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county raised $3300. A planned canvass of rural Elgin in the early summer brought in $4500. Letters to former Elgin citizens and to a special list of men and women In St. Thomas resulted in donations of several thousandS. Because the I.O.D.E. is interested in preservâ€" ing local history their coâ€"operation was enâ€" listed. Mrs. Futcherâ€"who by the way had been elected Chairman of the museum commit- tee â€" spoke to each of the seven I.O.D.E. chapters in St. Thomas and they made a canvass of the city that brought in appromâ€" mately $4000. Because the museum building is so old it required a lot of renovation. Fortunately it provides space for an apartment so that the curator can live in. There is also space for a small tea room. The apartment, the tea room and the lavatories had to be modernized and the whole place reâ€"decorated; and because the cost of this work is so high the women decided to do a great deal of it themselves. For some time they held weekly bees, paperâ€" ing, painting and doing odd jobs themselves. As an example of what this means to the budget, Mrs. Futcher explains that in a room where the plaster had broken away it would have cost $170 to re-plaster it. The women, using gyptex, "plastered" it themselves at a cost of $7.60. Plans for the maintenance of the museum have been laid soundly. The County Council last fall accepted ownership of the building, making it eligible for a grant of $600 a year from the Department of Education. The County Council and the City Council will each give a grant of $500 a year. The Women’s Institute branches of the county have each pledged a token amount of $10 to $25 yearly until the museum no longer needs their help. This will add about $400 to the budget. And there will be some income from the admittance charge of 25 cents to adult visitors. To keep the museum before the people of the county, Mrs. Futcher has a weekly column of “Museum News” in the St. Thomas Times- Journal. Here, she says, she can keep the public informed of both developments and needs, and often she can report some item or story of local history. When the museum is opened no doubt this column will be an efiec- tive means of attracting visitors, Note: The Elgin County Pioneer Museum was formerly opened on April 6. A full page spread in the St, Thomas Times-Journal shows pictures of the attractive stone-faced building â€"once a spacious, gracious home of colonial design; a fireplace, which had been removed .from a home built in 1857 with its accompany- ing cooking equipment; a melodeon imported 22 from England in 1819; and views of the “med- cal room” with a local doctor explaining 1,1,]. “monaural,” forerunner of the SlEthOSt'ope a the same doctor demonstrating the use “f the mortar and pestle once used in filling pr: scriptions. On another page is a picum- of th: museum tearoom, special project m NO”; Yarmouth Institute, and a recognition of the work of their president, Mrs. J. Gowzm Young The editor pays a special tribute ac. Mr; Futcher “who first broached the subtrth setting up such a museum to the wmm-S Institutes of the c0unty nearly thii Wars ago, and whose vision and dynamic leadershm have seen the big task through.” TI. 9d,“), also says: “Together with accepting m re. sponsibility as chairman Mrs. Ful<‘='- r has been among the foremOSt in the hard. t mum] work which has been a joint cfforl i Mam. energetic, devoted people.” ' THE COLLECT CORRECTEE. IT has been discovered that when th_ Mary Stewart Collect” was printed year go in the Hand Book of the Federated .{m Institutes of Ontario the paragraphs and six were misplaced. Naturally the <. v has been repeated whenever the Coll“ ‘ was copied from the Hand Book. At the F.W.I.C. Conference at Edmn. nil in 1939, the late Mrs. Alfred Watt, M}. ex- plained that Mary Stewart who m the prayer in 1904, had later visited at Mr .Iau's home in England. Being concerned bout errors in versions of the Collect th‘ were being circulated, Miss Stewart had Mr: 'ati’s artist son make a copy under her aw i ilper- vision. The title she gave it was Co!- I. for Club Women. Mrs. Haggerty thought E: 'Otlld be well to publish the correct version Home and Country. It is as follows: COLLECT FOR CLUB WOMEI‘I Keep us 0 Lord from pettiness; lain. is be large in thought, in word and do»- Let us be done with fault finding an 'em off self seeking; May we put away all pretence air meet each other face to face, without PM and without prejudice; May we never be hasty in judgme. and alWays generous; Let us take time for all things: nuke U5 grow calm, serene, gentle; Teach us to put into action our bet“: ‘ im» pulses straight forward and unafi‘aeii. Grant that we may realize that it is the little things that create difierencw. that in the big things of life we are one And may we strive to touch and km” the great human heart common to us all, and O Lord God let us not forget to be kind- HOME AND COUNTRV