DEAR MR. PUNCH,--I want to tell you that, although I am what one of your friends called "a solid woman," and ought to feel _deeply_ hurt by what you said about ladies at lunch, yet I liked that article the best. I think it was _awfully_ good. But don't you think you are all rather hard on ladies at shooting-boxes? My idea is that there ought to be some new rules about shooting-parties. At present, ladies are asked to amuse the men--at least that is my experience--and it is rather hard they may not sometimes go on the moors, if they want to. But, at the same time, I _quite_ understand that they are horribly in the way, and I am not surprised that the men don't want women about them when they are shooting. But couldn't they arrange to have a day now and then, when they could shoot all the morning, and devote themselves to amusing the women on the moors after lunch? Otherwise, I think there ought to be a rule that no women are to be invited to shooting-boxes. It is generally very dull for the women, and I feel sure the men would be quite as happy without them. I suppose the host might want his wife to be there, to look after things; but _she ought to strike_, and ask her lady-friends to do the same; and then they could go abroad, or to some jolly place, and enjoy themselves in their own way. Really we often get quite angry--at least I do--when men treat us as if we were so many dolls, and patronise us in their heavy way, and expect us to believe that the world was made entirely for them and their shooting-parties. There must be more give and take. And, if _we_ are to give you our sympathy and attention, _you_ must take our companionship a little oftener. We get so dull when we are all together. Your sincere admirer, A LADY LUNCHER.