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the curator, Mrs. Douglas McKibbon. Repre- sentatives of other Institutes attended . . . It was our first venture in raising money for maintaining our history book and proved very successful." 0 o 0 Living Springs presented a sewing machine to the Community Hospital Auxiliary, raising the money mostly through euchre parties, penny sales and an "Apron Bank:! This apron is passed around at each meeting and members put contributions in the pocket. The amounts asked for may be “A cent for each door in your house", “Twice the size of your shoeS” and so on. This year the Institute gave individual jars of jam or jelly to residents of the County Home and a set of dishes to a member who had had a fire in her home. 0 I 0 Mrs. G. Hughes reports that Gilford Insti- tute had a successful Hobby Show. A com- mittee got in touch with families in the area and from regidents within a twoâ€"mile radius three hundred articles were entered in the exhibition. These included wood carving, On her eightieth birthday, Mrs. Herb Alkins (centre) was honored for her titty-nine years of active service in the Women's Institutes of North Parry Sound. At right is Mrs. Alkins' daughter, Merle. At the left, Mrs. C. E. Yeates. Provincial Board Member, presents Mrs. Alkins with roses and the Knick-Knock Cupboard shown in the background. Mrs. Alkins has held office in the Women's Institute as Branch Secretary, District Secretary, District President. Area Secretory, Area Chairman and Provincial Board Member. In her presentation address Mrs. Yeates said that her motto seems to be "1000 friends are too law and one enemy is too many." candles, models of boat novelties, Li 4_H Homemaking Club display, oil painting-g done by local residents, needlework and quills, The Institute had a display of letters and pictures from their “adopted” boy in Horig lama. Tea was served in a room especially . grated with flowers and streamers in gay 5pm 70mm 0 O I Sunnidale Corners has just pl'l - led a Life Membership in the Women’s it mg 10 Mrs. Edgar Carruthers; an active mi 7." and sometimes officer for the past l» WQVEI] years. I nstttute Learns About Icei. rl Editor’s Note: Many Women’s In; -: are bringing a broader knowledge of flu '3 m their members by getting local rc: g or visitors from other countries to tell M their homeland. One very happy instance 1i; is reported by Mountain Union Insn'nr i: mi address on Iceland. Space allows for only the following excerpts from a j- wing and comprehensive description of ii i this country. ICELAND HAS been called the I at of I the Atlantic. In days gone by Ill was obliged to paSs this way then for made his acquaintance. Now the de'. :1an of modern science and recent incid' out: altered the situation. The Hermit is 1 ago isolated and unknoWn. Iceland has be- come the principal stoppingoff pin the North Atlantic. Next to Britain, it ir. .irg- est island in Europe with an area :~ Hill) sq. miles and a coast line of 3.700 m. The northern points of the country almost ‘. the Arctic Circle. In the north, the mid. sun may be seen during mid-summer, :1 NSC touches the horizon for a brief men and then is back once more bright in "lil- And even in the south of Iceland, i W}: read at midnight during the brightcsI 1 or the summer by the light of the midni- Eun- The beauty of the summer evenings n2 1'19 whole countryside simply glow in rad. col- ors of reds and yellows. I found it 3 l0 keep track of time and to get to ‘ ‘ ID broad daylight, with birds singing aa- tight long, for Iceland is a veritable sancti fOT birds. But even as the summer day . .‘nEv so is the winter night long. In many 1! “TOW valley, the sun disappears from view I'- dais or even weeks in the depth of win. al- though it is no darker than if it we FE“ petually behind a cloud. In the southern P3“ of the Island, the sun is only visible about threa hours a day during the period oi short- est sunlight. HOME AND COUNTRY