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Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Vitamin-Packed Onion Hat Many Uses Would you believe that onions are as rich in vitamin C as either the orange or the tomato? It's a fact,' so the men of science say, and after all, they are the only ones who can hold a -vitamin still long enough to determine whether what they are look ing at is a vitamin or a frag ment of a dust mote. The onion belongs to the family of plants to which the lily belongs, but it lacks the glamour of its relative. The garlic and the leek are kin folk. The onion is about the homeliest of all the garden vegetables, and in comparison with its stronger relatives, the garlic and lock, is the puny member of the clan. The onion has been cultivated by man since antiquity, and grows 4 more important com mercially every year. Developed by Persians You can either blame or give credit to the ancient Per sians for developing the first onion. They already had pret ty good luck cultivating the melon, so they went to work again and hit the jackpot. They came up with an onion, and nothing has been the same since. They stopped too soon, how ever, or else they were so pleased with what they had accomplished they rested on their oars, for the possibili ties of the onion had hardly been .touched. Every genera tion of men since that far away time has added some thing in the way of improve ment to this strong member of the lily family. Just think - it has taken about 2,000 years to find a comfortable and tearless way to peel them. The ancient Persians never thought about cutting an onion under water to soften the impact on hu man tear ducts. And while all this playful experimenta tion was going on new ways were found to grow different strains and different odors. Those old folks who ate on ions would think our modern, modified-odored onion is a weak sister, or a retarded one. ...Mildness Acquired Today, onions come ( in white, green, brown and yel low, all adjusted to grow in nearly any kind of soil, and at the same time produce tre mendously. Even mildness has been acquired. This virtue is attained to a delicious degree in the Spanish Sweet or Ber muda varieties. Onions always have been credited with possessing medi cinal qualities. They have been used in the treatment of various respiratory diseases for untold centuries. Oil, der ived from the crushed bulbs was believed to be a very po tent nerve tonic. Many peo ple, however, suffering from a nervous breakdown claim the onion as a cure has been grossly overrated. A "mess" of onions, cooked down to a smelly pulp, en cased in a sack or cloth, was standard treatment for a cold in the chest, during pioneer days in early America. A poultice of crushed onions, tied up in a cloth and wound around the neck, was expect ed to cure a sore throat. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) SALES MANAGER DIES Sharon, Mass. - (OPD - Henry M. S trout, 57, former national sales manager of parts and ac cessories for the Ford Motor Co., died Saturday. FIRE STORM AREA Dr. George Mixter Jr., of New York University's school of medicine, told a Congressional subcommittee in Washington that millions more Americans would die of burns that from radioactive falloutin the event of an H-bomb war. Dr. Mixter uses a map of the New York City area to show the effects of a fire storm following an H-bomb attack. The subcommittee, headed by Repre sentative Chet Holifield (D., Calif.), is investigating probable effects of atomic war on the U.S. ' The Family Council ' "Editor's note: Xhe Family Council consists ot a judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editnt a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice; it merely report; on problems that have been dealt with by responsible acencin counselors. June K. -1 want to quit work. Victor K-She's chosen the worst time. June K.-My husband and I have been married 10 years and have two children-7 and 8. I have worked during the entire time of our marriage except for about four or five months I took off for the birth of each of the children. Now I would like to quit work and just be a housewife and mother. I feel that I have earned this right. The minute I mentioned this to my hus band he flared up and said that I had chosen the worst possible moment. He had been thinking of going into busi ness for himself and felt we ought to have some stable in come for the next year or so. I have been working since I was 18 and I am now past 30. I don't feel like working any more. My family and friends think I'm a fool to do it. ' " Victor K.-.June gives the impression that I'm a slave driver and trying to abuse her. Nothing could be further from the truth. I begged June to give up working when she was about to have the first baby, but she wouldn't hear of it. She insisted we needed the money for the baby. Well, now June has advanc ed herself very far in her career, but her family has worked her up into feeling that she is driving herself to death and that I am to blame. They seem to think I am pock eting her salary. Actually, ev ery cent that is left over from the expense of the housekeep er goes to a fund for the chil dren's education. Now that the hardest" times are past and I want to start a new enterprise June has de cided to quit. . The Council-Yes, we agree that June has "earned the right" to be a housewife and a mother. But in view of the fact that this right is usually won upon marriage and doesn't have to be earned, we think that June is all wrong to feel abused and accept her family's idea that she is "a fool" to do what she has chosen to do. She evi dently finally succeeded in giving her husband the idea that she was going to go on MAIL TRIBUNI, MedW, Or. Monday, July , 193 working indefinitely. Natural ly, he is taken aback when she announces her new plans at a moment when he has a few of his own. , In view of the entir his tory of this case, we get the idea that if June were to quit now, Victor would take it as a rebuke to him. June has apparently felt somewhat guilty at working while her children were young and shifted the blame to her hus band and his lack of income. Victor has borne the brunt of the public opinion June has created and would now be shown up as having lost an unmanly battle. We feel that June should recognize that she has created this situation. 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