December 1940 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

December, 1940

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

December, 1940

into a street from fairy land. Stand in Queen Street facing to- wards the Bridge; half close your eyes (so that you can not read "Plum5t", which spoils the effect) and you will know what a fairy highway is like.

They welcome the traveller. But city lights, though they seem to welcome, really only dazzle one with their glory for a moment, and when one can see beyond them the darkness is heavier than ever in comparison. City lights do not smile, they flash their teeth; They laugh with their lips and not with their eyes and their laughter is not happy. Have you ever stood in a city street with tramcars whizzing past, and cars hooting, and lights flashing, and wish- ed with all your heart that everything would stop still if only for a moment?

Beautiful? yes. But strangely unreal, and perhaps-is it artificial?

Fairies may be beautiful creatures. I used to long to see one-perhaps I still do. But again it may be better to know only in imagination. They may be too bright, too colourful, like City Light:?. City lights certainly leave nothing to the imagin<;:Ition. They can never have the glory of a winter sunset, nor the mystery of the rainbow, pale and ethereal against the massed grey clouds. These things- are beautiful because they linger and fade, leaving certainty of returning with equal glory. But is there anything certain about city lights? They look very bright and strong and beautiful, but if someone dropped a bomb on the City Electric Light Works-what then?

But the city is never still.

Its lights may seem too brightly artificial to country fclk, but city folk miss them in the country perhaps more than any- thing else, for they form part of the city outlook. J.C.-C.V.

Lights make a City look bright and gay, but do they really do away with the darkness and loneliness of a great city?

THE SENIOR MEMBERS GROUP.

The Senior Members Group has continued its activities de- spite the fact that most of its members are busy with War Work. The Annual General Meeting was held on 8th April, at which the Election of Officers took place-Miss Forster being elected President and Miss Francis, Vice-President.

On either side of this glittering way are dark little side s'treets, all the darker in comparison with the glory of their Overlord. This Feudal King reigns supreme, a few wealthy Barons clustering around him and the inevitable serfs strag- gling, ragged and cold.

We also decided to join in with the Parent Body, in a War Work Group. Miss Nevill, Miss Campbell and Miss Jones

The lights of a country town are different. A smaller range of colours and not so much flashing make them more friendly.

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