The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

at the 0.A.C. will give advice on landscaping the grounds as they might have been a the time Mrs. Hoodless lived there. The work Wlll be done this spring. Advice is also being obtained on the decoration and furnishing of the house in the period style of one hundred yearslago. u Offers of gifts have been received and it was decided that anyone wanting to make a gift to the homestead should get in touch with the Fur- nishing Committee. Mrs. John Charlton and Mrs. Harry Nixon. This committee has been given authority to accept or refuse gifts on the adVice of an expert on screening articles according to their period or historic value. Safety Committee's Report Mrs. Cecil Runnalls, convener of the F.W.I.O. Committee on Safety reported the folloWil'lg SUE- geslions on the Institute “Safety on Steps" project: A gate at the top of stairs is a necessity with small children, and even one at the bottom helps when you have an open stairway. Keep the steps well lighted. This applies especially to cellar steps. Painting the top and bottom steps of cellar- ways a lighter colour helps avoid accidents. Hand-rails on both inside Stairways and outside steps may prevent falls. Steps and stairs should be of solid construction so that treads will not collapse unexpectedly. If wooden outside steps are examined occasionally any rotting of supâ€" ports can be seen and repaired. Do not place articles on steps for a future trip upstairs. Have a table at the foot of steps for such articles. Loose matting or worn covering on steps are traps to the unwary. Steps should be constructed so that treads are wide enough to hold the foot comfortably. Ice and snow should be removed from outside steps in winter as it accumulates. Mrs. Runnalls added that in her own home for years she had been warning guests to be careful on the steps leading to the doorâ€"they were steep and narrow. Now she has had them re- placed with a cement platform and wider. “easier” steps. Mrs. Runnalls hopes that many more In» stitutes will report what members have done in response to the “Safety on Steps" program. Mrs. Elton Armstrong gave a report of the re- cent Conference on Aging where the purpOse given for community work for older people was “to develop the dignity of old age." Mrs. Armstrong recommended that Institute members try to procure copies of the Royal Bank‘s letter or leaflet issued last October on “The Challenge of Old Age." (Write to the Head Office, The Royal Bank of Canada, Montreal, or inquire at your local branch.) Mrs. E. V. Thompson reâ€" ported briefly from answers to a survey of the Ontario Institutes on what they are doing for their senior citizens. (A complete report from this survey will be compiled and will then be published in Home and Country.) The results of the latest Radio and TV Evaluaâ€" tion survey will also be compiled and publicized. Mrs. Gordon Bothwell, F.W.I.O. representaâ€" tive to the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, and a member of that organization‘s committee on Education and Health said that her work on this committee had convinced her that rural chil- dren must be educated so that they will not hava 6 to “join the ranks of the unemployed" (1" W skilled labour. Even in times of uncmplotmcm there is usually still :1 need for the timed worker. Mrs. Bothwcll was appointed F.W,1,n rm resentative to attend the conference on Hum Education at the O.A.C. in June. Mrs. Wm. Wallace was appointed to L'Ut'titnuu as F.W.I.O. representative to the Royal \rime, Fair Board; and it was decided to have u 'nolli at the fair again this year. Home Economics Extension Servici- Miss Helen McKercher. Director of thy i ,mL. Economics Extension Service of the One-m. De. partment of Agriculture, thanked the Bug. W its support of the extension program at» U. pressed appreciation of the way many u. _n-, Institutes had brought in all the women VIM. community to their courses and workshop ,1“. presented the printed announcement of u- in. gram for the year ahead and drew atten it, some of the new features: courses in t N. Cookery, Shopping in the Sixties and . lull leader training school “143 Pounds of M ii workshop on Home Management; nev m classes in Advanced Leathercraft and x m Tooling with a training school on Block P . in Women's Institute Procedures two wort A. one for branches, the other for districts. Tr. ,u units have been added for 4-H Home. if Clubs: in Food, “Featuring Fruit“; in (It “Separates for Summer." For econoi-ny n' :1 members' time and travelling expenses the; ill be no half»day courses this year. the I): u, said. Miss McKercher referred to her comp an with diamond rings in maintaining a full nl County Home Economists. Marriage bring .- [1‘ over of about one third of the staff ever: at but she has been able to fill all vacancies ‘ll'l various Canadian universities. “These girls. at of them new in the field, need your suppoi d sympathy," Miss McKercher said. and she ll" .Ll the Board members and through them [in .li Institutes, for help already given, particulu- in the 4-H Homemaking Club work. which i\ ' tinually growing in both program and the ship. Part of Miss McKercher‘s report to the i l was repeated in an address at the Officers“ c- ference and is included in the Conference l ' in this issue. The Foster Parent Project Mrs. Lymburner, presenting the Foster l‘ =11 plan as a possible project for the Ontario V" ‘- en‘s Institutes said that a great many bruit A had asked that instead of making donations 'i 0 many other organizations the Institutes of 1c Province might have a project of their own: at several asked that it might have to do with w dren. In suggesting the Foster Parent project. "m I«Ymburner said that a few branches have l- l'eady taken it up and that they are findin‘: “ Very worth while. The child “adopted”, star 7” his own country with his own family; and W organization “adopting” him (or her), pays WI} :1 YBar which, in the case of the Institutes WC" ill be sent to the F.W.I.0. head office and from HOME AND COUNTRY