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Show Doctor million Dy DinvMtrk Lemon (Copyrlflit, twaiiortstory 1Mb. Co.) This tlmo 1st year 1 weighed 275 pounds. 1 alwM. thought that If I weighed but 17k pounds I would be In heaven. Now Iwclgh only 89 pounds! Somo stout ladfei, I know, would bo delighted to loajrn how I lost so much weight In n year's time. Now, theso aro Just tho ladtos I wish to warn. He called himself Dr. Million. Ho Is n tall, slender, ark man, and wears a beard and tw stnche Ho parts his hair In tho m die, and puts oil on It. If he should c no to your city, bewnro of him! True"w mndo mo loso nearly 200 pounds wclgmlJn a year! but tho way ho did It was qrcadful, Dreadful 1 I don't mean thnt I suffurod much I can't say that am bo honest, and I would rather bo hi nest than bo slcn-der, slcn-der, I mean, tho tnjdlclne ho used to mako mo loso JleShviij.. .dreadful. Dreadful to a high-spirited lady) Of course, I didn't know at first Indeed, In-deed, I didn't know until Inst month what he gavo mo to rcduco my weight. But 1 know now, nnd If ovor I moot Dr. Million ngaln . Ho called himself Dr. Million, I think, because ho hoped to doctor tho millions I bollcvo nls truo nnmo Is Dr. Harvey. Ho was always al-ways very pollto, hut tho means he took to reduco my weight woro disgraceful! dis-graceful! Outrageous! A lady frlond of mine Mrs. Wilson gavo mo hU card. He bad rcducod her weight 8p pounds In two months, and Bho, was very enthusiastic, over him. She gavo .mo his card, anil when I kind of questioned hor nbout him that Is, It ho was a gcntlemnn, nnd all thnt I didn't want to be doctored by a quack, df 'courso she wouldn't let mo rest until t had dressed up In my black Bilk and gono with her to his omccs, Ho had flno offices. Ha must have mndo lot i of monoy almost a million, II do believe whllo ho was In San Francisco. Thoro aro so many stout ladles In 'Frisco. I think I must havo waited two whoto hours beforo I could get to seo him, thero wero to many patients watting before mo. At last my turn came, and when I met tho doctor I wns real pleased with him. He. was very, affable and gentlemanly, gentle-manly, and assured mo that ho could rcduco my weight 100 pounds In flvo months, without hurting my constitution constitu-tion tho least bit. I hemmed and hnwed a while, but of course I foil In with my friend's plans at last as I had Intended to do all He Give Me a Capsule to Swallow. along It the doctor plonsod mo and I becamo ono ot his- regular patients. When I had paid down my first too It was pretty dear, but hq agreed to return it if I didn't loso wolght within s week I got n box of pills from.hlm to take, But first, while I was In his private offlce, ho gavo me a capsuln to swallow. It was larger than a four-grain four-grain qulnlno capsule, nn'd It had no tpsto whatovor. Ugh! but whon I think ot If now. I almost wish I weighed what I used to, and had Dr. Million here! Well, I went on Just as usual, eating qulto hearty, for I always wob a qulto hearty enter all my llfo; but within a week I began to notice that I was gutting gut-ting slenderer. I had to gather my shirt a bit at tho back to koop It from sagging, And within two weeks actually actual-ly I was ashamed to appoar In public In my usual clothes. I was getting slcndorcr and slenderer ovory hour. Why, at tho end of that two weoks 1 must havo weighed not over 250 pounds. I wns almost frightened to think of it, but Dr. Million assured mo thnt It was all right, lie tried to explain to mo, llko a doctor does, how I was growing Blcndorer: but of couso I couldn't understand his scientific words. I Just nodded my Iread and looked wlso, nnd said, "Ah, yes!" and ho thought I understood. Well, in n month I was so slondor thnt I had to havo all my clothes mado ovor. and I kopt growing slondorer and slenderer. I was .always hungry, however, and ato all I liked, but It seomcd tho mor I ato tho hungrier and slenderer I got. I know that thoro aro lots of stout ladles who would glvo a great deal to L ' " rii-inrirn-ii-innn nnnnnri bo growing slenderer every day llko I grow, nnd somo who, nfter they lenrn whnt Cured mo of being too stout, would swallow ono ot those pills like I swallowed In Dr. Million's private office, If they could only got one. But, ughl when 1 think of tnklng that pill and Dr. Million looking on In his gentlemanly