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It Was Vulgar to do Anything Wall on the soles of your child‘s feet to prevent that child from getting Diph- theria? You wouldn’t, but possibly your great grandmother did. Reviewing the customs of a hundred years ago and comparing them With those of today, Mrs. Una Abrahamson. Editor- Publicist. General Foods Ltd., delighted a group of seven hundred women with amusing accounts of such often used remedies. at a Provincial Conference for Women in the Royal York Hotel. “The favourite word of women in the eighteenth century was, 'gentility’. Ladies were supposed to cultivate their minds by looking at lovely pictures and reading uplifting literature. It was considered vulgar to do anything really well,“ said Mrs. Abrahamson. Mrs. Lilah Lymburner. Chairman. Women‘s Advisory Committee. Ontario Departmem of Economics and Development, chaired the Con- ference. The theme was Women â€" Past and Future. Mrs. Lita Rose Betcherman, Director Women’s Bureau, Ontario Department of La- bour. spoke on Womenâ€" At Work. Mrs. Betehermau said. “If a married woman went to work in the 1800‘s, it was thought that her husband couldn‘t support her. It was consider. ed respectable. though, for an unmarried fe» male to run a millinery shop or to be a dress- maker. The invention of the typewriter got women into office work. where their usual uni- form was a white shirt waist and a long black skirt. WOULD YOU PUT HORSE RADISH The shortage of Workers in World Vt it I brought women into the work force, hut in .m have not yet achieved the right of equal m for equal work. Today in Ontario 60‘}? l M married women work." The Honourable Judy LaMarsh, Sec: .H of State spoke of Women in the Prott- .m and Politics. Miss LaMarsh told the I M that in 1961 only 3% of the lawyers in C. .L: were women and 7% of the doctors and .Lu these percentages have increased ver} tic since 1961', that there have been less tl d dozen women in the Federal Parliament ‘0 in the Cabinet. eight women Senators. .1; there are now five women Indian chiefs. r~ teen hundred women in Municipal p\' t‘ eight women ambassadors and one u. .n federal judge, “It is not the oppositi: a} men but the apathy of women that ha 7.: women out of politics," said Miss LaMar. The Honourable Stanley J. Randall, .’ ter. Ontario Department of Economic 11 Development opened an afternoon scssio: tr introduced Mr, Fred Davis. television PL ality. Mr. Davis chaired a panel consisti I Mr. Randall. Mrs. Abrahamson. Mrs. Be man. and Miss LaMarsh. Each panel m .r made :1 "Forecast for the Future“; and an r- ed questions directed to them from th- I- dience. * t * Only the ignorant man becomes angry The wise man understands. Indian W’isd * 'k * Members of the Glen Charming Chefs 4 H Cl 7 i , » ub held a t ' home of Mrs. C. Rosebrugh on the East River Road. Fr Fury mm 0 Holland; Heather Sharp, Scotland; Margaret Wheeler Wilma Wilbrink, England; Penny Walker, Hungary; I 22 “foreign flair" last week at the cm left, Donna Sharp, France; Kathy Stratiord, India,- Mrs. Rosebrugh as Sir John A. Mundanaldi Mary Besler, China.- Junis Shelton, Italy. HOME AND COUN‘HY