Show VARIED USES OF THE ONION homely and strong smelling legeta 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 of unwholesome juices when twice boiled they give little nourishment but when they do not nour ash at all says paulus and advising as to the diet of the melancholy dismisses the onion as troublesome to the head the peo pie at large pay no heed to these say ings to the who smiles at the conflicting opinion of the onion Is healthful when plainly boiled As a child he was taught that it was good tor a cold these bame 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 faulent Us 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 atte of a mad dog there are many today who believe hat onion juice Is of assistance in deafness italians in the north end eat the in sides of little conlone and tuff them in aching ears of their children they leave them there for weeks an union put under the pillow will bring dreama of the loved one the thick ness of the skin determines the mild ness or severity of the coming win ter but to dream of onions Is a bad sign jn some countries it presages sickness |