The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12

the Country to be Cured of Nervous ProSfratIon-Obseryati of q New Jersey Man Who Runs a Horse sani- torIun,.
 Horse gets dissipated same as man." said the wise looking Jerseyite. ''This fast city life wears him all out --dodging cars and autos. hearing ten thousand kinds of noises, pounding stone under foot.
 He eat quick and irregulay, the hostIer treats him careless, he gets red eyed watching the Broadway lights while his owner is up against the bar or attending the theater. Perhaps he don't smoke or drink, like his owner, but the fast life affects him.
 He associates with crooked cab horses and all kinds of riffraff that's bound to affect his manners and mor- als. Finally his nerves are frazzled, his liver won't work, his feet become soree and unless you send him out to my sanatorium in the country he's a goner."
 So you have horse sanatorium in the country?"
 Yes, sir. have been running it for ten years and some of my clients are the best people in town. They know I treat horses like my own and that I don't do like some doctors, who cure their patients of dope smoking by substituting the morphin habit.
 Mine is the honest natural treat ment, simple life hat restores vigor and joy to the worst wreck that ever dropped between thills. They feel as good as a bank president who comes back to town after two months moose hunting in the Maine woods. You wouldn't know 'em for the same anil mall
 How often does horse need the sanatoroum?"
 About as often as man. Some are naturally more nervous and some live faster than others.
 Any average horse is bound to need the treatment at the end of summer, if he's been driven and mishandled around the summer resorts, and also at the end of winter, when he's been doing so much duty outside clubs, thea ters and restaurants. He's likely to be worst in the spring, after the winter campaign, having lived so many months on oats and baIed hay.
 His nerve is gone, Probably his ap- petite fails, and that may be partly be- cause his teeth have got sharp and need grinding down. He is victim of neglect and the swifter career.''
 What do you do first with the wreck?''
 Well, after getting him out to the sanatorium, we give him a good medi- cal examination. The doc finds out if anything uncommon is wrong with him.
 lie gets some pills on general prin- ciples, his teeth are filed, his shoes pulled off, hoffs examined for foreign substances and manicured. We like to cut stimulants at once, which is oats, but some horses need to taper off.
 The idea is to give the patient abso- lutely nothing bt pure air, pure water and green grass which he nips for himself, He is turned loose in the pas ture all day"
 How does the patient act under this treatment?"
 You have to count on the reaction at first If he was little bit nerv- olis in the city it all comes out in the new surroundings. The quiet makes him almost crazy.
 He hankers after his stimulants. He shies at the scenery and is scared by a blow or farm wagon. That soon wears away and he begins to enjoy life.
 Say, you ought to see him gradually wake up to the fact that he was born in the country and that brick walls ain't nature. He bricks up his ears, smells things and gallops Pnd cavorts like mad. He makes friends with rube horses and likes to stand beside em, listening to their innicent gossip
 .'Is there danger of eating too much grass?',.
 Maybe little, if the grass is rich and rank It's a worse danger that the poor old city horse that's so wise at home west know the difference be- tween ragweed and clover.
 tsYes, sir, some of the poor devils, either through ignorance or an obnor- mai appetite, fill up on the common- est weeds that rube wouldn't touch, and they get the collie in consequence Burdock or plantain, it's all the same to them.
 sBut they learn again all they've forgoten their winter hair comes out between currycombing and rolling on the ground, they're full of natural life and ginger, sleek, bright eyed It's time otexercise 'en litle on the road. Three months makes a new horse out of the ordinary wreck. He goes back to town fit for another season, and I guess when he's all right he don't mind getting in the active swim again . Any man that once gets a taste for the city has to go back"
 'sAre there any freaks among your patients?"
 tSure, just like in any sanatorium. Some horses are born foolish, others get peculiar bugs. We humor the freaks and ry to get 'em strengthened out.
 '.One fellow wouldn't keep quiet un-