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Dr. Helen Abell, Prolessor ol Sociology, Ontario Agricultural College, talks with conference delegates following her ad- dress on "The Role of Rural Girls A! Home and Abroad." mud floor of their huts; and to show them how to improvise stoves and cook their food. In the far East where very few of the people have enough to eat, Dr. Sanderson said. the low income and inadequate diet re- sult in retarded growth and general apathy. They are always tired, always struggling to get food. Often the water supply is unsafe so disease is rampant and the average span of life is thirtyâ€"five years, whereas in Canada it is si\ty-fi\-‘e with many of our population living to be over ninety. "A woman‘s education should help her to find her role in society," Dr. Sanderson told the girls. and her education both formal and informal should help her with her homemak- ing. With all the new household equipment and processed foods it may be difficult for a girl to learn homemaking from her mother. The Canadian Association of Consumers is trying to help with these and other consumer problems. But the great problem of our time is the problem of hunger over the world. Dr. Sanderson quoted this statement from Presiâ€" dent Kennedy: “So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two- thirds of the world has a food deficiency, no citizen and no nation can afford to feel secure. We have the ability, we have the means and the capacity to eliminate hunger. We need only the will.” The girls were taken on a tour of Mac- donald Institute. Several of them plan to en- roll for the degree course there this fall. Rural Girls At Home and Abroad With a showing of very enlightening slides, Dr. Helen Abell, Professor of Sociology at the Ontario Agricultural College gave the girls a picture of the role of rural women in Nigeria. The slides showed Moslem men â€" but no womenâ€"out for a holiday; a Moslem family 14 including more than one wife and childr i widely varying ages; a family in their v primitive hutsâ€"each wife has a hut ho» . small; a meat market with no sanitary pl tion for the meat; the village Comr clothes washing in a streamâ€"the mcn d washing because women are not allon. appear in such a public place; children g ing wood along the roadside to sellâ€"then no schools for the children but a Mosler may go to live with a learned man to g struction in religion; 21 picture of the hell i ceremony of a nine-year-old girl; a u. delivering milk. carrying a gallon of it u head: an elevenâ€"year-old girl salvaging gr nuts after most of the crop has been tut market, roasting and grinding them; \\. threshing grain by pounding it, then gll ; it into meal. Dr. Abell told of the suffering of u '1 through superstitions such as the belief l i woman giving birth to twins or in other tiple births, was an adulteress. This and other superstitions have been destroy missionaries and one of the slides shower n very intelligent, happy looking young \\ ' who acted as interpreters for Dr. Abell . of these girls had been educated in a R. a Catholic, one in a Protestant mission. From the pictures shown, Dr. Abcll - L‘ a comparison of the roles of rural g“ Canada and in Nigeria. In Canada a girl goes to school from 3 age of five or six; in Africa girls are npected to be educated. From the late 1681‘ the Canadian girl may be working at "r vocation and she may be engaged to be 1" ried or thinking of it; in Africa she woul- he married and would have two or three - -l- drcn. A Canadian woman usually lives it "‘0 seventy or more and after her children -i'3 growu up she finds other interests, perhfli ' “1 HOME AND com-WHY