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DANOLAIZ] â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" by Mary Hastingse> : | : Lucky girls! What a wonde}ful chance rural girls all haye had 1ots’of experience with hoe and cultivator . have to receive training in just about any aspect of _ â€"~_ as their mothers‘ unpaid help. ten ~ homemaking that interests them. _ > <_. Beautificiation projects leaned heavily towards & Thisvis far from a new opportunity. In fact, rural painting and planting, New picnic tables sat on nearly _ _ . © youth club work began in Ontario before any other arâ€" every patio or lawn. Elowers brl-ghtened tree stumps, f ea in North America. The amazing thing is that after hanging bask_els, a spivvedâ€"up pig trough. Other girls all these years, the opportunities are still available. reported having put down sod, planted trees, helped | And perhaps even more surprising, despite the pull of grade new lawn. & : f urban interests and other activities the girls‘ response Personally, we privately gave each project an unofâ€" C s remains just as great, or even slightly increased. ficial 100, and prayed the judge would never descend § We have always had a city person‘s vague awareâ€" on our own garden unannounced. f ness of the good things offered rural girls and boys by In August, the girls will attend a dayâ€"long Achieveâ€" 4â€"H through homemaking and agriculture clubs. The ment Day program. Each girl who has completed the _ scope of involvement in club projects came to us forceâ€" course satisfactorily will receive a silver spoon. ‘ fully a few days ago as we trailed around the Birrâ€" _ The spoons are the gift of the Ontario ministry of agâ€" Bryanston district in the wake of Carol Crerar, Ontario viculture and food, sponsor of these wonderful proâ€" f ministry of agriculture and food home economist for _ Erams intended to help prepare rural young people for - . Middlesex County. b thgr ltlvesf :g] ho;n:gag:in "!tthetlrhcgggl?ltlgllt:fig ferue s â€" Our guide for the day was Carol Nunns, with Marian Oe O oo o pADSEAHLAU CC e ied white leader of a home be:;fifitmcatiâ€"'m)roj ect aimeh department began its rural youth club work, according 2 ghout 20 members of the Birr 4â€"H king Club to Dick Heard, area coâ€"ordinator for the ministry in 2. 4 â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-nmm-iâ€"-g_.r, the counties of Middlesex, Elgin, Lambton, Kent and > â€" have been working on since April. This was the girls Do t o tiahe> anck. nc on qz * s § % 7 Te Essex. Local organizations, such as agriculture sociâ€" day of truth; the day on which Mrs. Crerar would visit 3 1c dweft & &4 i 3 [ s eties and the women‘s institute, have always been their farms, inspect their projects, and discuss any deeply involved, and contributed countless project & problems they might have encountered. leadels',s and other support. The rural youth club work f The map held by Mrs. Nunns led us to farms on a doâ€" program adopted the name 4â€"H in 1952, at a time when zen roads. At each place the family dog raced out the this nomenclature was being taken up on a worldwide : laneway to greet us, and escorted us to the backyard basis. The 4â€"H refers to members‘ pledge to use their where we were turned over to a gentler greeting from head for clearer thinking, heart for greater loyalty, kittenidWhlfiE fimerged from tractors and bushes, basâ€" hands for service, and â€"health for better living. \ ;. kets and milk houses. * sn The club attracts most of its members when they ar § + Then it was time for the 4â€"H member to show ‘the two in their early teens, although many stay on to ycome_ \ _ Carols her work. The homemaking club garden project plete as many projects as possible. Department people has three phases: home beautification, preservation, estimate that about threeâ€"quarters of rural girls at and use of vegetables. Each county selects one phase. some time take a part in 4â€"H. In the case of boys, for 4 3 This summer the 28 clubs in Middlesex are doing the which 4â€"H must vie with sports and a greater number first phase, so the membership â€" about 250 girls â€" is of other activities, the fraction is somewhat lower, * working to meet two requirements: Plant a garden of with perhaps half ‘participating in 4â€"H agriculture 10 different vegetables (including one variety new to clubs. + , you), and undertake two home beautification projects. We appreciate that there are many â€"considerations, | Before beginning her garden, each girlâ€"had to draw a some of them almost impossibly compli¢ated, between ggglrt gf Wélgit shehqulplanmng. Complete records are growing 10 vegetables and shipping tons of wheat to | ing kept by each girl. . China or balancing supplies of milk and eggs with curâ€" ts 5 The meticulous care lavished on the ga}lrdens pgt th}s rent demand. Sn & cityâ€"dweller to shame. At each place the two Carols But as we met these eager rural youngsters last and the 4Her held lengthy discussions about rain (far week, in their spacious, he%lthful, sti)mulagiing home too much, slowing growth); weeds, insects, sprays. Evâ€" settings, and thought of the investment of time, interâ€" § Y erywhere people tried to describe the hail which has est and money in their development, we felt a sense of _ fallen in two recent stqrrp‘s. Some_body said”the first urgency that answers must be found to assure they _ ?mmulumflfd dOW}; (lilall big a: lgehc'lib‘e‘?'st I}itkgnf will find it economically attractive to stay on the land. § C arm the storm piled up a bank of hail "Jju & f ~â€" «> . ‘ snowbank." A You may phone a letter to Mary Hastings by calling The variety of vegetables chosen by the girls seemed 679â€"0230 in the London area and 1â€"800â€"265â€"4105 in all othâ€" limitless. We were especially interested in the varietâ€" er areas. There is no toll charge. You also may, of ies selected to meet the "something new" requireâ€" course, still write to Mary Hastings by addressing ment: celery, kohlrabi, eggplant, new strains of tomaâ€" your letter to Panorama by Mary Hastings, c/o The toes. . P * * London Free Press, P.O. Box 2337, London, Ontario, ! While for some girls this is their first garden, nearly N6A 4G3. l ¢ j + : . 5 > s is :cA â€" . w ul . â€" £4 A . 8 iss‘ ie 2s 1e j # t e <// * i 9 / f ; &;"";é”,, v;’ ,fi f ?' ':»t\;, 6 ~v ’5’1‘5’-',‘;’;, E> ) # A:' j / );,é/‘ ;'/:;(;V/{"@‘ ‘ ¢ h‘ 4100 y is t ty y l 1 'é*; u%fig,;‘, * > w“.@z»,& P n f P * y § © m ty ie °0 / 0o d § | ie s o V 2 y ... . i : foale . e 324 4 ‘/ ?W“ ‘w» ~ â€" o apa y L s . t > ' - » By Mike Jordan of The Free Press 5 & Nancy and Richard Guy show their children Jordan, 5, and Elissa, 3, the route of the Shunpiker tour held Sunday. The 15th annual tour was organized a â€" by The London Free Press.