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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11638, 10 November 1887, Page 3

A mother writes ;— " Once a week in» variably, and it was generally when we had cold meat minced. I gave the children a dinner which was hailed with delight and lookod forward to ; thiß was a dish of boiled onions. The little tbingß knew not lha.t they were taking the test ©f medicines tor expelling what most ebildren suffer from — worms. Mine were tepfc free by this remedy alone. Not onl.y boiled cnions for dinner, but chives also were they encouraged to eat with their bread and butter, and for tlm purpose they had tufto o£ chives in their little gardens. It was a medical man who taught me to eat boiled cnions as a specific for a cold in the chest. He did not know at the time, till I told him,- that they wore good for anything ielse\" The above appeared in the Lancaster New Era, and having fallen under the eyo of an experienced physician of that county, he writes as follows ; — " The above ought to be published in letters of gold and bung up beide the table, bo that the children could read it ard remind their parents that no family ought to be without onions the whole year round; Plant old ©■Dions in tht> fall, and they will come up at least three weeks earlier in the spring than by spring planting. Give children of all ages a few of them raw, as soon as they are fit to be eaten ; do not miss treating them with a mesa of rawomona three or four times a week. When they get too large or too strong to be eaten raw, then boil 01 roast them. Daring unhealthy seasons, "When diptheria unilike contagious diseases prevail, onions oaght to bo eaten iv the epiing of the year at least onca a week. Onions are invigorating and prophylactic bejond description. Jfurth'T, I challenge tha medical fraternity or any mother, to point out a place where children have died from diptheria or scarlatiua anginoea, &c, r where onions were freely mcd." Business cares render a stimulant easen- ■ SiaUy nrewßary— Wolvk'B 6CKNAPr3 is the '^imatant that should be tafeeq.