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_. Miss Joyce Pei-kins, tliird.yeai- student SEWER MEDALLIST at Delta Collegiate and widely known iigure skater, recently passed her fourth test at the 'Icv ronto Skating Club, oualllying ior her silver medal. fffin Busy Program During her visit to this district, miss Elizabeth Christmas will be guest of honour at a luncheon ta- mormw given by Mrs. Angus E Jackson at her home in Stoney Creek, prior to addressing a meet-- ing at Battlefield House, arranged bv the Stoney Creek Womens In- siitute, which is the mother insti- tute of this now world-Wide orga- nizntiont Miss Christmas is going . Catharines to meet repre- sentatives ct junior groups. follow- ing the conterence here this latter- noon with the leaders of Home- VISITOR--Miss Elizabeth Christ- mas, nationai organizer oi the Women's Institutes in Great Brit: Bin, who is in Hamilton and ills- trict tc-dlay and to-morl'ow, and will address a meeting to-moi'row " lubS, an to-morrow atternoon at Battlefield} House, is to visit Vineiand and Stoney Creek, where this great inspect the Farm Service Forge organization (or; country women Camps. 011 Friday she will be in was first organized Niagara Falls. Meets Rural Girls , Miss Elizabeth Christmas, na- 5 . tional organizer of the 'Womens i institutes at Great Britain, who is l I touring Canada under the auspices oi the Wartime Information Board and the Federated Women's insti- tutes of Canada, is the guest of the Department of Agriculture in Hum- ilton tc--day. At. a luncben at the Staff Hou. , she met leaders or the more than a dozen Homemaking Clubs for Rural Girls in wentwerth county, when the following were among those present: Miss'Flor- eiics Eadie, Toronto, provincial di-- rector of junior clubs; Miss Edith Collins, oi the department's head octice in Toronto: Miss Marion Humphrey, director of the clubs in the tour counties in this section. and Miss Lulu Row, also a club di- rcetor. Alter-ward. Miss Christmas is conterring with the leaders about the various phases of their work here at a meeting arranged by Mr. w. G. Merritt. agricultural representative, at the local othce oi the Department at Agriculture. "unsure: has begun to "unearth" asures trom their secret iding places. Soon they .sphiyed again -- their 'intoul'lled--in their old .tughout the country. Sir ark. director of the Na- tery and surveyor of the .urgs, has been to see yes in aWeisii mountain- avoi-ns as big as parish d 3le ieet belowgrcuhd, , 5 Jewish Rabbi. Vel. 'enus and Cupid (the , anus), Tltlan's Bnacilus ie, Tintoretto's Crigin oi ,Way have remained un~ or more than live years, Rr SU'WGM ' - Ui sic Fr Fr by Ha als flax av. Mt w: in News About People ,' Rt. Rev, L. w. B. Brougham, Bishop or Niagara, was the dinner guest of Mr. and M E. G. Marsh during his visit to Welland this week to otticiate at the service in St. James Church when 40 candi- dates were confirmed. The Windsor: The Duke and Duchess of Wind- sor are spending a tow days in Florida before proceeding west---- possibly to the Duke's Alberta much. They arrived in Miami yes< tel-day after an overnight sea ti' fi'um Nassau, where the duke re- cently relinquished the governor ship of the Bahama Islands utter nearly five years in ottice, They are guests in Palm Beach of Miss Grace Among, until next week, hetero going on to Miami and NEW York. Luncheon Miss Elizabeth Christmas was the guest oi honour at a delighttui luncheon given by the executive or the slonoy Creel: Women's In- stitute. at the hospitable homo oi the President, Mrs. Angus Jack- son. before the annual meeting held at Battlefield House yester- day. Mrs. J. H. Car alien. Miss Clara. Parish and . rs. Thomas Dale presided at the attractively arranged tea tables. Commendation I.O.D.E. otticiais in Toronto an- nounced last night receipt of three communications tram the Dominion Council at the Navy League at Canada the Ontario division o the N League and Ontario House in England commending the order for its national services. In Queen's Guild in a recent letter horn Quaen Mary, Mrs. l-i. C. Delaniere Strange, Toronto, was appointed a member at Her