Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-08
Artemus Wards Letter to the Prince
of Wales.
GRACE GREENWOOD'S LECTURE
Thackeray',s Fayorite Dish and An
Gent Pistols leek.
WHEN TO EAT GARLIC FOOD

the Princess Alexandria. Artemus Ward
as an old married man. gave his royal
highness some domestic advice
Friend Wales" writes Ward, don't
make Alexandry git up a cold morning
to build the kitchen fire. Better git I'd
yourself, or pay hired man to do It for
you; you git wages enough and kin afford
IT. Continuing. Artemus says: "Of
course. now you're married you can eat
onions"
Mrs. l-ippincott tGrace Greenwood) pro-
fessed to take the humorst quite seriously.
in enc of her lectures. and berated him
soundly as type of the vast majority
OF men who are selfish enough to prefer
their own enjoyment TO the happiness OF
'heir wives Abstemous and polite
enough before marriage" she SAYS, and
careful not to give offense no sooner is
the moose Slipped over the poor woman's
head than they proceed to do things TO
her Infinite disgust. They smoke up her
parlor curtains, not only with cigars but
Plies. they insist cuspidors in the Ii
nrary and dining room, and above all,
'ney come home frequently from their
clubs at night reeking with a beefsteak
ana fred onion supper. 1t is shameful"
cried Mrs. Lippincott. ''how so many men
treat their wives i'm this way. When my
Is, or course, an exception among mon
went OF and bought a pistol What is
That for? i asked. Her husband he re-
piled grimly.'
Thackcray's Tripe and Onions.
Grace Greenwood was a lecturer. arI.
as such, pitched Ter argument strongly.
1t was professional pride with her 10 do
so; but she dealt only with the abuses of
the onion-eating question. ard did nor
take broad view. Many worthy and some
notable persons have possessed the onion
habit now and again. William Makeneac,
Ihackeray, writing Of himself in Loved
the Whoever, says: 1t is notorious To all
'my friends there is a certain dish ! cam
rot re: ist." He referred to stewed tiip.
ana onions, as a proof of which in j. mar
rated of him that on one occasion whii. On
his way TO dine with the Marquis OF Nest
minister his eye caught sight Of a plaCarI
In the window OF a London restaurant
bearing the legend: ''Tripe and onions
tonight. Going in he called for the dish,
ana writing materials, and wrote of as an
excuse to his woud-be most that ne had
Unexpectedly met an old friend that insisted
Upon OBTAINING him.
Thackeray's favorite edbles were raw
oy sters and onions, aid it may he re-
called that he told Mr.. Field. the Boston
author, who acted as agent i'm his lecture
tour in this country. that mis- chief purpose
IN coming to America was 10 obtain sone
(Which he had heard grew to fabulous
size instead of the little coppery things
OF England. At this first dinner in Boston,
therefore, plate of large providence
Rivers was set before him as an Ippc-
tizer. He partook of one with surprised
lock Being asked how he felt. he replied:
Profoundly grateful. L feel as if l had
swallowed baby" He added that he
must eat an onion TO digest him.
In Shakespeare's Time.
Capt. Fluellen, King Henry Fifth's IA
vorite Welsh officer at Agincourt, as
Shakespeare tells US. Wore a leek a mild
SPECIES of onion, in his helmet in memory
of heroic battle deeds performed in an
CT ion garden in France by a company Of
his countrymen under the Black Prince.
Ancient Pistol, whose courage WAS doubt
Jul. Knocked at him for it. ana was made
to eat the onion, raw, at the end of the
Welshnlans cudgel. The king himself. who
vas born in Wales. expressed his fonduess
Tor lceks and also wore one in his cap for
a memorable honor on Saint Days day
The Prince of Wales today is said TO les
devoted 10 onions as an article of diet ana
on all proper occasions-lining an famIlc.
etc.-indulSeS in them freely. thus accept
ing Artemus' hint. 1t is presumed that his
wife. the princess, and ether members of
the family also eat them. if only in SYM
rathy. And if the recognized heads of pO-
lite society carry them on their menus At
times there seems no occasion for inYectves
concerning them
1t is. indeed. the abuse. and not the use.
of the runsent vegetable that should los
decred one cannot expect to become a
favorite in social life if. like the Italian la
borer he cannot restrain his appetite Tor
garlic. He must not always be indulgins
himself on pleasant as well as on stormy
evenings. Miss Greenwood tells of the fate
which befell young society man who
et gerly sought in marriage a number of
eligible young ladies. hut who visited them
SO persistently with the odor of album on
his breath that they named him onion
joe and avoided him as a stalking pesti-
lence He never quite understood why his
addresses We're rejected.
"Mr. Scribble." growled the city editor Of
a New York daily, to young man who
had recently Joined the staff from Vermont,
you have eaten fried onions again for
breakfast this morning. Take the day on,
sir. This paper cannot afford to send Its
reporters to meetings or 10 interview re-
spectacle persons. with such a breath
yours. Drink half pint of rum-it Will
help it some-and stay home until you get
rid of it."
AS "a matter of fact, most men prefer the
scent of liquor rather than that of onions
on the breath of their acquaintances. in
the daytime, and the liquor odor does not
much more prejudice business men against
their employees or customers.
When TO Eat Onions.
The best time and only one, perhaps for
society 10 eat onions is W0en tnere Is the
least chance of offending the olfactoriss
of sensitive people. Thus a stormy Satur-
day night is fairly safe when. the family,
from the theater. may sit with
closed doors in executive session on the
onion question. A severe cold, making
necessary the staying at home and the
mot at home" to visitors, gives an ideal
opportunity. In truth, IL is shrewdly sus-
pected that very many OF the mot at
homes mean that the society beauty has
taken onions for her cold or complexion
under the family physicians prescription.
perchance, and must deny herself to her
friends.
1t is we'll known that the dubious vege-
table is specific for many complaints
among others-and that when
the immediate odor has passed the breath
is all the sweeter from its use as a diet
Long before Columbus discovered America
the homely onion was doing duty in its
native east Qndia). not only as food, but
as medicine and a conservator of tine
arts. Its aromatic flavor commended il
to the epicure, its stimulating sudorific
properties made IL an excellent tonic, pro-
noting all the excretions, while its viscid
juice was used as a cement for porcelain.
Finally, according to Miss Parloa of the
Boston cooking school. Delmonico, Cham
berlin, Savarin, the late Sam Ward and
other great chefs, the onion cannot be dis
pensed with In the preparation Of appe-
tizing dishes. Its pungent taste is neces-