Show VARIED USES OF THE ONION homely and strong smelling smalling vegetable not without virtue the ancients frowned on tho the onion as a food and classed it with garlic and leeks as of an acrid nature of unwholesome juices when twice boiled they give little nourishment but when they do not nourish at all says saya paulus and burtan advising as to the diet of the molan melancholy choly dismisses the onion as troublesome to the head the people at largo pay no heed to these theao sayings to the man who smiles at the conflicting opinion of tho the onion Is healthful when plainly boiled As a child he was taught that it was good for a cold these same ancients thought highly of it as a medicine it occasions a rapid growth of hair it breaks hard tumors chewed it Is beneficial in paralysis of the tongue it Is eminently its juice Is la useful in suffusion and dirr dimness inep of vision from thick hu tnora Dis cordies recommends recommend a it as aa ft a catap cataplasm iasin with salt rue and honey for the bite of a mad dog there are many today to day who bellevo believe that onion juice Is of assistance in deafness italians in ili the north end eat the insides of little onions and stuff them in aching ears cars of their children they leave them there for weeks an union put under the pillow will bring dreams of the loved one the thickness of the skin determines the mildness or severity ot of the coming winter but bui to dream of onions Is a bad sign in some countries it presages sickness |