Show medicinal qualities in onions the free use of onions for the table has always been considered by most people a healthy and desirable vegetable and but tor choir odor which is objectionable to many they would bo found more generally upon our dinine tables for a cold on the chest there is no better specific for most persons than well boiled or roasted onions they may not agree with every one but to persons with good digestion they will not only be found to bo a most excellent remedy for a cough and the clogging of the bronchial tubes which is usually the cause of the cough but if eaten freely at the outlet of a cold they will usually break up what promised from tho severity of the attack to have been a serious one A writer in ono of our medicinal journals recently recommended the giving of raw young onions to children throe or four times a week and when they get too large and strong to be eaten raw then boil and roast them but not abandon their free use another writer advocating their use says during unhealthy seasons when diphtheria and like contagious diseases prevail onions ought to be eaten in the spring of the year at least a week onions are invigorating go rating and prophylactic beyond description crip tion further I 1 challenge the medical fraternity or any mother to point aut a place where children have died from diphtheria or an binosa ginosa etc where onions were freely used i |