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it it it You who are letting miSerable misunder- standings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day, You who are keeping wretched quarrels alive because you cannot quite make up your mind that now is the day to sacrifice your pride and kill them; . . . You who are letting your friend 5 heart ache for a word of appreCiation or sympathy which you mean to give him some day. If you could know and feel, all of _a sudden, that "the time is short", how it would break the spell! How you would go instantly and do the thing which you might never have another chance to do! â€"Phillips Brooks. 1r 1' * movies, fashion shows, contests of speed and strength had proved a good way of raising large sums. “Wise spending is important too" said Mrs. Haggerty. “Look carefully into every appeal for money. Sending delegates to a conference is wise spending, and since some of our older women aren‘t eligible to come to the conferâ€" ence at Guelph, could they be sent to the Institute Holiday at Guelph or Kemptville?” Mrs. Leslie Davis spoke on developing the talents of the members. “Institute women through their meetings and courses have some- thing in the way of a university education” Mrs. Davis said. “Sometimes having ability to do a job is not so much due to talent as to effort. Fear keeps many women from underâ€" taking to do things.” In a test asking a group of women why they would not take office some of the answers were "not enough educaâ€" tion," “fear of criticism,” "indifference," “too old"~but eighty-five per cent said they were “too nervous." Getting women working in a group 15.3 good way to get them started; they find their ability that way, Mrs. Davis said. And. she added “More and more women are realizmg their responsibility in community affairs. In a group We learn, to quote Mrs. Sayre, ‘to compose our differences'; so we should be capable of sitting on School boards and councils." Leadership In The Family IMrs. Ellen Fairclougli, MP. after paying a tribute to the ingenuity of women said: “I have always had very strong opinions on what should be made of family life.” Then she sketched what is happening to family life Rapid transportation and the radio have changed our outlook. We read the press, listen to the radio. swallow things whole and feel we can talk glibly about the affairs of the day. We have many enticements to take us away from our fire-sides. Perhaps in the counâ€" try where we have large comfortable houses there is more temptation for fam'l' at home together. 1 les to Stay “Whatever other interests we ha _ ve, as ad 1 we have a great and glorious duty as parenltlst’s’ Mrs. Fairclough declared. “In the hurry and 16 flurry of the times we must find “me fr close contact in the family." Hi The speaker felt that twa phases U, ed“? tion which should be given in the home 3:- education in religion and politics. A “We: has many responsibilities in her homo; she ,, adviser, comforter, nurse, cook, tEQCh’L‘l, m i troller. More important still she mm mash her children to be tolerant and ho“. M thmk and feel about things. Perhaps m. fan to teach a healthy respect for tradition ml what it means to inherit this country. A. _| more important than what we teach, is -. a, the atmosphere of our family life does to prepare children for life by giving them 1-,, mm: tolerance and fortitude. We must Milli children a great faithâ€"faith in our lullll'v and in the institutions that are the be . mun: dations of our life. We must try it iLllliEr ridicule of these institutions. We my. . bund up in children a respect for the law a. i order on which our freedom has been bui]. New, was there a time when we so much 1. dad a patriotic fervor and a religious dew: A.C.W.W. News Mrs, Hugh Summers, Regional Vi. urea. dent of A.C.W.W. announced that M Sari-e had been honored by President Eisenl or :r. it * * \VATERING LAST YEAR'S CROl‘ "it‘s but little good you’ll do, waterin; ! year’s crops." Yet this is exactly : l have seen hundreds of my patients dun . the past twenty-five yearsâ€"watering ' freely flowing tears things of the irrevw past. Not the bitter-sweet memories of l ones, which I could understand, but it. done which should not have been done. r things left undone which should have done. lam a doctor, not a preacher; but a do too, must try to understand the joys sorrows of those who come to him. should without preaching be able to pound the philosophy that one cannm adequately in the present, our effecn face the future, when one's thoughts buried in the past. Moanng over what cannot be helped confession of futility and of fear, of tional stagnationâ€"in fact, or selfishness .. cowardice, The best way to break ‘ vicious, morbid circle is to stop thinl- ; about yourself, and start thinking iil'w other people. You can lighten your load by doing something for someone cl By the simple device of doing an outwa; unselfish act today, you can make the [‘L' recede. The present and future will fig-1» take on their true challenge and perspecll' As a doctor I have seen it tried mnnv many times, and nearly always it has been far more successful prescription than an; thing I could have ordered from the dip; store. ,â€" â€"Frederic Lflljl'hl5. * i: 'A' HOME AND cow-‘47"