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The Foreword 9 I 1 I am'so glad to hear that: the: 5"Women's Institutes of Ontario are - going to ' compile village hisigory,' U '- l ' books. Events move veryflfgsthowa--V ;» days; houses are .pulled' down; new- ' roads _are made, and 'the aspect=o£ theml countryside changes eqompletelyv some; times ins, shortitiih'ei-i'x _ I i 1 ~ ,It is a most useful and satisf ing' ' task for _',;:-h§s=titute 'mem r31 -to see. that" 'othing valuable is lost '- 1 or, forgotten and women should been i ' the alert always to guard; the tradi- ' tions of their homes, and to see 'that (.water, colour» sketches and :prints,"v oems apd a ' 0 le ends sh i d3 1 %Ee1r way m 0 ese 00 s. ' oldest people in the village will tell '; fascinating stories otwhat the re- i membex, which the «younger men-1 ers I, ' can write down, thus making a bridge between them and events which hap- 2 v pened'before they were born. After f all, itis the history. of_humanity which ; V g is continually interesting :to rusl andi,' .: * fyour village histories will be the: b »of accurate facts much valued _ , y ghistorians'of'the futuret.' proud lto think that you 'havefi'éfilled 'th'em ' 1"The Tweedsmuizj'VVillage Histories." i