Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL XXI.-XG.-XZINI-Q Q Erezhp Bop if f i NCF upon a time there lived a very, very greedy boy. So fat, in fact, that his a ll buttons kept coming ol'l'. Well, one day he was walking in the woods, and he saw ldgl a lot of pixies and gnomes going into a tree trunk. So he thought, whyr shouldn't I go in too, and in he went lyou see the door was quite widel. Inside a fairy he party was going on, so he sat down at the table and helped himself to the goodiesg there were all kinds ofjellies and lemon and jam tarts and chocolate eclairs and all kinds of good things. You see, fairy food does not hurt, so he ate all he wanted. And all the time he was growing fatter, and fatter, and fatter, and kept saying Don't push so much to the pixies beside him. .-Xt last he got up from the table, and you should have seen how fat he was, he was as fat as a balloon. The pixies would not let him play in the games because they said, He is too fat . So he decided to go home. When he got to the door he found he could not get out. So he asked the pixies to help him, and they came and pushed, and pushed, and pushed, and at last they managed to get him outside. But when he got out he Hew up, up, up, into the air and was never seen again. And that's the end of the greedy boy. R. W., Form .-X. 015112 Jfall nf Ethan I .w1':'ni Ihr 1111111 of Godfor 11m11y ,real-,rg I foihvifoz' flilll, 111112' ffzhozznfri 1101 i11 1-rzi11, Hr taught 1116 of fhe God he form !ll112,'ft'IZI'.f, .1'11d,hflr1i my hopehztx life tvilh hope zzgain I mu' the IllIl.i'ft'7',.f wo1z11'a1'-wo1'ki11g poicw' I11 1'zzi.fi11g .N'h1111a111'.r fimd fo Ziff 011121 111o1'f'. Hr vlzolzgm' th: .i'01'7'0iL'l.7lkQ' 'Z6,'i12l0'Zi'l.V 11'111'ke.v1 hom' To 0718 ofjo-v, 11111'f'ofi:m' hfforr. fljiffx Ill-X' hear! ieifh Jhllllllt' to fhinh lhrzf I. No hh'.v.r1'd hy fifing wilh zz 1111111 ,i'0fi71c', Cozzhi .rink .vo foie' thai fo 1zf1'ir111I' fd fit' .fmi sim! 111v1'v gohi and 1'ai111f11l lo hr 111i11r. I luzfw how lllllfll the .S1r1'ia11 v1lpmi11 had,- I did 7101 think my 111a,tff1' t',t'I' would know, B111 now, 111'v JOIlftf0l'c'l'c'7' wif! ht .flllf .15 1, fl leper, from III-Y h1'f'rh1'f'11 go .-X. C., Form 6. l26l

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FOR THIS SCHOOL YFAR 19-H-11142 Then comes the skit all concernin' the doc's lwloomin' medsins, lDick 'arris was the pashent 7, an' it made me larf' so much I thort I was going to be sick. Later we goes to the mess an' 'as some grub. Near the end of the meal 'awkius swipes 'arris's rum, then they 'as a right but the biisllli comes down an' gives 'arris back 'is rum lwats left of itl, meanwhile fair tellin' 'em orti, IVatson brings in the C'rismas puddin' an' it ain't arf bad, though not so good as the one we 'ad last year. Wel, its my trick now, so it looks as that I'll soon 'ave to be gettin' on deck. .-Xu' that is 'ow I spent my blinkin' Crismas. I,ove to the kids. I-Xll the best. Your lovin' 'usband. George. -I. IJ., Iiorm -I. .im . Svcirnre Qliluh 'I'he Science Club Ciilislsfs ol' a group of eight boys, Whose names are: 5. Klorgany A. Kingman, R. Ilullliuss, ID. Rhea, R. hliilssili, NI, Ilaubeny, G. ljousouby, and AI. A. Powell. 'Iihe club was organized in early December I9-ll. The members are interested in some branch of science. lhere are four sections: Iflectricity, Chemistry, Nledicine, and Xlechanical Ifngineering. Our equipment includes: a two hundred and ten power microscope, about seventy- iive different chemicals, two electric sets, TWH electric eye sets, a two thousand live hundred power microscope, a set of telephones, picture printing apparatus, a steam engine, a one hundred power telescope, and some electrical equipment. We also have a library ul- about t'orty-hve books on science, including a set of The Book of Knowledge and we collect copies nl' Popular Mechanics Our Laboratory is in the basement ot' Mrs. Kingman's house. We have meetings about twice a week. :Xt our meetings we perform experiments and endeavour to teach each other something about the subject in which we are interested. We are indeed thankful to Mrs. Kingman for the use of her house, and we hope some day to have a bigger and better equipped laboratory. UI. A. P., Iiorm 2. l 35 l

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FOR THE SCHOOL YE.-XR 19-ll Y 19-ll The Qrt nf Magi: Ever since earliest times the human mind has been intrigued and deceived by other people who profess to call upon occult powers to accomplish their ends. One of the first examples of this is the Druid priesthood, which evoked pagan gods, and filled their fol- lowers with awe when they accomplished apparently impossible feats. liiven today, in Africa, there are men called witch-doctors who play upon the ignorance of the others of their race to acquire wealth and power. All people have an inherent fear and suspicion of things unknown, and even in civilized races people pretend to do real magic. Foremost among these are spiritualists, but now almost all of this class have been exposed, and I do not believe that the average person takes spiritualism at all seriously. Curiously enough, conjurers have mostly been the ones to expose the mediums, as they do not consider it fair for people to impose upon the gullibility of the public without telling them that they are subjects of a deception. However, some persons still persist in believing in spiritualism, though such belief in magic is supposed to have died out a few hundred years ago, when witches were no longer credited with supernatural or evil powers. The conjurers of today are quite different from spiritualists and that class, as they openly admit that they deceive the people, but they defy the public to explain how they do it. The modern magician is essentially an entertainer, even though some shroud their work in mystery. Magicians also have to keep up with the times, as today it would look rather peculiar to see a conjurer use a snuff box in his tricks. Fvery new invention that can be adapted to deception is used by con-iurers, and so we have tricks with cigarettes and tricks involving photography, which no one would have understood a century ago. Nowadays the old conhiuring table, draped to the floor and concealing an assistant, is abolished, small spidery-looking ones taking their place which perform the same me- chanical functions, but are very much more modern. In other words, the tricks which would, in all probability, have puzzled our great-grandfathers are childishly simple to us, and if a magician of a century ago could see our modern conhiurers he would be more mystified than the present-day audience. But there are some ageless tricks which will always con- tinue to be performed, mainly because the equipment can never be dated, these tricks are usually executed solely by sleight of hand, such as the Cut Rope Restored . There are three different styles that are used in magic shows, first the mysterious, second the natural, and third the humorous. ln the mysterious style the conjurer almost always wears full dress, and his opening is spectacular, but usually no word is uttered until the first trick is completed. This creates an impression that the conjurer is a superior being, which is maintained throughout the performance. It is funny to see the slight con- tempt the audience has for the conjurer slowly vanish and a look of wonder, and possibly awe, replace it. This type of performance is only useful upon the stage, and very rarely upon the platform, and it requires an exceptionally good actor to carry off the show suc- cessfully, still leaving an impression of superiority. It is even harder to perform the silent first trick, as the audience is almost sure to Spot how the deception is performed unless it is executed fast and with great dexterity. However this type of show impresses the l27l