Ruperts Land Girls School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Ruperfs Land College Magazine and artistic mats were the result. At present half the class is working on bright-coloured homespun, with yarn, which eventually will become pillow to-ps. The other half are filling the Studio with spirits, by dyeing various patterns on leather and making many useful things. We all feel very grateful to Miss Short for teaching us so many interesting occupations, which have certainly made our class a success. BOARDERS' LITERARY CLUB Senior and Junior groups of the Club have met every week. Among the authors we have read are Barrie, De la Mare, Masefield, W. H. Drummond, Thornton Wilder, Galsworthy and Hardy. One-act plays of to-day and some short stories have also been read. We debated as to whether examinations justify their exist- ence, Ruth Wells and Faith Starkey being protagonists. The motion against examinations was carried 7 to 4, despite good defence by the opposers. The Junior group has enjoyed reading Grahame's Wind in the Willows and Maeterlinck's Bluebird BOARDERS' INITIATION, 1929 We were awakened with the orders from the Boarding School Old Girls, and had to obey them all day long. We made their beds, ran messages, and did everything that they could think of making us do. Then, worn out after the picnic. we got home to find a sweet little message on each bureau: Part your hair in the middle to-night. Oh dear! we all looked terrible of course, and when we reached the dining-room we found nothing but spoons to eat with. Luckily the meat was tender, but alas, even Mrs. Fenton planned against us, and we had lovely runny tapioca for dessert. Forks alone proved helpful in eating the latter! After prayers we were calmly told we were to amuse the Old Girls for the evening. We tried every way for revenge, and so we used the Boarders clothes for costumes. We were asked to produce the play of Cinderella with but twenty minutes' preparation. Ambition was shown by some, as for instance making an effort to get ready for the walk in winter-and it just took the victim twenty minutes to do it! It was very funny, and in the end, in the dark, we all swore to be true R.L.C. Boarders. Much-needed nourishment was served afterwards in the sitting-room and the new girls were then waited upon-we went to bed well satisfied in more ways than one. 16

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Rupertls Land College Magazine things to eat, and the gramophone made the time pass all too quickly. There have been some gay supper parties in Miss Ho1ditch's room, when we sat round on the floor, toasted sand- wiches, and Miss Millard in the room below wondered what all the laughter and noise was about. Then one day the Cubes were invited in a long rhymed invitation to Tea with Miss Bannister-but not unless we answered in verse-so for a few' days brains ticked. Then the day arrived. We all came in from a hike, some hot, some cold, all ready to relax, and there awaiting us was . . . oooohh! cakes, sandwiches, cookies, candies, ice cream, nuts and tea, green tables, cushions, doylies, comfies. There we sat one hour, two hours, three hours, while the others peeked in the keyhole and sniffed enviously outside the barred door. ' Extra shopping parties arranged by our School Mothers at Christmas were much appreciated, as also the interest they take in us throughout the year. Miss Pear- man's Tea Parties, when each daughter is privileged to bring a guest, are much enjoyed. The In-week-ends have again been a feature of Boarding School life. The Autumn picnic to River Park, when. we ate hot dogs, climbed trees, and did gymnastic stunts, was followed in the Winter by hikes to St. Vital and Kildonan. Whether on skis, snowshoes, or merely in moccasins, we enjoyed the exhilarating air and fun outdoors. Our hearty thanks are tendered to Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Claydon for so kindly entertaining our big family to Tea on these occasions. Mrs. Carruthers is another of the kind friends who thought of the Boarders and gave a Tea specially for them in October. The Initiation Ceremony on the first in-week-end, and impromptu concerts on other occasions, in which many girls have shown initiative and ability, have entertained us on Saturday evenings. So in-week-ends give many opportunities for community outings and entertainment. BOARDERS' HANDWORK CLASS The Boarders have their handwork class again this year, but instead of the grumbling over the prospect of sewing on blue flannel kimonas, everyone looks forward to the Monday evenings spent in the Studio under Miss Short's supervision. We started the year with batik dyeing, and many stockings, dresses and even shoes changed colour during the process. Scarves were the only thing attempted, and as far as originality is concerned they were certainly a success. Raffia work was done by many of the girls and colourful 15

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Rupertis Land College Magazine BOARDERS' GLEE SINGING The glee singing last term took place one evening a week for half an hour, during which the Boarders would exercise their vocal organs by singing such numbers as Annie Laurie, Comin' Thro' the Rye, John Peel, and other favorite songs. Owing to the examinations ahead, and having naturally less spare time, at any rate for the Senior Boarders, we have dropped the weekly warbling until next winter term, when we hope to resume not only in unison, but part singing. H M. H. P. A DAY GIRL'S BLUE MONDAY You are unmercifully awakened at a quarter to seven and told it is time to get up. You drag your weary bones out of bed and shut the window. Before breakfast you either practise or do homework for about an hour. While at break- fast one of your heartless family hints that you must have got dressed in a hurry, as you have no tie on and there are cat's hairs all over your tunic,' not to mention a rip in the sleeve of your blouse. As soon as you are finished you rush upstairs to put on your tie, and find a hole in the heel of your stocking. You hastily darn it, then run for your books, coat and hat. On arriving at the garage you find that your father can't get the car started and wants you to get in and push this and poke that and pull the other while he cranks it. You finally get started and arrive at school at ten past nine, feeling as if you had already done a good day's work. When asked why you were late, you give the oft repeated excuse, Dad drove me down. At recess, after being caught once on the upper corridor and twice on the lower, you finally manage to get an order mark. You rush home at noon with a French book under one arm, intending to study for a test to be given that afternoon. But alas for good resolutions! You don't open the book. In the afternoon you manage to get yourself into trouble again by aiming a crunched-up piece of paper at a friend and hitting a teacher. For this you receive a conduct mark! At half past three you gather up your books and go home. From then until the time you go to bed you study and practise without intermission except for dinner. When you finally 17