St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-05-20
mAzn soR SOUR MILE
Fad at Length Has viru1ent1y A..
tackled British Metropolis.

Fad at Length Has virulentiy At
tackled British Metropolis.
England, or at any rate, London, ID
Just now indulging in one Of the
sporadic "crazes" without which life
In the British metropolis would be
stale, fat and Improbable. Talk Of a
German invasion is--for the moment
at q discount; people generally are
heartily tired Of politics. and even the
rubber boom has lost some of its SAVIOR.
Sour milk is now the subject Of the
day. the Philadelphia Ledger's London
correspondent writes. At the dinner
table Il Is ten chances to one that
your neigbbor will either proffer you
an opinion or ask yours on the sub,
ject. Every third or fourth man you
meet will inform you that he has taxi
en- the cure or Is taking II, or is
thinking of taking 1t, and II you are
OF an amenable disposition he will
launch out into disquisition on the
merits Of the beneficent phagocytes.
and depict your organism as the bat
tlefield on which the good and evil
microbes are engaged In duel for the
ascendency.
Professor Metchnikoff's discovery as
to why Bulgarian peasants are SO long
lived is the fons 60 origo of the
craze. America learned all about that
long ago-long before England did.
American doctors and chemists and
also American quacks acted upon the
knowledge much more quickly than
their English compeers did, and II was
not an uncommon thing here in Lon.
don last summer to see American Wis.
'itors taking little tabloids Of sour
milk" with their meals.
But now that the Englishman has
got the sour milk craze he has got It
badly. As I have said. everybody Is
talking about It. Not everybody Is
agreed as to It's value.
Lady Bancroft's illness, which was
attributed to sour milk treatment,
made many people cautious. For one
person who heard Of Lady Bancroft's
indisposition. however. there are doz.
ems who have had the virtues OF lac.
tic acid brought vividly before them.
There have been newspaper articles by
the hundred on the subject, and Il
goes without saying. hundreds OF big
advertisements which predisposed
those same newspapers to a favorable
consideration OF sour milk's properties.
Rubber companies' prospectuses are
the chief feature In the advertising
columns OF tho London papers; but
the advertisements Of the different
dairy companies which furnish sour
milk make very conspicuous display.
II is curious how many OF them claim |
that the method by which they 'pre.
pare" sour milk Is tho only one which |
fulfills all the requirements laid down
by Professor Metchnikon.
Sour milks present vogue has re.
called the similar favor in which tar
water was held during the eighteenth
century. II was brought into notice
then by Bishop Berkeley. who. having
been cured OF an illness by its use.
wrote n book "on the Virtues OF Tar
and followed Il by q SEQUEL.
Further Thoughts on Tar Water"
II was prepared by pouring a gallon Of
water on quart Of tar. and the dose
was half a pint In the morning and q
second glass In the afternoon. Its use
became 40 fashionable that a contem.
porary noted "it's as common TO call
Tor q glass OF tar water in a coffee
house AZ a dish OF tea or coffee" And
wit. referring to Its episcopal origin.
wrote;
Her Bishops shepherds are
And shepherds heal their rotten sheep
with far