APPENDIX. 



SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM. 



The "Easy Chair" of Harper, February, 1885, 

 replies to the complaints of " Clarissa " against 

 gentlemen-smokers. From this reply a passage is 

 given : — 



M And has Clarissa done all her duty ? Has she 

 plainly apprised those gilded satellites of hers, 

 1 who wear the garb of gentlemen, and verily be- 

 lieve themselves to be such,' that they must choose 

 between her and a cigarette, and that they cannot 

 simultanously enjoy smoking and her society? 

 Has she taken occasion to intimate that, in her 

 opinion, no gentleman, truly so called, smokes in 

 the street? . . . The problem that Clarissa pro- 

 pounds can best be solved by her and her friends. 

 There are classes of offenders, indeed, whose 

 smoke can be stayed only by stringent laws, vig- 

 orously enforced. These may be described as 

 'persons in the form of man.' But that other 

 large company f who wear the garb of gentlemen ' 

 are amenable to the influences of Clarissa, and 

 such smoke she and her sister sylphs can suppress " 

 (The Italics are mine.) 



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