Riverbend School for Girls - Vox Fluminis Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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VOX FLUMINIS Page Ten BE YOURSELF Is it always wise? If you are the shrinking violet type, is it best to be yourself and soon find yourself on the outside. looking in on all the fun? Gr should you brace yourself up and talk and dance like other normal people and forget the part of you which says, There is a very interesting book on the table over there. I think I'll just go off in a corner and read for a whilef, I Plenty of people who have a tendency to be shy have put on a con- ceited air which is rather pathetic, a ridiculous giggle is perhaps worse. Being yourself is all very well but what about the people who never would be seen at all if such advice were taken? Gn the other hand, is there anything worse than a tomboy trying to be dignified? Did you ever see anything funnier than a girl who has turned down a basket ball game to go to a tea given by a dear friend of mother's who will be offended if she doesn't appear? She will probably have a very uncomfortable look on her face and one idea in her headf-to get out. First she will spill her tea, then drop a sandwich, jump when she is spoken to, and make altogether the wrong reply when answering. In this case if only the unfortunate individual would be herself. As the girl who is neither a violet nor a tomboy usually has the sense to be herself with success there are no points to argue. This is the decision I have made in such casesg the shy must buck up and be sociable and have some fun occasionally, the extreme opposite must quieten down a little, but not too much. Greater psychologists than I have said be natural at all cost, but I maintain that there are exceptions to every rule. -Janet Turnbull, Grade IX. HOLIDAYS Holidays! Hfolidays! they have begun! Gut in the garden to play in the sun. Down by the lake and the favorite holesg Out with the guns to shoot squirrels and moles. Away in the forests, with fiowers and trees, Down in the gulleys with the birds and the bees, Down by the rocks and the babbling brooks, Under the oaks. in our private nooks. Holidays! Holidays! they have begun! Out in the garden to play in the sun. -Shirley Johnston, Grade VII. FIRELIGHT In the cottage, when the lamps are all turned out, I watch the Wall and see the figures that the firelight makes. There are shapes and forms, which remind me of the wonderful times I have had and the glorious times, which are to come. As I sit by the firelight, I See a shadow the shape of an aero-

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Page Nine VOX FLUMINIS That's Miss Foster, did we bet, To the window we must get, Down the Hre-escape to safety we can Hee ! To the window did we dash Opened up the treacherous sash While the speeding foot-steps neared us mercilessly. . Out the window Peggy leaped While the gods their pleasure reaped As Carla caught her foot in some contraption. There she stuck astride the sill! ' Her position boded ill. For both, howe'e1', excitement held attraction. Miss Foster, it was she, Op'ed the door, our plight to see, Stopping dead and crying out in agitation, To the Window did she run, And clutched the unfortunate one By the leg, While Peggy watched in desperation. Then she too, began to pull Till Carla's shouts were plentiful. Crying loud and long for sympathy from Peg: But her cries were all unheeded, In the distance they receded. And they still pull it, as we are pulling your leg! -Peggy Carlisle and Carla Lehmann, Grade X. A SICK C!HILD'S FANCY Come, pretty marbles, let us play That you are fairies on a bright summer day, Grouped here and there on my soft, white spread. Bringing a make-believe scene to my bed. Some will come in yellow f rocks, some will come in blues, Some will come in pink, and other lovely hues. ... .....-. . Look! there is a red one, he shall be king, And sit in the midst of the fairy ring, And by his side, a queen shall reign, Dressed in white, with a long, soft, train. And round them shall gather one by one, The fairies who sing and dance in the sun. -Katherine Hall, Grade VIII.

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Page Eleven VOX FLUMINIS ....-.............................................................. ......... ............................................ .... ...................... ...... .......... ........... ......... plane. Immediately I think that I am gliding through the air. I go so high, that it seems as if I could put out my hand and pick up a star. And as the shadows change, my thoughts change. When you are sitting silently in the lirelight you think of things, which you can never think of in the daytime, because the light seems so bright and the noises so loud. that they confuse the mind. But sitting quietly in the firelight, you can dream dreams and think of all the things, which have been, and which are going to be. -Mary McLean, Grade VIII. STUDY HOUR THOUGHTS I know the bell will ring, but When? The noisy scratch of someone's pen. Somebody's' crushing paper again 5 See that Hy on the Window pane? Those boards should be washed tonight, Doesn't the sun seem awfully bright, Everyone's studious this afternoon, I hope the bell is going soon. In a stocking I spy a hole. I see some hands as black as coal, How these minutes do drag along. The bell is going, Oh cheers, it's gone! -Margaret Aldous, Grade VIII. MARIE FAIT DES EMPLETTES Samedi matin Marie et sa mere sont allees faire des emplettes a La Samaritaine. Elles entrent au rez-de-chaussee et elles prennent l' ascenseur jusqu' au deuxieme etage ou Marie achete une robe, un chapeau et des souliers. Elle essaie beaucoup de robes, des noires, des vertes, des rouges. des bleues et des jaunesg les unes sont de soie et les autres sont de laine de crepe. Elle se decide at prendre une robe jaune et b-rune. C'est une tres, tres jolie robe et Marie et sa mere aiment la robe beaucoup.. ' Apres que la vendeuse apporte la robe elles vont au rayon de chapeaux, et ici Marie achete un chapeau brun avec une petite plume jaune qui est aussi tres jolie. Ensuite Marie et sa mere vont au rayon de souliers et Marie achete de jolis souliers bruns. La mere de Marie achete aussi des articles pour elle et elles vont toutes deux a la maison contentes de leurs emplettes, Marie surtout. -Marnie Austin, Grade IX.