Midland Secondary School - Yearbook (Midland, Ontario Canada)

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M. H. S. REVIEW Page Twenty-Nine Qlumni-:Enntinueb Joseph Hinds is working in Toronto. Allan McMillan works in Algonquin Park. Evelyn Marks is at Barrie Collegiate Institute. Stewart Raaflaub is sailing. Graham Swales is working in his father's store, Jack Topping is in New York. Phylis Webster is at home. Albert VVhiting is sailing. Germaine Dion is at home. Tweedie Sturgeon is working in town. Harvey White is employed at Ruby's Bake Shop. Morris Anderson is in Kitchener. Augusta Bailey is at home. Margaret Blevins is at home. Harold Brownlee is attending the International Bible Students. Frazer Davenport is working at the Midland Wood Products. Josephine DeFinney is attending St. Joseph' Convent, Lindsay. Grant Fowlie is in Vancouver, B.C. Helen French is at home. Carl Kay is going to school in Toronto. Joseph Lapp is employed at the Midland Wood Products. William Lucas is in Toronto. Hickey McDonald is attending Agincourt High School. Arthur Pilon is attending Midland Business College. Evelyn Shaw is at home. Albert Taylor is working at Loblaw's. Lorene Smith is a stenographer at Dobson's. Leonard Mongraw is sailing. Stewart Bald sails. James Cowan is at home. William Gleadall is working at Yorke Sz Mackie's. William Hughes is employed at the Midland Bakery. Clarence McClung is at home. Naomi Tremblay is at home. Mark Vasey is sailing. Lloyd Warner is working at Bill Wilson's Tailor Shop. We have no definite knowledge of the following :-Jean Rumney, Mary Thompson, Ayress Cornfield, Jennie McConkey, Frank Holmes, William Wimperley, Dorothy Barry, Elizabeth Graham, Clara Gravelle, Herbert Johnson, Jean Kennie, Irene Marcille, Bruce Rush, Jean Tutton, Marjorie Wheat, Neal Baker and Charles Baker.

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Page Twenty-sialic M. H. s. REVIEW Zllumni There are some among the following, who have received and are the proud owners of a Graduate Diploma. We congratulate them. Some have moved to other schools while still others have stopped for reasons of their own. All these we miss and feel sorry to lose. Let us Wish them every success in their new undertakings and may their path of life be always smooth. Gwen Anderson is attending the Toronto Conservatory of Music. Barcelo Bolan is working in town. Wildon Brownlee is continuing his education at the University of Toronto. Jean Fleming is at home. Lionel Gidley is working in Finlayson Sz Dudley's Law Office. Jean MacDonald is attending North Bay Normal. Tillie Marks is going' to Barrie Collegiate. Doris McArdle is attending Toronto Normal School. Lindsay McCannel is working in Port McNicoll. Ian McLaren is attending Toronto Normal. Jeanetta Park is attending the Midland Business College. Evelyn Shaw is attending Peterboro' Normal. Lyma Walters is remaining at home. Marguerite Watts is training in Peterboro' Hospital. Kathleen White is attending Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. Ethel Barfield is at home. Reta Boyce is employed as a stenographer in Toronto. Elizabeth Clarke is at home. Stella Gianetto is employed in Penetanguishcne. Bessie Hepworth is a stenographer in Woolworth's. Marjorie Noquet is a stenographer at Copelandis Flour Mill. Helen Smith is a stenoerapher at Midland High School. Jack Broderick is continuing his education in Toronto. Bernice Fitzpatrick is working' in Toronto. Clarence Letherby is attending' .the University of Toronto. Karl Morrison is working in the Standard Bank. Vance Rintoul is attending Barrie Collegiate Institute. Ida Bellamy is working in the Dominion Stores. Ormand Blevins is working in The W. D. Ross Store. Lawrence Bourrie is attending St. Augustine's Seminary. Harold Boyd is the proud owner of a Service Station. Douglas Church is working in Brighty's. Bessie Faint is training in St. Andrews Hospital, Midland. William Feehely is employed at the Dominion Stores.

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Page Thirty M. H. S. REVIEW The following narrative, by Ruth E. Sylvester, was awarded Hrst prize in the story contest.-lEditor's Note.j . The Mirage Let the reader imagine that, after travelling for hours across a track- less waste of burning sand in the arid deserts of the East, he has, when tormented by thirst, made the discr lery that his supply of water has failed. The last muddy drops are eagerly drained, the eyes, the mouth, and the ears are gradually filled with the fine sand of the desert until it is felt that a cup of cold water from a spring would be cheaply purchas- ed by its weight in gold. At this moment when such is the traveller's tortured state of mind and body, he suddenly sees an object which, to his surprise, he has not noticed before. In the distance is seen a large lake, its banks are fringed with verdant palms, its surface is broken here and there by islets of refreshing green, while its water seems ten times more inviting when contrasted with the burning solitudes around. Re- animated by the prospect, he presses on, eager to quench his thirst. As he advances, a strange spectacle is witnessed. The lake recedes as he approaches it. Again and again he advances, but again and again it re- tires, until exhausted by fatigue, and tortured by thirst, he sinks in des- pair on the sand, realizing that all is deception and that he has been chasing the Mirage of the desert. This unusual appearance is an optical illusion produced by the re- iiection of objects on the oblique rays of the sun refracted by the air which is rarified in the desert by the intense heat of the soil. A remarkable instance of this curious phenomenon occurred during the passage of the French army across the desert at the time of Napol- eon's expedition to Egypt. When morning dawned, says the historian who describes the scene, the army was found crossing boundless plains of sand without water or shade, and with a burning sun over their heads. All the wells on the roads were either filled up or exhausted. Hardly a few drops of muddy water were to he found to quench their thirst. In the midst of the general depression, a sudden gleam of hope illuminated the faces of the soldiers. A lake appeared in the wilderness with villages and tress clearly reflected on its glassy surface. Immedi- ately the parched troops hurried toward the enchanted spot, but it receded from their steps. Again they pressed on with burning impatience, but it ded for ever from their approach. At length overpowered by excite- ment they discovered that they had been deceived by the Mirage of the desert. In particular climates, at certain seasons of the year, there are seen in the ocean and the sky, representations or Mirages of cities, groves, mountains, bridges and ruined castles of utmost magnificence but of most evanescent duration. Like some splendid phantasmagoria they fill the spectator with astonishment and delight, then vanish into the air, oras- sume with great rapidity new combinations ever more beautiful than be- fore, Some English voyagers in the Arctic regions were so enraptured with these wonderful visions that they named the place Where they were seen the enchanted coast.