..............................RED HAT PLEDGE..............................

Please place your right hand on your hat and repeat after me.

I, ________________________do solemnly swear on my hat that I
will do my best to uphold the Red Hat Society and Cotton Palace
Queens.
I promise to regularly practice having fun.
I promise to do those thing I have waited to do while I paid my dues.
I promise to learn to spit and sit on the pavement.
Never, ever wear nylons with open-toed shoes.
I promise to dispel the notion that a woman of my age is OLD.
This I pledge in the spirit of the Red Hat Society as envisioned by
the Exalted Queen Mother Sue Ellen Cooper and the Cotton
Palace Queens.