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games to play. They also have a beauty shop. A survey showed that older sales employees have as good a performance as young people and at the age of forty-six they are better. Older people will be trained for jobs within the next few years. The report recommended that the convener of Citizenship and Education make a study of ageing in Senior citizens and report to their branches. Survey of Farm Homes and Homemakers By Miss Helen McKercher Miss McKercher reviewed the effort of Home 'Economics Extension Service in the survey of Farm Homes and Homemakers, conducted under the direction of Dr. Helen Abel]. The results of the survey are not yet completely tabulated but when they are ready they will be available to Women's Institutes. Part of the information Miss McKercher gave at the Board meeting was repeated in her address at the Officers’ Conference and will be found in the conference report in this issue. F.W.I.C. Report By Mrs. R. J. Penney New horizons are opening up for the F.W.I.C. Since the Biennial last July some projects have come to fruition and others set in motion. The national convention and the maintenance of the national office have given dimension and impetus to the organization that have resulted in an lip- surge of interest not only among members of the Women‘s Institute but also in governmental de- partments and the public. The Adelaide Hoodless Home is now the property of F.W.l.C. It is planned to be furnished in keeping with the period in which Mrs. Hood- less lived. Mrs. Rand, past president F.W.I.C. and her committee are prepared to meet with the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board to present the request for perpetual maintenance. The National Convention will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, com- mencing June 20, 1961, About 70 delegates would be eligible to go from Ontario. Convention fee is $10; living expenses $3 per day. There will be * i * OBSERVATION Elizabeth-Ellen Long On wings of gossamer goes the fly. The hop-toad wears a jeweled eye, Lizards are carved from greenest jade, The serpent’s back is rich brocade, In veils of lace the spider hides And fish have sequinâ€"patterned sides, The monse‘s coat is velvet-soft, Twin rainbows lift the moth aloft, The beetle's shell is ruby glass, The snail trails silver through the grass, The caterpillar has gold bars And glow-worms shine like little stars, For howsoever small or low They are, or in what paths they go, You'll find but few live things abroad Without some beauty-mark of God! *r** accommodation for 800 people and visitora nil] be welcome. ‘ Progress was reported in the establishnunt of branches in the far north. Mrs. W. E, Remple, converter of ymd Nations, was sent as a delegate to the U1»: 30-, mission held in the Caribbean April 1644 con. nection with the UNESCO Gift Coupon pm number 400. Mrs. Remple has returned an; has given several talks on this plan in Ontario ‘ ~ her- way back to her home in Saskatchewan in. Nancy Adams was selected to attend the :i-mc House Conference on Children and Youth . the invitation of the Canadian Welfare CollnL‘i! it, Penney suggested the findings from llli fl, ference could Very well be a basis of stir mi Women's Institute meetings on Home Eco 45 and Health. It will fit into the prop05ed rm ,.f the F.W.I.C. project “Eat to Live." Mrs. Gordon MacPhatter, F.W.I.C. cit M of Home Economics and Health, asks I it. operation of all branches in answering a qr .q. naire which she will send out as part - he nutrition study “Eat to Live." Mrs. McLean, F.W.I.C. convener of c ship has attended committee meetings on ‘ iii of F.W.I.C. for the Canadian Centennial ll m7 and asks that members everywhere be it he of ways and means to commemorate the o in by our organization. A note to Branches: Have you sent yoi .ih- scription to Federated News? Selected quilt blocks from the Twec inir competition have been photographed in Ct ,ctl slides. Suggestions have been received that p in be mimeographed. The A.C.W.W. project, Pennies for Fl'lL' tin. needs support. The Jubilee Guilds of Newfoundland t .h their president, Mrs. George Clarke, St. :'\'. asks for copies of annual programs of Bi ‘ies and hopes in this way to establish Fri: ip Links. The Grenfell Medical Mission asks for .in rayon material for making rugs and mm “is nylon stockings have not worked out to ll. Donations of material from branches ll he sent to Room 27, 48 Sparks St, Ottawa» Mrs. James Haggerty, as first vice-pl- Iii! F.W.I.C. spoke on several items contained he report. One was the UNESCO Gift Coupm. an Number 400. This project was brought 6 the Board at the annual meeting but becaUSc “EC need for funds for the World Refugee Yt- 1W project was held over. Now that this print IS completed Mrs. Haggerty asks for CO'OPClâ€"lli in the Gift Coupon project, This is an adult -. a- tion program in aid of the Extra-Mural l). .rt- merit of the University of the West Indies ‘ “'59 program will greatly assist the work of Val women's groups in that area. Mrs. HM :Hl’ asked that a free will offering to this PFDJL‘ of $1 or more per branch be forwarded to F.“ l-O- office in Toronto. _ Mrs- Llftnburner endorsed this project <“Hit! It was also a way of helping the interâ€"racial .nu- tlon. She spoke of an incident which she witni N 3! 0.A.C. during the meeting. A large numlm of HOME AND COUNTRY