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P"' _ 'v'.“".': a.“ '_"\7" e _ T u: agat - C. 5lltEe ' " ‘ S i. Q - . ' V .n l _ ! \ r a y l _ tN- . _ ' a. _ . l a... ' T l H l _1eg "FOltENVO1tiy' I am so glad to hear that the Womcn's Institutes of Ontario are going to compile village history books. Es Cuts move very fast nowadays: houses are pulled down, new roads are made, and ill? aspect of the, countryside changes eompletelv sometimes in a short time. It is at most useful and satisfying task for Womcrfs Institute members to sec that nothing valuable is lost or forgotten, and women should be on the. alert 'vdways to guard the traditions of their homes, and to $00 that water colour Sketches and prints, poems and prose legends should find their way into these books, Ihe oldest people in the village will tell us fascinating stories of what they remember, which the Younger members CUH write down, thus making a bridge between them and events which happened before they were boru. After all, it' is the historv of humanity which is continually Interesting to us, and your village histories will be the basis of accurate facts much valued bv historians of the future. I am proud to think that you have culled them _ . "The 'l'weedsmuir Village Histories“. --Writuu, bs Lady Tweedsnuis,