Hamilton Collegiate Institute - Vox Lycei Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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Christmas, 1923 VOX LYCEI 65 Especially her brothers, who would not say a word of it to their sister, but she, their mother, saw in their eyes the desire to tell it to everyone. But that night, when Barbara had gone to a praetiee, she had said to the boys: I don't see how I can manage Bar- barafs dress for the G1'Z'LLil1fiii0I.l.!' Charles Edward had glanced up quickly and said: We'll manage it between us, if we have to work all night. How mneh does a. d1'ess eost, Mother? About ten or twelve dollars. Who-ew! .lust for one dress! Yes, but that means slippers and long gloves too. 1 ean make the dress, but everything is very dearf' Let it eost ten dollars. Charles Ed- ward had said, Don and I will manage. Come along, old man. Let's get to work! They had got to work. Before and after school, they ent lawns and ran errands. One night the three eonspirators had slip- ped out and bought the things. Together they had earried them home in triumph. Barbara was like a joyous ehild. She was in a, frenzy of rapture- she was a leaping Hame of delight. They had exulted over every ineh as it was completed on the dress. Barbara. 'had walked through the days in an eestasy of joy. Three days before the Graduation, the things had been ready, even to the satin ribbon for her hair. Then they had put them in a large box until UThe day. How she had worked so evdrything would be perfect! She recalled now how woefully tired she had been the afternoon before the graduation, as she had stood ironing in her little kitchen. Her baek had ached, her arms felt weighed down with lead. Then suddenly, she had thought: If only I had those things, that dress of B'arbara's in the kitchen with me, I'm sure they would make me forget my tiredness. ' T So she had got them and laid the box open on the table, beside her. They had refreshed herg they had soothed her. The long afternoon had worn on. The heat of the June day entered her little kitehen. A few butterflies hovered in the garden. which was then the ibeginning 'of the place of beauty, it now was. Soon she had had to light the eoal-oil lamp, to see her work. A beautiful moth, attracted by the light had tiown in and circled slowly around the chimney. She had looked up, seen it, and had stepped forward to wave it way, when her sleeve had eanght the lamp and tipped it. Down it crashed into Barbara 's things! She had eaught up the blazing lamp and thrown it out of the window. Then she had sprung to the dress and smothered the tlainvs. Her brain 'had been whirling, and she had been able to do nothing, but gaze at the blaek, smoking mass. The gate had elieked and she had dimly heard the children: 'Whert-'s Mother? 'iYhy no lightil' And Donald 's startled: XVhy Mother, what happened? The boys had run to her, but Barbara stood still in the doorway. Her eyes grew larger, and she had grown paler. At last she had spoken in a. queer breathless voiee: 'tllow did it happen, Mother? She had not been able to answer. She had felt dead, all but her hands- they had been a blazing furnace. After a. time, she had said: l wanted to have your things here to look at, and then the light. fell. There had been a great silenee. Then Barbara had said, standing straight and tall: each word a sword thrust: You wanted my things here, to look at? Oh! Her young anger had been worse than the burning of those hands. lShe, their mother had stretched out her d further But tht pain find agony ot e bulned flesh tefirlnfr hid forced l fall, She had thought, she had hand. She had not heard what Barbara ' U 1 l ev I' ' heard Charles ery: had sfii ' th ter to Barbara, don 't stand there being dra- matie. Can't you see Mother is burnt? Barbara had been at her side in a flash, crying: Oh Mother, Mother dear! let me see quiek! U lt was so like Barbara, she had thought, all anger one moment, all sweet tenderness the next. Between them they had raised her, and had bandaged her hands. Barbara had sobbed that the dress did not matter, and

