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Show "Big Seller" of 1758. In more hardy days than these snuff was used as an eyo liniment "The Compleat Housewife, or Accomplished Accomplish-ed Gentlewoman's Companion." which had run Into 1G editions by 1758. extols Its virtues Accomplished gentlewomen gentlewom-en who find their sight falling with advancing ad-vancing years ere advlsea to rub "the right sort of Portugal snuff Into the eyes night and morning, and take It also through the nose." This treatment, treat-ment, It Is asserted, "cured Sir Edward Ed-ward Seymour, Sir John Houblon and Judge Ayres, so that they could read without spectacles after thoy had used them for many years." Somo peoplo would prefer spectacles. A Stage "Aside." The Excitable Leading Lady, hearing hear-ing footsteps passing her dressing room, thought it was the Irasciblo Stage Manager, against whom she harbored har-bored enmity. "Say, you lobster," sho called, In her sweet, cultivated accents, "I want you to " "Excuse me," interrupted the Producer Pro-ducer of the Footsteps, "1 am not the lobster. I am only the supe." i-or, indeed, It was the young man who each matinee and evening announced an-nounced that tho carriage wa3 waiting. |