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An Ontario Woman in England Mrs. W. A. Brad- bury, Ontario‘s rep- resentative to the A.C.W.W. in Eng' land. appointed to represent the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario at the Assoâ€" ciated Country Women of the World meetings in England. Mrs, Bradbury was born at Clinton. Onâ€" tario where her father. Mr. S. B. Stothers was the Agricultural Representative. She lived in Essex. Huron and Wellington when her father’s duties took him to those counties and also on the fumin farm in Ashfield Township, Huron County. Miss Stothers graduated from the University of Western Ontario. and the On- tario College of" Education. Leaving the teachâ€" ing profession she was in charge of advertising for the publishing firm of W. J. Gage and (‘ompany of Toronto. ]n 1949 Agnes Stothers met her husband, W. A. Bradbury and went to live in England. The Bradbury tumi'y which includes a boy and girl now live in the lovely village of Hutton IN 1966 MRS. W. A. BRADBURY was PLAIN THINGS Life is filled with plain things. Cretonne covered chairs, \‘i’ickcr baskets filled with spools, Narrow attic stairs. Lift: is filled with plain things Fruit in China dishes, Bread and butter fresh and sweet, Oltl people‘s wishes. Little churches quaint and old. Musty pews and benches. Swampy pastures tool and low Unlined by miss-cross trenches. Lift- is filled with plain things. Rosemary and rue, Mntl‘tcrs knitting by the stove \Vaiting up for you. Life is filled with plain things, An old battered bus People going home at night. Just folks like us. kEdna Jaques 14 Rugby in North Yorkshire. She joined 1L. Women's Institute in Hutton Rugby and - m active member. One of Mrs. Bradbury‘s u m as representative of the Federated W01 q‘t lnstitutes of Ontario is to attend the A.C.\ n_council meetings in Lond0n and she has 3n elected to the United Nations Committee. Of her English village, Mrs. Bradbury .‘ "Hutton Rugby is a charming English vr It was at one time small. but now it hit ,. come a fashionable place for executives m the many large industries in the area to .5 There has been a village here since No g, times and a book, "The White Dove." has in written about it. A hundred years ago rL- was a mill here manufacturing sail canva Mr the fishing fleets which sailed out of the l\ or East coast fishing villages, such as Vt: x; from which Captain Cook sailed.“ The village itself is very pretty. built as \_ around a large. open green set with ma': ‘ cent chestnut trees. There is a fine vie it the Cleveland Hills from nearly every pa il the village. The parish church. dating ban. 0 the fourteenth century. is at the bottom .i hill right on the river‘s edge. The chart quiet. gray and very beautiful." From time to time Mrs. Bradbury will Li letters. parts of which will appear in H ‘L’ and Country. to tell us something of Women’s Institutes in England and her with A.C.W.W. )4 v. The Poinsetta HRISTMAS is coming and many Vi C en’s Institutes members will be rece- -_.' poinsetta plants as Christmas gifts. we enjoy our lovely gifts we might reme: i the following story. Joel Poinsett of the United States discm l the poinsetta on a Christmas visit to MC ' many years ago. This weed grew wild in hot Mexican sands and one of the name which it was called. was “Flower of the l Night." A weeping peasant girl was supp‘ to have taken an armful of the Weeds inte cathedral as an offering to the Christ and as she approached the altar they l' into radiant bloom. Joel Poinsett commercialized the pain“ weed and so it brightens our homes at Ch mas. * * * NOVEMBER Bare branches, Grey sky, Brown leaves, Flying by. Unknown HOME AND COUNT '1'