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

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46 ..... ., The PORCUPINE QUILL l on his shoulder. I also remember how I smacked my lips on that deer the next day at dinner. The thing that stands out most and was of the greatest importance is the making of my kiddy-car. My father made it for me and then took the wheels off my crib to c0m- plete the toy. .That kiddy-car was the best in the world in my estimation, and I can still see it standing on the wheels from my crib. CAN YOU GUESS ? fk as if VVhen I was very young, there was nothing more delightful than 'a good story, well told. In the funny tale of Epaminondas and His Auntie, Epaminondas, you ain't got the sense you was born With! never failed to CHANGE OF Favourite Sayings Mr. Tanner- Girls and boys, We are hav- ing a big hockey match Friday and I would like every student to be out if at all possible. Miss Mulvihill- Annie, don't be such a jumping-jack, you and Enid are just like monkeys-always do the same things. Miss Bucovetsky- Now, you over there -pointing to Sybil- one of your childish pranks again. Donit act like a baby. Miss McLaughlin-isticking her pencil in Annie's backb If you don't stop talking you will get a 30-minute detention. Annie- Oh, that hurts! Miss McLaughlin- I want it to hurt. Mr. Fawcett- Now, Annie, tiu'n around and face the front. Miss Evans- I wish I could come in here -meaning C2- Without having to hear peo- ple's Voices. Miss Tennant- Name three princesses, Sybil. Sybil-:Princess Marina, Princess Eliza- beth, and -Cstops to think? Miss Tennant- Come, come, can't you think of another one? Sybil- Yes, Princess Neverdief' evoke a delighted grin or chuckle at every repetition. In stories I would tolerate no half-way measures. Everything must be settled, once and for all, before the story ended. My youthful feeling of justice de- manded that good People should be re- warded, and bad people punished, and unless the story worked out in that way, there was something Wrong with it. To me fairies were the most enticing, the inhabitants of the earth. most important Every flower cup was a fairy's bedroom, every mushroom a dining-table. True, even though I was quite watchful, I never caught a glimpse of one. But I felt, many a. time that I might have seen one, had I tu.rned about just a little more quicklyf nZu1? SHIFT- Znd Miss MacNamara-tduring History lesson? Anne, name five most important women in history. Anne- The Dionne Quintsf' Mr. Mitchell: Are you passing another note, Ruth? Ruth Tolman: Cleaning across the aisleb No, I am only holding Mary's hand! We Wonder Why Jimmy Veitch is a Librarian? What Pete Ostrosser does in his spare time? Where Armbrust gets his manicures? Why Cliiford Lafrenier is seen So much on Balsam St. What gave Darling that sorrowful look? Who the three debutantes of the T. H. S. are? Why Wyman Brewer likes to sit behind a certain 4th form girl who lives on John St. Vifhy Frank Everard hates girls?-maybe he's had a. lemon! Why Don Hogarth dresses up every Satur- day night? Why Don Mortson walks to 4th Ave., every noon hom' when he lives on Elm Street? When Merton Lake will call somewhere else than at a certain home on Lakeshore Ave.? Where John McKenna gets -that schoolgirl complexion?

