Timmins High and Vocational School - Porcupine Quill Yearbook (Timmins, Ontario Canada)

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90 The PORCUPINE QUILL .. In Timmins Very early in the morning, if you look out of the window, you will see men shuiiiing along in the snow, with lunch-pails on their backs, their fur collars turned up, and their hands, which they are slapping together vigorously, covered with big mittens. They are miners, headed for the Hollinger mines. If you fol- low them, you will soon see the shafts and shops of The Hollinger. High in the sky these shafts rise and from each and every one of them, a Hood of light bathes the Hollinger property. If, after feasting your eyes on these sights for a while, you allow them to wander, you will see, here and there, hills with ski trails criss-crossing them, roads, glistening pure white fields, and sometimes, a speeding motorcycle, or a tractor hauling huge logs towards the mines or to any of the numerous mills which dot the riverside. Then look around you. You Will observe carelessly located houses, twisted streets lmany of which have no lanesb, and nurner- ous telegraph and radio poles. I rather think that the lack of arrangement shown in the building of the houses indicates that some of the citizens of this town do not expect to stay very long in this particular place. The reason for this attitude is that the mines are the only means of making a living for most people here. and if the gold should peter out, most people would nnd themselves out of work and would be forced to seek it else- where. But this danger is exceedingly re- mote. Timmins, as a whole, is a very fine town. It is progressing rapidly and now is really a city according to population, although it is but twenty-five years old. If the mines hold out, Timmins soon will be one of the largest and richest cities in the Dominion. It is, as most people would say, a Boom Town? Lost ! Were you ever lost in the woods? I was. In all my life I have never experienced any- thing quite like it. A feeling of terror and ut- ter desolation mingled to produce what, for a time, was almost panic. I had been rambling through our northern woods and thought I could shorten the dis- tance home by cutting through the forest instead of following the frozen river. All the tints of our woods were extremely delicate and beautiful that day. The underbrush was outlined in crystal and pearl, so that it looked to me like a fairyland held captive in marble. The air was so crisp and Clear that it was half-intoxicating. I sat down on a snow-covered log and watched the brief afternoon sunshine wane. Soon the murky red sunset bathed the westg its crimson touched the mountains and the valley and smote the tips of the pines. Just a few min- utes of beauty and charm-and it was gone. Startled by an owl's eerie hooting, I jump- ed to my feet. It came to me suddenly that I had tramped more than far enough, and that I should have come out on the river again. With an uncanny feeling I realized that I was lost. I ran in a southward direction, tears Welling in my eyes. I stumbled and fell. For a second, I lay quite still, sick with fearg then through my mind dashed, God is everywhere and watching everything. That helped. Something prompted me to look up- wards. The tops of the trees were swaying in the wind! North and South! I ex- claimedg for I knew that in this part of On- tario such a wind always came from the north. Home was to the southward! Fol- lowing the clouds and swaying treetops, I was soon on familiar ground. This little experience taught me a great deal. That lost feeling can come to us where there are no forests or streams. It can come within the familiar Walls of home. It can come when we are seated at a desk. It can come while we are mingling in society. We do not know which way to turn. We feel desperately alone. At such times we should remember these Words, God is everywhere and watching everything. It works. I know. - MARY EVERARD

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89 The PORCUPINE QUILL l Roman Beauty Culture Beauty culture is one of the oldest of the arts, traceable to the world's childhood. Through the centuries, Women have used preparations to beautify their skins and the Roman women were no exception. We have learned of their countless beauty prepara- tions through the writings of the many beau- ty doctors, of whom the most important were Ovid and Crito. The Romans preferred the tall. stately type of woman and one who had a full row of white teeth, long dark eyelashes, brows that just met between the eyes, and, above all, an unblemished complexion. There were many preparatiiiins to aid in attaining and keeping these beauty requirements. For the pre- servation of the teeth, many dentifrices were in use, chief of which was pumice, but such alternatives as the ashes of stag's horns, wolf's head and dog's teeth steeped in wine with honey were used. When teeth were lost, they were replaced by new ones of bone or ivory, held in place by gold wires. Paint was used a great deal in the mak- ing-up of the eyes. This paint was made either of parched antimony cr saffron, brought especially from Cilicia, and was used to make the eyes appear larger. If the brows failed to meet, paint was again used to remedy the defect. The ladies of Rome were indeed careful of their complexions, as is frequently shown in the books written during those times. Beau- ty preparations for the care of the skin were countless, among them being even freckle and wrinkle removers. A favourite base was honey, which softened the skin and into which was mixed many and varied ingredi- ents, each with their own duty in the process of beautification. For instance, beans were used to tighten the skin and remove wrinkles, frankincense to remove excresences, and nar- cissus bulbs to add fragrance. Oils and salves were constant accessories of the bath and toilet generally, and a great many ani- mal fats were used. 'Among these were but- ter 'to cure pains, the fat of the goose, hen or swan which was used to remove blemishes, and' the famous oesypum a. sort of lanolin salve. Even the very best of .these had a strong nauseating odour. Rouge was extensively used, as the ladies of Rome did not get much fresh air and ex- ercise. It was kept in rouge-pots of w:od, alabaster or metal, a good many of which are now in museums. Martial satirized the wide use of rouge when he wrote: The face you show the world is laid at night Not in your bed, but in your hundred rouge- pots. R-ed rouge was supplied mostly by vege- to rouge made The cosmetics ta-ble dyes, and Ovid refers from crushed poppy leaves. were applied with the finger or with a small brush. introduced the making beauty paste of asses' milk, which soften-ed and whitened the skin. A sort of white paint was also used to whiten the skin, which, strange to say. was also in use as a whitewash to re- novate walls. One of these paints was made of fine shavings of lead distilled over strong acid. Poppaea, Nero's empress, practice of bathing in and In Rome, as elsewher-e, hair was considered women's crowning glory, and no Roman lady so considered herself unless the dressing of her time as that toilet. Hair- hair had consumed as much spent on the rest of her dyeing was a frequent practice, but usually a harmful one. Most of the dyes used were carefully kept from the face, one even turned the teeth black. Even during 'the time of Cato the Elder there was a preference for blcnde hair, which the ladies went to great lengths to acquire. At the cost of much pain, Roman matrons dyed their hair red with applications of ashes. Gray hair was re- touched and dark hair bleached to the envied reddish-gold of the Germans and Britons. Instead of having the hair dyed, many wore wigs which were bought quite openly in the market near the temple of Hercules. Most of the false hair came from the Germans or Britons. And so it may be seen that the modern beauty methods and preparations are not so very different from those of the ancient Romans, 'although they certainly are a vast improvement. MURIEL FINNEY

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Canada Northern Power Corporation, Limited NEW LISKEARD, ONTARIO has served the Mining Districts of Northern Ontario and Northern Quebec since their inception. Its subsidiaries Northern Ontario Power Com- pany, Limited, and Northern Quebec Power Com- pany, Limited, are amply equipped through their ten power developments and extensive transmission line systems to continue this great work. Prompt and reliable service ensured in each of the following Mining fields: Gold Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, Matache- Wan, Duparquet, Cadillac, Varsan, Dubuisson and Bourlamaque. Silver Cobalt, South Lorrain and Gowganda Copperl-Gold Rouyn-Noranda.