gen-tlemanly way, t feel dreadful ashamed of mysolf and dreadful angry at lilm, Tho strangest thing nbout It was. Dr. Million gave overy nno of his patients pa-tients a Uttlo box of green pills, and said that whenever any one of us wished to ttop where we wore that Is not got any slenderer all wo had to do was to take thoso greon pills no 1 cording to directions. ' I know of only ono Indy who took tho pills, and truly enough sho stopped right away growing slenderer, nnd stood still for over two weeks. Then sho began to grow stout again, nnd now sho Is much stouter than before she wont to Dr. Million. That Is why I am afraid to touch thoao green pills, I dlsllko to be as slender as 1 am, considering I am qulto , a tall woman, but I should dlsllko moro to grow ns stout as I used to be So I havo put thoso greon pills nwny in my burenu, and every Uttlo while I look at them and wonder It I could daro tako them, I onco asked Dr. Million what It wns thnt ho gavo his patients to make i them so slondor. But ho only laughed and said that thnt would bo to give away his great secret, which had cost him ovor $1,000,000, and of course he couldn't do thnt. But ho told mo not to worry, ns It was a natural remedy tor stoutness, nnd as old as Egypt, and that It 1 wishod to grow stout again all I had to do was to tako thoso green pills. But I dnrcn't. Well, things went on, ns my frlendi snld, from thin to thinner, nnd whon I hndinld Dr. Million ns much aa $S0( ho said that I was cured, nnd nttci that I must como to seo him only as a friend, and no longer a patient. And Indeed, I was qulto fond ot him, nnd did go to soo him qulto often, nnd'hc always seemed to havo as many pa tlents ns ho could possibly attend to; biit, finally, ono day, a lady In the ofllco got mo out Into tho hallway, nnd asked mo If 1 knew what It was that Dr. Million gavo us ladles to mako ui slender. Of course, I didn't know, and I sold ns much, wheroupon sho whls pored something In my ear that mads mo utmost slap her face, so voxed and mortified was I. But sho persisted that It was truo every word of It Why, sho herself had wolghed nonrl) 300 but soven months before, whllt now she weighed ecnrcoly 80 pounds so slender sho bad grown. Ot coursu I thought sho had takes somo offense nt Dr. Million or wai sent In by somo other doctor to fright on away his patients, nnd I was rca. ruda to her. But slnco then I havt learned that she was Just an honest high-splrltcd lady llko mysolf, trylnn to warn trusting folks away from th tolls ot nn ovll doctor. Now, you will want to know what this lady Bald to me, and tho day aftei sho got mo Into the hall I went again tj call on Dr. Million to ask htm tc his faco It It was truo; but ho wai gono. I novor was so much hatonlshcd Ir all my llfo; gono for good, tho janltoi of tho building told us. Why, I believe I would havo trusted Dr. Million wltt my oyes. Howovor, ho wns gono nnc there was no uso crying over spill milk; and, besides, I was as slender as I ovor wish to bo, weighing only about 90 pounds with my clothing on. Tho day aftor tho doctor was gone, a number of wo Indies who had been his patients nil mot togother at my bouso, and wo talked tho matter over, and all agreed that It must bo so. Dr, I Million It Is onough, I think, to make I a proud-spirited woman blush with shame had given evory ono of us, In thoso big capsules wo swallowed In his prlvata ofllco, a Uttlo snake, and the snako had grown and grown and grown In our stomachs and eaten up everything we had put In our mouths, until thero simply wasn't anything loft for our bodies to llvo on, nnd of courso wo had all become as slender ns shad' ows. And thoso green pills wore to kill tho snako when wo had boon eaten as It woro out of houso and home, and didn't want to grow any 1 slenderer. Mercy! I havo heard ot men having tho snakes, but I never dreamt that I should somo day have them mysolf, niid I can hardly keep my hands off that Uttlo box ot green pills. Hut I know It I should tako thoso pills and tho snako In my stomach bo killed, I should weigh 275 pounds within u year, and I do so want to stay slendor. Elghty-nino pounds lor a fairly tall woman, as women go, Is too slender, 1 think, nnd rny husband says that I ft too thin, too. and I am mortally afraid that ho will lenrn nbout those green pills and put thorn In my food without mo knowing nnythlng about It. |