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.very valuable before it was completed and we are glad to hear that the Hailsham ladies cherish it.“ Mrs. Patterson also reports the lnstitute‘s KITS and other variety numbers at exten- S sion service Summary Days seem to bring to the fore a lot of talent in writing paro- dies of well known poems and relating them to the project in hand. Here is one by Mrs. Joanne Barrie of South Thunder Bay District. on the "143 Pounds of Meat" project. Mrs. Barrie introduced her verses by saying: “Many of you are familiar with the poem 'lf’ written by the famous poet ’Rudyard Kipâ€" ling‘. I am going to quote a few lines from the poem ‘If'. ‘If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too‘, “and the last four lines: ‘If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seeonds‘ worth of distance runâ€" Yours is the Earth and everything that‘s in it. And what is moreâ€"you‘ll be a Man. my son!‘ “This is a sequel to Rudyard Kipling‘s ‘ll': If you can cook your meat when all about you Are buying roasts and using them in stews; If you can train yourself to buy the right cut, Then the culinary arts have met your cues. If you can fill the pocket of a beef heart With dressings seasoned to the right de- gree; And cook it in a moistened heat procedure. My ladies, you will earn a pedigree. If you can take some carrots and some celery Some turnips, onions maybe one or two: And add them to your meat browned without flour And from these make a very tasty slew. UMMEI I962 Parody Poets at production of a play "Pennies for Peace,“ writâ€" ten by Mrs. Lymburner depicting a meeting of A.C.W.W. executives which she attended on her visit to London last year. Summary Days It' you can take the meat course we have taken. Where problems are thoughts conveyed; Yours is the Cuisine filled with information. Andâ€"what is morevyou are :1 Cook, sell made!" discussed and til (i I! A member of Mt. Brydges Institute wrote a piece to be sung to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda" at Middlcscx Summary Day. Here is part of it: "Once a jolly Institute. Mt. Brydges Institute. Took a little meat course at Strathroy one day. (Took this way. not that way, for this way‘s the host way And so they learned the new way at Strathroy one day. They learned the little cheap cuts. they also learned short cuts. On how to cook most every meat any old way. Roast this one. fry that one. hroil this one. bake that oneâ€" They taught us all together at Mt, Brytlgcs one day." a Cloverleaf Institute has sent in a good skit “The Crooked Hookers“ by Mrs. Carl West. presented at the Summary Day on Hooked Rugs. It may be borrowed from the Loan Library. Home Economies Service. 20 Spadina Road. Toronto. We suggest that ready made skits he used only as a guide. A great deal of the interest of a skit comes from having it related to the Institute presenting it. a it! Q At Grey County's Summary Day on Block Printing the Briar Hill and Annan sang this parody composed by Mrs. Harold Scott. Here are two verses and the chorus. The tune of course is "Jingle Bells". Dashing thru' the snow On cold dark nights we went To join with other girls And learn to lino print. With cutting tools so sharp. 39