Show A British Joke I F are are slow to appreciate a joke as is al- al on this si side le of the Atlantic they are arc not so 60 slow to perpetrate one of the practical variety as is evidenced evi evi- by advices from London On One day recently Pre Pre- J i r Lloyd George was besieged at his official residence 10 Downing Doming street et by a large number of would-be would housekeepers house house- keepers keepe attracted there as ns the r result sult of a a. joke with a amoral amOral moral ral played by an organization of women clerks and secretaries Hundreds of members of the organization had llad been dismissed from employment in government offices as 9 war post-war activities ceased They had protested vigorously vigorously vigorously vigor vigor- through delegates who tried unsuccessfully to interview interview in in- Mr Lloyd George GCorge In answer to their last communication communication com corn com the premier had the following addressed to them s The prime minister fla says s 's ther s cant can't bo be VCr very much in I II I this talk of at women finding finding- It hard to find employment He lie has been trying trying- for some time to get a housekeeper for tor No 10 and ho cant can't find one who wants tho situation Whereupon Thereupon the lady secretary of the organization immediately called several employment agencies agencies' by tele- tele J phone pho Th The proposition appealed to many applicants at t I the ilIe agencies for it isn't 1 every Jay day y that a woman gets a chance to work at the famous No 10 Soon the austere v doorman o at the official resi residence ence was opening tb the door Salt all day to women in all ull stations of life anxious t lo to secure se- se cure curc ur the coveted 4 position n The e doorman reported to an v k un undersecretary and the undersecretary to t the tho o secretary ry of the thc prime minister and in a n short time the telephone 2 J was vas busy telling the a agencies to call off the applicants t Perhaps it itis IS is the tho fear of a a. similar practical joke that deters the thc heads of departments in W Washington from dismissing the armies of clerks and steno stenographers that r congressmen t con say are falling faIling over each other in iu vain ain 1 attempts to appear busy and hang on to the pay roll roIl A less becu appreciation o o Of- the thc ludicrous a and d a a. keener I appreciation of British business met methods od might be he nI I a n thing for America |