Show VARIED USES OF THE ONION homely and strong smelling legeta ble not without virtue the ancient 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 ish at all says paulus Ae gineta and burton advising as to the diet ot 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 man who smiles at the conflicting opinion of the onion Is healthful when plainly boiled As a child he was taught that it was good for a cold these same ancients thought highly of it as a medicine it occasions a rapid growth of hair it breaks hard tumors J chewed it la beneficial in paralysis of the tongue it la Is eminently rube faulent its juice Is useful in suffusion and dimness of vision from thick hu mors Dis cordies recommends it as a cataplasm with salt rue and honey tor for the bite bit 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 in sides of little onions and stuff them in aching ears of their children chil dien they leave them there for weeks an union put under the pillow will bring dreama dreams 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 in some countries it presages sickness |