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may have a budding Grandma Moses in your midst. And all you handicrafters! You can really go to town on "Contents of a hope chest. Perhaps you can combine this with your local Fair and District Women‘s Institute exhibits. Some of you will perhaps prefer to plan your activities along other lines # Literature. UNESCO, Adult Education and Drama. Good luck to you in all your ventures. And A Letter From Norway ANY Institute women in Ontario are M corresponding with “letter friends" in other parts of the world. especially since the A.C.W.W. conference met here. Just how interesting a letter from a woman in an- other country can be is shown in a letter to Miss Lewis from Mrs. S. Giessing of Lorn, Norway, from which we quote below. This letter may also suggest things and ways in our country that faraway women would like to hear about. Mrs. Giessing writes: “After a long journey via Boston and New York to Gottenburg, Sweden, I have finally ar- rived home on our farm, Kvamme in Lorn. Lorn is a mountain village in the heart of Southern Norway, surrounded by the highest mountains in the c0untry. The highest peak, ‘Gallhopiggen’ is only a few miles away. There is a majestic grandeur in nature here This year it has been especially beautiful with snow on the mountain tops. green foliage around us, and sun shining every day from a crystal blue sky. The spring work was done quickly. Although the tractor has found its way even to these isolated places, it is not always possible to make use of it. In many placzes it is so steep that the oldefashioned way is still the only solution The horse is absolutely necessary to the mountain farmer. The potatoes are set, and the grain sown, mostly barley for animal consumption. (The letter was written in early summer.) For household use We import flour from Canada. but during the war We also cutivated wheat and rye. During the fine Weather the animals are allowed to graze in the fields. but as summer approaches the cows. sheep and goats are sent to the mountains, where there are large areas of rich grass. Mest of the farms in this region hava a stable and little cottage in the mountains, for use during the summer. Now we have cars everywhere, which collect the milk every day and deliver it to the dairyâ€"but before the roads were built the people on these ‘seters' made cheese and butter, which required both skill and diligence. _ When the outside work is temporarily fin- ished the housewife likes to employ this time In cleaning the house and making it cozy. All 54 PLEASE, don‘t forget to send in your rpmm at the end of the year. ~ If any of you can spare a snap of any of your outstanding Cultural Activities ['d 1),, very glad to receive them with parihrular‘; and permission to reprint if suitable, Let us make Cultural Activities a my D, life in 1956 and it will stay with us to |‘,, ,Einer‘ our lives and the lives of those around q, in, years to come. the winter clothes are aired and 1m my, in chests and closets. Airy, white curt hung up. Doors and windows can i clay and night. Flowers from the fit gathered and placed in vases and jU It. nights are so light and beautiful it w. scarcely likes to spend time in sleepin .‘ii . light evenings are favourable for g. _ great deal of work done in the garcl. Ts.- vegetable garden has to be weeded at .3”, though there is not much time, we fill I :1. most a necessity to have a flower garrl Tilt rock garden is our favourite, where my; always planting new types that we find . tth mountain trips, when However, the most important thui in: mountain farm is getting water to th HM: and gardens. This is done mostly by ‘ art of pipes and Sprayers. Lorn is one of N a)” driest places, so it is necessary to bat om! kind of a watering system. There are IllL‘l ous mountain brooks, which are uni up]; fed by the glaciers and from these thi ‘EllEl' is conducted to the chosen spots. Tin viicsl sprayers which swing automatically, rlmr out cascades of water, have to be move van three hours, day and night. It is not so long ago that we got ‘I‘ll'lt' power here in the valley. In 1942 t’ finI power lines were set up. Gradually In time.- have made their appearance on the m- ‘ltdlll farms. Running water and milking TH 3min have been an enormous help in the bat ':\'t‘tl if the building itself is old and imp: not Tractors can be rented. This year we to- ing out a new chemical against weed I It»? potato and grain fields. Modern improvements have made a - . (lit ference in the house. The most EDP! '“I'i‘l conveniences are no doubt the washii. mi" chine and refrigerator. The Electric ‘5 ".61: more or less common now. A thermos‘i i iron is also an improvement, espectally if " ‘ h‘l’ a practical ironing board, which can 19‘ down from a cupboard in the W311- Summer is a pleasant time. Winter 15: will-i other problems for us. The climate :1. thl" neighborhood of these snow-covered 110"“; tains is very severe, and we have many HWY” Which often cause damage to the powei lines thereby suddenly cutting us off for ><’\'91‘3l days, This is almost a catastrophe in home‘ HOME AND couNT“