had plenty of funds and it did not cost much getting visiting cards engraved with such names and supplied with the home address of the great personage whom it was intended to annoy.

One such card as an evidence of good faith would be attached to the plausibly-worded letter.

The _Times_ was seldom taken in, but great success often attended these audacious deceptions, especially in the important organs of the provincial press.

Editors and sub-editors seldom took the trouble and the time to hunt through _Who's Who_, or a Peerage to identify the writer of the letter claiming the Vote for Women.

No real combination of names was given, thus forgery was avoided; but the public and the unsuspecting Editor were left with the impression that the Premier's, Colonial Secretary's, Home Secretary's, Board of Trade President's, or prominent anti-suffragist woman's son, daughter, brother, sister, wife or mother-in-law did not at all agree with the anti-feminist opinions of its father, mother, brother or husband.
If the politician were foolish enough to answer and protest, he was generally at a disadvantage; the public thought it a good joke and no one (in the provinces) believed his disclaimers.
Vivie generally heckled ministers on the stump and parliamentary candidates dressed as a woman of the lower middle class.