Game to EIerN Not in Vain - -
SSES AND SOCIETY WOMEN REJOICE OVER !
MOST DISCUSSED BUSINESS
BY ADA LEE.

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 druglcss treatment,
didn't know just what kind Of person
| expected TO meet; but do know that,
no matter what my expectations were,
was most agrecably disappointed.
was ushercd 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 towards me with a gen
uine surc-hrc smile bcaming at me across
her outstretched hand. | marveled to
myself. Could this fresh, wholesome,
buoyant slip Of a girl be the most discussed
beauty specialist in the world1 Could
this lieht-heartcd picture OF unspoiIed
young womanhood be the marvel OF COM
mercial acumen and enterprise whose sue
cess had startled business men by the
originality and soundness Of its methods?
was going to find out.
After we had passed safely over the
shoals OF conventionality, put my first
real question to her:
.sHow do you account for your great
success, Miss Hamiltone". asked.
Success Built OH 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 oil firmly established business
policy. III owe my SUCCESS To the fact
that have built, NOT ON THE TEARS
OF DISAPPOINTED PATRONS, BUT
| ON THE SMILES AND 10Y OF
THOSE WHO CAME TO ME NOT IN
VAIN. II is my proudest boast that the
best advertising | get is not what pay
Tor 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 have reduced
to the slinness they desire That is why
have succeeded where others have failed.
| have really relieved people OF their bur-
dens OF fat, and 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 used to be calendar model, pos
| pleased 30 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
nc 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 fail
urc-I was too fat. You can imagine how
broken-hearted l was. My means Of sub
sistence was vanishing, and could see
only a life Of drudgery ahead. Then
rushed frantically to the files OF a news
paper to look for a fat-reducing ad.
Il found It'll found dozen 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 cat, couldn't digest what food
forced myself to take. Some fat left
me, but it left me haggard and ugly, and
the pretty lines OF my figure sagged and
seemed to lose their symmetry. Then !
tried exercises. | was always fond Of
sports and outdoor games, but the drcary
monotony Of these exercises grew every
day more trying, as followed out the
courses laid down by the physical torture
experts until every bone in my poor little
body ached, and / decided even fat was
better. | tried starving myself, but the
result. while it took pounds off fast
enough, left me hollow-cheeked and DIM
eyed, and ! felt my vitality slipping away
from me.
II was desperate. A story appeared
about 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 /, 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 attractivencss that all men desire
in the woman OF their hearts, chilled me.
went to work to solve the problem OF
now to regain my sl;nness | can't tell
you all that did-the experiments, the
studying, the consultations with eminent
experts, physicians, athletes, books on
medicine, the theory Of body building, and
degeneration Of the human system. 1t
became a mania with me. ] gave up my
friends, my amusemcnts, my diversions,
my pursuits, and worked night and day,
weighing and watching, Analysing and
studying and trying to apply to what !
learned the good plain horse sense with
which nature and my ancestors had en-
dowed me- When at last saw what I
thought was way out, decided to ex-
pertinent on myself was my first
patron. think results speak for them
selvcs!" and she stood up straight and
slender as any nymph Of the woodlands,
a picture Of incarnate health and beauty,
the most glorious young creature | have
sazcd on in many long, moons.
Teaches Others to be Slim.
"!And how did you happen to go into
the business Of exploiting your fiid?''