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REMIIINHSCENCES It was a sweet, Oltl cottage nestled snugly 111111 easily Zlllltlllg' the law green hills. But, 1-1i111l1l it he il 1'11ttag1'? That inass of mses, lavy lrlue with lilav, tiny white lflfflt'l,'ll wiiulows 011111111 to the 111il1l air, a euttage! It Q1-e111e1l a V111-itahle fairy 1JftlZl1'l'. Nurely htfllllt' s11perl1u111a11 f1,11'1fL' hati lai1l its hlessing 1111 this al1111le: where else 1f1111l1l there he such a lltIlIlU, so ll1lSlf' asters. ' featlierly tl: 1lles, llllll sa 1it'l'fl white with lilies, sa- heautifull lines uf, Y S O l1,1yely galil with lighted with the Our 11111-1l's Can- 11111-tl 1 of XYllll lilllltllllll It was that eaeh l1:11l l11-eu llllllllk' that all haal yith the 'll14Yt?llSC truly with love tl, a111,l with lave I 511 llltlSS4ll1ll'41. Behinsl the l11111s1- was a lllltlllf' nf l'l 13e11t1'e t'l'lll1SI1ll l'1lllllblt'l fraine. The 1l11ur a111l t'l'Itl'liS4, ill fra was an 11l1l well, NX gZll'1lCll-'tl sym- gl'llll1'0. Ill the 'ith a 11:1111,11'1y of ' 1'1,1s1-s 1'li111l1i11g 1V1ve1' the ery s111'1'1'111111li11g it, were the 11l1l st1111e 1'111'1li- filled with tiny hlue f111'f1'et-11113-1111ts a111l 1'11'a11ge-yell11w key a tl11w1-rs. The l4,lXV wall ll1'llllIl1l the gaiwleil was il ll1Xlll'lIlIlf 1l1'a11e1x lttlSSl1Ill Huw ers. At the uf ivy. ferns llllll l111tt1'1111 af the gaiwlea was :1 little hi-1111lclet uf 1fl1'a1', c11l1l water, wl1i1'l1 NVZl1lflG1'Otl atlise of tiawers :11, tl11-1111ggl1 this par- 1 1l tl11-11 went again 1111 way. Tl1e law hills its singing, eliiiekliiig passwl gently 'fl'U'lll pastel shades of gray and ltlY9l14lU1' to ll1tlllYL' and 1'1111'ple, 11111le1' sunlight 111111 sliatlow. The tluaiut l11w 1l1'1111', with a 1Hll't'll, :1 L'll1'TZllll of retl, yellow, g'11a1-1l111l :1 l1 as was the fl'21f.Il'1llll' as 11e1!11i11gj i11 t greens, l11'111 a1le1l with viVi1l l hlue stai'-tl11w1-rs, white 11111 , 111110, as 111-1't1,-1-t ill its beauty .2't1l'4l1'1l. Within, all was as witl11111t. The afte1'11c11111 sun, hrough the SHOXV-XYllll4' 1'ui'l'letl 1'urt:1i11s, llllQl'1't'1l un pots, 1.111 the l'2ll'l'SSillQ liii the shelf. l flll' uf the l1 fully at the hea rth. 1351-1' the t playetl ig y1-Iltm th1- l,1u1'11isl1e1l ufvpper lt i'111l1'l11-rl with 11 shining f'1'Ul1liL'l'Y, 1111 taiitalixiiigly 1:11 the ' eat sleeping p:-'111e- feet uf .1 lavely 11l1l ltlllf'. S111-was sitti11g1111ietlyat 1l111wi111low of her Tlllf' l111111eg hr-1' fave taraeil to the hills-a faee beautiful in gentle strength. Her hair was soft Zlllil silvery, like the gray niist whieh hung ovei' the hills, in the 111o1'11i11gs. When she fl11'llOll with a stately sweetness, her eye was seen- an eye uf l11vi11g synipatliy fllltl te111l1,-1' under- stamliiig. As she flll'll01l, ht-r glaaee fell on the gray hox, she held i11 her hantls. She pressed the 1fat1-li, and the hox opened disvlosiiig a s:1p11l1i1'1g- l11'a1 el1-t on a slender g11l1l ljilllll. She caught her hreath with 21 lii111l of wistful soh: B:11'l'1a1':1, always sends me s11111ethi11g f111' Illf' llllllllili, that tllftll' girl, llllhv good she is! she Il1ll1'111lIl'l'll flllll gazed at her hantls. They were llllf' any fair, but ae1'11ss flll'1ll were tw11 lJl'1lIl4l white sears, 1lisllg'111'i11g tl1e111 livitlly -. She saw again this httle l1l,PllSl' as it was lllflllf' years aga. She saw lierself, a tirerl, always husy NYHlll1lll Hlll'1'tIllllllCIl by her three t'llll1ll'Ull. illlll1'lt'N I'31lXV2ll'll, her 1l1111't11r, wl111 was now so fillll4'lllS and lived i11 the Vity: Ilillllllll, 'her svientist, who always hatl his 11f11:lt1-ts full uf grubby SIlt'l'lllll'llYQll and li1'l1'lHll'il, her only lltlllg,1'lli'C1', a l1,1v1,-ly lllltil SlClldP1' sprite. Huw llt1I'1l she had NV1l1'li01l, tlirougli the years when they were wl1il1lre11, to keep them at s1'l111t1l, Illlll haw layiiigly they had llelpt-1l her ill her struggle. At last eaine the time when B21l'lbtll'3 was sixteen, a111l w:1s g'l't11lll2lTiHg fI't'l11l sehool, as lirst girl. One 1lay she wanie lltllll0 in great glee: H011 lllUlfll9l', just tw131 weeks from to- day and then we graduate. I wish it were the tlay 1111w. Aiirl ta think I Sftlllll first- How 1li1l it ever llflliililtxlllll XVell ---tliis was Cliarles E1lYV1U'fl,S e1i111t1'il111ti1111, 'tW'l1at 4'llll you expect! it's heeause you had ine ftll' a l'il'1lfllDl'.l' 'tN1'1 -tliis f1'11111 Dtllltllll-i4Tll0 seieime l taught you was the 1111ly illlll0', tht ,, a carried yllll tl11'r111gh!'y Haw they had laughed that night! But uh! h1':w 1'l1'Ol1ll they were of Barbara.

