“A lone man’s companion, a bachelor’s friend, a hungry man’s food, a sad man’s cordial, a wakeful man’s sleep, and a chilly man’s fire” Charles Kingsley, Pall Mall ad, 1937

Stephanie’s setting herself up as a tobacconalian (according to my 1948 Roget’s Thesaurus).

Tomorrow, one of the oldest gags in vaudeville!