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Show On and Off Chafc About Fat The society reporter picked up the following fol-lowing cem at Madam Browster's not twenty-four hours ago. One of her millionaire mil-lionaire customers struggling Into a new gown asked tho famous costumer bow she kont her figure in such superb shape. "You nabltunly eat and drink heartily and oven thoughtlessly, not to say riotously riot-ously at times," she complained, "whereas "where-as 1 llvo like a hermit. Yet I can't keep slim and, apparently, you can't gst fat." "Guilty." roplled the fashion czarina. "I admit T don't fatten up nor do I thin down, but It Is because I have the power. my dear Mrs. (the name almost slipped out), to say to my fat 'Thus far and no farther.' I don't excrclso nor diet nor run any danger of wrinkles or stomach stom-ach trouble cither. Hero Is tho secret." She wrote a fow words on a slip of paper and handed It to her questioner. "Got that filled at tho druggist's," sho concluded, "lake a tcaspoonful after meals and at bedtime and you will never get fnttor than you want lo be. You can take 'off a pound a day with this receipt, if you Want to." Being fat herself and fully allvo to the tremendous vnlue of these statements to fat folks everywhere, tho society reporter committed an unpardonable social sin: she peeped over the lady's shoulder and this Is what she saw: For Excess Fat. simplest, safest, cheapest, most helpful rScelpt of nny: One-half ounce Marmola; h ounce Fluid Extract Cascara Aromatic, 25 ounces Peppermint Water. |