Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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18 THE BRANKSQME SLOGAN

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THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN 17 CONTENTS %: . Pag Sports Day at University Stadium, May 26th, 1921 18 Editorial — Nancy Wright......! 19 Bummer Closing, 1920— Phyllis Hollinrake 20 Midsummer Examination Results, 1919 and ' 20 2 Members of the Staff, Past and Present 2 La Vie a la Maison Fran(;aise — Margaret Campbell 23 Sports Day, 1920 — Marjorie Moore and Jean Hanna 25 School NeVs ' . 27 School Calendar 28 Y. W. C. A. Notes — Dorothy Darrell and Helen Howard 31 The Fifth Form— A Poem by Mona Miller 32 Beta Kappa Notes — Mary McCormack and Elizabeth Scott 33 Sports — Mary McCormack . . 36 Current Events — O. Somerville and L. Scott 38 A Round-Up — Margaret McQueen 41 The Old Schoolhouse— Elinor Sutherland 42 Skipping — Margaret Wilson 43 Present-day Life — Marion McCulloch 44 Evangeline ' s Country — Kathleen Romans 45 A Tragedy — Margaret McQueen and Catherine Dewar 46 A Narrow Escape — Mary Hendrie 47 Slogan Accounts, ] 920-21 48 Spring Thoughts — Catherine Crombie 49 Examination Papers 50 Some Branksome Magazines and Papers 50 Spring — Anna Mae Hees 51 Jokes 52 As We See Others— As Others See Us 58 Juniors — Timothy ' s Test — Helen Parsons 59 The Intermediate — A Poem 61 That Day — Margaret Parker 61 The Magic Kiss — Marv Wilson 62 Scoldie— Mollie Wood. ' . 63 An April Day — Phyllis Harvey 63 The Branksome Baby 64 Branksome Alumnae — Things as Thev are in China — Stella Fleming 66 Old Girls Visiting the School 70 Report of Alumnte Association — Bernice Jephcott 7 AlumnEe Treasurer ' s Report — Phyllis Hollinrake.... 7 Personals — Alumnae in College Halls 7 Toronto Alumnae 7 Winnipeg Alumnae 7 Nova Scotia Alumnae 7 Other Out-of-Town Alumnae 7 Births 7 Marriages 7 Deaths 7 Alumna? Addresses 7

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THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN 19 PROHIBITION A topic widely discussed and debated upon at the present time is prohibition. The movement for temperance reform has for nearly a century divided the Ang ' lo-Saxon people into three classes, those who refuse, those who use, and those who abuse liquor. From the beginning women have been the chief pillars and sup- ports of the movement to secure prohibition, which is doubtless due to the fact that they realize prohibition as necessary, not only for the betterment of the social conditions of the country, but also for their own individual happiness and prosperity in home life, and for the benefit of the race. Many a man, who once lost seven days ' work every month, has now a stead} ' income ; and many, who were formerly unreliable, are being promoted to positions of skill and responsibility. Women have thus been enabled to stop their work in factories to support them- selves and their families, and can keep house and take care of their children, leaving the bread-winning to their husbands. The reasons for the consumption of alcohol by men and women are somewhat different in their origin. Men take it merely in a social way, for reasons of general good comradeship, or for its soothing and stimulating qualities, when worries confront them. Women in society, who acquire the habit of taking liquor, have frequently begun to take it because they felt it was ' ' the thing to do, not because they liked the flavor of the liquors or were, in the beginning, conscious of any real benefit from them. Many a ' ' flapper thinks it is the height of smartness to slip away from a dance to sip a creme de menthe with some gay j oung Bohemian. This is what is aptly described as luxury drinking ' . ' ' The drinking to drown worry, which might be called misery drinking, is the other common form of drinking among women, and it is more prevalent among them, perhaps, than among men, since women are more emotional and highly-strung than men, and, under stress of sorrow or anxiety, when they have once appreciated the nar- cotic qualities of alcohol, more readily succumb to the habit of taking it than men. Statistics show the following effects of prohibition — a decrease in delinquency, in neglect of children, in desertions, suicides, assault and pauperism, a decrease therefore in unhappiness and misery, which is surely more than balanced by an increase in the happiness and pros- perity of the country, as well as of the individual, that practises pro- hibition; and so, for the strongest patriotic as well as humanitarian reasons, prohibition is to be desired in Canada and throughout the world. NANCY WRIGHT, Form IV.