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“FOREWORD” I am so glad to hear that the Women’s Institutes of Ontario are going ta compile village histury books. Events move very fast nowadays; houses are pulled down, new roads are made, and the aspect ut' the muntx'yside changes com- pletely sometimes in a short time. It is a most useful and satisfying task fur Women's Insti- tute members tu see that nothing valuable is lost or forgotten, and women should be an the alert always to guard the traditions of their homes, and tn see that water colour sketches and prints, poems and prose legends should find their way into these books. The Oldest people in the village will (all us Fascinating stories of what they remember, which the younger members can write down, thus making a bridge between i em and events which happened betnre they were hurn. After all, it is the history of humanity which is continually interesting to us, and your village histories will he the basis of accurate facts much valued by historians of the future. I am proud to think that you have called them “The Tweedsmnir Village Histories". WWI-itton by Lady Tweethmuir. Lord and lweedSm all"