SNEEZING MINISTERS.
SUFFRAGETTE PEPPER FOR THE CABINET. The agitation for .women's suffrage is certainly no mere 'iriflo to bo ''sneezed nt," and yet that is the very thing that tlio Suffragettes themselves are .making Ministers do. They have penpeerd tho noses of tho Cabinet. _ , Nearly every Minister recently .received an unstamped envelope on which, ns an additional indignity, twepeneo had to bo paid. It was marked "Private," and was addressed in a feminine handwriting. Perhaps scenting a romance, Ministers hurriedly toro open the envelopesonly to scent red pepper and snuff. , By an ingenious arrangement lhes« powders were enclosed in a paper that was slnclt in _tho envelope, so tliot when Ministers gave an extra lug fo get', (his out. they whishod (lie penper in their faces. Th;> pnper—when tlieir smarting oyos permitted them to read it—demanded with many threats "tho vote." Mr. Hobhousc had to go homo for a" fresh supply of handkerchiefs. Mr, Acland was blinded for two hours. Nearly all the Ministers were more or less affected. Tho order has gone forth that all unstamped envelopes are in future to l>o opened by the secretaries of Ministers. A strike of Ministerial secretaries is threatened.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1705, 24 March 1913, Page 6
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196SNEEZING MINISTERS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1705, 24 March 1913, Page 6
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