Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-09
MILK WORTH rs CENTS A PINT.
Prescribed for Consumptive Adults and
Delicate Children.

Prescribed for Consumptive Adults and
Delicate Children.
In an important thoroughfare in
the West End, London. is the only
dairy in and about the city where
asses milk can be procured. This
fluid, as is we'll known, is a valuable
remedy in certain complaints, but
only the rich can indulge in it freely.
for it costs seventy-five cents pint.
The reason for this. as London re-
porter found on visiting the milking
stables. is its slow production. In
the stud of milch asses nine animals
were counted and though they are
MIXED four times day, each animal
yields barely two pints through the
twenty-four hours. The milk is very
thin and slightly sweet with quite
tho flavor of cocoanut milk. Con-
sumptive persons and delicate infants
arc its chief consumers; it is both
nourishing and very easily dlgested
A feature OF its therapeutic use is
that when prescribed for adults it
has to be done in an underhand way,
as natural repugnance exists with
most persons against it's USE 1t is
told that one fashionable London
woman suffered an actual relapse
when told what medicine" she had
been drinking in ignorance.
The winter is our busy season."
the manager of the stables is quoted
as saying, especially during the
foggy weather, but unfortunately it
is extremely difficult to obtain the
milk just then Sold outright to a
customer. any OF the animals you see
hero would realize over $50, and
would probably be MIXED by the pa
TENTS own servants, who do not like
Many customers, however. prefer to
hire an ass at guinea week and
get all the milk they can; and / have
sent several as far rs Colchester,
Brighton. Exeter and even Scotland.
the customer paying all the ex-
penses. Persons put this costly
fluid to curious uses. One lady had
two quarts day regularly for near y
six years. and we could never find
out what she wanted it for until az
ter she went to America. when it
transpired that the milk was used as
q face wash. We also have a mill
tary gentleman on our books who or
ders pint every morning, and this
appears on his breakfast table for
ordinary use; while certain famous
dandy has been known to instruct
his valet to mix the milk with black
ing. so as to impart more than US
ually brilliant gloss to his shoes.
about 6 o'clock one evening las
winter an elegant carriage and pair
drove up to the door and presently
two stylishly dressed young men en-
tered tho shop and called for a
couple OF glasses of asses milk. for
which they paid seventy-fve cents.
Both were obviously under the
influence of other and more potent
liquor. and when about to depart one
Of them turned TO me. saying: Can
we see the assesP
Certainly. gentlemen replied,
go through that doorway and turn
to the left and you will meet the
stableman. who will be pleased to
show you round.
Now. it so happened that the mo-
ment the first door was opened the
swells were confronted with the spec
tacle OF their own unsteady figures
reflected in a full-longth mirror on
the wall. and thinking that this was
a premeditated insult both rushed
back in a furious rage and smashed
every article of china and glass they
could lay their hands upon. With
the aid of the police, however. / was
at length enabled to pacify the hilar.
ious and wrathful couple and agr eed
to accept $50 for the damage done.
Keen Managers and feeding Doves clean