The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Hampton Institute recently honored four ‘of its members with life memberships. A paint of interest in the meeting was that the cake made especially for the tea following the presentation had the life members names lettered in the icing. ’ C ‘ At the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition, Women's Institutes of the district had an Institute booth where they gave out Informa- tion about the organization and its work and put on a variety of demonstrations, Members of Conmee Institute made a variety of pan~ cakesâ€"standard pancakes and such variations as graham flour. French, Scotch, graham wafer. apple. carrot, corn and buckwheat. Visitors were given samples and recipes. West Fort William and Stanley branches demonstrat- ed block printing: East Fort William, knitting and woolcraft. On Women‘s Day a pot luck luncheon was served to over fifty women, representatives of Women's Institutes of the area. Judges and women directors of the fair WCFC gUCSlS. o u t Lumbton Mills has presented a life mem- bership with pin and bar to Mrs. Fred Mercer, who has “served the Institute faithfully and ef« ficicntly for forty-six years and is still active." Q t . Mrs. J. Beach sends this report of an interesting meeting: "A program that will not soon be forgotten by either p or the audience of about one hundrv; . , was a joint effort of Rockley am} ;.I,,d;”;] Institutes. To start the evening Ho, ,7 vided a humorous recitation, then L» play “Hen Peck Holler Gossip.“ “1 _. that a Women’s Institute meeting f conducted the way Hen Peck Holt Circle conducted theirs. Costumes around 1910, added to the hilarity, provided a lively, thoughtâ€"prowl. n » discussion on whether the youth 01 ‘ ‘ better or worse than those in year The opinion seemed to be that then I and bad in every period. A post, m, of Hudson Institute summed up the of the evening as follows: “We if good lunch of coffee and cake. how those Institute women can bakt‘ $ t it A short time ago Combermere It: i: i: a course in Needlecraft. Recently ls Economics Branch instructor whr course had a letter enclosing an o , large quantity of supplies that cm - e, obtained nearer home, such as or ml embroidery cottons. The letter said: formed a ‘Crewel Club’ and we at a great rate at our crewel war at eleven, taking our lunch and v four." (We suppose they don‘t r we often than once a week. Ed.) Here and There With the Instii {9 Notes From Secretaries’ Reports Again we have gathered from the Secretarier’ Reports Meetings. ideas that we think may carry suggestions or inspiration from one In- stitute to others. Became this is our purpose rather than to give publicity to any branch, it may happen that rome of the lnstimler having flll' hurt programs are not mentioncrlfilhcir topics are already well known and many other branches on- studying rlu' some things, such as Making ll’illt. United Nations. Flower Ar- rmtyt'menn. Or in their Community lntererlr they may he doing the finer! sort of work .rm‘lt m sponsoring girls 4-H Homemaking Clubs or baby clinic: or community sociolr or film show- ings, or providing first aid kits for schools or .romc'lltlttt: for the local horplml or communilv centre. But there projects are so well knowh that they do not carry a new idea and it would be useless to list all the Institutes involved. Even when we try to avoid repetition it does get into the report and this makes tirerome reading, for which we apologize. Still. we hope 32 these notes may have something of everyone. The reports are not all reviewed ht will be dealt with in the next issue Suggestions for Programs Alphabetically, Algoma Centre’s ‘v entorus branch report was the first mend having a local lawyer speak and SucceSsion Duties. Several other reported this as one of their most ‘ 4 program features. Dayton considers their program I of the breast and uterus, with films - bers of the Cancer Society in alter answer questions from the audienct the most important programs of the a result of this meeting, arrangemt '15 made for members, in groups of six. r ‘ the district’s cancer clinic for check-Li Massey brought in a special SP“ Citizenship and at this meeting the rca‘ b .‘.x HOME AND c‘ 1M“