1913 School Magazine

Dec.} 1913.

GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE.

17

The Gipsy Girl. '---

The members of the form started to -collect for our museum at the beginning .-of the year, but we were not able to g,et the glass case until after mid'winter. We have already got shells, curious birds' nests, fungi, butterflies and moths, "and many other interesting things. Last term three members of the form issued a small mag'azine (for private .circulation) called "The Trio's Monthly." The first number is very interes1!ing. Leo Vallely is the only member ' of our form :entering for the Wight ;Me- morial Competition. We all wish her 'every success. The form is very interested: in the English literature subject this term. It is Henry V., our first acquaintance with .Shakespeare, and we ,enjoy it thoroughly. In French literature we are stUdying .a very pretty , French song, "Au claire .de la lune." One of the members was familiar with the musical setting, :and favoured us with a vocal rendition oE it. M.L., E.S., L.V. '3 "'B AND II A. There are nine girls in our form, of whom three are boarders. Weare trying to make the classroom 'nice by , hringing 'flowers , and we (},re )oo'kmg rorwara. 1:0 navmgour loCkers ,soon. W'e are all glad that swimming has ,begun. Once a week we have English poetry, and we are learniilg 'a play which we ,are to act at the end of the term. In sewing lesson we are making clothes for the Children's Hospital. We play basketball on Wednesday afternoons ",lth Remove. The captain was Stancie Drake, a Remove girl, but she does not play now. But it is g,etting: too hot for basket ball. If there were enough girls in the class, we should have a team or our own. The captain of our tennis last quarter was Gyneth Campbell, but Nora Halford has been made captain, as Gyneth has J.eft. N. R, O. B.

Black were her eyes as the midnight-gloom, Soft were her lips with their blood-red bloom, White were her teeth as a priceless pearl The teeth of Giralda the gipsy-girl. Her body was subtle, soft, and slim, And perfectly made her every limb, Slender and shapely the small brown hand Of Giralda the Queen of the gipsy-band. Proud as a princess she held her head, Light as a snowflake her fairy-tread, Wayward and wild was the dusky curl, Round the face of Giralda the gipsy-girl. Beaten and cursed from morn to night, Longing for freedom, yet scorning flight, W e~ry the soul and sad the life - Of Giralda the warJdering gipsy's wife. Under the sky she slept alway, Working from dawn till , close o[ day, Never a Gomfort, never a home, Giralda the gip sy, ever alone. HE number of boarders this , 'year has increased by four, ' ~ , "T' last year th~re being nine- f; tJeen and thIS year twenty- c , '. , three. The majority come ~ <. from the west and north. , . ' It is very interesting and' amnsinK to hear each ltirl's opmlOn on town and country life, and each one thinks the part she comes from is Ihe best. We meet and form: friendships with girls whom perhaps we might lleVer have known, This is one of the advantages of boarding school. Between us all we have rather a good time, and enjoy as many luxuries as school life will permit. In the way of entertainments we ~ave been to a fair number, so the mistresses think, but not as many as we ourselves should like. At the beginning of the year Miss Williams took those who wished to go to an interesting lecture in memory of David Livingstone. We have been to two orchestral concerts this year, and we musicians (?) thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful mmoiC. With Easter came Oscar Asche and his company, but to L. M. VOSS. Boarders' Noles.

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