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Take time to love and be loved; it is a God- given privilege, Take time to be friendly; it is the road to happiness. Take time to laugh; it is the music of the soul. Take time to give; it is too short a day to be selfish. _ " Take time to work; it is the price of success. Entertainment and Exhibits The conference was well provided with en tertainment. Women who arrived on the after- noon before the sessions began were taken on bus trips around the campus. There were tours of Macdonald Institute, and films in Memorial Hall-â€"“Stratford Adven'ture;” “The Children,” a U.N.I.C,E.F. picture produced by United Na- tions Department of Public Information show- ing the World Health Organization dealing with malaria, yaws and tuberculosis to save the world’s children; “The Beautiful Neces- sity,” a picture of Sovereign Potteries‘ indus- try from the potter‘s clay to the most beautiâ€" ful chinaware; “Three to Get Ready," three meals a day to get ready and three children to get ready for a healthy adulthood. John Eccles of the College Department of Public Relations spoke on the use of films by rural organiza- tions distributing lists of films that could be borrowed from the Collegeâ€"and suggesting that the Women’s Institutes give some thought to the sort of films they would like to has, produced for their use. ' U.N.E.S.C.O. had an exhibit illumam, some of their work, and Miss Evans 1h... Ontario Travelling Libraries Branch “:13 “r, hand throughout the conference with a .1,,,,,,, lating exhibit of books available 1.7. _ groups through the travelling libraries There were intervals of really good . llrii‘ Ontario County Junior Farmers’ Chow Wilt their leader Mrs. Russell provided mt {m one evening session and a women‘s mm directed by Mr. R. Kidd of the Colleg, . 4,, tained at another session. There was an. “M” and piano recital by Mr. and Mrs. Km: And when Mrs. MacPhatter announced lli um session of community singing she W “There’s nothing unusual in communit} nu. ing, but until you've had community i Lmu with Padre Young and with Mrs, Kidd v m; piano, you don't know what communitv “g. ing is.“ Other appreciated numbers ._ 2h, programme were provided by Institute- 1T;- bers: readings by Mrs. J. S. Dunbar am? «11 by Mrs. G. P. Britton and Mrs. G. A .t Mrs. E. V. Thompson, the efficient, ll: 41“, gracious conference secretary, review ‘hi. conference and announced that 520 seen: res had registered; there would be anothu; .n. ference next year for the rest of the .u taries of the province, ' Miss Christmas of Denman College N THE QUEEN’S New Year’s Honours List Miss Elizabeth Christmas was awarded the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her work as Warden of Denman Collegeâ€" the Women‘s Institute College of England. Many of our own Institute women will re- member Miss Christmas as a visitor to Canada in the spring of 1945. At that time she was organizer for the National Federation of Womâ€" en’s Institutes in England and Wales and was sent to Canada by the British Ministry of In- formation on a good will mission, to carry to every province in the Dominion the thanks of the people of Britain for all that had been done to help them during the war years, A sparkling, gracious, dark-eyed, young woman, Miss Christmas charmed people wherever she travelled, and this note from her farewell message to the women of Canada is as timely today as it was eleven years ago: “Keeping ourselves alive to the needs of others will still be our aim in this postwar period, but perhaps the most important work which the Institutes can do is to train the members to be the sort of citizens who will think for themselves and not be blindly led; who learn to do a first-class job of homeâ€" making, but whose vision is not bounded by the kitchen sink; who will work intelligently for the welfare of the community and who understand that in a world where we all de- 18 pend so much on each other, the comb in. is not limited to our township, but CDlT the world and every other human bcm Now Miss Christmas is critically and I. i 1- cally ill. A close friend of Miss Edith C n»: she wrote Miss Collins about her deco Hr “After all my illness absenteeism my I E has really been earned by my dear frie: or: the college staf .” (Incidentally, betwec and six thousand Institute women ha' ready taken courses at Denman Co: . - “When special friends come to see me its: Christmas continued, "the decoration is m: on my nightie. I think I shall have to 31‘ .m exotic black nightie to show it up, a lit ribbon is a rich salmon pinkâ€"I expect 1" called something very different by the WI Chamberlain, but that is what it look; writ to me.” The sequel to this is that Miss Collins. Hi1 Marjorie Lee and Mr. Ewen, who can t0 know Miss Christmas through their A0 i “ visits to England, sent the black nightir. And Miss Christmas replied from her bed I a nursing home that she “never had 5U i 3 glamorous garment” and that she is trri' L‘ W find someone to take a colored picture 01 “91' in her “regalia.” So this valiant Woman continues to shed her charm and her inspiration. HOME AND coumRY