HOAXED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 765, 14 March 1910, Page 5

HOAXED.

; ' PRACTICAL JOKE;ON ME. .■."-.;/-';...':* "'.GHUBOmTiTi. . .■-.;;■■,-, By TeleeraDh—Press Associstlon-Ooiiyriehl. : -'■■'■ "■"'-.._'■":-■ '■ : : : London, March 11. - A practical, joiir. hoaxed several coalmerchants, by.' instructing; them to; send many ..tons-of coal to: the house of Mr. Winston ""

A CAMPAIGN ON NOVEL LINES,

I The above item of news -probably ob:tains its interest from the fact that the hoax■■'.was the work of the Suffragettes. If so, it would appear that the Suffragettes have hit upon the idea put. forward three or four-weeks ago in a Syd,ney- journal, of hiring some 'large and capable humorist" to organise a campaign on novel linos. Some of the possibilities are thus sketched by the journal referred ■to:'.-- ■"■"■■■ ■' • ; •;".■;•. ■ : "The Minister, would be perpetually finding , large, quantities of coal that'he hadn't ordered.:coming to his: house. If ho was a Jew he-would;get consignments of bacon. His man-servants would come home drtmk owing .to liberal people meeting. them. in. bars and-paying for their refreshments; His maid-servants would ;be beguiled away by offers of billets "at Higher wages, and. the new servants he acquired, would be.members of the Suffragette League.- These spies would accidentally put soap in the soup on the : night of the Premier's great dinner party; also, when the cover was' lifted off the principal dish,' it would turn out "to be 'an old disreputable dead dog or a bashed hat boiled, with gravy. : . The telephone would ring 'at all.manner of . unseemlj hours',, and whft) the Premier answered it a strange-vo"ice would ask him .if hia grandmother was a monkey, and bid him get back to his He would be driven by extreme misery to take off his boots in' Parliament and would find that penper had. somehow, got into them. ,Evil-smelling substances, would drop down his chimneys; cats would get under his bed j bis front door would be left open at night; seedy men in black would stop him in the street and ask him if he were saved; his letters v would go astray; and agile conjurers, walking behind him in the public ways, would make him-an object.of mirth by catting off the tail of his coat And some morning he would come downstairs to find all the kitchen furniture in the dining-room, and the drawing-room furniture upside-down in the scullery, and. the domestic staff gone, and the doors locked, and the keys missing,, and his best bell-topper full of beer on the stair. And when he got out .through a window ■he . would ascertain that the 1 house was painted red with green stripes." ', ■..■