Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YF.-XR 1944-1945 ROAST TURKEY I-IENEVER I see a FULISI turkey, it makes me think of pleasant things. I always associate it with Christmas. It reminds me of the delightful smell which issues forth when it is brought in, steaming hot. I would not like to be the carver, for I would be greatly tempted to give myself the first and largest portion. The taste is even better than the smell, and with cranberry sauce it is superb. Sometimes I wonder about the turkey's life and I like to make up stories about it. It might have lived on a farm on the St. Lawrence River. One day, perhaps, a horse noticed that this large fowl did nothing and got well fed and he began to get very jealous. But soon Christmas time came around and he had to take a huge load to the station. In the load was the turkey, but he was dead. The horse had learned a lesson l The crate containing the turkey was put in the freight car of the only train that passed the little station. In the same car was a dog, who, smelling some meat, succeeded in chewing to pieces the string which was tied round the crate, much to the annoyance of the man who unloaded the freight. Soon the turkey was hung up in a butcher's shop and a lucky customer bought it. Then it was roasted and put on a plate. But as I reach this point I remember that this is only a story, and as I know the present I have to look to the future. Perhaps the farmer will imagine a headless, featherless turkey chasing him around the farm. Perhaps the horse will dream that he is a turkey about to be killed, and perhaps the butcher will dream that all the turkeys he ever sold have suddenly fallen on top of him and he is about to be smothered! Stories of roasting always bring to mind Iilia's magnificent essay on Roast Pig. ' If the reader wants a treat he might read this instead of my attempt I - T. P., Form 3. TO A S KYLAR K Ilfho zzrl 111011, O .VOIIVIUIIK 011e?. Tha! high zzhoee fhix Jan' and tcrmlv worhz' Pzzfwzfcxvf lhri' rozuzte in Fi'67'fIl.flfl1g .fun g .ind .fimpfe ax lh01z he rzrl hZ!ZADf7ft'7'hflll' Then 111011, whom pmre and Jflfiffvl' feel' yhml. lVh0 ar! fh0Il, O happy 0716? Tha! .fingexf on fhvv lofty rozzvh 071 high, -Ind 5C'07'71,Jf the farlh from where zz!! frozzhlfxv come, Though other hirds do fougregale i11j70ck,v, Thou fain wouhfsf pass fhine happy ffarvf zzhme. lVh0 arf fhou, O hfiitjnf 0716? Thy rzzdiam .VO71g hmmx over af! the Jana' ,- .lzzd peopfe loifing in fhe JIHIZNIF7' .mn Look up amz' say, Behold the .fk'X'f!l7'k lhfre lVhi!ef0r ahora lhou Jizzgltl fhgv happy Jong. J. D. R., Form -I. I 291

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SFLWYN HUUSI-I SCHOUI. MAG.-XZINI-f Niancoxiir. lRight wingj. Very promising for his age. Went hard both ways and centred well. Poirxito. IU-15. ll.eft YYingl. A very useful player for his size. Skated fast and had a deceptive shot. Checked very pluckily. Bovev. tCcntrcl. .-X very good stick-handler with a fair turn of speed, and a very hard worker. XVhen his shooting improves he will be invaluable. .-Xivkias. fRigIit wingi. A good skater who shows plenty of promise. Could back check more consistently and should practise taking passes. Homiias. lI,eft wingl. .-X very plucky and hardworking little player who was very useful to the team. lnclined to pass blindly, and should practise shooting on every possible UCCHSIUIT. F. G. P. PC DST WA R GERMANY successful future for all of us is the world's hope. We are all keenly on the lookout for opportunities that the peace should bring us. Our great worry is how to subdue the Germans, and to make their people revert to Christian and civilized ideas. Dr. Goebells said : It is not the :Xmerican Secretary of Finance nor the Under- Secretary of Foreign Affairs in Great Britain that will decide the law by which the German people will live and breathe g we will not tolerate that they will make C1 potato Held out of the Reich or a hell out of our country . But they ruined the poor peasants' potato fields in occupied countries, and ate the potatoes themselves without thinking of all the starving people. YYhat about the torture and hell they made for our military and civilian prisoners of war, including women and children F liven though they are now getting a little tasteoftheirown medicine, we will never stoop to using torture andother mean actions as they have done in the occupied countries. After the war is over there will be much guerilla fighting in Germany by the men who, when boys of nine or ten years of age, were taught that Hitler was infallible, that the Germans were on the just side of the war, and other similar fanatical ideas. The Allies will have to superintend the rebuilding of houses, factories and churches, but above all, special tutors and professors should re-educate the children who have been fanatically taught. lt is hard to believe that the Germans, who were so cultured and produced wonder- ful mcn such as the musicians Schubert, Shumann, Wagner and Beethoven, the poet Got-theg Koch, who discovered the tubercle and cholera bacillus, and Roentgen who in- vented X-rays, could stoop to low mean warfare, and make slaves of free people. J. D., liorm 3. l38l

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SIQLWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE MUSIC think the modern trend for jazz and 'boogie-woogie, is very interesting. In the olden days, if a conductor stepped up to the band-stand and announced that his band was going to play 'Pistol packin' hIama', he probably would have been taken out and put in the pound, and for a while would have been the laughing stock of the town I Again, if a modern 'hep-cat' conductor suddenly switched from the 'Trolley Song' to Beethoven or some other classical composer, the audience would very likely get up and ask for their money back. I do not wish to be critical, but I think the American people are largely responsible for the trend towards jazz music. ' Some of the modern tunes, it must be admitted, are very funny, especially 'hlairzy lJoates', but some of the Gilbert and Sullivan's operas are very hilarious. As music changes, dances must change with it, and people, who fifty years ago would have gone out to ball-room or folk dances, now spend their evening jitterbugging or watching a Hoor-show. Qf course, new kinds of music have led to new kinds of instruments, mostly com- plicated mechanical alliairs. They are usually a combination of several instruments. Most common, are the ones in which the player uses his hands for a piano, his right foot for a bass drum, and his left foot for a triangle. These instruments are sometimes called a 'one man band', and are seen quite fre- quently in modern dance orchestras. :Ks new instruments come in, many old ones die out. The most noticeable one that has become obsolete, I think, is the harp, which is hardly ever seen in either jan or classical bands. It has been said that music soothes the savage breast, but to my mind, some of the present day music would only make the listener more savage! .-X. O. .-X., Form -I. AN ADVENTURE IN DREAMI..-XND NIJ. day I thought I would like to go to dreamland, so I sat back in my chair and went to sleep. Suddenly I woke up and found myself in a small train, and I was surprised to had myself very small I Soon the train came to a stop and the con- ductor passed through my car shouting, Dreamland . I thought this might prove in- teresting so I climbed out on to the platform where I saw the Queen and Knave of Hearts. Hello, lXIr. Smith , said the Queen. XVe have been expecting you. XVon't you come to our palace for a few days P Of course I said Yes , and I was whisked off in a carriage driven by the two and three of Hearts. After a ten minute ride we came to a beautiful palace where the Queen and I descended from the carriage and walked in the door. .-Xfter she had shown me around the palace and introduced me to the King, she said, Come into the kitchen g I would like you to have some of my fresh tarts. They are right there on the -- - f . Goodness, they are gone again, probably taken by the Knave . NYith this she pressed a button and a few seconds later four soldiers came run- ning in with swords in hand. XYhat is it, Your Majesty F l30l