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Show Admits She Is Fat Stella Mayhew Is fat just plain fat. This is the term she herself applies ap-plies to her avoirdupois, without trying try-ing to disguise it as "plump" or "stout." And she doesn't mind joking with herself about it. On a certain occasion she was letting let-ting her audience into a few of her secrets. "I have tried everything recommended recom-mended to reduce," she admitted, "but I keep on getting fatter. Why, there isn't a thing I read about, guaranteed to take off flesh, that I don't try." At this pause a woman seated in the second row, who had made herself conspicuous by several remarks during dur-ing Miss Mayhew's talk, inquired: "Did you ever try poison?" St. Louis Post-Dispatch. |