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The Museum At Your Service By Ella N. Martin Senior Lecturer Royal Ontario Museum “The Record of Nature Through Countless Agesâ€"The Arts of Man Through All the Years." These two statements on either Slde of the front door of the Royal Ontario Museum express in brief what you: Museum contains. We invite you to visit it. If you are coming as a group would you please let us know three weeks in advance of your visit. Write to the Registrar, D1v151on of Education, Royal Ontario Museum. Come any day of the week except Monday when the MuSeum is closed. Tell us how many of you there will be, when you expect to arrive at the Museum, and what you would like to see. We shall be happy to meet you and show you some of the Museum’s collections- The Royal Ontario Museum belongs to the people of the Province of Ontario. OUtSidE London, England, it is the largest Museum in the British Commonwealth of Nations. What in its 84 rooms. or galleries, would you like to see with a Museum lecturer? Here are a few suggestions. The Egyptians who were among the first farmers in the world’s history, preserved their dead and buried them with their belongings for the materialistic life of the next world in which they believed Their pottery, stone vases and statues, jewellery, bronze weapons, clothes and many other household things tell us the story of their daily life in ancient times. These you may see in the Museum. The Chinese galleriES house one of the world’s best museum collections. If you like lovely dishes and silk and jade you will enjoy seeing some of the best of their kind made by the people who gave the world the finest and best of all “China” ware. Many of you will like the ladies’ dresses worn in the Eighteenth Century, and the clothes of the men who at this time were as interested in their costume as ladies are. In the next gallery you will see a dress worn in Ottawa by Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, when she visited Canada in 1939. Since we live in Ontario, we will be inter- ested in the model made by Mr. J. McN. McCrea. illustrating how the pioneers in Ontario provided themselves with shelter food. and built up communities; and the early Ontario textiles, spinning wheel and loom on the second floor, give us a lifeâ€"size glimpse ' of cloth in early Ontario, The. assembling of this material is a Museum proiect in which we should like to interest all Women’s Institute members. The first Canadians" were the North Ameri- can Indians who lived in many parts of this country; they adapted their mode of life to their envu‘onment and made skilful use of 16 ' publicized the Institute during the par the resources provided by Nam-,1 Th9 animals on which they depended an m bé found on the top floor in the ZDDluuv gar 1eries; while the skeletons of those fan mm and strange creatures, the dinosaurs, wt .1 My; out of existence 60 million years agly 3m, " the second floor. And now for a suggestion to those m lit-p too far away from Toronto to make , day», visit. Every January and Februai; gm,» members of the Museum‘s Division to Emma, tion visit the schools in two of the fai illslam areas of the province. This means tin pm, fourth or fifth year a Museum lectui « is in your district with a box of museum “Milena; These dayâ€"time school visits may be r hing: with an evening visit to one of your : r mm; meetings if you so wish. Here is u. ii W might do. If you live in either of e 11!: areas to be visited, the Women’s lw»l|lu1i; Branch, will notify you in December {1 you receive such a notice and would to: ; “museum lecture" please write imnwliziiely to the Division of Education, Royal Museum; all arrangements for such ., i-iure must be made before the lecturers i u: or, their travels early in January; once ' I ha: started on our travels it is too late to :nnge to meet you. To those of you who live within 1 of Toronto may we say we shall be to see you here; to those who live be) distance, some year we will be comi- , way. 0F. :itarii JiiilES Masai 1‘ the your More Roll Calls Perhaps these roll calls, added to w 03 our last issue, may offer suggestions u" *1 YOU plan your next year’s programme: “ii i‘ “'5 231‘. “Things my mother taught me,” “A gm" be“ to read,” “What I should do if I were ‘ 2m): one again,” “A beautiful thought in ! 11‘."- “An old school verse,” “An exchange 0! iU'l‘S‘l‘ mas gifts, not to cost more than lWG‘ 45"? CEnts,” “A New Year resolution," “A . iflEIl: ing hint,” “Do’s and don’ts of traffic “WS- “Sing, say or pay," “Something I I-zrned from my grandmother," “Somethin; :JOQd about the person on my left," "How i - 330$“ pone old age,” “A Canadian Song a; :1 its author,” “An educational radio progl‘a'llme' "Why I should make a will,” “One step I C3“ make toward world peace.” One brain-h had children as guests and they answered the r01i call with a nursery rhyme. A timely 1"5'1 “31' rePOTtEd by one Institute was “SomethingI read about ACWW,” HOME AND coUNIRY filni-.i. A .- :‘ amm‘