Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-05
DRINKING WARM BLOOD.
Consumptfvcs who swallow a Pint Fac
DaN-tIf Doubtful sene6t.

COubumDIiVch 0HO SNsttibV u H-hCh
Day-Gf Doubtful Benefit
She was slight, pale girl and though
the air was balmy a shiver ran through
her frame. AS she put the silver goblet,
which anon had been filled with hot
blood, down on the blood besmeared
board it could be seen that the vessel was
empty. The maiden with the paIlid
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. miss"
Eyes. think | will"
The butcher disappeared, but he was
back IN an instant. THAT will just
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 word, left
the gloomy building, and moment
later was whirling homeward in car
riage.
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-
sions of the slaughter house on Halsted
aud 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
invigorating, nourishing properties will
euro them of their ills and that this
healthy blood will isle 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 a pint to a pint of
blood.
II guess it's doing her good, said the
foreman, who had waited on her "she
doesn't look SO pale now as she did a
month ago. She was looking like a
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 no doubt"
TITS NphiiH ARiiittit - tilG VI ~ h&sOfr W
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 20 as to Mecca
of promise There are a half dozen
slaughter houses on Archer avenue and
Halsted street and the other thorough
q. ~
rough crush and hustle of the stock
yards, uninfested by the whoop and yell
Of the cowboy and the coarse oaths of
the drovcrs 70 these the timid women
in search Of blood repair. and there they
drink their fill few Of them go 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 had
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 regu-
larly - drink heef's blood. ! can't
give you his name, although it is one
well enough known in the city. lie had
been hard worker and high liver, and
his mental and physical powers all Of a
sudden began to give way to an alarming
extent symptoms which threatened
consumption began to appear, and lac
consulted the most eminent physicians in
town. They said he was overworked and
needed II st. But they could not give him
relief. lie went TO New York and put
himself into the hands Of specialist
Ii. / a. "a I. l..
He came back to Chicago. On the car.
man told him he ought to Try blood al
the slaughter houses. He gave up bust
ness altogether bought himself horse
praeticed u great deal with dumb bells
and lived very plainly. Every morning
he started from home at o'clock ant
took long ride on horseback He cam,
here regularly at Z O'Clock and drank
from half pint To a whole pint of fresl
blood took plenty OF exercise at home anC
out of doors, and retired to bed early au1
at regular hour When saw him first
he looked like a man about to dewitt
hollow eyes, sunken checks and listles,
gait. Within six months he was strong
active, aud full of life and vim He re
sumed his business, and can again worl
as hard as over without iniuring himself
III tilN ltNHt. lhNl TIC Is sun TAXING plenty
Of exercise, and see him every once iug
while riding ON bicycle in the park f."
''Iave you known many instances OF
this kindg' was asked.
"Well, no To tell you the truth abou
it, don't think it was the blood tina
cured that lawyer His altered manner
Of living is what did it, / remember thu
case of "a lady who used to come to tht
slaughter house regularly aud drink
pint Of blood every day. Ii didn't d,
her a particle OF good. | also knew tn,
case of a young fellow, student at on,
of the colleges, who had been taken viii
consumption. He was SO weak that ht
had to be assisted NJ the stairs into tn
slaughter house But it didn't help him
After awhile he stopped coming, and tn,
next thing | heard of him he was dead
For persons who are really consumptiv
l don't believe any amount of bloc,
would do But persons who are simpl
dehilitated, with proper diet and exer
else and regular living, are much bene
fitted by drinking blood. Chicago Her
aid
The Death OF Cleupatra.