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A7 Grey county's first home- making clubs‘ Achievement Day, in 1935. Al the right, front row is the County Home Economist, Miss Flora Durnin. Second from left, second row, is her assis- tent for the day, Miss Helen McKercher who, at that time, was Perth County‘s Home Econ. omisi. F rant Extension Staff Reports Editor’s Note: We thought these notes taken om the routine reports of extension slafi mem- ws conducting courses and local leader training 'lmols, might be of interest to a number of our antlers. ULTURAL ACTIVITIES: “This was a Cyoung mothers’ group not connected with any organization. What a grand Institute it 'ould make! All were enthusiastic and were par- cularly interested in the choral reading and irama. The president said ‘We wondered how we :ould spend a whole day on books and reading -ut the day has gone before we realized it’." At another place (this was recorded as an in- Lance of what reading in the home can do for hildren) a mother had read to her son and .iven him an appreciation of English at an early go. He had just graduated from Grade X with ionour standing in ten subjects, 95% in History md 85 in English. ’3 35¢ >14 Home Crafts: Several of the group came to he training school on Hooked Rugs still Wearing he gloves and carrying the purses they had made u our Workshop five years ago.” "For material for rug hooking one woman had .lyed handmade blankets too worn for their orig- ‘nal use. in three soft shades of green. The? Will nake a beautiful rug.” “Several women were interested in dyeing. with "natural materials and they intend to experiment nthis." Ontario Institute members who haVe been tak- -”3 part in the Rugmaking project and who have been using our booklet "Hooked Rugs," may be interested to know that a few copies of the book- let have found their way to Scotland and that the Secretary of the Handicrafts and Housewives' Committees of the Scottish Women’s Rural In- stitutes has written Home Economics Service to SUMMER 1960 \:i_\‘ lhut lhc Scottish unmcn am “most cnthusins- tic";1bout the booklet. [n u Lcnthcrcrafl coursc thc pincc of mccting wns chnngcd from an unused school ilollsc to n privutc home so that two young mothers could bring. ihcu' new hzihics. who bchuvcd beuulil‘ully in their bussincls." .-;r wk Ill A course on Hmpitnlily Foods had such u good :itlcndnncc that the instructor demonslrutctl with double the usual quantity of food. Thcrc were representatives of five lnstilulcs in the class. Of a Millinery coursu :1 member of the clnss who is crippled said. “l'hc coursc is good occu- pational therapy." An instructor cxprcsscs hcr satisfaction with the way the women. nl‘lcr lhcy have niustcrcil thc busic techniques uscd in Millincry, use their own crcutive ability in choice of trimmings and styles. At 1 course on Sandwiches for All Occasions the Institute invilcd two (irndc lX Home Econâ€" omics high school classcs to bc their gucsls. l’orty students and thirty-eight Institute mcmhcrs ul- tentlcd. ‘ ‘ p At Leonard in Russcll county. at lhc Rug- muking project Summary Day. it mcmbcr brought in not only the rug mudc in thc currcnl project but also :t rug made during a short course in Rugmaking 25 years ago, when thc members brought in wool sheared from their-own shccp and at the course dyed and prepared it for hook- ing. Our instructor says this Wits a bcauéiful rug in soft colours and of a landscape design. suitable for a wall hanging. Another rug in the display of old rugs at this Summary Day was made In l9Ul. it was nol hookcd, but loops of yarn Wurc made by sewing them over a pencil. 25