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ing Club benefits you as a member of other groups or in school?“ were: Learning to run meetings; improving human relations and learning to understand other people; experi- ence in cooking and sewing for future life; experience in public speaking; club expert- ence gives poise and confidence; 3. club glrl learns proper etiquette; club experience de- velops selfâ€"discipline and responsibility. The girls were asked if, and how, their club experience in 4-H Homemaking Club work had been of benefit to them in taking responsibility at home. One group reported that the proj- ects “Meat in the Menu" and other food units and the Garden Club teach meal planning, good cooking and different ways of using the same food to make meals more interesting. The Garden Club introduces new foods. The club girl who learns to mend and make her own clothes helps the family budget. Learning to be a good hostess in club work. to prepare meals. to take the responsibilities of baby sit- ting. to do things on time were some of the benefits named by one group. Another added as one of the important benefits to the family, “learning to take care of little children who may be disturbed or unable to do everything for themselves." Replying to the question “As a club mem- ber. what impression or image would you like people to have of 4-H Homemaking Clubs and club members?" one group evidently felt that the members could create a right image by being the best they can be themselves. They said “4-H Homemaking Club girls should be well dressed and well groomed, poised, friend- ly. should follow the rules of etiquette, should be able to accept responsibility and leader- ship. should be courteous and deve10p ma- turity and character. should have feminine characteristics. be good citizens and good homemakers. An Interesting Visitor An interesting visitor at the conference was Mrs. G. A. Umu Wurie. an assistant to the Minister of Social Welfare of Sierra Leone. West Africa. Mrs. Wurie was in Ontario under the auspices of F.A.O. studying methods of spreading information on nutrition and corn- ntunity development. She has been doing this type of extension work in her own country, working closely with Miss Jean Steckle of Waterloo county. a graduate of Maedonald Institute and Cornell University, now an advisor with F.A.O. Mrs. Wurie demonstrated some of her native games and music at the conference play parties. Between sessions Ontario exten- sion personnel heard something of the inter- csting and resourceful methods used in her own extension work in Africa. 20 ‘k t * APOSTROPHE TO YOUTH By Frances Davis Adams-Mont: You will not think that once this troublm: Mid Wished on the moon, roll-called the EVEIIM v Chartcd the passage of a comet hurled Through outer space. Now every cream No longer does the architecture of A blade of grass intrigue our small manl And all young lovers whisper of their in In bitter haste. The sea of life is mined. :liifx ~31" Grieve not: alone for bruised and broken Young cries of anguish scattered on El“: ~ ‘ Mourn for unfinshed dreams caught in [l‘ .47 Of war's deceit. Now is all beauty thinli. To every essence, suitable for men Who, grim past recognition, march agai= * * ‘1: Thinking Things Througl- The editor of Home and Country l sion with the girls when they disu W. ations relating to their own lives, i» still. socially and personally. We are n max ing to report their views except lt' tint their straight, clear thinking; their mt sense of moral Values and eompaa' llltll’ shrewd common sense and their ; search for the right answer to a prob mid have done credit to a group of pi minl sociologists. We feel that the voice Allf‘ig people like theseâ€"no doubt the tlllLl young men in the same families as are of much the same calibre â€" miiv‘ heard more often in their home 0 min How often do the Junior Farmers. ' Inm- en‘s Institutes, the Church organizm ill'ltl an open forum where youth can spe :1 in questions Serioust concerning youth At the Banquet _ The Hon. W. A. Stewart, Ontario t\ .t N Agriculture, speaking at the confer: 3W- quet told the girls that he hoped man in“ would find their way back to the cam ‘likn they had finished their secondary '1 “"‘- He announced that the Ontario Di mi of Agriculture is offering a Schol- ‘ $600 to an Ontario girl who has a 75‘ M‘- average in the required Grade Xlll 'W' site Written in one year and who has I “J six 4-H Homemaking Club projects. 113" partment will also give a Bursary ‘: 11W per semester for students who registe it“ degree course at Macdonald Institute : “‘1‘ completed six 4-H Homemaking Club Referring to the conference then- W Club Girl Today and Tomorrow.” an '1”? that there had been a symposium on x 1”"? a career, the Minister said that of 31‘ "C" sionai careers the greatest is making ' "H" He said: “The family is the single :1 fin" portant influence on the life and fun: fl -= child. In the definition by St. Augustin. is” ily is ‘a group of People united by 3E? “W HOME AND CI} JNlR‘l