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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66 VOX that she could go just as well in her old one. How earefully had the boys taken her, on the next day to the Graduation Hull, where she had sat, with her bzindaged hands, and had proudly wate'hed, but with pain in her heart, her Barbara receive her diploina-Barbara wearing her old lawn dress, and her earefully polished old shoes- - f. The old lady stirred and the box with the sapphire bracelet. which 'had eome from so far. fell to the floor. She pit-ked it up and read the eard, which had fallen from the box: For my Bl0lllC'1 S hands, who did and suffered so mueh for me. B:irbar:i. A Soft, tear fell on the woman 's faee, and slowly dropped on the lrraeelet, and where the sun's rays fell on it, that tear ggleziined like ai diamond uf purest water. Out side, ill the warm still garden, the roses and lilies nodded their heads sleeps ily, and the little lark sang his song of gratitude to the Heavens. Q sees CLUB f ALAN T. CNHRISTIE, Editor The fall of H323 marked the organiz- ing of our tirst Glee Club, under the able lendership of Mr. Roy Fenwivk, singing insfruetor in the pulilie sehools of the eitv. Route eighty-tive members were enrolled, find ou Noveinber the eighth the follow- ing otlieers were elei-ted: l'resident-Alan T. Christie, Vice-l resident-Alliss Yietoriu Mueller. Sl'l'1'l'ifIl'Y'Tl'9IlSlll'0l'f3llSS Agnes 'l'e:1rt. lJlill't'll'l1lllw-E. Miller Shields. Rl'liI'4 S0lll1lllVOS-' lst S4i1ll'IlllU4-'BllSS Helen Hnyfer. 2nd So1'il':'i1ios-Miss .lean l':implJell. Altos-Miss ltlnrgaret Thonifis. Basses-Keunetli Pearson. After uiziny well-attended nieetings the Club's iirst tl1lIl9t'll'flll09 was at the seliool 's :innunl eonimeneement exercises on Dee- ember the seventh, when they rendered two very creditable seleetions. lt is hoped that in the future the 'lqlulr will be continued and will ultiinntely be- come one of the sehool's most popular :ind :retire societies. LYCEI Christmas, 1923 THE. D RK SCHEME Ofjontinued from page 525 Hallelujah to de, oh Lawd! he bel- lowed, when ,his tongue loosened. HMah doom am settled. Ah knowed it 'wuz a- eomin' oh-h-h-h Lawdy, hear mah plea: don' let dem kill ine daid! But as suddenly as they began, the two bawling darkies ceased their sizpplieations, for the pursuing crowd was uninistakably uttering the words in mad, crazed joy: Oil- Oil! Oil! Mr. Bumliell, the real estate dealer, was making his legs fly like pistons, and was forging far in the lead. lt's oil? he shouted. Look at de oil drills! Yo' lef' dein working all night nn' now see dem: dey is pumpin' oil! Euplieniia rushed into Napoleon arms just as he lien-eived in the distanee two huge jets of black oil shooting foreibly into H19 Hi1'. N300 dere, Napoleon, she eried, Ah knowed it wuz a-eomin'. Ah knowed yo' :ill wuz no fakin' us, wuz yo'Ll . Napoleon gazed in bewildered joy :it the great jets of oil shooting froin the drills, then his fave wreathed into smiles as he saw l'hnery calmly reveiviug 1f01lQl't'll'lllIl' tions from ex'e1'ylmwly nt urn-e, iigilll' as yo's born, assured the tnll negro in reply to Euplieiniak delighted inquiry, we all wuz expeetin' dis mag- nolius oil iiow' all de while. l-Iniery an' me wuz jest :i-goin' to de eity fo' de day, so dnt we all eould inquire why dat Rolls- Huft' was not delivered. An' as fin' de suitenses, we wuz :1 ' eartin' dem to de eity to get dem full of mo' stoek hooks to tote lmek wif us, see! he tinished glibly as he linked :irnns with his dusky sweeflieart. Exnetly two weeks later, wedding bells eluiined melodiously in Bennington Centre, :ind :ill of darktown saw Napoleon and Flu- phemia united in niarriage, with Emery aeting as best man. Heath dem bells! ejaeulated the briilegrooni, as he :ind his spouse Walked from the ehureh. Am not dat a beauti- ful sonnd-Doug-Doug! Dong-Dong! Heali dem luellslf' t-hortled Emery. lVeddiu' bells den', ehinif' ,Dong'-Dong! Dey sing Stung-Stung!