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

O ESTABLISH THE fact that women are pErSODS, Judge Emily Murphy and four other women from Alberta staged ' it ten-year fight. This fight started when Judge 3' Murphy. then the first president of the Fed‘ erated Women’s Institutes of Canada, inspired a unanimous resolution from that organization requesting the Canadian government to ap- point a woman to the Senate. The premier at that time, Mr. Arthur Meighen. replied to the " i request that such an appointment for a woman rf’was impossible under the British North =£ fflAmerica Act. In the next few years several 1‘47 such requests were made. “if” The British North America Act said that the Governor General shall from time to time summon qualified "persons" to become mem- bers of the Senate. The women. then, must . establish the fact that women are persons. One of the women who supported Emily ,1" Murphy in her courageous fight was Nellie 1‘" McClung. knmvn as the author of Canada's first best selling book. Sewing Seeds in Danny. _.7_ published in 1908. Nellie McClung was born lti‘ at Chatsworth. Ontario. ,5, The story of these five women is told in a “ chapter of a very interesting book. The Clear Spirit. with the subtitle. Twenty Canadian V Women and Their Times. edited by Mary a" Quayle Innes. and published for the Canadian W... Federation of University Women. Of special ;- interest to the members of the Women‘s In- stitutes is the story of Adelaide Hunter Hood- ;“ less. founder of the Women's Institutes. This story was written by Ruth Howes. presently RI" assistant editor of the Federated News. the '7" "Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada pubâ€" ”..t: _ Iication. if; * it it \Vouidn't this old world be better U- if the folks we meet would say, I know something good about you, .I“ and then treat us just that way. 1;; Wouldn't it be fine and dandy if each handclasp warm and true 7 i Carried with it this assurance, I know something good about you. fig, - \Vouldn‘t things here be more pleasant ‘ ' if the good that's in us all é" Were the only thing about us that folks bothered to recall. ‘ " Wouldn‘t life be lots more happy if we'd praise the good we see. For there's such a lot of goodness . in the worst of you and me. ‘ I Wouldn't it be nice to practice ‘9 this fine way of thinking too: , ‘. You know something good about met l 75', I know something good about you. i . . Anon. 1 1k * * 1‘ lsummm 1967' n, Women are Persons Some other Canadian women. the account of whose lives makes this book fascrnating reading, are Mazo de La Roche. the author of the Jalna stories: Pauline Johnson, the Indian poetess. Cora Hind. who was born in Toronto. moved to Manitoba as a child. to become an expert in agriculture in the Western provinces: L. M. Montgomery. writer of the Anne books; Agnes McPhaiI, the doughty woman who paved a thorny path for women as parliamentarians; Emily Carr. the famous painter from British Columbia. If any criticism is to be offered of this very fine book, it could be said only that. in it. there are two stories written in French. This seems but a token gesture toward bilingualism. People who read French only. will find pleasâ€" ure in just two of the stories. while those who do not read French are not able to enjoy two of the stories. These are the accounts of the lives of Marie Guyart de l‘lnCarnation and Laure Conan. Mother Marie de [Incarnation became the founder of the Ursuline Sisters in New France: Laure Conan was one at the first French Canadian women journalists. These are inspiring stories written by coni- petent. well known authors. The lives of these twenty women were hard but they were inâ€" spired by a determination to accomplish a purpose and to meet a need. That the accom- plishment of that purpose has improved living conditions for women and paved the way for other women. is obvious as the stories are read. The Clear Spirit (University of Toronto Press 56.00). Members of Alvinsion Women's Institute erect street signs as their Centennicif Project. left to right â€" Mrs. John Walker, Mrs. Robert Tnit, Mrs. Ari Yost, Mrs. lelond Povey. 19