AN ONION SCRAPBOOKOur own comes to us out of the shadows, out of the wide spaces, out of the unknown.
In my Christmas mail I had a scrapbook sent to me anonymously, a scrapbook all about onions. Not a word, not a name, to tell who sent it. But I know who compiled it, for the name is written on the flyleaf, in ink now faded to a rusty brown—
Thomas J. Johnston
Knox College
Toronto.
No doubt Mr. Johnston was a theological student, and in later life turned from oratory to onions, and used this theological book, entitled "History of the Patriarchs," to hold his onion clippings. In between the clippings there creeps in here and there a few lines of ancient history, giving a certain literary flavor to the text.
The first entry in it reveals how the world, even then, had speeded up its proc
