Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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16 SAMARA several persons in the hour of their great temptation, and how it seemed to them as God ' s own voice pointing out the way. Fellowship is closely allied with service. When people are serving their country they are bound together in a great fellow- ship. They are like brothers working for the common good. Chil- dren should keep the thought of fellowship before them in their school-life. They should not strive for individual honour, but as one body working for the honour of the school. They should be kind to one another and help to make the school the happy place it is intended to be. Fair play naturally follows fellowship. When working to- gether for a common cause, we learn to understand the other person ' s temptations and discouragements, his joys and sorrows, and so we learn to sympathize with him and love him. We feel that it is quite as important that he should receive fair play as that we would receive it ourselves. Service is the greatest of the three qualities in our motto. Our Lord taught that it is one of the first duties of every Chris- tian, and He, Himself, is our example. We must not stand aside and wait for some great opportunity to help, but each day do all we can to make someone else happier for our being here. It will not be hard to do these little services if we remember Browning ' s inspiring words : All service is the same with God — With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. —Catherine Macphail. V Matric. fin tin tin vf vy EXAMS As I sat there in glum dismay, A frown upon my brow. I looked about, my fellows at, For work, I knew not how! I could not think, I could not write, My brain was in a whirl; And as I sat, in like distress, I saw another girl.

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SAMARA 15 SERVICE, FELLOWSHIP AND FAIR PLAY Service, fellowship and fair play! ' What an inspiring motto to carry through life! If we could always live up to that ideal our characters would be wholly beautiful, and when dying, it would be a great comfort to search through the recesses of our memories, and find there not one blot to stain the perfect story of our lives. But in order to fulfil the requirements of che motto we must first understand fully what they signify. There are many types of service. The most conspicuous is that of the king. Sometimes we forget that the king serves us but when we remember the motto of the Prince of Wales, I serve, we are reminded how great the services are which the king renders us. Then come the ministers of state, who serve us in greater or less degree. The poets and writers idealize heroes and immortalize their home-lands, thus inspiring us to serve our king and country with all our hearts. Consider Scotland, a bleak, barren country. But where are there found more loyal people than the Scots? It is partly due to the influence of her poets that Scotland is so dear to her people. But service does not mean only service to our country and people as a whole. There are also services done by one individual to another, sometimes so humble that only God knows of them. In Browning ' s poem, Pippa Passes, one recalls how Pippa ' s joyous song reached the ears of 3

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SAMARA 17 I thought of History, thought of French, And Maths, in harmony, What was the use when I was meant To write on Geometry. But when the marks came out — Oh well, what is the use of worrying, I tied with that same girl who sat Beside me in our flurrying. (Written during an exam.) — Roslyn Arnold, Form VI B s|? $p ip MODERN SHORT STORIES Perhaps the reason why the short story flourishes so much in the present day, is because the modern mind is in such a hurry. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the horse was still the fastest mode of locomotion. Later men stood amazed at a loco- motive that could make twenty miles an hour. Now even the •fastest motor car is too slow for us, and we must fly. It cannot be expected that in all this hurry we should find a three decker among the month ' s best sellers. The short story differs from the novel in that, in the short story there is no development of character, no long descriptions and plots within plots. There are many kinds of short stories. Some of the most interesting and varied of short stories are written by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling gives us short stories of Romance, of the Indian civil service and the army, of animals, stories almost farcical in their humour, and almost perfect love stories, such as the Brushwood boy, mystic stories such as At the End of the Passage, and The Mark of the Beast, stories of the transmigration of souls as for example, The Finest Story in the World, storie s of Anglo- Indian children as Baa Baa Black Sheep and W r ee Willie Winkie. All these short stories, though entirely different in subject matter, are one in the fact that all are about one incident, told briefly and straight-forwardly. There is no development of character and no long descriptions. As well as the better class of modern short stories, there are the more crude ones, which are in modern magazines, such as