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Derry West, Peel county, club wearing dresses or skirts and blouses which they made in their proieet “Callous May Be Smart". Provincial Honours as a club member and her five near leader‘s certificate which must mean that she wok several projects and acted as leader at the same ‘ me. One of her reasons for club leading is that she ..-els rural girls do not have the same opportunity as . wn girls for getting home economics at schools and : ill homemaking clubs can make up for this. An» her early beginner is Mrs. Harold Caesar. Mrs. t resar says: "I first heard of giris‘ homemaking ‘le when I attended the girls‘ conference at Guelph . vout twenty-three years ago. I was so thrilled with . 3 idea that my enthusiasm spread to the other :mbers of the Women’s Institute so that we sponâ€" ned a club and I was the first leader. I was a rmer’s daughter ang at home and it gave me an portunity to become acquainted with girls I would i have known otherwise. for our members came rm four school sections. We enjoyed fixing up our ,irooms and clothes closets and we learned many w dishes to serve our families. Now I have two t-nage daughters and I want them to participate in . . the homemaking clubs have to offer.“ Mrs. J. D. Hossack who has given several years to .ding clubs, recalls the “spade work" necessary to nvince her Women's Institute that it would be a Gd idea to start a homemaking club for girls. 3 reports: “We talked and talked and when we ’ get started we had enough girls for three clubs read of one. Then we had to talk some more i get leaders enough and some assistants. But how it a paid off over the years! When I see the lovely. . il-fed, well-clothed, happy children these girls I ‘ve and what wellâ€"managed, happy homes they i die, I just swell with some sort of inner joy.“ Mrs. Lloyd Jewell says she leads hon-remaking ~ tbs because she knows from experience how much . .'irl starting out in a home of her own needs the 1 ining these clubs offer. She managed to take six ii 15 after she was married before she reached the " ‘. limit, twentyâ€"six. Another of her reasons for l ding clubs is that, in addition to teaching the t" is. she learns something from each new project I“ it helps her in her own homemaking. Mrs. Delmar \ inner expresses the same idea. Clubs were not i 3 well spread over the province when she was a t J so she took only a few unit's before she reached Ur age limit. “So.” she says, “when i was given ‘3 Privilege of being a leader I knew how valuable 1h: clubs were. I could not receive any more certifi‘ cues but I could go on learning.“ Mrs. G. Nixon says: “I might say I have been a Club leader from a sense of duty, as I have two d“Ughters who have enjoyed club work. They had WINTER 1960 good leaders to help them so I felt it was only fair that I should do my part for the girls in the com- munity when I could.” Mrs. H. Kellam says: “A woman must like and enjoy working with ’teenage girls or she wouldn‘t be leading a club. Another attraction of the work is that the training courses are excellent and they keep a leader up to date with new ideas.“ And we have this note from Mrs. Mary Billings: “I like girls. am interested in all their activi- ties and it is a challenge to me to help as many girls as I can. Miss Petty. our District Home Economist kindled this flame of interest away hack in 1935. I was Very young then." Mrs. Richard Hill says: “My personal interest has been in short courses and girls' work since I attended a short course in 1929. I feel that if we can interest girls in the years twelve to sixteen. they can accom~ plish a great deal before their High School studies get so heavy." Mrs. Hill appreciates the way the club programme has been developed over the years and of the evidence of this in record books. displays, demonstrations and skits on Achievement Days. Mrs. Betty Clubine says: “I think one of the main reasons I am a Homemaking Club leader is that I know from experience how much the projects helped me when I started to keep house myself. Also I don't think a leader ever leaves a training school without gaining much knowledge herself." Mrs. Marilyn Smith ex- presses the same idea, adding that she feels. in being a leader, she may pay back something of the benefits she received as a member. and that if the girls get out of their club work only half of what she did in hers. it will be worthwhile. Mrs. Agnes Foster has completed leading her six- teenth project. She says: “Club work. to me, is not work but a real joy. When I was the age of a club girl there was no homemaking club within reach. I had five brothers in boys” clubs and I helped to hand pick grain. sorted show potatoes. helped in experimental plots and knew how to groom animals for showing. And how often I wished I were a boy! My turn came years later when I volunteered to lead a club in our community. My own daughters were only two. four and six years old but there were seventeen other girls in the neighborhood waiting for something like this. So I myself took each project along with the girls. Why do I keep on? I like young people: I like to teach; and I like to watch girls grow in skills, in knowledge, in poise and in the art of working with others.“ Mrs. Jean Mathers says that she volunteered to be a leader in order to take the club projects hersetf_ 21