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The Girls’ Conference dred and eighty-two 4-H Homemaking Club girls from Kenora to Carleton and Essex to Cochrane. converged on the Ontario Agricultural College {or a conference on_the theme “You and Your Home." They lived in the Macdonald Institute students' retu- dences. They played games on the campus and swam in the college swimming pool. They visited the green-houses and had a bus tour to places of interest over the college farm. They were associated throughout the conference with Miss Florence Eadie, Miss Jean Scott and Miss Lulu Row of the Home Economics Extension Service and the County Home Economists. Misses Ruth Shaver, Mari- lyn Huber. Robin Putcher, Barbara Bull. Sandra Thibaudeau and Shirley Bullock. They saw demonstrations and listened to speeches and they did some demonstrating and Speak- ing themselves. They took part in discussions, they inked questions and they learned some thing about choral Singing. They also made a lot of new friends. Altogether it was quite II” I'Kpl'l’fl'nfe. A Welcome to the College Welcoming the girls to the College. the l'nnidr-nt, Dr .J' D, MacLachlan told them that ll’lt‘l't' was :1 time when it was considered it privilege to live in the city. Now everyone warm .1 nice home in the country, and the girl wlm |1vc< In the country has a great nppnrtiniity to create good standards in country lilo To do this she needs the best {ill} can itct in cducntinn and training for the life lick-rt- hcr Dr Margaret McCrL-ady presented some of ill“ problems of the times all'ecting family life and surm- current criticisms of “teen» liuvrfi " ()m- of thc pressures of modern living is mused by thc efforts of advertisers to con- \‘lnm‘ m that the first duty of an American i; to be a consumer, that the morc conspicuâ€" uu-ily we consume the more conspicuously we do our duty. said Dr, McCrcady. So wc have the glassy magazines devoted to fashion and mun-catching The age of sexâ€"consciousness h being pushed lowcr and lower. We see red fingernails OFF” on babies. The corsage busi- tics.» iv. "nufl‘lhlflflâ€"HOWPI‘S being a must even for the sub-teenager And fathers are rit‘plt'll‘ti In cartoons, slowing away that their fllnlllll‘x’ may consume more conspicuously. At the «.nnu- ium- magazme adVice columns are filled With emotional problems and suggestions for hnvmg dates n-plcnty. "What a picture!" said Dr. McCrendy. "What an indictment at v» lVl‘fi and young women?" ON THE LAST week of June, one hun- llcceriily thcrc seems to he an upsurge of npllllflll against this popularity of spoiled youth Dr McCrcady quoted Frank Tumpanc who. writing in Maclean's Magazine “Stop pampering our smart-aleck tam They know the answers before you n question. They know and they wan; you." The obvious conclusion, Dr. M: said. is that there is a gap to bridge in. adolescence and maturity. and one help is to have more understanding 0: cratic family life and of the life of l: vidual members. Speaking of careers for girls, Dr. M. said that careers did not necessarily girl away from marriage. and that :- men need educated wives for their 0-. happiness and development. An edu-_- home economics, in addition to prep; girl for a satisfying vocation. helps h. effective in her main job of persona and in the life of the family and ti- munity. Following Dr. McCready's the girls were taken on a tour of Mn Institute where staff members explaiv school's courses in Clothing, Textile.» and Nutrition. Home Planning and Ar‘ Management and Social Sciences. 1.2 A Girl and Her Home Rev. W. A. Young. the College (‘- spoke on the conference theme "Y Your Home." Following is a part Young's address: "When I started to look up defin: home I was confused. There were w because home is something bigger th one can put into words. Lets us pu' way. Away back in the time of pi man when your forefathers wander. place to place, there were times, jusi when storms came, or cold. or damp the people found a cave where the} have shelter. When father caveman u hunting all day. here was a place it: could rest without fear of his enemies cavewoman could put her babies tin know they would not. be harmed. Johnny and Mary were out plan: danger threatened, they could scampcr the shelter of the cave. That was th- ning of home. "That is what home still is.â€"a sin refuge where we find warmth, and l--‘ SHINY. and peace. And. in the futuri you have a home of your Own. you “ back longingly many times to the Sir homc.â€"-with Mom and Dad to pro“- and to love you there. "Today. the cave has become an n Place with furnaces. and electriclii- washing machines. and telephones. an vision sets. But. essentially, it is an; the cave was. a shelter from the st“ NE. a retreat from the hardness of t: side world. "our AND (0‘ "m