Danforth Technical School - Tech Tatler Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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26 ': vi fi:-' 'F' 'MU' 'F' ': YJ :fl ,W 'f' 'r' ': i':' :J JJ' '- w -y 'es -S. vt-, ws sf. w vs ws vs - -' --N vt V. -. 'i-. ' Q Zimpressiuns of a Rugby ciEame N, ' 7BgJlmailQick t F476 QM, ,L fr? 1 M ifffwv ev ffm 1 .21 lfzfr 1 .ff DEAR SILAS, I'm asettin' pretty in town these days and since I have nothing to do I'll Write to you. I want to tell you about a game I saw yesterday 5 I kinda thought that mebbe we might get some of the boys to play it, ifI told you how it was done. First off we arrived at a big place like the grandstand at our spring fair only it was almost a round stand and didn't have a roof. uBleachers, they called it. Mebbe the women put their clothes out there to bleach on Mondays. Gosh Sakesl what a washin' l The big field what they called a campuss looked like Paw's old pasture to me, and purty soon it looked natural when the team came prancin' out. All dressed up in Sing-Sing sweaters, they was. My Sakes Alive,Silas, but those fellows sure were queer lookin' guys l Just imagine stufhn' them old sweaters full of pillows to make themselves look like big brawny butter and egg men l And way down the pasture at each end were two high poles with across bar near the top. Hurdles, they was l The idea of the game was to see which side could jump over that hurdle oftenest. I know that's right for my college cousin George told me it was when I asked him. Somebody says There are the Empires. I thought an Empire was something that Great Britain had. I was wrong. Empires are men when they wear white sweaters. Then some policeman blew his whistle and the teams began to play. First they made a mud pie right in the middle of the field and set the ball on it. Then they lined up and Sakes Alive if I didn't think they were going to play Nuts in the May! Then they let the fellow that had borrowed first chance kick the ball and they all ran. Only, instead of all going after the ball they pulled each other down and let one fellow catch it. Playin' favourites I thought. They just let that guy ketch every single ball. Then one side got an idea and they all got in a circle and whispered and the other players couldn't hear. Silas l You'd a died l They all stooped down an' a boy what had the ball begins to ramble off a lot of numbers - 36 - 5- 47 '- 62 l Wouldn't you think that a fellow that got to College could count better'n that ? Then they began to get mad, and a fellow in my Cousin Georgels College team took the ball and banged right into a pile of other fellows. They tried to take the ball away from him and sat down on top of him till they was all piled up. He just wouldn't let them have it. Then a man comes up and makes them get off but the fellow with the ball won't get up. He was peeved, I guess. And gee! it was funny--just then two little boys whose father

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TECH TATLER 25 oznzoozc 02002020ozsozoozoozoozaozuzoozoozo ozuzuzoozoozoozo 300 0:0 Q 0:5 , 0 Qtecbnical ann art I. QIIIUQ .. any as. si. mein ,Eg 3 5. 0.0 ozoorbozoozqozoozo ofa 0:4020 0:0020 szoozuzoozo ozoozuzo 'Q stuff uzooroozo HE invitation for this contri- bution asked for something in the way of counsel or advice for the students of the Art classes. This seemed to me to be a bold thing to set out to do with little or no provocation, so after a struggle with it I asked for further instructions and was told I could vary it as I pleased. I regard the Technical School as a wonderful modern privilege for the vocational student or worker. As a condensing medium of ex- perience it works miracles, even in its minor details of occasional teaching it seems to give results. I had no such advantages in my young days, but I think I had some practical compensations which it may be interesting to compare. Born on a farm just being cleared, I had the good fortune to have a father of great resources, in fact, he was regarded as a jack-0f-all- trades. I, being the third son, was generally assigned as his helper, and I can remember learning to build stone work between intervals of mixing and supplying the mortar. The building of the new house came when I was sixteen years of age, and I worked with the carpenters and plasterers, andI did all the painting and glazing. I can recall the laying out of the house site: how about noon the shadows of stakes along the road fence running north and south fell in line with the fence, and a similar line of stakes were set to throw similar shadows at the house site some distance away, thus giving a parallel line. Then there was the squaring and levelling for placing the house. I can recall also how in laying stone the levelling, and pinning of courses was done and the choice of stones made to keep a well balanced face to the wall. There was a great deal of hard work to be done in such a life. As to my artistic career,I remember that at the age of eleven I wanted to be an artist, and in spare time, often by candlelight, I was drawing and painting. Much of this was copying wood engravings line for line and much inspiration was received through English magazines received through a friendly book- seller. Then came the time when I Wanted to go to the Art School which had been established in Toronto. Although not dis- couraged in this, I was induced to take an apprenticeship with a local architect, as this seemed to be a more practical occupation than that of an artist. My experience was a pleasant enough one as I threw myself at once into it to study the orders, and learn perspective. It was Art, and lots of drawing. A short time after arrangements were made by which I could go to Toronto and attend the Art School in the evenings, and work in the daytime. From 1883 to 1885 Iwas able to study in the Academy in Philadelphia. In 1889 I was back in Paris for ayear of study. For want of space this record must close. The rest is perhaps the record of the artist career-not without self-denial for advantage gained, and much hard work. The voyages for foreign travel and study had the usual hardships an Art student accepts cheerfully, and all as part of the Great Adventuref '

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TECH TATLER 27 must have owned the pasture ran out on the field with a pail looking for their cow--and instead all they could find was this boy lying there. And now I know something that you must never tell a breathin' soul. City folks water their milkl I know, for when them boys couldn't find their cow they emptied the water from the pail all over that boy l They fooled around a bit after that, pushin' and shoven each other something ridiculous, and came down near the hurdles. I thought that now was their chance to try to jump them, but they didn,t even try. They shoved the ball over one of those white lines in between the posts and then all the people in the stands stood up and hollered like mad. I was mad too. Just too lazy they was to jump l And honest, Silas, they had three crazy men there. They yelled through big horns at the folks and told them what to say, and they must have been dangerous for all them folks did what they said and were scared to go near them I guess. An' every little while when they was yellin' they'd take fits and jump in the air, an' wave their arms an' stand on their headsl Iwas glad that I wasn't too close to them, I tell you l And all this time the fat man in the white sweater, the Empire, you know, was running up and down the field trying to ketch some of the players but he never could. So after a while he gets tired and blows the policeman's whistle and says the game's over. Then every- body ran out in the field to borrow the ball and we went home. So if you want to know anything more about it just Write and ask me. Your Friend, IMA HICK Problems Answered Continued j7'om page I4 answer, but the words seem to stick in their throats. Finally they get up courage to answer, and we pray that the answer will be right, which it invariably is not. It makes us fellows long to defend the poor, defenceless females. What can we do to help them? WOULD-BE-KNIGHTS DEAR WOULD BE KNIGHTS : My suggestion is to advise these maidens in distress to fortify them- selves for the ordeal by taking four cups of strong coffee before entering the lion's den. Always lend them your note-books so they will be sure and have their homework done. Hoping to hear the results of my advice. Ever your helper, CONNIE UNDRUM DEAR Miss CONNIE UNDRUM : I am thinking of getting a Baby Austin to drive to school in. Do you know of any place where I could park it ? A.W. DEAR A.W. Yes. There is a locker vacant cc ,, on C Hoor. Yours helpfully, CONNIE UNDRUM DEAR Miss CONNIE UNDRUM : What can I do ? I have innum- erable freckles on the bridge of my nose. I' ve never seen anyone with as many freckles as I have. DOT. DEAR Do'r Console yourself. You have not seen Agnes Whitcombe yet. Yours sincerely, CONNIE UNDRUM