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South African language. A Swiss music‘box played several numbers. A German _ lady showed a display of pottery and some inter- esting articles from the Black Forest; also re- cited a poem "Sing to the Child" in German and translated it into English. A member who has lived for some years in Peru showed an Inca doll and gave a Spanish greeting. _A local schoolteacher, Miss Aminarooir, wearing the traditional Japanese kimono, showed slides of flower gardens as her contribution. Many of the visitors brought samples of special dishes of their country. The meeting closed with the singing of “O, Canada.” WI Rylstone last summer sponsored a series of Sunday night open air music concerts in the picnic grounds. The proprietor of the picnic grounds provided seats, lights and a microâ€" phone. At the opening concert of the series, the Institute president, Mrs. Wilfred Spencer, welcomed the audience and the program was introduced by the Convener of Community Activities, Mrs. D. Kerr. Mrs. Ernest Iiwin, F.W.I.O. Board Member explained the aims of the Institute in arranging the concerts. The Campbellford Citizens' Band gave a variety of classical and sacred numbers. A Pipe Band of men from several communities, and a piano- accordionist added to the program. And the report says: “Mrs. Kerr introduced one of the older and much respected citizens, Mr. Fred W. Barnum, who led the crowd in singing ‘The Church in the Wildwood’ and other wellâ€" known hymns.” BELOW: Aldershot Institute in Wentworth county has as a link Institute, Upnor and Wainscott, in England. Last year Mrs. Russell lemon, an Aldershot member, and her husband on a trip to England were entertained by one hundred Upnor and Wainscott members. Mrs. Lemon was presented with a Women's Institute brooch and a spray of red roses, and she presented her hostess Institute with a tray she had made. The Lemons are photographed here at the Upton and Wainscott handicraft stall. Of this English Institute, Mrs. Lemon says: "They have wonderful choirs, put on their own plays and pan~ tomimes and do marvellous handwork and fruit and vegetable preserving. They are near Rochester, Kent, in the middle of the Dickens country. This Christâ€" mas they sent us a lovely little brass bell to call our meetings to order. The handle is a replica of Rochester castle." In Grey County the Women’s Institutes, thr- F‘cderation of Agriculture, the Farm Forum, and the Junior Farmers and the Co-operaimxi worked together to arrange a Sunday at]... noon worship serviceâ€"a nonâ€"denominational service held, not in a church, but in a bear“. ful outdoor setting by the side of a 1ake_ Wales Institute with a special concern :_. small children and traffic accidents, took 1" initiative in establishing a children’s pi. . ground in the village. This soon becamr, community project. The wardens and rei‘ gave the use of a lot beside the Angh. Church. (The school is a mile from the Villz-r. so the school grounds did not meet the p14 lem.) One man made the sandbox and on, woodwork; another attended to the cem; bed for swings and teeters and the older In and girls helped in placing these; still anoli man welded the pipe for the frames; oth- provided the lumber. Funds for other equ ment were raised by an Institute tea and Clot tions. At Washago the Women’s Institute sugges- to the Community Centre Board that the I jail building, close to the rink, be convey: into a kitchen which the Institute could 1 to provideâ€"and sell‘refreshments at boot games and skating parties. The Institute me use of the building in this way all winter. For the last two winters Bury's Green I supplied cod liver oil capsules for the childx of the two public schools in the Institute to munity. The Institute women of Algoma and Joseph Island have interested themselves ii boy who requires expensive and prolon; treatment for a serious eye trouble â€" 1. another case of assisting a family to giw. child the medical care it needs and which even with the finest coâ€"operation of doctor" runs into an expense which the family all cannot provide. North Wentworth Institutes are doing a £1 piece of work for patients in the Tuberculo Sanitarium in the County. One of their offic visitors at the Sanitarium, Mrs. Walker Drui mond, reports: “The branches send me dor. tions of money and jam and sometimes cooki: Another member, Mrs. Torrance who i: shopped for the girls for years, goes with n She finds out the patients who come from distance or who have few visitors or who no a special boost. With the funds I buy any liti treat needed or materials to make cookies at with these or apples or flowers to 13855 arour one can start a conversation and soon becon so interested in the progress of the patient th. it is always a privilege to call.” The Hespeler Institute working with the I'- cal Kinsman’s Club carries on periodic salvas collection in the town to raise funds for WE' fare work. One of the Institute’s projects 1- sending out about one hundred Christma: cheer baskets each Christmas. The Kinsmen use their funds for Boy Scout work. Atikokan from the proceeds of a New Year dance bought a baby incubator for the hospital. HOME AND COUNTRY