Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YE.-KR 193' t-1938 aquarium, on the sand and on the plants, this is called algae, and is caused by excess light. However, it is very good for the fish although not pretty. Plants should be planted in well washed sand, and the prepared tank Cwith water in itj should be allowed to stand for about 36 hours before the fish are put in. Scientificalfy, fish have two namesg the first is usually descriptive, and the second Latin. There are many kinds of tropical fish, which are divided into two main groups, namely egg-layers and live-bearers. With the live-bearers the eggs are hatched inside the body of the female and the young come out alive, but with the egg-layers the eggs are expelled and hatch outside. Of all tropical fish the Guppy is probably the best known, but if I were to call it Lebistes Reticulatus, you would not know what I was talking about. Ir is a live-bearer and comes from Venezuela. There is one fish that is particularly interesting, viz. the Siamese fighting fish or Betta Splendens. If two males are put together they will immediately hght to a finish. Yvhen breeding time comes on, the male blows a bubble and coaxes the female to lay her eggs into it, after the bubble nest has been filled, the female is driven off or killed. In about two days the eggs hatch and the young come out. The babies may be under the father's care for three weeks, but after twelve days they are usually ignored or eaten. Some of the fish I have in my aquarium are as follows:- Neon Tetras: they are a new fish and have a very luminous bright blue stripe on top and a red one underneath. Pristella Riddlei, Br. Guiana: Y- they are absolutely transparent, you can see all the bones. Black Mollienisia, Southern l'.S.:I colour, coal black. Of all hobbies I think the keeping and breeding of Tropical fish is probably the most interesting. c. A. xv, Form 3. Iss raquettes nurhigisnnzs. Un ancien ecrivain norvegien parle des raquettes norvegiennes. Ces raquettes sont des planches qui ont six ou huit pieds de long et trois ou quatre pouces large. Quand un homme a attache ces planches a ses pieds, il peut devancer les chiens les plus rapides ou meme le renne. Il y a des hommes si rapides qu'ils peuvent abattre avec la lance neuf rennes dans leur course. Ces raquettes, ou ski, sont extremement utiles en Norvege, ou pendant tout l'hiver une neige epaisse couvre la terre. Quand les enfants n'ont plus de trois ou quatre ans, ils essaient de surmonter les premieres difficultes, et plus tard ils voya- gent partout sur leurs raquettes longues. E. M. B., Form 5. l27l

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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

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Slil.VYYN HOUSE SCHOOI, NIAG.-XZlNla Qllbristmas in jlltlexitn. ln Mexico we had a boat made of cardboard. The people put nuts and candy into this boat. They would pull them up and down with a rope, then they would break the candy with a stick. Then all the children would run to pick up the candy. We'd do this after school. Our school was in a back yard where my Grandmother lived. :X lfrench teacher taught us there. XY:-'d draw squares there, as in arithmetic. All this was before Christmas. One Christmas my Grandfather gave me a pony: his name was Pinocchio. l often rode him at my birthday party. There is never snow in Mexico except on the high mountains. l went swimming in a pool in the open air on Christmas day. There is a beautiful park in Mexico City named Chapultepec. On Sunday mornings gentlemen riders known as Charros wearing large hats called sombreros are seen riding through the park. Often an orchestra is playing under the trees, and the Charros stop to listen to the music and to talk and laugh together while their horses prance. Many little boys in leather trousers and 'iackets like those of the Charros ride on ponies near their fathers. K. N., Form B. L.-Xge 73 The Utims Machine. lfor the second time within a year, the little schooner Toronto sounded her way carefully through the numerous reefs and shoals outside the large, uncharted, tropical island off the coast of South America. Two months ago they had sailed between the same dangerous reefs, with the Object of charting it. They had gone into the interior, and, in a small clearing in the dense jungle, they had found the Time Machine. They had not then known its purposeg and Skipper Aloe Uwens, the old salt who owned the Toronto , had produced a battered old kodak and taken two or three photo- graphs of the machine. These photographs he had shown to the Royal Society in London. None of these distinguishshed scientists had ever seen a machine that even slightly resembled it. Thus it was that Skipper Owens, as he navigated the reefs for the second time, carried as pas- sengers, two eminent scientists, Professor Stillger and Professor London. This time they had a little diHiculty in locating the Machine but after Houndering through the lusuriant vegetation for about twenty minutes, they saw the sun glinting on it, some distance away. The two scientists dashed up to it, followed by that part of the crew that had not stayed on the ship. There was a large covered platform beneath the main part of the machine with a huge leyer in the centre, and two or three low benches around. The men were cooling ofl l29l