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45 -L-1- The PORCUPINE QUILL WWW One thing I liked to do when I was very young was to press my nose flat against the window-pane. My brother used to bet that he could hold his nose against the pane longer than I . Then we would hold con- tests. The first time we did it my brother held out the longer, and he, of course, made fun of me. But whenever I won I made sure that I didn't let him feel very good about it. ? 2? Qi if One day when we lived on Balsam Street, my father sent a boy over to chop a cord of wood. I was only about six or seven then. I leaned against the railings of the back porch, watching him cut the wood. Suddenly I said to him, How are you getting along, Fatty? He was really very fat, and he took offence and walked 05 leaving his job. Since that day I have had to split the Wood. 9 ik -ll 14 Everything had to be kept out of my reach. Well I remember the time I upset a jar of jam on the kitchen floor. Mother Was getting me -a piece of bread and jam when the phone rang. Up I climbed on a chair and go-t the jar off the table. But as luck would have it the chair moved-and down I fell! Jam and all. Another time, when mother left me alone for a few moments, I fed her roast to the dog. Another little habit of mine was running away, and strange as it may seem, I always headed for the school. I yearned to be going to school. Two or three times a day mother would have to leave her work and go to get me. I never thought of the trouble I was causing her: but what little child does? NAME ? at if S2 'Wha.t a care-free life I led when I was very young! The children then seemed to have more ambition than the children of to-day. My friends and I were never idle. We were always doing something. My favourite ac- tivity was to be an actress. Four or five of my friends and myself would borrow an empty garage or an old shed, and put on a show. I can Well remember the time we had arguing over the programme and the charge for admission to our theatre. We usually charged one pin, because nearly everyone could find a. pin somewhere. I remember once that we charged one cent, and after the show was over had to give the money back. NAME ? In the summer, by way of amusement, I would throw my rubber boots into a creek nearby. I did this so often that father made a fishing apparatus to regain my boots and fashioned a thin board to regain my obe- dience When I had been deprived of this form of amusement, the presence of cracks be- tween the boards on the verandah became obnoxious to my optics. To reriiedy this, I used two pounds of butter to till them in. Several years later I came to the Timmins High School and learned to do more grown- up things, such as throwing running shoes and putting tacks on chairs. ? 51 vi ak Mother has told me I was a worry to our neighbours, especially to those on either side of us, neither of whom had any children. I loved to visit Mrs. B. because she had so many magazines for me to look at. One day she was washing the floor and wanted me to, run along and play like a good girl. When I wouldn't leave, she put me out. I can still remember how angry I was. Later, Mother came up the lane and caught me throwing rocks at her screen door. Needless to say I never threw any more stones, and I didn't visit lVIrs. B. for over a month. uYn-1? ,F ii' 4: Only a few snatches of my very early life remain in my mind. Some of these stand out clearly and seem to have been of great im- portance at the time they happened. I can remember back as far as when I was about two years old. At that time I was told to stay away from the ant hill in the backyard. I, like any other child, immediately Went to the ant hill and began to dig it up with my shovel. The ants crawled all over me and I can still remember their biting my back and legs. Another thing that stands out is time that my father brought home his first deer. I remember seeing him walking into the inn house across the road. with the deer the

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MtlTiiillCS 0 Scene IX THE 6000-FOOT LEVEL Facing the facts is our first duty with regard to every problem. Sir J. Arthur Thomson, in Biology for Everyman This is the section which represents mathe- matics. What a waste of paper in om' pre- cious school magazine! you may say. Well, you have made a mistake if you hold that opinion of this most useful of all subjects. Perhaps you sympathize with yourself bc:- cause of all the hard, brain-racking, heart- rending work you are required to put into this subject. Poof! Why, Al-Khowarzimi spent a lifetime trying to solve a quadratic equation. He finally succeeded, Nowadays we are taught how to do such a thing in a single period. And what is more, we go home that night a.nd do twenty or thirty. Pythagoras was another old-timer in the history of mathematics. He was born in 582 B.C. He was a great expense to his father, as he had a great liking for going places, and his hotel bills were always sent to Papa Pytha- goras. One day, when Pythagoras the Younger was in Egypt, somebody put the silly idea into his head of inventing a new theorem in Geometry. This he did, and called it Theorem Twelve, Book TWO. Al- though he did not know it at the time, he was laying the foundation for a great many other geometrical theorems. Imagine that you are in Greece, a great many years ago, and that you Wish to buy a pair of sandals, or Grecian oxfords. You en- ter a little shop and the purchase is made as as it would be in 1935-until the storekeeper finds that you have given him too much money. At this stage, you might as well sit down, for the storekeeper is about to begin the long and tedious operation of paying you the correct change. He takes a. peculiar- looking board from a hook on the wall, and picks up a handful of counters, or checkers, Is he going to play a game with you? No! This board is the Abacus, that wonderful in- strument with which the storekeeper calcu- lates the amount of change he owes you. The counters are placed on numbered lines in what seems to be a pattern of strange de- sign. Then the dealer counts them, length- wise, crosswise and everywise. After a great deal of counting on his fingers and of mum- bling to himself lmental arithmeticll, he gives you your change, which you must trust to be correct. If you think that you have been cheated, you are out of luck, for no amount of coaxing would persuade that dealer to repeat his work. The mental arithmetic that the store- keeper of that period did on his hands was really part of a queer system of numbers. Each number was made by holding the hand in a certain position, with the fingers twisted into knots and other shapes, to form a sign numeral. How queer it would be if we did our pre- sent daily shopping under such conditions as these! It might be a means of saving more of our income, because our days Would be much too short, and our purchases too numerous. for all this tedious counting and reckoning. All branches of mathematics have advanced a great deal since the time of the early Greeks and Egyptians, and our present explorers in those subjects are not as handicapped as were their ancient masters. ESSES You will find good reading to the last page.