The sprightly spring onion, already socially scorned in some of the best lay circles, suffered attack at the hands of at least one scientific and scholarly professional.
After reading his strictures I remarked to myself that really there remained but one field of useful popularity for the onion to adorn; in time it might hope to supplant the sunflower as the floral emblem of Kansas, as typifying a great political principle which originated in that state: The Initiative, when one took a chance and ate a young onion; the Referendum, while one's digestive apparatus wrestled with it; the Recall, if it disagreed with one.

Alone, of all the vegetables, stood spinach, with not a single detractor.

On this issue the vote in the affirmative practically was by acclamation.

I am tin position to state that boiled spinach has not an enemy among the experts.

This seems but fair--it has so few friends among the eating public.
I observed much and confusing talk of the value of nitrogens, proteids and--when I had reached the ultra-modernists--vitamines.