Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1955, p. 18

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meal; on the second afternoon a showmg of a variety of ideas for entertaining, also guides for quantity cookery for church suppers and other catering for crowds. Our nutritionists have found that a great many women want to know more about how to make salads, so we have added a course in "Salads" with demonstrations of side salads, salad bowls, whole meal salads and salad ac- companiments. Another new course is "Sand- wiches for All Occasions", from the school A Home Crofts Workshop conducted by Mrs. Isabel leslie at Slroud. Photo taken at one of the ten meetings at Edenuest Institute's study-discussion group on "Parenthood in o Free Nation." Miss Irene McBride. Psychologist, Women's Institute Branch, is acting as Supervising Leader, Eden- crest, Bluckstock and Vundort Institutes sponsored this study proiect lust loll. BELOW: Home Crafts was a popular course at the Winter Short Courses hetd ot Macdonuld Institute in January. The instructors. Miss Audrey Spencer at the Women‘s Institute Branch and Mr. Gordon Cooling oI Mucdunold Institute are here helping the students creole individual designs for needlepoint. Needlepoint and original designs tor it are featured in the Women's Institute Needlecraft Course. lunch-box to the fancy party sandwi something about hot sandwiches and t wich that makes a whole meal "Your Food and Your Figure" is still able and still popular after a run of 5 years. And we still have the courses in food preservation»â€""Canning Ontario’s Foomi. and “Make the Most of Your Home Freezer" Be, cause so many women are continually lemming from their own enpei'ience, new and ilmmj ways of using their home freezer, tht discussion adds a great deal to the intu the course. As there is no individual instructioi‘ be given in these courses, there is no limit ‘ [17,; number you may have in a class, as ‘ ' you have a class room large enough to modate them. If you are having a Food; you have something to offer to every _ in the community. CllY “th he Hand. mail. E‘x'ei‘al ‘ “pen Wet of ; in ‘tllir -lt|'.\‘e ‘llitl’l Clothing and Textiles When a woman has the responsibility t l in. ing clothing for herself and her tam and other textiles for her home, she feel. “1-,: and more the need of knowing somethiii. ung the new fabrics in readytoâ€"wear clothe llil goods and household “linens”. We he. 1M courses dealing with this problem. “CI 2n and Using Fabrics", dealing With the n. kn ishes, fibres and blends, and "Hot. ‘Linens’ "â€"a course showing why some it t; pillow cases, towels and other househn nx. tiles wear out quickly while Others I Eur years. Women like to be well dressed, with on that are attractive and right for the u my. on which they are worn. The course w.» thing To Wear“ offers suggestions f0" Ini- ning a satisfactory wardrobe and (1" styles. colors and accessories beconiine individual and suited to her needs. Par . . appeal of this course is that every woms Iv.- to feel that she knows how to choose e lll'.‘ to suit her own personality. “Fix and Fit” is a course in alle; Members bring to the class dresses 0; r-1 garments that don‘t look right or feel .lii and the teacher tries to show how to wit the faults. Demonstrations are given 0: t ing techniques such as setting in a zipt‘ ‘vi doing hems. Anyone who has ever b0l‘i- V! made‘a dress and then found that it if just right in some way will appreci; 'Ii' value of this course. There are four courses featuring the ‘ldl t e a c h i n g of sewing: One course “Lingerie”. Each class member makes it llii‘zhtgown, bed jacket or pyjamas. The ‘ {‘0 is recommended for beginners as well lot experienced sewers. Another course 111 “Children’s Clothing" and each member. I * a garment for either a boy or a girl. lit?- course could be the means of saving a r ' V" money for a mother of young children 1‘1” some Institutes with only a few ‘ “‘3 mothers in their membership have made; PL" cial canvass of the community an‘itltr I“ HOME AND coumRY

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