Reversal of the Currently Accepted Belief in Masculine Sufliciency Arnold Hutchins does not like onions. They are so offensive that he has issued a proclamation forbidding his wife to purchase or bring to the house or cause to be brought to the house, anything nearer the appearance of an onion than a narcissus bulb. Ann finds this very hard, for despite her gentle breeding she believes ardently in the onion as a factor in culinary success. Once or twice in the early days of their marriage she tried surreptitiously to introduce the flavour but he made such a fuss that she gave them up, forever.
Arnold objects to onions not only in his own home but in everyone else's. Since there is no law regulating apartment house cookery, when the family directly below engages in boiled onions and the people next door have a stew, Ann telephones the news to the office so that she and Arnold may go to a restaurant and remain away until the permeative odors have evaporated, When they are invited out for dinner. Ann hates to do it, but she tells her hostess beforehand, as casually as she can, how violently Arnold feels, and begs for an onionies meal.
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