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The President’s Corner Mrs. l. G. Lymburner ‘ President F.W.|.O. To Claim Our Heritage HEN we set out to see as much as posâ€" ‘; sible of Europe and the British Isles this summer it was not with this thought in mind. These are the words of John Trapp to whom we owe much for the pleasures exper- ienced abroad. for it was he, as we were driving out of Brussels toward Luxembourg, who sugâ€" gested that this indeed was the real intent of our visit since our ancestors had come from Europe so many years ago, and from the same part of it into which we would so soon be travelling. “What was the highlight of your trip?" is the question most often put since our return. And how can one reply? To sit on the wall of the old Roman Forum two thousand years old, where now the greatest of Verdi‘s operas “Aida” is being performed in Verona upon a stage which will accommodate the cast of a thousand? Or, to view the tomb of Juliet in that same city of the "Two Gentlemen“? To walk in the ruins of the Colos- seum at the edge of Rome and think back to the days when one struggled with ancient history. never dreaming that one day we would walk upon those same stones and re-live some of the pomp and glory of the Roman Empire? Or, perhaps to look upon an even greater grandeur while driving through the Brenner Pass in the Alps, with blue skies and brilliant sun shining on the snow- capped peaks rising in serried ranks to an un- believable height? Or, to live for a short time in the storybook town of Bernkastel on the Rhine River, where one‘s windows looked across the river again to the mountains over the housetops of this tiny spot tucked away in the lap of the mountains? The beauty of a moonlighted trip through the Grand Canal of Venice, or the next day to stand in awe of the beauty of the golden mosaics in the domes of St. Mark‘s Cathedral? Or, an entirely different kind of beauty to be experienced looking across the lake at Killarney toward the gap of Galway, or to experience the swelling of pride in the dignity of the service attended in Westminster Abbey on a rainy Sunday evening and the feeling that one had “arrived back home again" in this city which has ex‘ perienced the vicissitudes of war and the panoply of ceremonial processions? To stand at the steps of St. Paul‘s Cathedral looking at the ruins all around which still remind of the war, and to 4 Wonder how this beautiful building escaped with as little damage as it did with all around beaten to the ground; to walk inside and find behind the great screen an inscription in the marl,“ floor setting aside this place as a memorial to the “people of England" who lost their lives in the war? All these are things of which the tapegllrr of such a trip is woven, but it remains alV-‘um for the figures of the people we met to stand out most in this bright and lasting picture. One of the most interesting experiences um that of meeting with members of the Engir Women‘s Institutes in London, when I was p..- ileged to present the gift of $1,000 from Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario to 1v Lady Aberdeen Scholarship Fund. This SCl‘lOl. . ship, when it is finally set up, will provide in: year's study in Sociology. the person chosen go back to her own country to assist in Sell up study groups for better home life. Ben was a pleasure to meet again McIntyre Hr“ with whom I had not talked for a numbct years. He had come to report the afternnw activities. Attending was Mrs. John Donald who represents F.W.I,O. on the executive of Associated Country Women of the World, v which F.W.I.O. and 25 other groups are at. ated. There were representatives from Nyasal: Finland. Scotland as well as England attent‘ the tea which followed the presentation. Throughout a leisurely tour of England, 5' land and Ireland we were met at every step, by members of the Women's Institutes. and made that part of the trip all the more nu orable, for we were surrounded by friends i strange land who helped us to understand 1 ideas and ideals not only for the organizn they represented. but for the welfare of u people as well. Not too much was said of suffering entailed by the war, and those refersi which we heard in England invariably were e; prefaced or followed by smiles for the frustrmi of wartime living. The years since have :- filled to the brim with the desire to wipe the memory and to rebuild that which has ‘6 destroyed. And this, perhaps, is one of the tin which brings to us most forcibly the meaning war. One walks along the way to look upon bl ings of beauty and charm centuries old. 1 suddenly you come upon a new building on: vi tune entirely, and you know that. this is the 7 tissue which has formed over the wounds of Or even now you still look upon the g8' .-' wounds which war has left on the face of EU!" i for there has not been money to restore 0 ‘ clear away entirely the rubble which still in those places which were bombed out. There is still another impression which gains and that is the love with which the re ation of many buildings has been carried on. saw the famous chapel in Chelsea in which tomb built by Sir Thomas Moore is to be fun i it that tomb in which he never was permitted to t 310118 With his first and second wives. The chm {1 actually had but one small part of a wall U1 standing, for it is situated almost at the edge “l the river which runs through London; but told all that was left has been gathered together and bit by bit replaced so that, while the anode .‘r. 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