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will be happy to know that Miss‘Helen McKercher has been appointed Director of Home Economics Service. Extension Branch, Ontario Department of Agriculture, to succeed Miss Anna 1?. Lewis who left the government service to be married last April. Miss McKercher comes from a farm home near Dublin in Huron county. Graduating from Macdonald Institute in 1930 she spent 'a few months in dietetics at the Ottawa CiVic Hospital. She joined the Ontario Department of Agriculture in 1931 serving as a member of the Women‘s Institute Branch until 1941 when she joined the armed services serving with the Royal Canadian Navy. On her discharge she took her Master's Degree at Cerneil University majoring in Home Economies and extension procedures. Following this she returned to the Women's Institute Branch and later was appointed chief of the Home Economics Serv- ice of the Federal Department of Fisheries. Miss McKercher's duties will include supere vision of the activities of both the Senior and Junior groups. She brings to this office not only a very special education and broad ex- perience, but also a happy personality and a keen interest in rural people. ONTARIO Women‘s Institute members Miss Helen McKercher, Director of Home Economics Service, Ex1ension Brunch, Ontario Department of Agri- culture. Our Cover Story HEN we asked the President of Winona institute, Mrs. R. S. McIntyre, for some facts about their Institute's rug that won first prize in the provincial rug com- petition sponsored by the Salada Tea Com- pany, We found that the points of the star represent the ten provinces of Canada with an extra star each for Ontario and Quebec. (Perhaps the eleventh and twelfth points might be taken to stand for the Yukon and the North West Territories.) The flowers in the design, moving antiâ€"clockwise. are the wild rose for Alberta, wild blue Iris for Quebec, white trillium for Ontario, pitcher plant for Newfoundland, violet for New Brunswick, dogwood for British Columbia, trailing arbutus for Nova Scotiagthe iris and the trillium are repeated hereâ€"the lily for Saskatchewan, the crocus for Manitoba and the lady’s slipper for Prince Edward Island. Very special care was taken to have the floral coloring exactly right. We wanted to know more about Mrs. Pylyâ€" pu1k, the Institute member who designed the 4 rug. and we found that her parent in brought to Canada with their familic Hr; the Ukraine when they were very yOUi 'iur dren. “You can say," Mrs. McIntyre suc 'oci. “that though Mrs. Pylypuik was born 1 in: ada she inherited her talent for design; .mn £01“ rug making from her European :L‘k- ground." (Just another case of someoa “on another country making a contributioi Hlli Canadian culture, in the field of at an” crafts.) It seems that the women of Winor; low been interested in rug making for year dict- Mrs. Pylypuik has been studying desi: 3”" collecting information on rugs for 50” m." Four years ago she Visited at the hot” 01 “ veteran rug maker of Winona, Mrs. Jes Bill gar, and had her first lesson in rug h ‘31“: Later she took some special training 1 m? ing. Most of the women around Win; 1 a“ skilled rug hookers so it was not difi 21 1’ find good craftswomen in the Instituli. to. do the actual work on the rug for the comPV‘W" HOME AND COUNTRY