Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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18 THE BRANKSQME SLOGAN

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20 THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN 1920 SUMMER CLOSING. The seventeenth annual snnnner closing ' of the school took place on Tuesday, June 15th, in the KoscdMJe l j-eshyterian Church. The pro- gramme consisted of the sin in i ' of the Sciiool Hymn and ' ' Oh, Can- ada by the pupils, and a prayer by the Reverend James Little, which was followed by the presentation of prizes as follows : Junior School The Junior School prizes were presented by Rev. Dr. Neil. Primary — General Proficiency, Helen Richardson ; Neatness, Mary Holland. Form I, Junior — General Proficiency, Adele Tamblyn ; Neatness, Theodora Mickle ; Poetry prize (presented by Miss Tyrrell), Adele Tamblyn; Conduct prize (presented by Miss Tyrrell), Audrey Banks. Form II. Junior — General Proficiency, Valerie Jones ; Improve- ment in Spelling ' , Marion Gibson. Form III. Junior — General Proficiency and Neatness, Phyllis May; General Pvoficiency, Mar.y Wilson. Form IV. Junior— General Proficiency, Margaret Donald; Neat- ness, Christine Auld, Katherine Dean ;Improvement in Writing (pre- sented by Miss Johnston), Nona Stewart; Honorable Mention, Muriel MacAgy. Form V. Junior — General Proficiency Bessie Boehm ; General Pro- ficiency and Neatness, Norah Deacon; Improvement in Writing (pre- sented by Miss Johnston), Mary Anderson; Honorable Mention, Mary Lind. Intermediate — General Proficiency, Dillwyn Warren, Muriel Wright; Neatness, Helen Chitty; Sewing, Mary Duff. Senior School The Senior School prizes were presented by the Rev. E. C. Cayley. Form I. Senior — General Proficiency, Elinor Bone ; Neatness, Flor- ence Eraser ; Industry and Progress, Elizabeth Ramsa3 Form 11. Senior — Industry, Jean Southam ; Domestic Science, Doris Mitchell. Form IL-A Senior — General Proficiency, Catherine Dewar ; Neat- ness, Kathleen Lewis ; Geography, Constance Cann. Farm II. Senior — General Proficiency, Phyllis West, Elizabeth Scott, Janet Gibson. Form IV. Special — Special English, Marion Cantley. Form IV. Senior — General Proficiency and Neatness, Marjorie Bone, Isobel Watt; Industry, Helen Rutherford. Form V. Senior — Industry, Laura Stone ; Helpfulness, Jean Hanna, Marjorie Moore. School Prize for Courtesy — Phyllis Hollinrake. History of Art Prize — English, French and Spanish Schoo ls — Grace Paterson; Honorable Mention, Marion Cantley, Jean Ferguson, Marion McColgan. Italian School — Elsie McLaughlin; Honorable Mention, Mary McCormack, Catherine Hyde. Interior Decoration — Jean Ferguson; Llonorable Mention, Grace Paterson.