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her message said “Your aim to educate mothâ€" ers to make better homes has set the pace for us in every country." A Message of Inspiration The provincial executive was both wise and fortunate in securing as guest speaker. Mrs. Haven Smith of Nebraska, a World Viceâ€"Pres- ident of the Associated Country Women of the World. Mrs. Smith is dynamic and charm- ing. an artist in reaching and holding an audiâ€" ence. forthright and practical. farâ€"seeing and sympathetic. She belongs to the eleventh gen- eration of a family of American farmers and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska. She launched her address from the life story of a great woman. her own “great aunt Annaâ€" bel." As a young wife. aunt Annabel left her home in Iowa to go with her young husband to take a homestead on the Canadian prairies. One day a rattlesnake came through the wall of the sod shack and fell close to the baby. Annabel killed it with the fire-shove]. the only weapon at hand. As the farm began to bring returns. the soddy was replaced by a comfortable farm house and two more children were born. When the oldest boy was ten and the youngest a baby. word came that the husband's mother was dying and wanted to see her son. Annabel said of course he must go. It was winter. the stock in the barn would have to be cared for, but she could manage. Then, soon after her husband had gone, the oldest child was taken ill. The nearest neighbor was eleven miles away. a doctor miles farther than that: she had no one to help her and the little boy grew steadily worse. In desperation she turned to her little eight- year-old son. There was nothing to do but put him on a horse, give him a note and send him the eleven miles to the neighbor's. He didn‘t want to go; he was frightened; he had never made such a journey before, and any mother knows how Annabel felt as she watched the tiny figure on the big horse ride over the rim of the prairie and out of sight. She tried every way she knew to save the child who was sick. If only someone would come! But no one came. Only the sky darkened and in a few hours the prairie was swept by a blizzard, the sort of storm in which grown men often got lost and died of exposure â€"â€" and a little boy was out in it all alone. But there were things at hand to attend to â€" she put the baby in its “pen” and managed quick, short trips to the barn to do what had to be done. Then she waited; and at three o’clock in the morning the sick child died. "But." said Mrs. Smith “she must have ‘built 26 a statclicr mansion for her soul‘. ln the room, ing When a sleigh came over the prairie brim. ing the neighbor and his wife and the thug“;- and the little messenger boy safe and illlltnl they found the stock fed, the cows milked mu house in order. the child who had been at in his best suit with his fair hair hm: .i waiting; and his mother shaken hut \Cl't‘ Annabel had seven children. One \kl doctor. one a missionary. one a college 1' ident. Three stayed 0n the land. She slant Sunday school and a lending library in community; she helped the sick and suit and came to be known as the angel o: prairie. She lived to be a very old lady her influence was with her to the end. point of the story was that women ol calibre are needed as much as they wet the pioneering days on the frontier. t it u- "You and I stand at a crossroads." Mrs. Smith. “Since World War I we have I in a world of terror. And I know it I“. the hydrogen bomb that makes a nation g- it is honesty. integrity, hard work, a willing to hold fast to values. And never before - we had greater need for Christian men women. especially women. with the co to do what must be done to preserve hon integrity. industry and a sense of real val. Mrs. Smith protested that people today country like ours don‘t know the meanm freedom. To many it means the right it what they like; to some it means getting li to do. tomorrow. something that shoulu done today; others. With'so much beauti many opportunities all along the way miss I because their energies are wasted in il. as futile as fear and worry. Referring to the opportunities for neighbu‘ Open to Institute women through A.(‘.\Mrs. Smith said: "A.C.W.W. won't saw world in one fell swoop. but by hundred little acts of understanding.” She told u mother. busy with her family responsibil- who felt she was doing nothing toward a n friendly, peaceful world; and all the time ‘ children, because of her teaching, were malx friends of new Canadian children and. thru correspondence with children in other part the world were drawing whole families gether in friendliness and understand "Think what such understanding would mew she said. "if it were multiplied by the six an half million women represented in A.C.\\' Mr. Adam Gaw, Guelph. popular I] tenor. accompanied by Mrs. Edith Kidd gm ddightful Song recital. And Institute menihr in period costumes presented the pug”- “Women’s Institutes 1897â€"1962” arranged l‘v Mrs. Lymburner for the national conventa" last year. HOME AND COUNTRY