Westdale Secondary School - Le Raconteur Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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LE RACONTEUR 23 a quiet admiration of life and of the joy to be living. The Northern sky at dawn is beautiful. Diana steals away in her waning robes of misty green, casting soft beams on the mirrored lake. The Milkv Mvay is fast being dissolved by the increasing light. For a background. Nature has painted one of velvet which we readily feel yet can rarely describe in glowing enough terms of admiration and appreciation. land of beautyfCanadal lt is the virgin A HAZARDOUS JOURNEY lliy Zerol We had hitch-hiked otll' way to lluffalo, my chinn and l, and after staying there for two days of viewing the citv, we climbed over the rainbow Peace Bridge, singing patriotic songs to greet the Canadian customs officers. who sent us on our wav in the increasing dusk. Wie passed through Fort Erie and walked along silently till we decided that our camping spot would be along the right side of the road, on a long strip of grass between the highway and the willow trees that sheltered the broad, quiet Yiagara from our view, Wie hung our tarpaulin from a tree to form a tent and snuggled into comfort- able blankets. Hefore retiring, T secreted a tin box of valuables in a small hole in the bank con- cealed by ivy. .Xrising with the sun, we repaired immediatelv to Niagara Falls, where we spent the day. XYhen night descended again. we fol- lowed the river road in search of a vacant lot or small wood. Mve ended at the car barns housing the Gorge street cars, and, on engaging the watclnnan in conversation. he suggested we sleep in the cars. XXX' iumped at the chance. and soon were fast asleep. XYhen T wakened,l sensed that something was wrong. Feeling beside me. l discovered that l was in the middle of a field. Now, l don't believe in fairies. so T knew at once that l was up to mv old tricks-sleep wall-Ting. lretrieved my blankets and crawled sleepily back into the car. ln the morning l discovered that if T had walked as far in the opposite direc- tion l would have plunged over the Gorge and into the XYhirlpool below! Hut the worst was not over. On the way home, T was aware of a peculiar itchiness all over my body. lt was poison-ivv. The hiding place for the valuables must have been surrounded with the infernal weed. From the torture l later endured. I wished that T had walked over the Gorge. CHICAGO, THE WORLD'S FAIR, AND BUST! LC. Greenfield, .X-3327 Twe-Q-e-Q-fsa Winnie sin-iiiai. me ug-in flashed green. and the struggle was on. ,X '26 Dodge touring screamed madly out in front of a host of automobiles and led the procession down Michigan Avenue. L:-training every cylin- der, it rolled on. .X Stutz drew near. crept up almost even, and fell backfthen a lluick. None could touch the speed of this rattling demon. Then, yards ahead of its nearest competitor, the car made a left turn at the next intersection. and drew up before the door of L'hicago's largest hotelsthe l'almer llouse. XX'ith a sarcastic smile, the uniformed attendant opened the car door and said: XYelcome to Chicago. The Miindy City, despite its gangsters, of which we saw none, did itself proud. For months the citizens had been preparing: for months we had been waiting: and so. at last. we were to see the big eventfthe XYorld's Fairl The turnstiles of the Fair had no sooner clicked behind us than we were in a magic land. Stretching out in front was the Moroccan Yil- lage, with its mosque. bazaar, camels and fakirs. Beyond it was the Belgian Yillage, with the Cloth llall, cathedral and quaintly costumed peasants. .Xnd so on down the list: the City of l'aris, lndian villages, Maori huts. groups of buildings too numerous to mention or remember. Following a path around the Fair. seven miles in all. we passed tirst a group of manufacturers' buildings: the glass house.all-metal house. brick, wood and stone houses. Next came the automo- tive buildings, chief of which belong to tfhrysler and General Motors. The former was a huge. pure white affair. containing three floors, ex- pressly for exhibiting the latest models. lleside the edilice was a half-mile track, where daring drivers took more daring spectators for what they termed ua real ride. The General Motors building was easily twice as large as the llamilton .Xrmonries. ln it was a whole construction line where workmen threw Chevrolets together at the rate of one a minute. ,Xfter seeing this done, my advice to prospective Chevrolet owners isstinm do itl We wended our way on: entered and left the Royal Scot: dragged through the huge trans- portation building containing every known mode of travelg witnessed the State and Federal Gov- ernment exhibits, and the liall of Religion, until we came at last to the Fair's best component- the llall of Science, llow Messrs. Gillan and llallantyne would have rubbed their hands in glee! llere were ex- hibited practically every physics or chemistry experiment ever performedfthe making of rub- ber, refining of gasoline, television, experiments with light, heat and electricity. to mention only a few. Then through the electrical building, with its G-E House of Magic, tricks with electricity-all of man's advances with this marvellous element. That was all for the buildings. There were more-hundreds moredbut few people saw them all, anyway. lcwrlllflillllftf on Panic U51

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