The Odoriferous Onion

Onions. said a man to a St. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter, are too vociferous in their odor and too self-assertive to be ,liked by anyone possessed of a very stroiifr will. They offer too mucli opposition. There is more to the onion, however, than its mere odor. Onions are a kind of allaround good medicine and .every housewife knows this without knowing- why. She knows that a solid red onion, eaten at bedtime, will by the next break the severest cold. She also knows that onions make a good piaster to remove inllammation and hoarseness. Bnt she does not know why. If anyone would take an onion and mash it, so as to secure all of the juice in it, he would have most remarkable salts - an odor that would quiet the most nervous person in no time. The streng-th of it inhaled for a few moments will dull the sense of smell and weaken the nerres until sleep is produced from sheer exhaustion. It all comes from one property possessed by the onion, and that is a form of opium. Onions are narcotic in their tendencies, and lor that reason the very best kind of food. Anyone who eats a late supper and imagines that he will not be able to sleep had better order adish of f ried onions and close his meal with them. There will be no danger of wakefulness then. The amount of opium in a saucerful of fried onions will overpowor the most sensitive digestive organs, even when disturbed by a late meal, and one can sleep just as well as though no meal had been eaten. The Chinese understand the onion better than the other nations of the earth. A Chinaman will mix dried onion sprig-s with tobáceo and smoke them. They probably find it lends additional charra to a genial pipe and brings on that condition of dreamy wakefulness which is the final end of all smoking.