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* t * True love is but a humble. low-born thing, And hath its food served up in earthen ware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand. Through thl: every-dame” of this work- day World. â€"James Russell Lowell SERVICE There are strange \says of serving God; You sweep a mom or turn a sod, And suddenly. to your surprise. You hear the whirr of seraphim, And find you're under God's own eyes And building palaces for Him. â€"Hcrman Hagedorn * * * Gowanstown sponsored a “Better Reading Quiz" for the children from grades three to eight in the five schools of the district. The children were required to read two prescribed boaks over the school term from fall till spring; then the quiz was held at a public meeting where the schools provided musical entertainment and an interested audience fillâ€" ed the hall. Books were presented to all the children taking part in the quiz. When the institutes of York County joined the York Pioneer and Historical Society in their annual joint picnic this year, the insti~ tute women staged a series of tableaux of pioneer life. Mrs. R. H. Neil of Thornhill ar- ranged and directed the tableaux. The back- ground of the outdoor stage setting was an imitation of hewn log walls painted on card- board, with a pioneer living room where women in dresses with long full skirts, aprons. kerehiefs and caps for the older ones, went about their household work. West York women demonstrated preparing food using the equipment of the early days. A farmer showed how shingles were split and tapered; another used a "neck yoke" to carry heavy buckets. The Sharon Junior Farmers demon- strated a popular recreation of pioneer times in square dancing to a fiddle and a “caller- off." An amusing feature of New Flos Institute’s “grandmothers” meeting" was a contest with every woman wearing something to represent a song. The report says: “They turned out wearing everything from silver slippers and old gray bonnets to apple leaves and heads of rye. The motto was "Be kind to the aged for they have come a long way. Help the young for they haw: a long way to go"; the roll call "Something my grandmother made to eat.” Other features of the program were an amusing talk on the topic "Life Fifty Years 50 Ago," the reading of a poem “Loneliness the singing of “The Long Long Trail.“ ‘- Wooler Institute had the original id.. ,. presenting a plaque to a local doctor, 1:! David McMullen, on his seventieth bir ', “in appreciation of service to the common. The presentation was made at a banqu.- .. it is to be noted that there were eight .-r,,. doctors at the head table, one of them Q? McMullen‘s daughter . . . This lnstitui, reports presenting a life membership it j_ W. McColl who has been an active my -. since the branch was organized lift- years ago. At the meeting when the p. tation was made the minutes were reau meeting held at Mrs. MeColl’s home 11-. At that meeting “music was played H victrola.” East Pearson and Pardee Institute in 1 ,,_ der Bay invited the community to an [.1 . party on the school grounds during th‘ mer vacation. The evening began with , game between two neighboring softball - ;-,, and continued with a program and lui the school house. Oakwood Institute held a street (la: raise funds towards building a public 11: Bus tours and other “excursions” - boat trips are popular with many Ins! -, Sometimes these outings are planned iru , cation as well as enjoyment. Campan . ,, Dufferin county arranged a bus trip in ' the General Electric Plant at Baffin from there to go to the Ontario Schii Retarded Children at Orillia where the s intendent explained something of the v. school is conducted and what is being it i: plished with the children. The trip in: a call at the home of Kenneth McNeil] :- well-known bee-keeper and author 0! il' Owl Pen" and “Up Medonte Way," dinner at Barrie on. the way home. H “H had a twoâ€"day bus trip from Prince Er -. county via Guelph where they stopped Ontario Agricultural College, to Strati‘ ': see the Shakespearean Festival play in Merchant of Venice.” They stayed 0\'- .ii’ in Stratford and came home the next ri ' way of Hamilton, calling at the Royal B cal Gardens and the Wholesale Market iii ronto. New Flos in Simcoe county arranged of historical places around Midland, \ '7 the Indian village and Huronia Museuni Port Perry reports that they have as her, Mrs. LaWSon Honey who joined 9 stitute twenty years ago and has never 1 a meeting since. At the Listowel fall fair, thirteen W: Ii Institutes entered nonâ€"competitive disp.’ a special class, “Dress Up Your Kitchen displays featured kitchen accessoriesâ€"I‘m 3 ‘7 from gadgets to a complete kitchen mru- in miniatureâ€"not more than twenty 8!- le55 then ten articles in each display. wt Institute received $10 in recognition 0: ' viding this attraction for the fair. "1 . p HOME AND counm