Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1900 — An Odorless Onion. [ARTICLE]

An Odorless Onion.

The latest product of scientific propagation is the odorless onion. Just how an onion can be odorless and still remain an onion is not explained. To most people the odor is all there is of an onion and that is enough. The elimination of the characteristic feature of a vegetable of such long and strong standing in natural history ought to be reckoned among the proudest achievements of man. But an onion deprived of that delicious tang and the penetrating scent which goes with it, can hardly be an onion. The palate which loves onions will not recognize it; calling a whitened, innocuous, insipid, plated bulb an onion will not make it one.

No true lover of onions will hail this new Invasion of science. He eats bis onion fit dead of night, in silence and solitude. He rejoices in it aud sleeps upon it. The incense of his praise tills the room and soothes him to delicious sleep. He rises in the morning after his sacrifice to pass the day in purification, to she no one till the sun hath sunk with indigestible substances, its rudiment vegetable can command such devotion from Its votaries. It Is a luxury and a worship. Shall he yield all this delight for an odorless bulb? Let others do as they will, he will not. An onion without Its odor would be ashamed of itself.—Milwaukee Journal.