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[BY NORMAN FORES.]

The practical joker and hoaxer of the last century to-day known more familiarly as a leg-puller. His is a diversion that can only be justiñed pro- vided it does not inflict pain or distress ou the owner of the leg.

This, however, was not Theodora Hook's view when, by laborious preparations, he sent hundreds of Londoners of all classes chiefly tradespeople, with carts and wingons of coal, furniture, sacks of potatoes, even coffins, to the house of a Mrs. Tenant in Berners-street nt a parti- cular day and hour in 1800, with the re- sult that the street was choked with a sea of miscellaneous merchandise.

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Some years ago considerable excitement was aroused in sensation-loving breasts by the publicity given to a certain Signor Suchi who undertook to fast for 40 days Renders had been harrowed by heart- rending accounts of his sufferings, and on this particular day, when he was nearing the last few hours of his ordeal. Claude and I started off in bigh spirits. though in a somewhat sceptical mood, to see the hungry hero,

We catered a sordid room in a house near Regent's Park, where he lay full length in a sort of open glass coffin. It seemed to a sad and degrading spectacle, so directly the Jew showman's back was turned, we hurried out into Regent's Park. We there witnessed the usual Sunday crowd encircling with rapt attention the grimacing, gesticulating Limehouser....

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spectators had turned their backs on him and were fixing their gaze upon me. Was this a case of telepathy ? Had they divined my thoughts and were they resenting them? Certainly their ugly stare seemed to convey thin

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I guessed in the twinkling of an eye that my unusual thinness had reminded Claude of the faster and so led him to cast me for the part of the bunger- monger, and that while my attention had been arrested by the Limehouser he had had no difficulty in persuading the crowd that they witnessed in me the actual bero who, after 10 days' fasting, was free to eat, drink, and be merry.

And merry indeed I was at the thought of getting my chance to score off Claude with the crowd as he had done with me. But as usual his quick wit anticipated my move, for when I was about to answer several questioners, be hurriedly said, Please ask him nothing, he is deaf and dumb

So I was forced to remain silent while he invented the most outrageous feats. had performed throughout the world-, some good, some bad, mostly bad, very Breaking My Fast.

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"And after all, gentlemen," he con- tinued, can we be sure that at mid- night, when Londoners sleep, it was pos- sible for him to resist his passion for tripe and onions Enowing his "gour- mandising habits as I do, I answer em- phatically no.. Understand, gentlemen, I would not say these things of him if he could hear and answer for himself. (Cheers.) Alas, the poor fellow is deaf and dumb.” (Cheers.)

He then made rapid gesticulations with

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The visitor then addressed Tree in these

bis fingers, meant to convey to the crowd words, "I am sorry, Colonel Lowther, to that he was talking to me by means of have brought my party here on a non- the dumb alphabet, of which I knew him visitors' day, but since we have come to be totally ignorant. I answered him from afar would you allow us to look in the same manner, whereupon he said, round your beautiful gardens before we

return?" I have told my friend Suchi that his

Certainly, said Tree, "and pick as long fast bas created in him an excep- tional hunger arid that I must now take many peaches as you like and take them him to appease it with his favourite dish with you!

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of tripe and onions, but if you please he This was too much for Claade, who insists on starting with oysters and cham-advanced and said, "Ladies and gentle pagne." He hailed a bansom-cab, inte which he and others helped my exhausted frame, and we received three hearty eheers as we drove away.

So we were all amused except the Lime houser, for he was entirely deserted by his victima, who preferred to follow the laughter-loving leg-puller,

men, Colonel Lowther deserves his re- putation for being a princely host. He teaches me a real lesson in generosity. Let me introduce myself. I am Herbert Beerbohm Tree, of Her Majesty's Theatre, and Ihall be delighted to place as many boxes and stails at your disposal as your party may require, now or at any time--you have only to write."

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The Englishman is the best dressed in the world.

London leads in fashion.

These are the opinions of Mr. James Weddell, of Manchester, who was elected president of the National Federation of Merchant Tailors (Incorporated) at the annual meeting of the federation in Holborn Town Hall recently.

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Too Much Modesty.

The Popular Plus Fodra.." Styles in men's clothes bad been far too conservative in the past, both in materials and colour. There was more He claimed for British tailors that evidence of more colour being introduced they led the world in "cut"-that touch For sports wear an amazing choice was of creative genius and deftness which offered, and the result was that the plas gave tone, and lent individuality and four suit was the most popular in many life to their productions. These clothes were sought for by men of discriminat men's wardrobes.

"I would combat the idea," added the ing taste throughout the world. president, that colour in men's dress Too much modesty bad in the past been one of the failings of the merchant is a sign of effeminacy.

What period of history reveals the tailor, but since the war his sense of greatest heroism and adventure? Surely pride of craft had developed. the Elizabethan period, when our great An Englishman was acknowledged all captains who built up our Empire were the world over a the best-dreased man attired in ribbons, velvets, and silks of of any nation and in men's fashions every colour in the rainbow. London led

Let them as merchant tailors become

To be well Carations typify the decay of the spirit of world of men their faith. How we all three laughed, but most of I manly adventure1 At any rate, let us dressed is the only visible form of pros all our dear friend Harbert.-Daily Mail:

(Continued on next Column), "perity."-Daily Mail.

The second example of Claude's spop taneous joking happened he sunny wock Tree, who, like all good humorists, end in the autumn when Sir Herbert Tree loved a joke turned against himself, was and I were staying with our friend delighted; but after dinner that same at his beautiful home, Horstmonceux Castle, acknowledged to be the best evening, when we were all talking over example of 14th-century stone-and-brick the episode, Tree for a moment became

serious building in existence. The same super- lative would justly apply to his gardens" I hope, my dear Claude," he remark for their choice of colour and his riched, "the people saw through the joke fruit, chiefly peaches, of which he was and that they won't really apply for justly proud, l

boxes and stalle. I am turning money A Score Over Tree.

away nightly for my performance of

Hamlet." While we were enjoying ourselves in the

Oh, no," said Claude;" I don't think gardena a large party of trippera arrived you need have any fear of such a catas on the scene This was not a visitors trophe. Though they all thanked me (as day, but one of the party approached our Bir Herbert) for my innate generosity, end, raising his hat, said, "Excuse mont of them, I discovered, were anxious me, but are you Colonel Lowther To to substitute the seats for the Coliseum May not the dullness and deadly res which Claude, with his love of joking, to witness the performance of Little pectability of men's wear in recent gene better advertisers and preach to the immediately replied, pointing to Tree, Tich."

No; there is the colonel."

(Continued on next Column).

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