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Extension Services â€"â€" Rural Women’s * University And How the Local Institute Helps the Extension Services of the Ontario Women‘s Institute Branch offered the rural homemaker every training that a city woman could get at a technical school. With the cultural subjects that have been added in the last few years. our extension serwces toâ€" day give the rural woman something in the nature of a University education. And the Department and the local Institute both have a part in bringing this education to the people. a. FEW YEARS AGO it could be said that The curriculum is pretty well known to Institute women. It includes Food and Nutri- tion. Clothing and Textiles. Home Crafts. Home Furnishings, Health Education. Psyr chology for the Homemaker, Citizenship and Cultural Activities, and Women's Institute Proceduresâ€"how to conduct meetings, how to be a good officer. an effective speakerâ€" in general how to be a good club woman. Then there is a fairly broad course of study for Girl‘s Homemaking Clubs in Food, Cloths ing. House Furnishings, Hospitality, Gardening and Citizenship-â€"Citizenship being the theme of the club unit "The Club Girl Stands On Guard." While the Women’s Institute Branch with its staff of nearly forty field workers carries the responsibility of keeping its extension services on a high standard of usefulness and interest, these services. however good they may be. count for nothing until they reach the rural homemaker. This is where the local Institute meets the need, advertising the ser- vice, reaching out to bring to the classes every possible woman who might benefit from them. Incidentally, some Institutes have to be reâ€" minded that the services of the Institute Branch are not for Institute members only but for all rural women. And how the De- partment does appreciate it when the local Institute women go out into the highways and the byways and across the railroad tracks and bring in the “underprivileged” women, and the busy young mothers, the women just arrived from another country and women from groups other than the Institute! Sometimes this organization work is done amazmgly well. A teacher of Home Craft tells of setting out for a course at Rocklyn in Grey County. It was raining hard and the ,fog was so heavy that she had to get out of thercar to look for the the church that was to be her land mark at a corner. When she arrived at Rocklyn a class of seventy-five women, representing seven Instituti- waiting for her! And they had hroucl‘ them a great array of articles for « and study â€" beautiful old quilts, cover} i rugs, christening robes, hair wreai other family treasures. (The same recalls a course in a city on a bcaui with only twelve women out.) Elm held an evening class in a rural schii teacher had difficulty finding the plaii darkâ€"she thinks there’s a lot to ho “the lighted school house"â€"but Il'll‘ titty-two Women there. At the Sail extension workers have been known 1 at the meeting place and find the ClUOl‘ .. Occasionally an Institute has {Oi-goth .iiw the course until the instructor arrivi Am incredible as it may seem. one teaci tell' of having tcn women come to a class one of them except the secretary km the subject was to be. A presideni applying in July for a course in 4 iiiliiii Everyone was enthusiastic and the e; -:»:‘ was good. When the day came for ll? iii»- l'ialf the Women stayed at home 1 ‘lldi' pickles. And, said the president, “TI' 5 ‘- pickle you can‘t leave for a day." Such things are exceptions to the r T Health instructor reports a course at l illit- ville in North Leeds where the Inst '7 -.: ficers met her at the bus and tow '-i‘~. women took the course although eii: "ll! about the maximum for a (lE‘l‘llIIII course of this type. This teacher 'i luv pressed, too. when she arrived at Col‘ East Northumberland and found a i fifteen women waiting with all the en ready including flowers because it .. “there should be flowers in a sick will” Our extension staff, and the Institi.‘ M are anxious that young mothers with :it if homemaking responsibilities should 'i r 11‘: benefit of whatever homemaking ins IZ‘llllll there is to offer. The problem is wh 0 ii about the children while the mother 'tll‘i the course. Sometimes the mothers bi ; iii» children with them. At a course on Cl! Il'e’ll: Clothing at Purple Grove in South drum there were fourteen young mothers :~i ‘ 01‘" grandmother. The fourteen mothei lied thirtytwo children. They couldn'y 113"" th‘h-"W-two children at the class so thi older Women of the community took care of lien In a Home Craft Workshop Class thci We“ two sisters. There is a choice of cral:< and HOME AND COUNT"