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

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Rupert? Land College Magazine Christmas Bales. This year again each Form provided clothes, toys, and a Christmas dinner for a poor family at Christmas. Letters of thanks received tell of the happiness these bales of good things bring to homes where a visit from Santa Claus is often unexpected. , C. M. HOLDITCH. HIGHWAYS ' The old trail had been used by the buffaloes year after year in their migrations, across the plain, down in the valley and up onto the higher plateau, but always within close range of the river's course. This year was different though. Strange two-legged creatures, clothed in the fur skins of animals and decorated with gay feathered head-dress, had swooped down upon their haunt and driven them away. No longer could the buffalo follow their old trail along the river or graze on the grassy banks, or wade in the cooling waters. Then the Indians, who had driven away the buffalo, began to use the river banks as a trail of theirs, for in most places the waters were too treacherous for their frail canoes. Each Spring they would go down the trail laden with skins and hides from the North, in the Fall they would return gaily bedecked with bright beads and trinkets and behaving very wildly, even for them, firing off their guns and rifles which they obtained from the white men of the East in exchange for the skins. , After awhile some of these white men came along the trail with the Indians, and soon many white soldiers passed along the river's bank. The white men returned but the Indians never again appeared. Soon the old trail became cut and rutted by wagon wheels. The white settlers came in covered wagons and camped on the river's bank. The few trees which grew there were chopped down and used for fire-wood. More and more white men went along the old trail until at lastha railroad was built nearby and great blustering steam engines rush-ed by at regular intervals. The old trail was paved with cement and became a modern highway with tourists in automobiles hurrying along over its surface and admiring the scenery as they go by. Then from the blue sky above comes the sound of an air- plane wending its ,way among the soft white clouds. Thus the highway of the airplane and the highway of the old lumbering buffalo is the old river which flows on in a narrow ribbon unchanged by time. JANE NICHOLLS. 23

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Ruperfs Land College Magazine MISSI-ON NOTES ' The Hay River Mission. The Hay River Mission School at Great Slave Lake educates fifty Indian and Esquimo boys and girls, many of whom come long distances to enrol. Besides supporting two girls, we send Christmas presents to each pupil. Our hearty thanks are due' to Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Montgomery for -their help in choosing and dispatching these gifts by freight. In a letter of thanks, Miss Neville, the Matron-in-Charge, writes, They are lovely toysg we have had so much pleasure going through them. The children are get- ting very excited, being so kindly remembered each year they know what they have to look forward to. The deco-rations that were with them are so acceptable, and the artificial flowers. For a long time we have been wishing for something for the Church at Easter, so the white flowers are put away for that. The Garden Party in June, when we raised the support of our two girls, was a great success. Racing on the lawn, Aunt Sally, Hoop-la, a mysterious Swimming Match, and an orchestra for the Tea Dance provided entertainment. The charming tea tables, ice cream booth, candy and home-made cooking stalls were well patronized, while the fancy stall and doll stall contributed handsomely to the total sum raised. The Zenana Bible and Medical Mission. For years we have supported Nanu Kissan, an orphan Indian girl, at the Mission School at Manmad. She has now finished school and is train- ing for her life work. She writes a very creditable letter in English-to her a foreign language-as the following extract from one lately received shows: Very many salaams to yo-u. . . . I am working now. Also I am taking the Bible train- ing too. Sometimes at our examinations we have to give a lesson to the little girls. I am trying hard. Thank you so much for the present you so kindly sent to me. I like it very much. We also sent a contribution of S590 towards Dr. Lambert's salary. Our interest in the hospital work was much stim- ulated by a visit while on furlough from Miss Holden, a Toronto graduate, who is nursing at the Canadian hospital at Nasik under Dr. Lambert. She brought with her dolls, dressed in Indian costumes by the patients, which she used to illustrate her descriptions of the life of women and girls in India. We hope to adopt a bed in the new wing of the hospital and name it The Rupert's Land Cot. The Annual Tea and Gift Shop in November was a great success, each House contributing its share to the total of 8135.46 raised during the afternoon. ' 22 '

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Ruperfs L ol an College Magazine VXA 'h I 'n 's 4 N x N 12. C 9- 6 N uitiyf, , I K W W e ' 'N ll rf, If J miami 'fd Some of US to sea did go And some were left behilzxd. ELEANOR LODGE. Age 14. 24