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What had been his hypothetical singular solutions?
Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spi-
likins, cup and ball, nap, spoil five, bezique, twentyfive,
beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or backgammon):
embroidery, darning or knitting for the policeaided cloth-
ing society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar, piano and
flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope address-
ing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial
activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed
mistress proprietress in a cool dairy shop or warm cigar
divan: the clandestine satisfaction of erotic irritation in mas-
culine brothels, state inspected and medically controlled:
social visits, at regular infrequent prevented intervals and
with regular frequent preventive superintendence, to and
from female acquaintances of recognised respectability in
the vicinity: courses of evening instruction specially de-
signed to render liberal instruction agreeable.
What instances of deficient mental development in his
wife inclined him in favour of the lastmentioned (ninth) so-
lution?
In disoccupied moments she had more than once cov-
ered a sheet of paper with signs and hieroglyphics which
she stated were Greek and Irish and Hebrew characters. She
had interrogated constantly at varying intervals as to the
correct method of writing the capital initial of the name of
a city in Canada, Quebec. She understood little of politi-
cal complications, internal, or balance of power, external.
In calculating the addenda of bills she frequently had re-
course to digital aid. After completion of laconic epistolary