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as a home economist gives her a partâ€"time career with some income. Mrs. McAllister stressed the importance of education for farm- ers and farmers’ wives. She quoted an econâ€" omist as saying that farm income increases faster where the farmer has an education; it increases still faster where both the farmer 'and his wife are educated. Mrs. Gillespie added the thought that a girl needs all the education she can get, not only for the sake of an income but for her enjoyâ€" ment and a fuller life. The educated person has a capacity for enjoyment that the ignorant person hasn't. And even if she marries, a situa- tion may arise where she has to be both homeâ€" maker and breadwinner, so every girl should be trained for some skilled work, some special vocation. There was some discussion of the education we can give ourselves after our formal educa- tion, our school days are over. And there was the question “What will my education mean to me twenty years from now?" A girl whose mother had been a great help to her with her school work said, “I hope I will be able to give my children the same help twenty years from now.” The Girls Take Over At this annual conference everyone is espe- cially interested in the exhibits and skits pro- vided by the girls themselves and in the findings from their group discussions on club work. This year the Palermo Club (leader Mrs. C. H. Kingston) and the Queensville Club (leader Ontario Department of Agriculture sluf‘l at the conference banquet: Miss Helen McKercher, Director Home Economics Ex- tension Service, Mr. T. R. Hilliard, Acting Deputy Minister, Miss Florence Eadie, Su- pervisor Junior Home Economics Extension. FALL 1961 Mrs. C. Eves) provided two excellent skits "Making the Most of Fruit" by Palermo and “Taking Time Off" by Queensville. Cainsville Club had an engaging exhibit “Separates for Summer” with July Sumler as commentator. Mrs. Donald Clubine was the leader. Questions dealing specifically with club work discussed in small groups and finally in the whole assembly brought out such thinking as this: "A senior club member should visit girls who have recently become twelve years old â€" the age for entrance to a 4â€"H Homemaking Club, and girls who are new residents in the community, to tell them the benefits of club work and invite them to join.” A senior club member might help the leader by doing demâ€" onstrations of work learned in her early club years." “She should make the junior girls feel wanted in the club.“ “A club member in her deportment in public should remember the good manners learned in the club. She should always be well groomed, should not chew gum in public places and should use discretion about the wearing of shorts and slacks" "Club work should be of great benefit to us in the future as homemakers. We actually cook and sew and learn to watch our budget carefully. Our notes, if we have kept them faithfully, will be good for reference later." One girl spoke for many on the future benefits of club work when she listed these benefits: “We learn to make clothes and to cook, to overcome our fear of speaking before people, to conduct meetings, how to conduct ourselves according to the laws of etiquette and good form. to get along with others, to have confidence in our- 15