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Show VICTORIAM REVIVAL Pass the Smelling Salts lng salts. The only difference la the modern gal carries here In her handbag when aha boards a plane, or pulls her bottle out of the pocket of her car. By AUCIA HART The little bottle of smelling aslts which a Victorian lady whiffed at before she felt faint la back in circulation. Modern women who have no intention of swooning are finding find-ing smelling salts as good a bracer for staving off a tired feeling, for giving a needed pick-me-up. It la the men, however, how-ever, who, according to one report, re-port, were the first to tuck bot-tlea bot-tlea of smelling aalta into the glove compartments of their automobilea Fumes from smelling smell-ing sslts sre a help in preventing prevent-ing drowsiness, or drivers' fatigue, fa-tigue, theae autoists clsim. Another reason this old-fash-, loned aid bows back to a modern mod-ern encore is ita usefulness in relieving a stuffy nose induced by a head cold. For reasons such as theae, todsy'a women are apt to be aeen doing whst their great-grandmothers great-grandmothers did M years ago, taking a couple of whiffs now and then from a bottle of amell- |