Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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24 THE ASHBURIAN ON GARDENS. Mr. Pecksniff Bacon has given us an essay on gardens, which, even if it really contains no moral, gives the general impression that he was trying to get over a little uplift. Of my experiences you at least may feel safe that there is no sermon in them. Of course, gardens are no novelty to me and I know that the one never failing piece of flattery is to remark how very early, when the proud amateur gardener shows off his Spring flowers. I say, never failing, but it did fail once when I applied the formula to some onions which had precociously gone to seed. I have even given advice to my father when I knew that I had the excuse of study to counter any suggestion of practical assistance. I have, however, now a garden of my own, and, things are growing in it. I have decided that any artificiality is to be avoided and that such arduous tasks as digging and weeding may be neglected, and that the forces of Nature can be encouraged by sitting in a deck chair directing a hose hither and thither (which also keeps the dog, too big to be controlled otherwise, at bay) . I did, however, plant a five cent package of Nasturtiums from the famous Kresworths. For weeks I have tended them, giving them a nightly drink from a cream jug, as I have no watering-can. I was laughed to scorn ; I was told that the seeds were no good ; that I had planted too early and that the frost had killed the seedlings if they had ever started to grow. But they have come up ! Of course, base-minded people have suggested that they are weeds, and I have no means of contradicting them, as, although I was once a student of Botany and could lecture you on the distinguishing characteristics of the Scrophulariaceae, the Amaryllidaceae, and the Cucurbitaceae, on the floral formula of the Companulaceae, on the spectra of alpha- chlorophyll and beta-chlorophyll, and on the chemical formula of phloroglucinol, my knowledge has so far been of singularly little practical use, and unless I have patience to wait until the plants bloom, I will have to use Punch ' s famous method of distinguishing weeds from the rightful populace of a flower bed. Pull them up; if they grow again, they are weeds. I CHANGE BUT CANNOT DIE I wonder why everyone pauses and looks right through me? Am I beautiful or is my disguise so thin that one and all recognize my purpose — to extract the uttermost cent by my wiles? For truly I am clothed in new apparel every week. In the winter I am dressed in costly furs — in summer in the finest of silks — of hats and g-loves I have an abundance — of hose and lingerie an unlimited supply.

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THE ASHBURIAN 23 ASHBURY C. C. v. NEW EDINBURGH C. C. Played at Ashbury, April 26th. 1st Innings of New Edinburgh C. C. C. Greaves, b. Gillies 5 E. Donaldson, b. Gillies 0 T. Rankin, ct. Robinson, b. Fauquier 1 P. Brodrick, Hit Wicket, b. Smellie 1 M. Pettifor, ct. Robinson, b. Gillies 0 C. Brassington, ct. Fauquier, b. Hammond 10 F. Boucher, Not Out 14 G. Kinross, ct. Pattisson, b. Gillies 4 A. Short, b. Hammond 0 G. Clarke, b. Gillies 0 Druce, b, Hammond 0 Extras 13 Total 48 Bowling Analysis Gillies 5 wkts. for 10 runs; Fauquier 1 for 5; Smellie 1 for 9; Hammond 3 for 13. 1st Innings of Ashbury C. C. E. Beardmore, b. Clarke 3 P. Smellie, b. Greaves 4 H. Hammond, b. Brassington 17 B, Robinson, ct. Kinross, b. Clarke 0 A. Fauquier, ct. Donaldson, b. Kinross 26 E. Elwood, Run Out 10 G. Perodeau, b. Kinross 11 A. Henderson, Not Out 23 W. MacBrien, b. Kinross 5 N. Gillies, ct. Short, b. Kinross 2 Mr. Pattisson, ct. b. Donaldson 32 Extras 22 Total 155 Bowling Analysis Clarke 2 wkts for 24 runs; Greaves 1 for 24; Kinross 4 for 15; Brassington 1 for 7; Rankin 0 for 33; Donaldson 1 for 10. ASHBURY C. C. v. DEFENCE C. C. Played at Rideau, May 3rd. 1st Innings of Ashbury C. C. E. Beardmore, Run Out 7 H. Hammond, b. Edwards 0 P. Smellie, ct. Cook, b. Stevens 6 Mr. Pattisson, L.B.W. Taylor 53 A. Fauqiiier, ct. Southam, b. JEdwards 18 B. Robinson, b. Taylor 0 E. Elwood, b. Taylor 0 G. Perodeau, b. Taylor 1 A. Henderson, ct. Heatley, b. Edwards 3 J. Rowley, b. Taylor 0 Mr. Howis, Not Out 7 Extras 2 Total 97 Bowling Analysis Aldridge 0 wkts for 21 runs; Edwards 2 for 30; Taylor 5 for 32; Stevens 1 for 12. 1st Innings of Defence C. C. Edwards, ct. Beardmore, b. Fauquier 26 Heatley, ct. Elwood, b. Henderson. 12 Stevens, ct. Beardmore, b. Fauquier 2 Southam, ct. Fauquier, b. Henderson 5 Lloyd, b. Fauquier 0 King, Not Out 0 Elcock, Run Out 5 Cook, b. Mr. Howis 14 Taylor, b. Smellie 5 Aldridge, b. Mr. Howis 0 Craik, b. Smellie 8 Extras 8 Total 85 Bowling Analysis Mr. Howis 2 wkts for 24 runs, Smellie 2 for 29; Hammond 0 for 8; Fauquier 3 for 15; Henderson 2 for 3. P. B. Smellie has been elected Captain of Cricket, and E. C. Beardmore, Vice-Captain. Two school matches have been played, that against B.C.S. was won but we were beaten by St. Andrews. Two matches in Toronto have also been arranged. Reports of these four matches will be given in our next issue .

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THE ASHBURIAN 25 Rich and poor alike pause to admire my clothes, all men fear me, married men hate me and drag their fascinated wives past me, for they know that great is the temptation. My attendants are legion — my reputation of the best. I never go out at night, no one but these my attendants may touch me, nor am I as mortals who need to eat and drink. All desire to be clothed as richly as I — yet none could wear as many clothes as I — my clothes cost me nothing. In all weathers and in all seasons I am the archtemptress, and my owners make their profits out of my power to attract the Almighty Dollar yet I get no thanks for I am only a shop window. — C. W. T. SOLUTION OF ACROSTIC No. 2 Uprights. 1. We beat them both this year. 2. Many go there from here. Lights. 1. A light metal. It melts when it ' s warm. 2. Cut off the tail from a very new form. 3. A town on an island beyond our Western shores. 4. A school without any stores. 5. Without its head is this school. 6. Another new form, this time in full. L ithiu M C ommer C e C albayo G B I shops. S C hoo L S hel L ACROSTIC No. 3 A prize of a book will be given to the sender of the first correct solution received by the Editor. Uprights. Add time to the second and it lengthens our day, Which gives us more time at the first to play. Lights. . To play a game two are necessary. 2. Is related to the cassowary. 3. Its waters shall be desolate, said Isaiah. 4. In Chapter Seven of Nehemaiah. 5. You do this many times a minute. 6. In the evening you will eat it.