Show VARIED USES OF THE ONION homely and strong smelling veatta ble not without virtue the ancients frowned on the onion as a food and classed it with garlic and leeks as of an acrid nature ot unwholesome juices when twice boiled they give little nourishment but when they do not nour ish at all says paulus and burton advising as to the diet of the melancholy dismisses the onion as troublesome to the head the people at large pay no heed to these sayings to the man who smiles at the conflicting opinion of the onion Is healthful when plainly boiled As a child be was taught that it wag good tor 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 rube fa clent its juice Is useful in suffusion and dimness of vision from thick hu mors recommends it as a cataplasm with salt rue and honey tor the bite of a mad dog there are many today to day who believe that onion juice Is of assistance in deafness italians in the north end eat the insides of little onions and acuff thena in aching ears of their children they leave them there for weeks an union put under the pillow will brang dreams of the loved one the thick ness of the skin determines the mild ness or severity of the coming winter but to dream of onions Is a bad sign in some countries it presages sickness |