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1 D awsou Harris Jack H1111-is Our Class Pin Prices CONSIDERING THE HIGH QUALITY AND WORKMANSHIP Are the Lowest in Hamilton Standard Designs Special Designs I Q1 mf X 1 13 Ol- mum' 35C ,.1l,.1, 1111111- f1'1,1111 s11e1-1:11 111cs. 111 Sferhug U 'fl V' Ju 11685 Hum 12. 400 Hwh S1l1'1'1' 111' NT111'1111,gf Sl1YC1' 15.50 G0111 . , 1'1:1T1-11. RT:2l1'El:l1i,I:1tlf1K 1 fiilrlllfllcrlfg 56002: I 111 111 -HI Pins 1111' 1-311111.11151 .70 0:11111 '1 ' ' L tm' 'I 'IL 1 24 111 Rl! Pins 1111' 13111101151 .75 each 1 N.B.-T111' :1110V0 :11'0 s11l1I111011 ns 1'i111cr 3 1 35: VIH' 1 Buttons' -80 911141 ' 1'i11s 111' 13311t11111s. 1.1 111 151 1'111s 12 1111- 13111101151 .90 each 11 Pins 1111' .711 ' 111 175111101151 351.00 1?l1C11 1111' Bu111111s1 111' 11111111 1'111s XY11 w:111T you to 1'1111111:11'v 0111 111-1111-s speciul luw 1Y1'i1flfS. 1111 5111 g111111s H1111 1111- 111'11'1f uf 111111-rs. Y11111' We servo you right-ut the right 11111111 11w11 11111:1s :11111 l1l'5lQ,1'IlS 141111 111' , , ,. 111iII1l' 111111 1.111ss 11115 111 ll 1'1'f1s1,111511,111- Olll' 11110 of 1111 1i11l11S of .11-W1-11',v IS 1 v:11'1e11 111111 1101111111-11-. XY11 :1r1,- 111 yu 1111111-. 1'1!I4'11 1'i11 is 111111119 f1'11111 :1 511014111 911'4'1 1111-, '1'111Q1' :11'1- :111 11:11'1.11'111:11'1'v U1 w1'l1 111411111 with 1'11-:11' vut 111111i111'1s 111111 s111'V1cc. 11-111-1'111g. Try us. Specialists in Emblematic Jewelry 1 cc an B. HARRIS The Gift Store Dia.monds--Wedding Rings 88 NORTH JAMES ST. MLASONIC BUILDING HAMILTON, ONT. Open Evenings. We supplied. the Vox Pins 1a,st year. Be a Worker . ' Th1'1-c NVll1'l.1S X1'111lSl' 1l'1'Sl'l1l,'SS 111111 21 11'l?1l11.'1111f111S 1JGi11'1l1g1' 1111 the life 111111 H11l'l'ffHS of the f1.1111111c1' N 1,1f1111s w111111e1'f111 si111'11. 4Xllt1 what ljltttlxl' 1111v11:1.- 11.1 1:11011 11115' 211111 g'11'1 uf 11111 itflllffghifltll 1llS111ll11 . REAL. LASTINH IIA1'1'1N1fISS IH HAINED HNLY IN 1CN'1'II1.'S1- ASM FUR OTR XYUHK AND THE Wl1,111N11N1'ISS XYITII XV111l'II XYE PERFORM THE TASKS SET BY MVR 11311111115 THE LIMITED WEAEE 1 1