Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School - Echoes Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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'Gbe 'Echoes 39 'ilitbuania SECOND PRIZE Lithuania. consists Y homeland, chiefy of a low plain watered by the Nemunas and its tributaries. In the north west are the Siauliai hills. Inland winter lasts four months while the average July temperature is 18QC. The annual rainfall is 580 mm.. July and August being the wettest months. There are regions of fertile black earth but also much clay and sand. There are shifting sands in the Pruzenai and Velka- viskis districts. Agriculture is our chief occupation. about -1-OW! of the land being under culti- vation and about 2274 being meadow and pasture. Our chief crops are potatoes. rye, oats, barley, wheat, peas, and flax. of which oats, barley, wheat. rye and flax are exported. Poultry keeping and stock-raising are more profitable than grain-growing. so the smaller farmers go in for the former. Of the unoccupied territory 17? is in forest. mainly pine, oak. fir. birch. maple. lluch is used for fuel. since no coal is worked. Efforts are being made to in- troduce peat as fuel in order to regulate our forest cutting. Hundreds of factories were built dur- ing the great war. The chief industries are food and beverage production, wood- working, clay and chemical works. The tanneries of Siauliai were formerly the largest in the world and are now begin- ning to recover. The iron industry of Kaunas is also noted. Amber is obtained from the blue earth near the Baltic and worked into smaller wares. llfost of our trade used to be with Germany. The litai Cone-tenth of a dollarl is used as our money. Our imports are mainly tex- tiles, metal goods, sugar, herring. salt and tobacco. The Neniunas is our means of communication, as roads are poor in many parts. Every male I.ithuanian citizen is sub- ject to military service for 18 months from the year in which his twenty-first birthday falls. . The European language is written in Latin alphabet. Our people are Hebrews, Germans, Russians and Lithuanians. Therefore you see that every person mu st be able to speak several languages. Our people are well-built with fine fea- tures and very fair hair. blue eyes and delicate skin. BE.-xTR1C1-3 NEIRIIXN, IB Com. O TO A SNOWFLAKE Lovely little snowflake, Falling from the sky. Little thing of many shapes. Why are you so shy? You come up to my window, And then you dodge away. Stretching little arms of snow. For me to come your way. I cannot come, oh Snowflake! You know it too, I'm sure, So give your little self a shake And do not try to lure. EUNICE ARBISTRONG. H.A.I. THE OLD BOOK It lies on the table in the sunset Broken. dusty. and forlorn. Its pages ripped from the binding. Scribbled, battered and torn. Its cover is black with the ages. A remnant of earlier days. Yvhen the children of every household Respected their father's ways. Its story of youth and maiden. Is passed by the modern age, For the books and modern novels. That today are the popular rage. PAUL COLLET. Ind. Arts IA.

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SS beavers. Pat and ltike as we called them, were gone. AYe went out to search for them and as I was walking along. I heard a plaintive 1new behind me and looked round to see llike waddiing toward mc as fast as his stubby legs would carry him. As I picked him up he whimpered softly. clutching at my hair with his puny claws and snugghng lns cold nose against my neck. llob took him into the cottage and fed him while I went to lmnt for Pat. whom at last I found in long grass. waddling toward the water. AVhen the two beavers were united. they fell into each otheris arms and talked themselves to sleep. Sometimes the beavers would climb out ot' their box. and. rising and throwing their arms around each otheris neck. would engage in a furious wrest- ling bout, pushing and pulling. eaeh doing his level best to overthrow his rival. In their diet. we made a few mistakes. as when on the advice ot' Chief ltig lioy, we overdosed them with oatmeal porridge and saw most of their hair tall out. Boil- ed riee and apples became the staple 'Ghz 'fcboes standbys. and a plate of boiled rice or a rosy sample of the apples was always suf- ficient to bring them hurrying- to our sides. YVe finally struck camp and set out for Blue Lake up the Harton River. The twins lay in a stove. euddled in each other's arms, warm and complaining only when the canoe pitched or hunger troubl- ed their dreams. AYe carried them over the portage inside our coats. Once our canoe upset and our outfit bobbecl up and down on the rapids. AYe got the stove to the shore and found that the beavers were safe. Getting our other equipment ashore we built a tire. Ave then dried our- selves and at last resumed our journey. It took tive days to complete the trip and get our shack fixed up. Although our pets would be bad and escape from their barrel occasionally. we liked them very much. Sometimes they would wrestle and play on the floor. and although they would get quite noisy at times. we gladly put up with it and soon got so that we didn't mind the noise. H.ueoi,u RI l'III'1Rl-'0RD. IIIC Acad. A SUNG FOR MARTHA Fmsr PRIZE AIartha sits with folded hands. AYithin a casement's oaken deep: Sweet yesterdays her thoughts recall. Cold sadness through her heart doth ereepi Her eyes are closed and so her dream. Kind dark's award. more real appears. A young face, melancholy. pale. But lovely 'neath her lonely tears. She doesnit heed the teasing sun That plays upon her brownish curl. Nor sees the multicolored leaves That pass her in a rustling whirl: She cannot hear the flocking birds As each trills on its parting call. Dead to these glories meant for her- But in her ear. clear as a bell. And softly as a summer's breeze. Echoes a song she knows so well. Iler lips curl in the happy smile That gladsome child wears at its play: A song of lapping water floats From shores she loves, though far away. A song of home. of laughing friends, Of swaying boughs. of whirring wings. Now high. now low. melodious notes Like gentle bow o'er fiddle strings: The music fades. but lIartha's soul O'er-flows with happiness supreme. Her world wakes with the Glorious song . . , z- g-. And autumn s flaming beauty s lost As new a11d lovely as her dream To her who's blinded to it all. JEAN Wanriax PLATT IHC -Xe-ad .-:-,gQa'.1- , jk 'R g IS f Z All X 4-71-f' Z 4-4 ' 4' U35 -Q. 4, Z !L1f1 , I I W I X ' 4W f QQ, 2 . K -mf -g arish... V1 up T ,.. I? ,H ., s kit- R ei' . v'.:?Q-,., V, X . fi ' A ' ft- 5 ee-A J i 5 X-A , ' . gfpf, ,,.,. 1 114'-' I '- I ' L ..1:4.:,jQf,l Exritzhl' 4 . -V 1-L, I , T 'A -Q Q , -, 1 . ,AJ ,I I 'f52fw.fj'--Tf4 gp , -'- - '35, .f if . gf. , g 451' s , - - : - 4 ly!! , ., f '!

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