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The next project has to do with the Eskimos .md Indians of our own Canadian North, The thicle “Institute in the Yukon" by Mrs. William Hough in this issue tells about the Institute or- :anized at Haines‘ Junction a few years ago. A’itrs. Hough. formerly an Ontario girl. was the moving spirit in getting this Institute started. Un. iortunately Mrs. Hough's husband and son were trowned in this area last year: since then Mrs. iough has returned to Ontario. Observers from Haines' Junction have been inâ€" ited to the next FWIC Convention. and FWIC ,as asked the Department of Northern Affairs or their support in organizing more Institutes I the Yukon and the North West Territories. for re benefit of Eskimo and Indian women as ell as the women who are moving into the orth with their husbands and families from all rts of Canada. There are four areas of settlement, each com- :tely isolated from the others: the Mackenzie ver delta, the southern Mackenzie Valley. the :llowknife and the area at Frobisher Bay. The i gical plan is to concentrate on the south Mac- ' ‘nzie because a start has already been made at lines' Junction and the Department has offered send Mrs. Hough to the southern Mackenzie a month to examine the possibilities of or- nizing more Institutes. another FWIC enterprise last year was to buy Adelaide Hunter Hoodless birthplace near St. I urge. Ontario, With the hope of presenting it the National Historic Sites Board. All plans ; now completed except the presentation to the .trd. \lrs. Roylance announced that the FWIC sub- -cutive has recommended that $1000 of the ifit made on the Women's Institute Stump ‘st Day Cover be given as a donation to the dy Aberdeen scholarship originated at the WW Conference in Edinburgh. It was also V :gested that the ACW‘W “Pennies for Friend- p" fund might be augmented by having a lik. shaped like a five cent piece. placed at all ! strict and Provincial conventions this year. Ihe next National Convention will be held at University of British Columbia in 1961 be- lfllng on June 19. In addition to delegates. vis- its will be allowed frOm all provinces. The tigramme will be built around the Citizenship Liv programme concerning “Our First and New nadians,“ the Home Economics study “Eat to Se" and the agricultural study of Conservation, ifiollowing this address, Mrs. Roylance, Mrs. l mburner and Mrs. Haggerty paid a tribute to t|= late Mrs. Hugh Summers who had served as t‘ wincial president, national president and vice- ? sident of the international organization t W. and who died last April. ._...,â€"w. Home Economics Service \iiss Helen McKercher, Director of Home E rinomics Extension Service in the Ontario De- PI-rtment of Agriculture, spoke primarily of the findings of the Survey of Farm Homes and Homemakers introduced in her programme about a Year ago, the first sociological survey of its lwtd to be conducted in Canada. Summaries 0f “it results of the survey are not complete but SUMMER I960 * * it LILACS By Bob Adams 0 here and there, on poorer lands, An old deserted homestead stands. In patient sadness to deplore The guests who come again no more. For many feet that used to go Across its threshold to and fro. Far roads and trails have learned to know, And those who built it long of old Have mingled \\ ith the churchyard mold. The human brood has swarmed and gone, But lilacs in the yard bloom on, And ever, as the old house grieves, Are pressing upward toward its caves The tender green hearts of their leaves. The mother's hands were rough with toil Who set that lilac in the soil. Thanks be to God who gave the wife One touch of beauty in her life, The father worked from sun to sun: For living was not lightly “on. The fields where he \\ as Wont to grub Are overgroun with brush and scrub. His walls are do“ n. their mighty stones Art: crushed to make :1 roadway-N bones. Lost are l'll\ labors great and small, But mother's bush outlivcs [burn all And ever with the warmth of May, What time we keep Memorial Day, The lilac wakes to sudden bloom And wafts a message to her tomb. Gone are the suns her pangs gave birth. Her fires are (laid upon the hearth; Sunk the flames and black the embers. But the lilac still remembers. lt blooms for her and spreads its scent, The incense of a sacrament. * fir it the Director suggested thal already there are some figures to challenge our thinking with regard to our programme. “You have heard that there is a decline in your membership." Miss McKcrchcr said. “but taken by branches it amounts to only about three-fourths of a member per branch. Let us see if he can‘t get two new members in each branch this year . . . I would congratulate you too. beâ€" cause your membership has not gone down like the rural population has and it is encouraging to read in reports of courses and training schools that many non-members are taking part." The Director advised the women to attract and hold members by having fun at their meetings as Well as :i good educational programme. The survey showed a good proportion of young women in the institute membership f the average age of members being 47 and of the non-mcmbers in- iervici'cd. 4|. And the non-members gave good reasons for not being members such as small children at home or activities in church work. "We also found from the survey that there are mnnv ‘horse and buggy" practices which will have difficulty in surviving in the jet age'." said Miss McKercher. “One of these is the use of raw milk by many farm families. 1 have ‘gone out on a limb' and said that farm Women wrll pasteurize their milk if we in extension scrvtce can tell them how and if we can do it with good public rela» 15