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Table centres ranged from evergreens to hot house flowers, but the women showed a great deal of ingenuity [in using what. they had. Potted plants, especially African Violets, were popular. _ The programmes at summary days varied. Several had demonstrations in flower arrange- ments for table centres. One had a dairy film. Another had a film on buying meat. In Peterâ€" borough Nancy Conger of the Fisheries De- partment demonstrated a fish casserole, a fish salad and broiled sardine and cheese sand- wiches. Books of fish recipes were distributed here. One group had a competition in menu planning. Always one of the most interesting parts of the programme was the report by local leaders of the work in the local groups. It was generally agreed that “The Third Meal” project had been fun. There were amusing stories of trying out new dishes on the family. There were accounts of contests and panel discussions on menu planning; and a humorâ€" ous skit or two. New Lamps For Old Peel, York, Halton, Lennox and Addington, Northumberland, Hastings, Glengarry, Pres- cott, Stormont, Russell and Dundas counties took the project “New Lamps For Old.” The instructor, Miss Jeanne Armour, explains that there are two objectives in this project: to teach good lighting and good construction of lampshades; and that the benefits of a sumâ€" mary day are the exchange of ideas, the enâ€" thusiasm of the larger group and the opporâ€" tunity to make a closer appraisal of one’s own work after seeing the work of others. At the summary days the women showed a delightful originality in both the lampshades they had made and the bases they had found or adapted to go with them. At the training school they had worked on a light weight cardboard. In their groups and individually they worked on parchment, wall paper, and burlap. They got inexpensive “cover paper” from newspaper offices and decorated it with designs, stencils and cut-outs. In devising bases they not only had ingenious ideas of their own but they showed taste and Al Peel's summary day the Coledon group used a drapery background for lheir exhibil of lamp shades. Al right the instrutlor, Miss Jeanne Armour, discusses a shade with one of the local leaders. skill in harmonizing base with Shade and both with the other furnishings of the-room The bases included old coal oil lamps, a pm“, lamp made from coat hangers and [lllt' from an angle iron, a variety of earthenware jug; and glass bottlesâ€"some of the bottle. filled with coloured stones to weight them, a colleg can wound with twine and painted, 01,: pm, candlesticks and driftwood. ’ To add to the interest of the display: ,0“. of the lamps were shown with matching litres. sories. One woman had a lampsha‘é. and cushion made from the same material! Some had made shades from the same mat-ml a,» their window drapes. One used buy a 1.7., her lampshade and the same burlap to r .717 a honey pail for a jardiniere and an 10: mm container for a waste basket. A nur ‘- [,1 women had painted a cardboard Show and sponged on another colour. One of u- m1,» plest and most eEective tricks was to r t a lampshade of wall paper matching th« -' illel‘ on the wall. One woman used cut-out Hm nursery wall paper to decorate a shad r nursery lamp and this lamp was on v lay with a book of nursery rhymes. Another mp showed a hooked rug and lampshades "[e the same stencil pattern, in differem cs, had been used for the rug design a he lampshades. Demonstrations and skits were outst mg features of the programmes. At York'- .‘,- mary day one group put on a skit 1‘ in}; the history of lamps from candlelight t w» tricity. Another had a skit “New Lam, m Old” in rhyme, with a woman dressed m an old discarded lamp. They took he: a group work shop, measured her for - ~w shade and gave her a complete transforn' In. One group demonstrated making lampr wt: for Christmas decoration, using Chm us wrapping paper for some shades, CL its from Christmas cards on plain papr. HI others. Leonard group in Russell county got ; w. from a local radio station to interview m in a tape recording, each woman expl: mg how she had made her shade or both it and base for her lamp. One ingenious was made from old radio parts, the lad speaker horn” forming the shade. One _ an’s husband, a welder, helped her to m. a very modern base from copper tubing. Chesterville in Dundas county had a» H- teresting display including bases fi‘Om ? “V” of ancient bottles dug up from the St. I 1“ ence seaway and a shade made to com‘ .w orate this geeâ€"physical yearâ€"a design a rocket circling among the stars and the I in. And by the way, the Dundas summary my came at the time of a heavy snow storm ‘1d the women had to actually wade th'l" snow Where no car could travel. The '1'“ of the women was evident again on Storn‘ 5: summary day. Through some misundersi 1(1- mg the electric power had been cut off fivm the hall, and on the spur of the moment ‘1‘5- R. Baxter invited the crowd to her luvme where they carried out their programm‘ HOME AND coum RY