Majesty's London Needlework Guild. Among other members in Canada are Mrs. G. a. Heather, Kitchener; Mrs. J. s. Campbell, 5t. Catharincs. and Mrs. C. H. E. Smith, Niagara-on-the~ Lake. Bonus Recipient Recognition oi the mother as the recipient of the allowance pi'DVldEd under the Family Allowance Act which comes into effect July 1, was asked in the meeting of reple- sentatives of national women's 0!" ganizatioas, under the convencr- Ship of the National Council of Women, at the Royal York Hotel. Toronto, yesterday. of the 56 groups invited to send representa- tives 20 responded Busy Member a busy member or the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Security Conference is Mrs. Cora Casselnian, Liberal member oi Parliament tor Edmonton East. Sht' is the only woman member of the delegation and her desk in her suite in the SL Francis hotel is piled with communications tram women's organizations all over North Americ Mr. and M1 t William McCarter and the' - son, Beverley, and daugh- ter. Shirley. will he in Ottawa oli Saint-rim" s - .-... at on i to carry one of the greatest burdens WI. in Britain Force F 01' Good National Organizer Visits Birthplace of Insliiules In speaking to the Women's In- stitute meeting at Battlefield House, Stoney Creek, yesterday alternoon, attended by many members tram Hamilton and district. Miss Eliza-' heth Christmas said that her \" to the centre where the Women st institutes was organized had been: looked forward to by her as the outstanding event of her tour of. Cannd- She explained that while, Canadians may think or England as; the mother country, the institutes, of Great Britain look upon Canndal no. the mother oi their organization. Miss Chr thins is national ni'ganizm' yr the B tlsh instILIltcs and is tour- ing Canada under the auspices ot the Canndillii institutes and the oriice or w r iniormatioii. Miss Chi tiiias lirielly reenllcdl the gl'mvth of the Women's In-' stitutes in iii ain, which s- i-ted in 1915, organized by a Canad ii. Mrs, Alfred Watt, there now being 5,870 institutes with a membership of about 350.000. She spoke oi the' influence tor good which was en< gendered by the W.L spirit at co- operation and tellowship--an influ- ence that was at work in every part at the Empire and most parts at the world. knowing no distinction oi race or creed. A touching tirst-hand account at the struggles or British housewives at the war iii keeping the home. {Ceding the family and (liking pzu'i in the many voluntar emergency services, part>tlme wor work, and looking _ aitci- evacuees 'hlld lam] arniy girls was given. increased attention to the importance ot diet ior the wclHieing of the people, and MI equality of mod distribu- tion was Commented on by it <5 Christmas, as li ing inatle exti ordinary guides in Britain under wai' Conditions. She told of the part the institutes had played in adapting egg and milk powder and other substitutes ior practical use in the regular menus at (aniilie The institutes DI Britain had also engaged in the task which those in Canada hzitl undertaken in such a large Way-that DI making jnn Over their, about M300 tans were made lust year and put into the genL-x'al store ior use by all. She told of the thou. ads at tons oi rosehlps gathered lui' \litamine syrup for infants, and the toxglore, nettlcs and other seeds and IICl'hs collected fur medicinal purposes. The heartfelt appret'iution felt by the British women [or the con- cern of those in this country ior their weliare was eiiiphnsized by Miss Christina How the gins of so many var les which helped them over the most tliliicult times llnd heartened them was described. As an example, she told of how the garden seeds the institutes llzld been instrumvntul in sending had met a particular need. One of the interesting things touched an by the speaker was the effort manifested, and particularly cncourngcti by the British institulcs, of developing the cultural Side of life in spite ol the war, through music iestivals, drama guilds. etc. , W LA' Chi 0n Er: Ml: to: Ch Tl Cun. Assc LIItc sidct weri com dnnl H. I sent petc ter sanr bi'ie' com disti dent Call of I 194i viCC Mrs rem in",