Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1925-06-26
ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND. FRIDAY MORNING, j

my bureau, and every little while look
at them and wonder If could dare
take them.
once asked Doctor Million what Il
was that he gave his patients to make
them so slender But he only laughed
and said that that would he to give
away his great secret, which had cost
him over a million of dollars, and of
course he couldn't do that. But he
told me not to worry, as 1t was nat
ural remedy for stoutness, and as old
as Egypt, and that If wished to grow
stout again, all had to do was to take
those green pills. But darent.
Well, things went on, as my friends
said, from thin to thinner, and when
had paid Doctor Million as much as
five hundred dollars, he said that
was cured, and after that l must come
to see him only as friend, and no
longer patient. And, indeed, | was
quite fond of him, and did go to see
him quite often, and he always seemed
to have as many patients as he could
possibly attend to; but, finally, one
day, lady in the office got me out
into the hallway and asked me If I
knew what 1t was that Doctor Million
gave us ladies to make us slender
OF course. l didn't know, and said
as much, whereupon she whispered
something in my ear that made me al
most slap her face, so vexed and mortl-
fed was /. But she persisted that 1t
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herself had weighed nearly three hun
dred but seven months before, while
now she weighed scarcely eighty
pounds, so slender she had grown
OF course | thought she had taken
some offense at Doctor Million, so
was sent in by some other doctor to
Brighten away his patients, and was
real rude to her. But since then
have learned that she was just an
honest, high-spirlted lady like myself,
trying to warn trusting folks from the
tolls Of an evil doctor.
Now, you will want to know what
this lady said to me, and the day after
she got me into the hall went again
to call on Doctor Million to ask him
to his face II 1t was true; but he was
gone.
| never was so much astonished in
all my life; gone for good, the janltOr
of the building told US. Why, believe
would have trusted Doctor Million
with my eyes However, he was gone
and there was no use crying over split
milk; and, besides, l was as slender
as | ever wish to be, weighing only
about ninety pounds with my cloth
ing on.
The day after the doctor was gone,
number of we ladies who had been
his patients all met together at my
house, and we talked the matter over,
and all agreed that 1t must be so. Doc
tor Million-it Is enough, | think, to
make proud-spirlted woman blush
with shnme-had given every one of
us, in those big capsules We swallowed
In his private office, little snake, and
the snake had grown and grown and
grown In our stomach and eaten up
everything we had put In our mouths,
until there simply wasn't anything left
for our bodies to live on, and of course
we had all become as slender as
shadows. And those green pills were
TO kill the snake when we had been
eaten-as It were-out Of house and
home, and didn't want to grow any
| slenderer.
Mercy! have heard Of men having
the snakes but 1 never dreamed that |
should some day have them myself,
and | can hardly keep my hands off
that little box of green pills. But
know II | should take those pills and
the snake In my stomach be killed
should weigh two hundred and seven
ty-five pounds within year, and do
so want to stay slender.
Eighty-nine pounds for fairly tail
women, as women go, Is too slender,
think, and my husband says that it's
too thin, too, and | am MORALLY afraid
that he will learn about those green
pills and put them In my food without
me knowing anything about 1t.