The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-27
IN RUSSIA
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Fermented Mares Milk Used
AS a Bases Of Cure.
MANY ARE BENEFITED

miss Each Day = Life There Far
From Unpleasant.
Janetovka, the Russian consumptive
resort In the samara steppes, is the
queerest "cure" in all the world. 1t is
based on the "koumiss treatment"
Koumiss as every one knows. is
formerly practising In st. Petersburg;
this has been found to possess mar
velous nutritive and restorative pow
ers when combined with clear strong
air and sunlight. Janetovka is due to
DR.. G. l.. CarI1ck, British physician
formrly practising In st. Petersburg:
years ago he was one of the surgeons
at the Brompton Consumption Hospl-
tai In London.
The season at Janetovka lasts only
from June till the end OF August. Sum
mer on the steppes Is excessively hot
often 105 degrees in the shade--yet
in the night 1t may sink to As de-
grees or even lower. Nevertheless, no
dew falls except about an hour before
sunset so that the nights left cool
| and dry--a delightful change after the
blazing sunshine of the day. And
these long silent nights have no in
| considerable part In the cure, for
| many restless patients are almost fore
ed into slumber by the heavy, mysteri-
| Gus silence of the great steppes.
No fewer than ITO persons are en-
gagged in Janetovka, largely herders
for the great troops of milch mares.
The servants in the cottages are odd
| little Bashkir walters, clothed in
smart uniforms. They get some $3.50
for their three months OF service. or
course they make u good deal out OF
the tips from patients and finally slip
home to their native hamlet over the
Asiatic border staggering in new
clothes and as proud as peacocks.
There are large stats OF horse herds
and koumiss makers-the one men,
and the other women. The koumiss Is
made in three qualities-weak, medi-
um and strong. The former is OF
less than twenty four hours fermenta-
tion, the medium between twenty four
and forty eight and the strong well
over forty eight.
Koumiss Is made in thousands OF
gallons every day at Janetovka; the
output being calculated on basis
of six full champagne bottles every
day for each patient. This may seem
q pretty liberal allowance, but the
milk is partly digested or peptonized
during fermentation, thus enabling the
patients to consume immense guam
titles without any feeling of reple-
tion.
Some patients, indeed, consume nine
bottles a day comfortably, drinking
chiefly between meals and never after
in the evening. Far from satisfying
the appetite koumiss seems rather tC
sharpen 1t and in this way real zest
is created for the gigantic meals.
During fermentation the koumiss ac'
quires quite champagnelike quality
aud Is elevating to those unaccustom,
ed to It. The strong variety will Otter
| burst the stout champagne bottles witt
bomblike report and on that account
servants handling It are protected with
, wire masks.
, 1t is interesting to watch genera
| muster of the vast herds OF horse.
, and mares out on the steppes neal
Janetokva. Riding about among thu
7 playful animals the indefatigable DIR
. Carrick himself may be seen. con
{ splcuous In his smart Glengarry cap
The Khirgiz and Bashkir horse herd
are armed with curious lassoes. con
sisting OF loops OF hide at the end o
six foot poles, and by means of thes
any animal required may be taken on
! from the mob.
Agricultural work is done entirel,
!. by camels In this cure resort OF tn
I. steppes and there are hundreds O
acres under wheat and other varietie
!, of grain for the needs OF the grea
!, establishment. For fourteen hour
!, out OF the twenty the mares ar
= out at pasture with their foals, an
n spend many hours besides in their sta
bles feeding continuously until milk
ing time. The long feathery kovi
grass OF the steppes is their faNorit
d food.
: The patients profiting by their mil
, are surprisingly cosmopolitan. Yo
a will find Americans and Britons, semi
n Asiatics from the banks OF the Anu
8 and the borders of China; and Rus
J. SLAMS from as far north as Archange
= And from as far south as the Rivier
q and Spain men and women come thl
l. ther In search of health and strength,
:. The number of cures varies consic
y erably from season to season, but usr
" ally runs into four or five hundre'
Some of these gain enormously l
weight--as much as thirty or fort
l. pounds in three months.
r One OF the features OF Janetovka
o. the absence of system. At many n
,r sorts whittier people flock in scare
N OF health the doctors lay down law
l. about early rising and map out ever
10 day of the year. Here on the steppe
sr however, there is no apparent system
m and every one is free to do as
~ pleases.