OUR NEW PUZZLE POEM.
⁂ Prizes to the amount of six guineas (one of which will be reserved for competitors living abroad) are offered for the best solutions of the above Puzzle Poem. The following conditions must be observed.
1. Solutions to be written on one side of the paper only.
2. Each paper to be headed with the name and address of the competitor.
3. Attention must be paid to spelling, punctuation, and neatness.
4. Send by post to Editor, Girl’s Own Paper, 56, Paternoster Row, London. “Puzzle Poem” to be written on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.
5. The last day for receiving solutions from Great Britain and Ireland will be March 17, 1899; from Abroad, May 17, 1899.
The competition is open to all without any restrictions as to sex or age.
[OUR SUPPLEMENT STORY COMPETITION.]
A LITTLE EXILE.
A STORY IN MINIATURE.
First Prize (£2 2s.).
Eva Mary Allport, Earl’s Court, S.W.
Second Prize (£1 1s.).
Jessie E. Jackson, Beverley, E. Yorks.
Third Prize (10s. 6d.).
M. F. Jamieson, Portbello, N.B.
Honourable Mention.
Ethel Mary Wake Cleveland, Bedford; Mary Adèle Venn, West Kensington Park, W.; A. Abigail Binns, Rochdale; Edith Alice White, Balham, S.W.; Mabel Moscrop, Saltburn-by-the-Sea; Frances Carr, Princes Park, Liverpool; L. M. Barber, Brixton, S.W.; Edith B. Jowett, Grange-over-Sands; Mary Amelia Rudd, Bussage, near Stroud; Rose S. Bracey, Hastings; Margaret E. Crellin, Longsynt, Manchester; G. M. Lang, Sunderland; Lucy Richardson, York; Ellen M. Price, South Shields; Kate Kelsey, Montpelier, Bristol; R. Holman, Paris; Mary Maile, Provost Road, N.W.; Minnie Curry, Bradford, York; Annie C. Herbertson, Ealing, W.; Margaret Taylor, Birkdale, Lancashire; Lucy Bourne, Winchester; Bessie Hine, South Tottenham, N.; C. Winifred Dyer, Wandsworth, S.W.
Dear Mr. Editor,—I have given very careful consideration to the Prize Competition papers on A Little Exile, and am sending a list of those which seem most to deserve the awards.
The selection has been the less easy since the papers present a very general level of excellence, and are all intelligently written, showing that the story has been carefully read.
Some few exceed the prescribed space, and others fall into the very natural error of enlarging on the opening incidents of the tale and leaving out a few lines for its development and conclusion.
Those contributors selected for prizes have, it seems to me, best observed the balance and proportion of the story, and have thus given the fairest idea of what it is all about.
But it gives me much pleasure to praise, with scarcely a reservation, the care and neatness which the many aspirants have bestowed on their papers; the correctness of the spelling, and the legibility of the writing.
May I venture to hint that a little more care given to punctuation would, in this instance, have still further lightened the reader’s pleasant task.
Faithfully yours,
Leslie Keith.
⁂ We quite endorse all that the Author says in the above letter.—Ed.
[OUR NEXT STORY COMPETITION.]
STORIES IN MINIATURE.
Subject:—“The G. O. P. Supplement for February.”
UP-TO-DATE MAIDENS:
A Story from Woman’s Clubland.
By JEAN A. OWEN, Author of “Candalaria,” etc.
We offer three prizes of Two Guineas, One Guinea, and Half-a-Guinea for the three best papers on our “Story Supplement” for this month. The essays are to give a brief account of the plot and action of the story in the Competitor’s own words; in fact, each paper should be a carefully-constructed Story in Miniature, telling the reader in a few bright words what The Girl’s Own Story Supplement for the month is all about.
One page of foolscap only is to be written upon, and is to be signed by the writer, followed by her full address, and posted to The Editor, Girl’s Own Paper, in an unsealed envelope, with the words “Stories in Miniature” written on the left-hand top corner.
The last day for receiving the papers is February 20th; and no papers can in any case be returned.
Examiners:—The Author of the Story (Jean A. Owen), and the Editor of The Girl’s Own Paper.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Not superior to that of the small force under Moore; but perhaps superior to that of the bulk of the then British Army.
[2] See [footnote, p. 162].
[3] Perianth. Scientific term for the floral leaves.
[4] Oblanceolate. Narrowing towards the point of attachment.
[5] Falcate. Curved, sickle-shaped.
[6] This is the right way of spelling the word. The lily was named after Mrs. Bateman.
[7] L. Superbum is the swamp lily. It is one of the most typical of the group.