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The flowers were Senator Smith's tribute if a i The oldest living past president, Mrs. Hamilton Lee, l to the Institute on its 6ftieth anniversary. _r'i'i,':; b, _iv(l,r)ii?rte':iei,,'i" i', lighted the candles on the birthday cake. t ' ‘ q;jiis, _ . q "t, ",h >357. ‘33:? , Golden Anniversary at 1, 'i/it , _'eTrp, J t . " it"); This fl _ Milk ing community life." What Stoney ', 3 P, _ Mt my FV -. 't . 'i 33* , .‘.3. .3 _'.",, _ 2 Creek and other institutes have done Stoney Creek , ItE V ' ‘f . f 3 .. " _ 'ii, . _ ' T pr, i' 33_ through the years since, and what lead- ' i ,1 \ 3 ', ’ _ rm V ' - I n t tMt . " V ' ers like Mrs. Summers and Miss Lewis - ON FEBRUARY 19th, 1897, the ',,,i,Eri'" b2 as a ‘ " 'iN Bt Ei?, " "t Illlih ' are working to develop in institute first Women's Institute was or- ti'qs,tl!! '% ' " " 2' . (ii' I I 3 u work-today, shows that the aims-ohms ganized at Stoney Creek, in Went- " (.ri'vaiiii"' _ t"rii ‘ 3 L- 3 ' ll & . -, i first Instltute are fy.ndah.iityi)Terl enough worth county, Ontario. On February 1t,t,Tii','i' 'ir'i; ",r . ,' _ IN Mitt w, _ y ' 1regiet1iTe,lc-itl1:is,r, (11:31:32: 11:8 . l . 3.31%? _ -. _;.__ ' ' , _ , ' " n c _ ., . 19th of this year the Stoney Creek p- 3.133.":- ‘2?!”8} 3 . _ L19,t: ' I .4 . ' ' ’ i " are being adapted by progressive I') stitute held a banquet to celebrate its tctr, L q , C k . .% ' , LCI, h , stitutes everywhere fiftieth anniversary. And with all the 'iiiiic.ii'aii “My. (iitil%; __ Key , " .3 "t' _ (w; - T", ' . ' a. al . _ changed conditions fifty years would " .35" Jr,' " ' _ sr, 3_ ff} - 'r' ""111!” 33"“? 3‘ AI F " ‘ . f ."3 _, HIS was borne out, too, in the mes- inevitably bring, as we heard the tsii.xcll'y,gt'it'iiffittitiit 'sa2. .5. _CC" Li'gr)tt' c(fc1lirlr1ts'i'fru ak/ , .", ctltLLr.. l Tsage from Mrs. Conant. Stoney Creek women review the past "I do not remember the first meet- and plan for the future, it was very Charter members of Stoney Creek Institute. From left to right: Standing: Mrs. H. P. VunWagncr, Mrs. ing," said Mrs. Conant, "--after all, evident that the objectives, the initi- 1tsK.i"l'g,/'l',"it.ns'hs,fd 3:322: "it,ri1s.e"lii't'1,l'/"Is'.""j.' tf"diiht,'uir"s'.i".'aersidc',- Jts'.m'j.sot Iwasquite young-but I do remember ative, and the spirit of the founders of . g 'Da\n's, Nllrs. G'eorge Gylidden', Mrs. selby C'orn'an; Mrs. Waite; Ptolemy. I . in later years my mother" (Mrs. E. D. the institute movement are alive in Smith) “tellipg me that she worried Stoney .Creelr. today. the woman who conceived the idea of siveness of the women's institute fifty about neglecting her family. But Mrs. At. this anniversary Aanqyet--a very women banding themselves together years ago. Such topics from their pro- Hoo.d less persuaded her to be the first gracmus occasmn with flowers and to study and work for better homes grams as "How to find Time for prhh'dnhi' t . --- candles in the blue and gold institute and a better country, and who had Reading", and "How to Get Along Mrs. Conlnt recalled coming to 80' le colors, with good music and friendh- been brought to Stoney Creek by the with as Little Help as Possible", she of the meetings as h small girl,' - ness. and the members' husbands as Farmers' Institute to present her felt would be very timely today. "And" that when some subject of special 1. ' spectal guests, it was not difricultto fo cause to the women of Saltfleet town- she said, "we talk about adult edu.. terest to women was being discussed,. / back 1n imagination to the meeting In ship. The guest speaker of the evening cation as something new. The institutes the doors were tightly closed in case \' Squire's Hall fifty years ago when one- was Mrs. Gordon Conant daughter of have had it for fifty years." some ".1311 should pass and hear what N hundred-and-one women, with Erland , was said. . Lee acting as chairman, organized the " 3 3 - 313 - _ wr JeT'=%' ' .,_t . . l "The institute motto 'For Home and , world's first women's institute. It was a '3" l 73?": "iii-sci, ', . " " T , . r.-. _-" N... N,“ . r L Country' has a depth and warmth that , not difficult to picture that first meet- _r._-" I,t,',a'i1i' 1l','U 3 P ' l T ,. I .’ 1 F. , '-'inhir,3, l stirs the heart", Mrs. Conant declared. , ing because ten of the charter members ”A a F' M , _ 's. l l , Trl' . i __ i , a - I g "A sound family of nations begins with were present as special guests: Mrs. 'itji:,iiriij'j,rrira . I?