A WOMAN'S PRACTICAL JOKE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2017, 22 June 1875, Page 3

A WOMAN'S PRACTICAL JOKE.

The Bendigo Advertiser says:-—" The residents of a portion of the city of Sandhurst, more especially the female section, * were thrown into ,a state of great excitement the other evening through the ap'pearanc'o of a wild-looking man, as they thought, who conducted himself in anything but a proper manner towards them. This individual proceeded to every house '' iii the locality, disturbing and terribly ' frightening the inmates, until his career " ' was brought to an end by his arriving at a house where,the male sex was represented. The carrying on of the sup.posed maniac were'somewhat disgusting, and" the whole family displayed the ' greatest alarm. Some of the children hid themselves uadcr beds, some ran away to neighbors' houses, whilst the others stood stiff with fear. The father of the family who is a miner, on the last night shift, was asleep at the /time, but the screaming of his wife and daughters soon awoke him, and he jumped -*:up and rushed into the room. JHe cori- ' fronted the person who had been the '■* cause of the unusual noise, and on catching hold of him by the neck for the purpose ■ "of .kicking Mm out of the house, the " startling revelation was made, through the whiskers becoming' disordered, that the party was a woman who lived almost • next door, and who wa« one of the family's best neighbours. This woman must have made the art "of 'making-up' a study, for dres>ed as a man, with flowing whiskers, which were ingeniously-formed by the hair of her headbeingbmaizhtforward and . fcwisttd about so as t^ 1 avoid suspicion. her neighbors, with some of whom she -had an hour previously been talking, failed to recognise her. That* woman tajs she never enjoyed herself so much in her life, and,her opinion was that the ' women wanted frightening' occasionally; Her husband differs materially with her on that point, and the rather strong and unmanly rebuke which he administered will not probably be forgotten by her in <ft hurry."l Since. the ocpurence, the man evidently ashamed of his wife's conduct; has m ot shown outside his door, except when he has to go to work,' and then he; takes .an out-of-the-way road,'so as tp aviod the taunts of his neighbors." ;