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

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GRADE TWELVE Back Row-Virginia Lee Hopper, Joyce Burns, Margaret Dowler. Front Rowe-eNatalie Martin, Barbara Colyer, Nora Donnelly, Eleanor Maclnnes. r f ., ,. ..- GRADE ELEVEN Back Row-Barbara Allan, Joan Macarthur, Margaret Bennett, Catherine Bingeman, Kitty lvgarlker, Kathleen Benner, Beverley Latter, Ethna Mitten, Roberta Jean McQueen, Bertha e ch. Middle Row-Phyllis MacChar1es, Phyllis Chester, Maria Kipp, Mary Harris KXI-G presidentl, Beverley Elsey. KXI-M presidentj, Eileen Gray, Anna May Coghill, Ruby Benidickson. Front Row-Joan Heaslip, Mary Irvine, Sidney Flanders, Shirley Cruikshank, Eloise Edmond, Betty Slater.

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28 Vox Fluminis THE ALL-DESTROYING RAY F YOU were to walk up to the end of Midville Road, you would see an old dilapidated house, badly in need of repairs, minus the front steps, plus the glass out of the windows. You would then be tempted to ask anyone of the old grannies what happened to the house and who used to live there? The one you asked would shift her pep- permint drop to the other side of her mouth, and fix her glasses prepared for the tale she loved most to tell. Some few years ago a young man and his bride came to live in two hundred and fifty-six Midville Road. They were a nice young couple, fond of each other, as well as their kind neighbors. One day something happened. Doctors were going in and out of the house and the young man looked terribly worried and distressed. The neighbors went to inquire and find out what was the matter. The young man said his wife had typhoid. Two days later the pretty house was in mourning for its sweet mistress who had passed away. N o one saw the young man for quite awhile, but at night the little window in the third floor was always lighted. That was the only sign that anyone lived there. One cold, stormy night when you would imagine that anything could hap- pen, a queer colored ray kept flashing from the little 'attic window of number two hundred and Hfty-six. The ray kept flashing for what seemed an etern- ity until finally the men decided to go and investigate, for they thought may- be the man was in trouble and sig- nalling for help. But too late did they think of it, for suddenly a blasting roar sounded above the claps of thunder and number two hundred and fifty-six was a chaos of glass and splinters of wood. T'he house looked as though a hurricane had sud- denly struck it. When help arrived they found no longer a young man but an aged man who was mentally unbalanced, and also a housekeeper who said her master had been inventing an all-destroying ray which he said was going to destroy the world. Ever since his wife had died he had been working on this and fin- ally it had blown up. He soon passed away and no one has ever lived in the house since, supposing it to be haunted. , The old granny would look at you with a look that said, Well, you see our street has an exciting history. You would politely thank her and walk on pondering on the story of the all-destroying ray. HELEN PALK, Grade VIII, Nelson Hall. AN EVENING AT HOME T IS seven o'clock on Thursday night. You are washing dishes Cmaid's night outl hurriedly because you must get your homework done in time to hear Good News. As you clean the last pan, none too thoroughly, you glance furtively at Civics notes. After a few glances you consider them learned. CThe next day you change your mind.J Now, a French verb must be written out in eleven tenses. Ah, you sigh, why doesn't everyone speak English? You determine to do some- thing about it when Cand ifb you are famous. But in the meantime there is work to be done. You settle in a chair by the living-room radio. For fifteen minutes you are engrossed C?J in the French verb. Suddenly, a shrill yell jerks you to life. You rise and stride determinedly to the front hall where your small brother lies screaming. He explains noisily that he fell off the bannisters. You pick him up- and tell him he is a big baby to cry. When he is finally consoled, you return to the comfortable chair. Having finished the French verb, you turn your attention to Geometry. As you open your battered text-books, you discover by your watch

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