ANOTHER CONUNDRUM.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10870, 21 January 1901, Page 6

ANOTHER CONUNDRUM.

TO TTIK EDITOR OF THE PHXSS. Sir,—You do not seem to have succeeded in discovering the definition of a gentleman just yet for us. But with regard to the term ""lady," our troubles are nearly at an end. You have yourself solved this difficult problem. I read in your report of the New Brighton Ga'a Married Women's Race: —'"One coming champion broke away. . . Another lady, perceiving this. made.a.dash after, and although she could not overtake the first lady, yet she managed to get sufficiently close to give her a smart push forward." We must take it then, on the authority of the "Press," that an active female who engages in a married women's race, disputes the handicapper's decision, does her best to foul her opponents, and mobs the starter afterwards, is a "lady." We are getting on. sir. It only remains to discover how many more things a woman may do, or not do, to qualify.for being a "lady," and the "residuum" will be only a woman. You might try to discover the" meaning of the term gentleman by a similar process of elimination. T have heard a witness in the box admit that he made a deliberate false statement in business, and defend himself by saying it was only "a commercial lie." Would you call this individual a "gentleman/" , You might put this case to the public and invite answers?" —Yours, etc., QUERY.