Havergal College - Magazine Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Havergal College Magazine allowed to mingle with their elders, and as a result, early form their opinions upon all subjects, and are quite ready to give their views whenever opportunity offers, and defend them against all opposition. The 1914 girl realizes that the twentieth century is essentially the Woman ' s era and behaves accord- ingly. She enters into all conversations, and there are few remaining representatives of the girls should be seen and not heard type. That kind of a girl is so old fashioned. Yet in spite of her new acquirements the girl of 1914 is still very much a girl, and on the whole a very good sort of girl, too. Our girl takes a lively interest in sports, her studies and social pleasures. She can play golf and tennis and basket-ball, ride her wheel and often drive a car quite as well as her stronger brother. Her sisters in France can even fly their aeroplanes. What a shock to the sensitive nerA es of the 1814 lass ! She goes through college and gets her degree, and after- vvards often makes use of it to gain her own livelihood, oc- casionally entering one of the learned professions and suc- ceeding quite as well as any man. Perhaps in her pleasures more than anything else one sees her relationship to the girl of one hundred years ago. She en- joys dancing quite as much as did her sister, although now she dances the Two-step and Hesitation instead of the stately Minuet. Teas, the theatre, luncheons and her own special little club, play quite as important a part in her life now as then. In her love of pretty things and the amount of titivating her toilet requires, we find little difference. Girls will be girls and as such the adornment of their person is, for some years, of great importance to them. In some ways we find our 1914 girl somewhat behind the 1814 one. She has not, in general, the same knowledge of house- keeping, and often her chief accomplishments in the culinary line are Divinity Fudge and similar delicious confections. Her favourite authors too, are not, as a rule, those whose works were best loved by the 1814 girl. The latest and most popular novel is always read by the girl of a century later. She often has many good friends upon her bookshelves, however, and ones that the 1814 girl would recognize with pleasure ; while for music and pictures she has decided likings also. An 1814 girl must marry or remain at home. Our 1914 girl can enter almost any profession she chooses and is quite independent. We read a great deal of the modesty, sensibility and charm of the girl of 1814, but it seems to me that the 1914 girl, for all her slangy and tomboyish ways, is just as attractive and ac- complished a girl as one would care to know. HELEN LETHBRIDGE, Upper VI. 32

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Havergal College Magazine ON A REPLICA OF THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY. ladies dear of long ago, With eyes and hands devoutly bent Upon your pious task intent — Your chronicle of war and woe — Ah, surely now and then the thread And needle paused o ' er blue and brown, While something brighter glimmer ' d down, A tribute to the valiant dead. And page and minstrel hushed awhile Of Senlac fight the chorus rude, And Norman Odo silent view ' d The broideries for his minster pile. Though twice four hundred years have roll ' d Since all your gentle work was done, Your daughters of the Western sun Greet you, and those your love made bold. Afar, in climes you never trod, Down the dim annals of our race, A record in our hearts we trace Of those who fell for home and God. THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY. In the public libraries of Bayeux, that somewhat decayed city of ancient Normandy, there is to be found very carefully preserved the famous Bayeux Tapestry. This wonderful piece of embroidery was formerly thought to have been executed by Queen Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, or by the Em- press Matilda, daughter of Henry I., but the latest theory is that it was done by the Nuns of the Cathedral under the orders 34