Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — The Ideal Onion and the Real Onion. [ARTICLE]

The Ideal Onion and the Real Onion.

What ft grand thing it would be for the man with small appetite, if he could only taste the perfume of cooking. Walking in the neighborhood of an for instance, he scents afar the odor ortlie frying clam or oyster. It is dainty, piquant, aromatic. He enters the saloon, and when he commences to eat his ordered “fry” he finds •if is in tangibility ftf'hnucli different thing than it was when its odors were wafted with the air. Again, the man with a small appetite may be strolling past a German restaurant. He sniffs the odor of fried onions, and has an appetite at once. Then he orders beefsteak and onions. But he cannot eat them. The reality is so j different from the ideal. Soyer, the great French cook, used to make eatable things for tne soldiers of the French army, and amassed a fortune. The cook who will make edibles taste - as they smell in cooking has unlimited millions before' him. Do not wait for extraordinary occasions to do good actions; try to use common situations.