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en out on each card for a period of two tigeks, and fines were charged for overdue Later it was found that the adults were not as interested as the children, so we now carry books for young children to teenâ€" agers and have changed our Library hours to Saturday mornings. We now rent 350 books and they are changed four times a year. We have approximately 90 members and about 75 books go out each week. Now we need two and sometimes three members on duty during library hours." WI Rideau’s Report of Meetings stated that they “had their district recreation director-speak to them on how to start a recreation program, and as a result they have organized a skeet shooting club for boys, craft classes for girls and folk dancing for all the young people.” Asked for more details about this, the secâ€" retary, Mrs. Alex. Kirkman, explained that four members of the community, two men and two women, were sent to the recreation direc- tor's classes to take lessons in folk dancing and these leaders organized and instructed folk dancing groups at two places in the dis- trict. A local man was enlisted to organize a skeet shooting group for boys, teaching them how to handle a gun and the good manners of a sportsmanlike hunter. The Institute helps with expenses. For the girls” craft classes a felt-mill in the area donated “patches” for felt craft. The girls paid a small fee which went to buy other materials, As the people of this area are widely scattered and farm roads are uncertain in winter, classes are held during the summer months. To start activities the Institute gives a supper for the boys and girls in May. This Institute sponsors a Boy Scout group so a Scout leader usually comes to the supper and helps to find leaders and to get the classes started. WI Rainy River District’s Musical Festival was started by the Women’s Institutes in 1932. A report says “As big oaks from little acorns grow this festival has grown from a syllabus of 36 numbers to 110 classes taking in all phases of music, choral reading and spoken poetry. There is no question as to the part the musical festival has played in the cultural life of the district." A project of the Institutes of North Lanark District this year is to provide an incubator for the District Memorial Hospital. Patricia Institutes in South Wentworth don- ated over two truck loads of articles to Amity the WentWOrth centre for crippled civilians: These articles would go through the centre's process of reconditioning and selling to pro- Vide an income for the crippled workers. A bit of local neighborliness by this Institute was to proVIde a blanket for a sick boy. Prince of wales Institute in Centre Algoma coâ€"operated With a local industrial firm and a 32 labor union in sponsoring a dame ‘0 Pal, funds for a young man stricken with Mme. Londesboro’s fund raising projeCt his, W“ was the publication of a Cook book Aimee half of the book’s 116 pages were sold It. advem tisers; the rest were filled with the lilci‘llbm: best cooking recipes. The five hunch-mi mm; printed were sold within a few WEEli " “ An entertaining item at Seaforth’r: Famm Night party was a roll call “My 0,; Wm (3'1. the Women’s Institute” to be answerm m- m, husbands of the members, ‘ ’ At Wroxeter’s Family Night, eight mm“ of the Institute put on a skit, “Secrm Chm Citizens," a twoâ€"act, fortydive miiw'i; Sim depicting life in Canada with little . “inlth paid to race prejudice and the threai w mm. munism. At a Seaforth meeting each membe ought her first photograph. As a contest raw-{.139 tried to name the pictures correct! ‘ Belgrave Institute had a most sat up.” experience presenting a musical "merit "Happiness Ahead.” There were a unbel- of men in the cast, and the play ‘ "is to have been in great demand in nei airing towns. (A pleasant way of raising t and providing community entertainment high we aren‘t overlooking the work an ‘ul‘l‘y of the directors and others respon; a for making the venture the success it w aEd } Sunnyview “had a lot of fun in a i. llmg contest." WI Newport appointed three members seat with the school board to discuss puttiiv ash- rooms in the school. This institute si erect a program of films on landscapin: ume grounds. Smithville Institute sent a resolutiOi "ilGJI Council, asking that "the Council for‘ rl m the proper persons a request that consi- alien be given to extending the time betwee wcal Option elections” (or referendums); that those sponsoring the election pay the t of it.” Daymn in Algoma is following up i unfr- lect of dental service for school Chlldl At a recent meeting it was agreed “to se that could be done so that the children with schools could have a further check-up Massey institute also in Algoma. CO-Oi' W with the Lions Club and the Knights of ‘7 W" bus in providing a wheel chair for a lot: 1113“ crippled with arthritis. Keene, at our last report, had made wins to honor two school girls, Janet WilSU' and Isobel Irwin, for their heroism in savin- two smaller girls from drowning. Mount Albert sponsored a Spring F3910“ Show presented by the merchants 0f “6“” market. The proceeds, $102 were given i“ the fund for new washrooms in the hall. =Thl5 HOME AND COUNTRY