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Frontenac Dislrict Women's Instilule's booth at the Kingston Industrial Exhibition. Show Window At a Fair FROM Mrs. H. Baker, Secretary of Frontenac District Women’s Institutes, we have a re- port showing how an exhibit at a fair can giVe the public a picture of Women’s Institute work and interests. Mrs. Baker wrote: “As a means of marking the Sixtieth Anniâ€" versary of Women‘s Institutes and at the same time sparking more interest in their work, the Frontenac District Women’s Institutes sponâ€" sored a booth at the Kingston Industrial Ex- hibition." A committee appointed to make arrange- ments secured from the Fair Board fifty feet of space for a booth. This was decorated as a background for exhibits from the sixteen In- stitutes in the district, and the new district banner with the Institute crest in blue and gold on white satin was hung in the centre of the wall space, At one end of the booth a chesterfield and chairs provided a spot “where tired women could rest and chat 3 while.” Each Institute in the district provided an exhibit in keeping with its special interests and women to take a turn in manning the booth. The exhibits included educational toys and art and craft exhibits made at an institution, a collection of jams to be donated to a local SChOOl for retarded children, a first aid kit to be given to a public school. a description of a scholarship to be awarded to a high school student, a display of fancy work, a layette, quilts, rugs, tooled copper, etched aluminum, leather work and paintingsâ€"most of these rep- resented skills acquired through the enterprise of the Women‘s Institutes. There were hats made in millinery courses and clothing work done through girls’ 4-H Homemaking Clubs. (One Institute reported having sponsored these clubs for the past twenty-one years.) The ex- hibit of one branch was a doll in a handmade crib with a doll‘s complete wardrobe hung on a rackâ€"all to be given to some welfare cause. The doll had been donated by a local merchant and the Institute held a sewing bee to make the clothes. There were cups on display for 32 public speaking and drama competitioi- the array of Tweedsmuir histories attic great deal of attention. During the exhibition Institute n1- gave demonstrations in hooking In; making stuffed toys, felt flowers am needle baskets. Bulletins available from the Home E mics Service of the Ontario Departn; Agriculture were on display with a 1 where passersby could leave their ad requesting bulletins to be mailed to thEl'.‘ the Department. And to publicize the work of the his in Frontenac district, the women had co: a brief “story” giving the objectix‘ Women‘s Institutes, the name of each Ir. in the district, the date of its organizatir its major project or interest. The star printed in rather large type on sheets of paper and the sheets were handed out i itors at the booth. THE OLD SAMPLER Dear little girl of Long Ago, so sweetly quiet and prim, making, laboriously and Slov- silken prayer to Him -â€"â€" did your child-hes eager wings beneath the bones of your stiff like some caged bird that sweetly sings, long freedom's happiness? It must have been a June when with a gleaming, scarlet three. worked the livelong afternoon, "Give us I11 our daily bread." For look! Just where a line your needle strayed a square too high,- quite L‘ are the words "our sins.” Oh! were you at the sky? Or did the daisies on your lawn to wink and blink at you? Perhaps you s, leprechaun just where your mother's roses I think God smiled at that mistake, dear liU' so fair and prim, and blessed those hands that to make ~â€" a perfect gift for Him. ‘md ii a ni'l‘s .md n»:- wilti- of ~1el‘ :ES 011‘. .Ites Jed of Lll‘.‘ y um 9333 'r El HS LIIE. our ‘Imt ‘l'L‘iL it'll [fl tllLl day gins .le't‘tl .eing Lglfl .da C“? gu'l .lllt‘d Wilhelmina 5‘ uh. I at * HOME AND mum!”