The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-05
CLEAR HEADS FROM RAW ONIONS.
A Couple of Enthusiasts Tell OF the Brain
Food From Bermuda

How does that strike your" asked
the bartender as he took a bite from
something that looked very much X
an ordinary sandwich OF some sort and
then glanced over his shoulder at the
clock in a satisfied manner. THAT?
Why, that's a sandwich; only instead
of ham or beef between the slices of
bread 1 have-guess what. No, II isn't
cabbage or sauerkraut. It's plain
white, raw Bermuda onion, all sliced
up"
shouldn't think you could stand
anything like that in any quantity"
said one of the listeners. You won't
have any tears to weep IL you keep
that up long"
That's what they all say at first"
replied the bartender, but you can
never know until you try. You soon
get used to the onions, and after that
you wouldn't give EN- up for anything.
Let me tell you how i acquired the
onion habit-for it's a real habit. and.
what's more, a mighty good habit.
II used to mix drinks at one of the
big uptown hotels, where a number of
men who followed the races gathered
nearly every night to have a small
game, with a moderate moun of
drink to carry things along. About 2
o'clock every morning. never 10 min
utes later, those four or V men would
order a big platter Of raw sliced onions
with a few slices Of white bread. Then
they'd open the windows to clear the
smoke out, and they'd set that platter
of onions on the table; each man would
take a fork and they o eat until
the onions were gone. / didn't under
tar that at all when ] first went
there, but pretty soon. after i got to
know those men fairly well, l asked
them about it.
what on earth. do you "a those
raw onions for at this time of night?"
/ asked.
Here's a chance for another con-
vert said one of them. why, don't
you know that there's nothing like a
raw onion to clear your head at night?
Just help yourself and try IL. Why,
man, after you've been working your
brain all day and half the night n
maybe have drunk q little and smoke
a little. you are in no condition to get
a good rest for the night. Now, there's
nothing like a raw onion or two TO start
you right on your nights rest. Two
Of these onions, sliced up raw, will clear
your cad n brain. and, finally, and
most important, although you may not
believe it. will put your stomach in
the right condition"
of course / tried II. too, but at FIRST
l could no more eat n onion n 1
could fly. they all kept at me. now
ever. and in a weeks time i was an
onion enthusiast and ate two or three
onions every night just before i shut
up shop. / really believe i couldn't
work at night now without getting i'll
II | didn't eat those onions. Just try
it some night and keep at II for three
or four days: at the end Of that time
you'll be willing TO swear that you'll
v give up the habit"
That ended the bartender's story.
There are many others who will say
the same thing. over on Brooklyn
Heights there boards an old Irishman
who is in business that keeps his brain
working hard all day. He takes a
brisk walk just before his dinner at
night, eats slowly and then after des-
sert pulls a raw MO from his pock-
ct in a clandestine manner and slices
IL and eats IL. In the morning the old
Irishman rises early, takes his cane and
starts out for a walk. He carries a
raw onion with him and every FIVE min
utes or so takes a bite from IL. He is
well dressed always n passers-by
watch him eating onions with some as
constituent, but he doesn't pay any
attention to them. And IL any one asks
him why he eats onions he will say:
Nothing like IL, sir, to make a man
feel as IL life were worth living. |
haven't missed my MO for 20 years,
and. God willing. / shan't miss IL for
10 or 20 more. Don't ask why IL does
IL, for | don't know that. I only know
the effect"