Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — Redolent of Garlic. [ARTICLE]

Redolent of Garlic.

I remember a charming French friend of mine who used, now and again, to give himself a great treat of gigot stuffed with garlic; after which meal he would drink a few glasses of tafia, smoke a cigarette or two of caporal, and then call upon me and invariably kiss me. His breath was attar of roses or Ess. Bouquet compared to the person of an average Spaniard. By an extravagant and continuous consumption of garlic, tbese people, men and women, get It into their skins. From their skin it passes into their clothes, so that they walk about in a small personal atmosphere of garlic indescribably sickly and sickening. A Spanish gentleman remarked to me one day in a Madrid salon, while praising English women, their beauties, virtues, etc.: “There is only one fault I detected in them—their skin has no perfume. When I kiss a Spanish lady’s hand I smell that delicious national odor that w’e all adore; but an English lady’s hand, though delicately white and soft, does not absolutely smell of anything!” He missed, poor fellow, the taint of garlic.— Madrid lettir.