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Ontario Girls9 Conference W0 hundred girls, selected from the 4-H Homemaking Clubs of Ontario for the standard of their club work and their general spirit of helpfulness in their club and community, converged on the Ontario Agricultural College in July for the fourth annual Girls’ Conference. This was the first time any of them had attended 3 Girls‘ Conference, because in order to distribute the privilege as widely as possible new girls are chosen each year. As usual these girls were a very Winsome, attractive lot, eager to get everything they could from the conference and making their own contribution as they went along. In their demonstrations and discus- sions we saw how clever they were with their hands and how well their minds worked. Substituting for the President of the College, Dr MacLachlan, Dr, H. D. Branion, Head of the Nutrition Department, welcomed the girls. He told them that Canada can be proud of its homes, that the key person in the home is the mother. and that the girls of today when they go into homes of their own should be able to do an even better job than their mothers be- cause they have had more opportunities to learn about homemaking. Dr. Branion said he had no patience with people who think it is foolish to spend money on higher education for young women because they will “just get married.“ Education at the highest level p0s- sible would help a woman with her home and family responsibilities; at the same time it would prepare her to earn her living if the need should arise. Dr. Branion hoped that some of the girls who plan to go on to uni- versity would come to Macdonald Institute where he would have them in his classes in Nutrition. Dr. Margaret McCready, Principal of Mac- donald Institute, also said she hOped some of the girls would return for the Home Economics course; and after her talk and the visit to the Institute, thirty of the two hundred girls said they planned to come to Macdonald when they had finished at high school, HOMEMAKING INTERESTS At Macdonald Institute the girls saw a mm showing how a Macdonald student made th cherry pie that took the Ontario prize 3 ye: ago, They also saw a demonstration of an e1r ectronic oven, and they were very lnlyigueci with the idea of roasting beef, cookin, brag. coli and baking cup cakes in a cold overl Per. haps they were more interested than older women would be because they know mm at the rate science is moving today everyoigu may be using electronic ovens by the tin”. “my move into homes of their own, Later in the programme Professor T “Wu spoke on food preservation â€" mum and freezingâ€"and Miss Heringa charmed t! girls with her demonstrations of flower at. .nge ments. An especially interesting part of the ‘ safer- ence was the programme put on by ti . m1; themselves. Blanche Collins, Shirley Er- [son and Nora Wilcox of Zion Club in Peterb (‘Lgh county gave a demonstration showing to make milk “a child’s delight," M, .ti‘et Langton of North Yarmouth Club in 'lgin county explained her club's exhibit of .es- sories for a girl’s bedroomâ€"a bedspreac' res- ser scarf and waste paper basket. a well made and carefully planned for desig. and colour. And the Elder’s Mills Club 0: ork county, Dawn Fry, Muriel Carberry. elen Tomlinson, Anne Miller and Marlene - ’ter staged a clever skit on table manner THE GIRL HERSELF The conference theme was “Youth the opportunity to do something and l: ‘me somebody.” The editor of Home and C .uy talked about the four square developin in youth, described over 2000 years ago as 1W- ing in wisdom and stature and in favor ith God and man"; later adapted by the boy- and girls’ club movement as the training i die head, the hand, the heart and the healti .nd outlined by Dr. Richard Cabot as the ‘ Jigs men live byâ€"work, play, love and WE. up. One of the twenty di- cussion groups :onsiderirg questions relating to d" work. â€"O.A.Ci Phi: -