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Here and There With the Institute; ITH movies, radio and television provid- Wing more and more ready-made enter- tainment, it is good to find so many Womens Institutes making a place for the talent in the local community. Many branc‘hesnreport variety concerts on their “family night , With men, women and children taking part in the programme. At Mildmay’s family night the women gave a Variety show of musical num- bers sung in costume, a sketch of Pauline Johnson’s life and poetry, a dance by five girls and a humorous one-act play “Rumours Wanted". Blue Lake and Auburn put on a show “Shooting Stars", impersonating well-known radio artists and commentators: both men and women took part in this. Gadshill Institute and Farm Forum co-operate in a regular film showing in the local school. On special occa- sions they add a home talent concert. Hickson presented two skits, “The Public School Curriculum" on education and “A Strange Malady" on citizenship. Many Institutes find bus trips 3 most satis- factory sort of entertainment. Coleridge Union, with a few members from Campania, Shelburne and the Girls' Club, report an interesting trip to Peterborough where they saw the lift locks and other points of interest, and visited several manufacturing plants. South Simcoe Institutes announce a week's bus trip to Washington in May. Avening Institute put on a beautiful pag- eant, “Canada Calls,” which had been per formed for the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada by the Vaudreuilâ€"Dorian Institute of Quebec at the biennial meeting last year. The play was written and directed by Mrs. L. A. Wyse, and the script was loaned to Mrs. Coleridge Union lnstitute’s Dramatic Club can of Institute members, 1 l8 clues and cast in the play heir husbands and young pe W. G. Carruthers of Avening who ,i, the Avening group. The theme of the is what women can do for Canada characters are Canada, Justice, Fan1 Education, Art, Music, Motherhood, craft, Business Women, Professional ' Youth, New Canadian, Industrial W01 Cross, Homemaker. This is an excel} eant and worthy of wider use. It has - printed, but perhaps copies could be for a small fee from Mrs. Wyse. Thi is Mrs. L, A. Wyse, Box 195, Dorion-V Que. _w|__. Richard’s Landing Institute, famou. verting the local jail into a library so. ago, has been improving the librar ever since. Now they are raising maintain a Children’s Library, a ram, venture in a rural community. Limehouse has provided a library community. Addresses and discussions on Citize- popular on Institute programmes. t. in Simcoe County organized a mEt invited all the Institutes of the distrjt a speaker on “The Universal Decla Human Rights“. The convener ser. United Nations’ headquarters at Oi posters and photo spreads, the flap United Nations and the United Natl and the whole programme was so i another women‘s organization in a J ing town arranged a similar meeti Creek Institute in Waterloo had é. “Neonlighting the Declaration of Rights”, written by their president Falls reports a study of the Declai Human Rights. “Superstitions Sadie." ople of the community. HOME AND ('3‘ M'Igeam This club is i - rec-ml