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Show Ancient Salada. Tho lettuce was doomed by the cn-elents cn-elents tho food of tho Ucnll because, wuer. Adonis, the beloved of Venus, wus mortally wounded by a. wild boar tho weeping- goddess laid him upon a bed 6f soft nnd tender lettuce, whoso milky Juice possesses soothing nnd narcotic nar-cotic qualities. Lettuce was enten by tho nnclents nt tho close of iholr repasts, re-pasts, ns from Its cooling qualities it was considered nu nutldotc to tho heating elTccts of wine. The bitter herbs which the Jews ate nt (he pass-over pass-over were wild lettuce, succory, tansy, camomile nud dandelion, and this snmo rnco nro the Inventors of the snl-ad snl-ad compounded of oil, vlnegnr, sugar, bnlt nnd mustard to render tho bitter herbs pnlatnble. The Irish two centuries centu-ries ngo mndo their Nnhuls of forrol, wood sorrel nnd beet chopped with vlnegnr, vln-egnr, beer nnd n little sugar, but no oil, salt or mustard. Headers of classic history will remember how n lettuce caused tho cruel death of Cambyses, king of Persia nnd Medln, nnd of his cousort, who was nlso his sister. |