“ Mr:":': f” ‘7.» j :C?3it , ' q. .' c I, a nation of sound families." Then she H. P. VanWagner, Mrs. McKinley i 1",)oii'icj:jti,9, iit vi-air,) __ Ct , _ . s' ' i P, "iii,, , . _ . vi-r' e' " 1:2. - proceeded to explain from her observu- sd Morden, Mrs. J. B. Smith, Mrs. John 'r7:rt'r7c170, f 7 _ t, 2'" a"; ' .3 _. i , ' " g: r. at g 't 'e, F., , tions in Europe the gulf between the i. Budge, Mrs. George Millen, Mrs. . i 'r,-, L5 'r .4359" ' V 'i, ’ W. i, ' e as -m-_ fi, t hi meaning Pf home to Canadians and to l Selby Cornan, Mrs. J. B. Davis, Mrs. r--"-, h , . :3 “"' i T p' , l T /, i ' l 'bl, lil the hosts of homeless people in bp Walter Ptolemy, Mrs. E. B. Thomp- F8W29Y ‘ 3, _"r u, d T F 33 3’ . 3 . 'r- /dliir . I Europe. 1. son and Mrs. Murray Neil. And be- LU) 3 i ", ", i P: b'ii,ti?i'ir,'e, We, 'a " "The 'displaced persons' plight is cause the women actively in charge of _. 15 s'; ", , , Lr. _ , ET', ',t,iiit'iii,;tjg, FA b - serious", the Speaker said. "They may . affairs were, most of them, daughters j - ' , '. _ iiit.y-. . (hr), . 'f"jeiilirt',iii?).),'ii.f? . live in camps, always herded together. _ or granddaughters of those who pio- ' C j 't,_e 'p,'e ‘ & 3 _li"iisciri.jiljjjj,jiit ; v Or a famlly may live in one room. neered the movement. When the roll m't;vNa MMgillltle g r ' Bht'y,?c-reciii (l I . Family life IS a travesty. Food comes _ of past presidents was called, a number . ' ' "'8 h f : f A,» ' _ F _ _" C "iii ' in cans. Clothing comes from UNRRA. of women active in the work today, 5 - c- f ' - 5:" m.- 'v-f, i l, A man cannot work to support his P,' responded for their mothers who had 3 / . , _ [gil w-"'" '1, . family. Children grow up in idleness I passed on. Miss Muriel Bostwick of 's" l .. ' . , in ti 3. .‘f' "i, and the older ones tend-to become Hamilton was a guest in honor of her If" > f I . , p, T! i " _ bandits or thieves.' Each nationality s! grandmother, Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless, :9 _ F 79. g L ll; 'rllt has its own school where children are , T l . V _ " - ii',rl, l, f": w' _ ' -:‘ taught about their own country, so out ' r 'IFeTrE VIII.- £1 ii' , , - '.u_cd ' 'ss ' - ' ' a" M .. _ of sch.ool. they have fights over national [j q _fi,', A-" ___. V" ' Miss Anna P. Lewis, Superintendent of the Ontario Institutes, Mrs. Hugh Summers, Provincial President, SuperlorltleS, and an intolerance is “h" _ 32”" , il - Mrs. Gordon Conant, Mrs. Angus Jackson, President of Stoney Creek Institute. being bred to Pave the way for future a I m', .3 l _ ' ' . Ill' wars. Holland and Sweden are taking , I" Pr '_ b, P Y, ":'1.h, . 'tll the first president, Mrs. E. D. Smith. Mrs. Summers, provincial President many of these children. IS Canada to I {1, 'i,,rl,'r, afar , r .. "lt,"'?,'"' Tg" II Another member present who has been of the Ontario institutes and Miss "eel hearltdeSS? . . . ' 'ies'? i, 5;; ' I trr, 1 N -a link between Stoney Creek and in- Anna Lewis, Superintendent, spoke of Other, "fel,' children have livedAn . [rl] C "iLIt,gra"', 'i"L" [ii,"rrs"'i'gi' stitutes in a wider field was Mrs. A. E. the inspiration the founders of the first the styds., ghting as partisans w.itl? , "3' '8lij' ‘ v'-g" ca , Walker. Mrs. Walker has been an ac- institute had been to institute women the Russmlcils. . They have carried F' 'll, . . q . tive member, and sometimes officer, of ever since, and of the soundness of the weapons, an killed, and are Prhhd of BI, rd e f ". K , the mother institute since its early objectives they set for the organization. it. The yeuth of Germany age m the tr:'. it days; she has also been provincial These objectives, as written in the same position a; the youth of ermany I, . I . 3 _ b president, national president, and constitution "shall be the dissemina- were after. the rst war. They have no . 1% ' Canadian representative at conven- tion of knowledge relating to domestic hope, no 31deals, low moral standards. ' Bt. tions of the Associated Country Wom- economy . . . household archictecture If we don t.glve thet?.y,methieti some- ' I il " en of the world; she is now collaborat- . . . home sanitation . . . foods . . .cloth- one else. will. The children of Eyopt f tiii ' ing with Miss Edith Collins in com- ing . . . and the more scientific care and today , ill be the them}? or enemies of . . , . . ' piling an anniversary brochure, "The training of children, with a view to our children tomorrow. . Eiall1 , q - ' History of the Institutes for Fifty raising the general standard of health Another aftermath of the war IS the E18t ‘ Years." and morals of our people; and the con- number of surplus women and girls , . sideration of any problem, or the carry- left in Europe. Mrs. Conant suggested , , ' THE present president, and chair- ing on of any line of work which has that the women of Canada would .be- Mlss Edi . , man of the banquet, Mrs. Angus as its object the uplift of the home or friend these---and at the same /time ith Collins and Mrs. A. E. Walker who are . . . compiling a history oi the Women's Institutes. Jackson, commented on the progres- the betterment of conditions surround- (Continued on page 77) , _ A 1 kg __...,.--,] C r ""