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their Institute group. At each of their meetings they have a competition, Some which sound like fun were â€"~ hats trimmed with vegetables, the longest list of words from the letters in Women’s Institute, some “I made it I Wear it", article. “Garden on a Plate", Individual Salads. drawing a face on a balloon, and “A button- hole to be worn by member". This one got me until I found a picture in their magazine showing someone pinning a “buttonhole” on another oneawe could call it a boutonniere or a corsage. I receive their Home and Country magazine which, although devoted to reporting Institute work, carries paid advertising. Reading through their copies I find they have the same problems as we do here in Canada. They, too, wonder why they are losing Institutes, and how they can get their young folks interested. They asked if a committee of research could be set up to inquire into what really interests the members, not what the head office thinks should interest them. They also advise, “Do not make members who will never see forty again, feel they are old has-beens, by turning too hopefully to youth." Then resolutions! Our F.W.I.O. Board would know just how these ladies felt when Lady Dyer said in January, “No doubt I should handle you with care, but there are 145 resolu- tions and I know you will stand rough treat- ment. If ever evidence were needed that we are the most alive body of people in the coun- try, keeping watch on every aspect of our national life, particularly as it affects the own try dwellers, though occasionally wandering outside this realm for the general good, here it is,” Only thirteen of their resolutions survived. 30 As a county proiect the Women's Institute; at Huron, at their Count, Rally presented to the County Children‘s Aid So ciety a cheque to- $590.30, as the lint Huron County Women) Institute Bursary to het- turther the education of N word of the Children Aid. This is to he an an nual proiecl. Left to rig‘r in the picture: Mr. Jno. C Bury, Treasurer Children Aid; Mrs. J. MOELEar Mrs. H. Harris, Mrs. C Popp, District Presidents r: South, East and We: Huron Women's Institute. Mrs. A. Clarke, Treasure: Huron County Women‘ Institute Rally. Two of them were: that school holiday rearranged to give more summer opporu for family holidays, and that to this 61 1 four term school year should be consid , that “the Women’s Institute deplores . prevalence of physical violence in films ,1 television and pledges itself to do all it power to arouse public opinion to an al ness of the detrimental effect on children i young people.” . . . Again doesn‘t that s like us in Canada! I find in reading through the report Institutes’ doings that the English Institute. much more interested in art, drama and n1 than we. Many branches have choirs, cl: groups and in some counties even orchest- Some of these orchestras comprise only lat, They have competitions for play-writing seem to love to act, even to make their . costumes. One of their great interests is flowers flower shows. Many groups stage their t small show and then they all seem to e in the large flower shows such as the 0m Shrewsbury. In their exhibit they use :3 iv ticular theme, such as Mary Webb‘s Pram Bane, an arrangement of coloured rural mti rials introducing cowslip bells. Another picting a painting “My Old Dutch" contain tulips, roses, iris, blue and white cornflmi and peonies. Each month there is a competition held I all members in the county. Some of the Sn 7 jects were: Road Safety, Anti-Noise Campal'g‘ An English National Costume, Something I“ or useful you found on your holidays. Tl' Winning answer to the last one I think \u could use here. It was the suggestion tit-5- wherever souvenir picture cards are sold _=i HOME AND COUNTP. Y