OCR Text |
Show DEFENSE CF THE ONION. Cne of the Vegetables Which Lend Enchantment, to a Meal. The onion is one of those strenuous vegetables about which one cannot be indifferent. One either yearns for it with a passionate longing or else utterly ut-terly repudiates it and everybody who has had any trafficking with it. If one never had to take one's onions at second sec-ond hand it would not be so bad. If the law would only set apart one day a week for the eonsumr.'ion of onions and forbid it under penalty of fine and imprisonment preferably imprisonment imprison-ment at all other times, it would be a boon to the world. The onion hater would at least know when to take to the woods, and how long to stay there, comments the Providence Journal. Jour-nal. As for banishing tlia onion from the kitchen, that would be a crime. There have been peels who have sung its praises, but perhsps some of the prose rhapsodies are Just ns eloquent. For instance if you want to crush your neighbor who regards your dish of onions with a supercilious eye, just ask him if he knows that the onion is called "the rose among roots." Ask him if he knows that "without it there would be1 no gastronomic art;" that "its presence lends color and enchantment enchant-ment to the most modest dish, its absence ab-sence reduces the rarest, dainty to hopeless insipidity and the diner to despair." It Is quite possible that your haughty neighbor may de-'.llne to follow fol-low this hint and may show signs of being plunged into despair pending the addition of onions to his own menu. The anti-onionlst is H stiff-necked party. |