Liquid Comfort in Opera Glasses The "Pussyfoot" department of one old Sheffield electro plate and silver firm is working full time to satisfy the insistent demand for opera glasses, cigar cages and similar articles for the United States.
Orders have poured in by the thousand, and at the present time orders for about 15,000 are in hand.
The call for opera glasses does not signify a great stage revival at America, but merely the working of the Prohibition regulations. The innocent-looking opera glasses are a fake as opera glasses. If one eyepiece is screwed off, a neat little flask, capable of holding a comfort table amount of liquor, is revealed, hence the urgent export orders.
Pussyfoot has no more enthusi-ostic supporters than the fortunate workers at one firm, who are on full time, while many of their mates at-other firms are unemployed.
They drink Pussyfoot's health daily and long for the day when other countries, with a decent rate of exchange, go dry. before he vould find the right words to' answer the heckler, a member of the audience shouted out: "Stop your braying; he ain't a-going ter tax thistles.' Mr. Chamberlain, by the way, always wisely gave his ancience the first chance in dealing with heckling pests. Mr. Gladstone was always very impatient with these awkward questioners. They were, in fact, more than his ardent spirit could stand. Heckled in one of his Midlothian campaigns, he lost his temper rather badly, and said: "I can supply the desired information, but I cannot invent the machinery for getting into the questioner's bead." 2
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