Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1913 — Montenegrins Fatalists. [ARTICLE]

Montenegrins Fatalists.

It Is only In recent years that Montenegrins have begun to appreciate the services of the hospital. Hulme Beaman, after visiting the country in 1889, wrote that the. people "take very little care of their children, and only the sound and the strong grow up. In after life, too, they are extremely averse to sanitary precautions or medical treatment, and a sick Montenegrin is almost synonymous with a dead man. At least, he at once gives himself up, and If he recovers looks upon It as a curious freak in nature’s laws. • • • The few who reluctantly submit to losing an arm or a teg invariably refuse anaesthetics and converse with their friends, smoking a cigarette while the knife and saw are at work.”