Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1953, p. 13

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is Grace Hamilton, RiN” in. flutter in Health demonslroles in ‘ivc0urse "Hints for the Home Nurse." stitute would provide tea and coffee Personal telephone calls are found to be very effective. and when Bogarttown had difficulty in getting members through a general announcement, a committee was appointed to give personal invitations. The result was most successful. For years White Lake Institute felt that the district was too sparsely settled to muster up enough women to take a course: then they decided they were missing something so they went to work and had an attendance of thirty-six at a two-day Foods course, Everyone appreciates what the local leaders of Girls‘ Homemaking Clubs are doing to promote homemakng education for rural girls. Appreciation is also due the Institutes that sponsor clubs and support the leader, as, for example, in providing funds to cover expenses incident to her work, such as the cost of materials for a demonstration on “Meat in the Menu." (Sometimes the club members meet these expenses but this plan is not ale ways desirable.) Many branches supply at tractive luncheons for club inen'ibers’ Achieveâ€" ment. Days. Where there is no county grant some Institutes provide club pins. In certain districts Institutes have helped a lot by proâ€" viding tranSportation to Achievement Days Miss Lilly Pelly, home economist for Northern Ontario consults with a Garden Club member in her broccoli patch vâ€" near Hearst. Members ol Chisholm lnslilule, Parry Sound with (hair slip covers made a course conducted by Miss Jeanne Armour at the loll. for both lenders and i‘lUl) Iiicniliers. And ShillinEton in South C(Il‘lll‘éli'lC [4an so for as to pay [or taXIs to bring girls from “1011' homes to club meetings that have in hi- held Il‘l lZlH‘ evening; 11 1'54 8 hrnad and practical extension servo-c that the Women's Institute Brunch offers in ruml homcmakcrs. It is (a fine piece of liuismt Work that the lot-Lil Instilulc does to act this service to the women in 11> circa. A class in Dressmaking, Carpenter lnslilulc with a few members from Barnhorl and Rainy River Centre. A! the lap cl picture one member marks onolher's skirt hum.

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