Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1937-1938 the most beautiful room I have ever seen. Afterwards we saw the gate which leads to the tomb of the first Shogun, and on it is the famous carving of the sleeping cat, carved by a left-handed man. :Xt one of the temples here two girls danced, each holding a sword. Then came Tokyo, where we saw the Imperial Palace and various Embassies, the Detached Palace and a marvellous War museum. We then left for Myanoshito where we saw the Dream, Roman, and Mermaids' Pool, and in the morning we left for a pass in the mountains from which to view Fuji. This mountain suddenly bursts upon one as one comes through a tunnel and round a bend, a surprisingly beautiful sight. On our way home we saw the long tailed fowl with a tail 2-l feet long. On April 22nd we sailed from Yokohama for Honolulu, thence to Victoria and Vancouver, HC., and through the Rockies home. D. G. Mcf., Form 5. QNOTI-Z: Much interesting matter, particularly concerning the journey' through the Rockies and their re- markable tunnels has had, for reasons of space, to be omitted.l The Behuting jllilacbinr. Szzvr 311111111 Bouchard to Papa, Fran4'0i.r, I milf' reduce, .Won ertomar .vhe'.f :'er'fal, -- Daf' ling IW give .rome ure. Sayr .the to litlle Efziar, Hfilfrvou an' Papa hrinsg From ha,re111e211 in de .ff0l'!lgt' room Dal of' reduring 'ting F She me da! 'ting 1110.5 t'Z'8llT a'a,v, L771ff!.fl7t',.f all wore ont: .1n'r1'e11 ,the pm her on de reafe To .fee hate' .the FUUII' 0111. She weigh Iwo 1107Zr'l'ffIiflFE7l p01111', If was zwo-len hfjforeg So .vhej11.r'fai11l righf den an' dere, She war .fo gosh darn fore. .in Papa rear ,vo 111Qf14f111mf He fouhz' have lem' de :caffg Bu! he jur' treu' righl 111 da rfreel P001- Allzznzzz, .veafe 1111 aff. R. B. G., Form 5. l35l

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Sl-',I,WYN HOl'Sl-I SCHOOL NI.MiAZlNlr. first opening and Dad fired two shots, hitting twice. The tiger was struggling on the ground when Major agony. We then went hack ahout a mile to a bun- galow to have lunch and wait for the tiger to come. When we measured him he was lil' I , and had shrunk 7 after heing killed. Nlarch 8. We set out for a place 54 miles away. lfive minutes after the heat had commenced two cubs passed hy, hut we did not shoot them. The tigress then came out of the jungle on the opposite Side ot the rix er and hopped across on the stones and gallop- cd down the hare part in front of us. Mother shot and missed, then Dad, hut missed, then my sister, who hit it in the paw and made it Viump. Dad shot again and got it right through the hack the bullet coming out of its chest and killing it instantly. We watched the elephant come across the river to have the tigress put on its hack. 'l On March l-lth we went to Bangalore, the famous military station, and to Mysore, xx here we saw the Mahara-iah's Zoo. We also saw a tiger climh a tree, some white peacocks, and a few giraffe, and visited the stahles and the State horse. In the afternoon we went to Seringapatam, scene of a famous hattle, where we saw the Mysore and lilephant gates, the suspension hridge, the spot where 'lippoo was found dying, the Tippoo palace and tomh. l,ater we left for feylon, arriving at Colomho on March 17th, where we saw the elephants hathe and do tricks, and in the gardens l got sticks of cinnamon, nutmegs, cloves, and all kinds of spices. .-Xt Nuwara lfliya we swam and at Mt. l.avinia surf hathed. Un the llnd of March we arrived at Penang where we visited the Botanical Gardens and Snake Temples. Thence to Singapore, from where we sailed to Hong Kong, docking at Kowloon. A drive round the island followed to the Peak, the top of which we reached hy rickshaw. :Xt Shanghai we saw the places homhed in the war of 1932, and then went to Kohe, -lapan, and Kyoto. .-Xtlliyoto we visited the lmperial Palace and the llc tached Palace. ilihe cherry blossoms were in full hloom here. .Xt Yokohfma it was too misty to see lfuisi San hut at Nikko we visited the 'liemples in the Xyunclsi saw the great stone lorii, and the five storey Pagoda which is solid red lacquer and 105 feet high. Here is thc sicred stahle and on it the original carving of the 'lihrce Wise Monkeys lSee no evil, Hear no ex il, Speak nou il l .-Xt Nikko also we saw the most heautiful gate in the Orient: one is supposed to sit and admire it for a whole day. We visited the hronfe hell, the two sacred lanterns, and the two drum towers. We then went through the Yomeifmon Gate into a courtyard and took off our shoes to enter l34l Rani and the head shikari fired to put him out of

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SIQIAYYN HOIQQI-I SCHOOL MAG.-XZIXE Qlitno Zintioents at the aliahal Bisplap at Portsmouth. I left I.ondon one week-end in July, 1937, to see the Naval Display at Portsmouth Dockyard. The first display which I saw was an air attack on I-l.XI.S. Coventry. This ship is heavily armed against air attack, and she is called a Floating Anti-Aircraft Battery . :Ill is quiet on board the ship, a bugle blares .-Iction Stations , and the men come tumbling up from below and man the guns, wearing gas-masks. The aeroplanes Csix in numberj that survive the barrage, bomb and machine-gun the ship. Then they proceed with all haste to return to their base, or aircraft carrier. The second display was a submarine attack on a Q-boat. The submarine suddenly rises from the bed of the ocean, and proceeds to send a party of men to the boat which it has just disabled. Suddenly along comes a seemingly harmless tramp! Her captain is on the bridgeg a few men are sitting in front of the fo'c'sle, and two men in the stern, by a deckhouse. The submarine turns upon its new prey, tires a shot across the tramp's bows, and orders her to heave to. She does so, and some of her men get into a boat, and row towards the submarine with the ship's papers. The two men in the stern rush to the deckhouse and push it over, and a six inch gun is revealed Y The first shot is a miss, but the second knocks off the periscope and the submarine is blinded. If she submerges, she cannot see to fire a torpedo. She decides to stay on the surface and iight it out. Two sailors jump to the quick-iirer on the submarine's deck. The battle rages on lboth sides firing blank shellsl when it can be seen that the submarine is beginning to list Qthis is done in the display by slowly filling one of the ballast tanks J, but the submarine's gun has started a fire in the tramp ithis is actually done alsol. However, the game is up, and the submarine slowly sinks beneath the surface. The tramp does the best she can with her tire and slowly sails away, victorious Y These were but two of the many fascinating displays I saw, but they were my fa- vourites. I saw there many famous ships that most people remember, such as the Nelson lthe largest battleship in the worldlg the Queen Elizabeth Cwhere all the German admirals came to sign the :Xrmisticelg the Iron Duke lthe flagship of -Iellicoe in the Battle of -Iutland, and other admirals J: the Indus of the Indian Navy fthe only ship in the Portsmouth Review to be painted white l, and the air-craft carrier Courageous . These, and many other ships, also, added tremendous interest. P. R. J., Form 3. Zliropital Jfisb. The principles of an aquarium are very simple. Fish breathe oxygen, which they obtain from the water, and exhale carbon dioxide. Thriving plants absorb the carbon from the carbon dioxide and liberate oxygeng this allows a high oxygen content in the water, so no running water is needed. It is best to have in the aquarium, a heater, a thermostat and a thermometer, to keep the temperature at about 75 Fahr. A dark green fungus grows on the side of the l36l