COSY CORNER CLUB.

Otago Witness, Issue 2455, 3 April 1901, Page 60

COSY CORNER CLUB.

Third Session opens May 1. RULES. 1. Meets on the first Wednesday of each month. 2. Contributions to be in 14 days earlier. 3. All readers of Witness Ladies' Page eligible as members by strictly conforming to rules. 4. Contributions not to exceed 300 words. Must be legibly written in ink on. one side of the paper only, and must be accompanied by real name and address — not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith— as well as by norn de plume. 5. The subjects for the following two months will be given at each meeting in order to allow members at a, distance to send in their papers in plenty of tune, as no extension of dates can be given. 6. Members specially anxious to discuss any topic are invited to send their suggestions to Emmeline, who will be charmed to consider their wishes, provided always that the subject is one of general interest to readers. Emmeline, in publishing the rules of the club again, advises members to cut them out and keep them for reference Club meets May 1. Contributions must be in by April 17. TOPIC. A Gallery of Noble Women. Writers are requested to paint in words the portrait of some noble woman whose life and influence they especially pdmire. The choice is not restricted to any special period. Club meets June 5. Contributions must be m by May 22. TOPIC. This being a "Members' Meeting," members will choose their own topic, sending an essay, sketch, verses, or quotations, not exceeding about 300 words, on the subject chosen. My Dear Comrades, — It if with great pleasure that I invite you all to meet for the opening of our Third Session on May 1. The time for writing papers for our first meeting of the session is always unavoidably short, but I hope you will make a special effort to render the opening of our Third Session a success. With regard to the topic chosen I should like to say a few words. I should like to make our meeting a memorial to the great and good Queen, ■whose loss we still momn. It would have been impossible, however, m the face of all that has 'been, and is still being, written by the world's most gifted men and women concerning "Victoria, the Well-beloved," for us to have contributed anything that had not already been said more ably. Let us, however, make our "Gallery of Noble Women" a tribute to the memory of our late Queen, by dedicating each study of a noble life "to the memnry of Queen Victoria,'' rnrl each mentioning the "noblest woman of our own time " in some few woids of opening 01 closing his or her paper — the sentence may be bievity itself so it be there. Our second meeting is suro to meet vith the warm respon-c wlvch always marks a members' meeting, and I ar>i tlut from all the events w h-ch have irnrked the last few months, and fi c m vom Chr.stmis holiday pleasuies and experiences jou ill all have a rich stoic of episodes from which to draw your treu&urei. OIMELIXE.