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Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 90

HOW TO CONQUER CORPULENCY.

People who waste their time and money and lose health and strength in trying to cure their obesity by fasting and drugging treatment* should be induced to give up all such wasting and racking experiments and give a fair trial to the Marmola Prescription Tablets, evolved from the famous Marmola Prescription. This pleasing remedy is meeting with immense «ucoess everywhere, for surely it is the most agreeable means of conquering corpulency. Without any assistance from sweating or violent exercise, or semi-fasting, or anything likely to do anything but maintain or increase strength, Marmola Prescription Tablets reduce obesity with quite astonishing quickness, and in such a way as to ensure renewed beauty of form, a gracefully slender figure, well-modelled limbs, and pure facial contours. The digestive Kystem is stimulated and appetite promoted, so that there is a rapid re-invigoration of the whole body during the reducing process. A week's treatment with Marmola Prescription Tablets works wonders. The dose is one tablet after each meal and one at night. Marmola Prescription Tablets are sold by chemists, price 3s 6d, or sent pest free, by the Marmola Company, 5 and 7 Barrack street, Sydney, N.S.W. NOTE. —For those who prefer the liquid preparation, chemists are still dispensing the famous prescription as follows :—One ounce of fluid Extract of Glycyrrhiza 8.P., one ounce of pure Glycerine 8.P., one half-ounce of Marmola, and mix with peppermint water to make six ounces in all. The dose is two teaspoonfuls after each meal. —5.

At Pol?lcad, Suffolk, there still exists a " gospel oak" which is over 2000 years old?. The oak has a girth of 36ft, and, although the " g-:.spcl oaks " generally stood on the boundaries of parishes, this tree stands in the centre of the village. " Gospel oaks " at one time studded the country, taking their names from the fact that they served as stations from which the Chriatian missionaries preached to the Angles and Saxons 1300 years <i<?o. _ Very few of the trees now raniain, but in some cases it is possible to toll vrguely whore they stood from tho names given to places, such as GiMpel Oak. During the month ended last Saturday there have been four bankruptcies in Wellington. Since tho beginning of the year six persons in Wellington have filed their schedules, as compared with two in the first Quarter of last year,