Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-16
DRINKING WARM BLOOD.
Consumptives Who Swallow . Pint Each
Day-Of Doubtful Benefit.

Oay-Of Doubtful Benefit.
She was a slight pale girl. and though
the air was balmy, shiver ran through
her frame. As she put the silver goblet,
| which anon had been filed with hot
blood, down on the blood besmeared
board 1t could be seen that the vessel was
empty. The maiden with the pallid
cheeks smacked her lips and then said.
IN low, sweet voice, to the burly butcher
before her:
THAT blood tasted especially good to
day."
will you have another. miss9'
Eyes, think WILL
The butcher disappeared, but he was
back in an instant That viii lust
make pint today" he remarked, as he
/ poured the dark life fluid, rich and reek-
ing, into the girls silver goblet. She
drank it with apparent gusto. Then she
turned, without speaking a word, left
the gloomy building, and a moment
later was whirling homeward in a car
rage.
1t was early morn. The sun had risen
but short span above the horizon, and
its golden rays fell slantingly on the
stock yards and On the ungainly dimen-
slons Of the slaughter house on Halsted
and Forty-second streets, where the kill
ing OF cattle had just been resumed.
The young Lady with the consumptive
look had merely done what a great
many others in search of restored health
have done before her, and are doing
every day-drank the blood of freshly
slaughtered animals in the belief that its
invigoratins. nourishing properties will
cure them of their ills and that this
healthy blood will take the place of the
thin. Serious fluid they themselves have
lost. The young lady is the only daughter
OF wealthy parents living on Prairie
avenue. She goes to the slaughter house
every morning before breakfast and
drinks from half pint to a pint Of
blood.
Il guess it's doing her good said the
foreman, who had waited on her. .Tshe
doesn't look 50 pale now as she did a
month ago. She was looking like
shadow, just ready to waste away, the
first time saw her. She told me she
had been dissipating too much last win
ter, going to balls and parties and not
getting her regular sleep, and living
under too much excitement. She'll pull
through, though, have 10 doubt"
This young woman is one OF n scor. r
more who indulge regularly in the same
practice. Oddly enough, it is not the
large slaughter houses in the stock yards
themselves, but the smaller ones outside
the gates to which those debilitated or
consumptive sufferers go as TO Mecca
Of promise. There are a half dozen
slaughter houses on Archer avenue and
Halsted street and the other thorough
fares around. They are away from tie
rough crush and hustle Of the stock
yards, uninfested by the whoop and veil
Of the cowboy and the coarse oaths of
the drovers. To these the ti1nid women
IN search Of blood repair. and there they
drink their I'LL A few of them 70 there
later In the day, but the most Of them
are on hand IN the early morning. Men,
TOO, and boys may be seen on the same
errand. Some Of the experiences bad
by the butchers at the slaughter houses
with these queer customers are quite pa
thetic, some again the reverse.
about three years ago." said the
boss butcher at huge establishment,
"a lawyer began to come here ree1,-
iarly to drink beef's blood. l can't
give you bis name, although it is one
well enough known In the city. He had
been hard worker and high liver, and
his mental and physical powers ali Of a
sudden began to give way to an alarming
extent Symptoms which threatened
began TO appear, and be
consulted tho most eminent physicians in
town. They said he was overworked and
needed rest. But they could not give him
relief. He went to New York and put
himself into the hands Of specialist
But his condition from bad became worse.
he came back to Chicago. On the earn
} man told him he ought to Try blood at
The slaughter houses. he gave UP bugi-
hess altogether, bought himself a horse,
practiced great deal with dumb bells,
md lived very plainly. Every morning
be started from home at O'Clock and
took q long ride On horseback. He came
here regularly at Z O'Clock and drank
rom half pint b whole pint OF fresh /
blood, took plenty Of exercise at home and /
,ut Of doors, and retired TO bed early ard /
It regular hour. When Isaw him frs. |
~ looked like q man about to dse-with 4
hollow eyes, eunken cheeks and hstless /
ait. Within SIX months be was strong, !
Ictive. and full Of life and vim. lie re- !
'uzned his business, and can again work 4
IS hard as ever wlshosrt inJuripg mrnsN
n the least. But he is gin taking plsnty
Il exercise, and sse him every once ma
While riding 90 bicycle Ia the park"
''Hsve you known many instances q
tis Eadi' WIS sAked.
"Wen, 10. To tel you the truth about
I don't think n was The blood TIT
ure6 that lawyer. His altered manner
# lvEg Il what did IT, REMAINDER the
are Of lady who Ued 70 cone % the
langhts. house regularly and drink
int Of blood every day. 1. Aa1's do
,er PARTICLE a good. also fnew tie
ase Of young fello~, stladent ct Go
# the colleges, Who hsd ben taken VITA
BE was 20 weak thet Ia
nd 20 be assisted up tie strrs into the
laughter house Bot Il didn : hsip hin-
lfter awhile he Stopped coming. and De
.exs thing heaxd O. him be Wa dad.
'9 persons who gre really oosrnpGrs
dort believe any amount q blood
ro1id do But psssous who are saDriy
ecalisa.ed. with psoper diet AID szx-
iss add regular living. are much bere-
ted By drinking blood He--
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