Tooele County Chronicle | 1947-11-07 | Page 2 | Poets and Their Garlic

poets and their garlic homer had a sincere respect tor for garlic to which he attributed the estimable property of dispelling en chant ments with us the boman roman poet and bishop aprill naris born bom at lyon in and known also as cams calus jullius held garlic in such contempt that he wrote happy the nose that is nev er exposed to the poisonous exhava eions of this plant by the same token an order of chivalry agnor ing ribaldry exacted in its regula eions the agreement that each member should abstain from garlic and onions from january to decem ber her if he valued companionship ibis this strange order existed in cas tile about the middle of the century and the ban on garlic and onions was said to have been placed by the king