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“FOREWORD” I .un so glad to hear that the \Nonieu'h Institutes of Ontario are gmng to wmpile Village history hooks. Events move very fast nowadays; homes .uc pulled down new “Lids are mmle, and the Aspect of the countryside changer com- pletely sometimes in :1 short time. It is a most melul uiul . tistyiug task for \VUIHL‘II'h Insti- tute members to see that nothing valuable it lost or forgotten, and women should he on the alert :ilw ' to guard the traditions of their homes, and to see that water colour sketches and prints, poems and prose legends should fiml their way into these hooksi The oldext peuple in the villnge will tell ux fascinating stories of what they remember: which the younger Ineullierx can write down. thus making in bridge hetween ihein and events which happened before they were born. After all, it is the history of immunity which is continually interesting to us, and your \illage histories will he the basis of accurate that.» much valued by historians of the future. l am proud to think that you have called them "The Tweetlnnuir Village Histories'l --\IVIiH(‘|I by Lady Twe lsvnuirx Lori. I l. Jedsmuir Lady Tweet b Muir [VII-