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SAMARA 25 Junior Axt by Marilyn Ross, 4A Senior Art by Diana Smith
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26 S A M A R A of her favourite hymns, Abide with me, fast falls the eventide. At five o ' clock Edith rose and dressed. She made her bed just as neatly as she ever had in any of the hospitals. She wrote this in her diary before the guards led her away. Died at seven a.m. on Oct. 12, 1915, with love to my Mother, E. Cavell. At seven o ' clock Edith stood facing the firing squad. Not one man wanted to kill this brave woman and no one will ever know who did for it was the only one gun which was loaded. In a few seconds the sound of gun- shots could be heard and the bodies of Phillipe Barcq and Edith Cavell lay dead on the ground. Edith Cavell not only gave her life for her country, but set a great example for us to follow. Her last words were: Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, 1 realize that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone. xVIarilyn Ross Pearls It is believed that the pearl was the first gem known to man. We find it mentioned in the oldest of writings. Many legends and stories have been written about it during its long history and in many countries it is valued above any other precious stone. The Arabs have a superstition that pearls are dewdrops filled with moonlight, that fall into the sea and are swallowed up by oysters, then turn from liquid to solid form. But the natural way in which a pearl is made is far more interesting than the superstition. Sometimes a tiny grain of sand or perhaps a little parasite works its way into the shell of an oyster, and gets caught in the soft mem- brane. This irritates the membrane and in order to stop the irritation it begins to coat the intruder with thin layers of a substance called nacre. Day after day the nacre is de- posited until the pearl sometimes grows quite large. As the deposits are made, muscles ex- pand and contract in an effort to get rid of the object, so that the nacre is smoothed on in even layers, and the pearl becomes round in shape. Kfot all pearls are perfectly round, some are irregular in shape. The oddly shaped pearls are often made into beautiful pendants, rings, brooches and other types of jewellery. The colours of the most valuable pearls are rose, cream, white and black. The finest pearls come from the Persian Gulf, near the island of Bahrein. The pearl diving season begins in A4ay when the water is warm. The diving is done in much the same way as it was done 600 years ago. The divers work in pairs, one to dive while the other stays in the boat, waiting for the signal from the one in the water. A diver can stay underwater usually for 1 Vi minutes. A good diver can go down as many as 30 times in a day. The bags which they carry around their necks are filled with oysters when they come to the surface where the oysters are opened in the hunt for pearls. The pearls are sorted according to size and shape and sold to the dealers. In the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, the pearls are sent to India where the great pearl center is located. Here they are washed and polished and those which are to be used in necklaces are drilled by hand according to a three thousand year old method which re- quires great skill and delicacy. A necklace of real pearls costs thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. But it takes years to collect the pearls to make it. The pearls must be perfect both in colour and shape. Until the Second World War interrupted it, the pearling industry off the north coast of Australia flourished. Unfortunately, the Japanese fleets had in previous years nearly crowded out the Australian companies. There is, however, another type of pearl which is not an imitation, yet is not entirely a natural growth. This is the culture pearl and the finest of these are very beautiful and costly. As far back as the thirteenth century, the Chinese knew that pearls could be grown by putting a fresh water mussel inside the shell, and it would at once start covering the object
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