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Special Programs and Projects A Note to P.R.O.s The purpose of this special Programs and Projects section is to give Public Relations Officers a spot in Home and Country where they can tell all the Institutes of the Province about anything done in their own Institute which might offer a suggestion to other branches. As we have explained in previous issues, we cannot give space to routine reports of meet- ings â€" unless the program is so original or outstanding as to give an idea to other Inâ€" stitutes. A particularly good subject for a topic‘ discussion, debate, motto or roll call would be welcome. Some years ago it was decided that we could not report anniversary Celebrations. These are of interest mainly in the local community where the participants are known and of course P.R.O.'s will see that they get into the local papers. And please note that to produce an illustra- tion we require a photograph, not the negative; and that we cannot make a cut from a colored picture or from a slide. Perhaps the best way to see the sort of material we need for this section is to look a! the topics in this and previous issues. Then, as P.R.0. for your branch or district or area, if you have a story that should be told, do, please, send it alongâ€"Editor. Relics in an Algoma Hall By Peggy Suddaby T OUR ALGOMA North Shore District A Annual. our guest speaker, Mrs. R. C. Walker. Provincial Tweedsmuir History Curator, was quite intrigued by the collection of stoves used to heat the Desbarats Com- munity Hall. This box stove is like one with which she must have had some experience. It sits near the platform and close to the door to the kitchen. At the back of the hall and near the outside door is a large barrel type stove about four feet long and two feet in diameter. In the kitchen is a Franklin type heater with a front to open to resemble a fire place. Fires of hardwood blocks placed in the three stoves a couple of hours prior to any 20 function warm the hall. However there is al. ways a draft along the floor as each new arrival opens the door. Such a stove and the heavy iron poker was standard equipment in the one-room rural school until just a few years ago. Some of us can remember sitting around the stove in the winter mornings. The high chair was one of the old items on display. It is not an antique but is over fifty years old and, despite the use by some ten children, is in pretty good condition. It was given to my daughter when she was tiny by a good friend of my husband’s parents It is still in use when my youngest grand- child arrives. The design is rather unique. By lifting lightly on the handle at the back it can br easily rolled to anywhere in the house. When set down the back legs are on the floor. ll is steady and very hard to tip. Just under the back of the seat is a plea of mechanism which can be lifted quit» easily, The legs spread to front and rear am the seat sinks to about a foot above the floor it then becomes a stroller. By catching th arms and lifting, it becomes a high chair agai: and locks quite securely. I have only In: one person who has seen a chair like thi People at the annual meeting thought much better than the present high chairs lh are so hard to keep clean. The seat is call and there is no trouble from dampness. have the tray but find it much handler to I' the youngster in the chair. Needless to s. the youngest, as well as most of the otlu children who used it, likes it best as a strolle- A New Local Leader Venture OMETIMES A WOMEN’S INSTITUT S reports that there are no young worn. in their organization and the women ‘ middle age or older are not interested ' learning new ways of cooking or sewing other lines of homemaking so they do rt apply for these services. Perhaps it is undl Standable that older women do not have eiil‘ the interest or the need of information i homemaking that a young mother can put practical use. But the older women in Institute can help the young women to 1. this sort of education when it might be 13 ficult for the young women to organize for themselves. Here is what is being donC Heathcote: About a year ago, Mrs. Hazel Rogers l' ‘ president of Heathcote Women’s Instill. J wrote the Home Economics Branch: “We have organized about fifteen you? mothers into a club of their own. Their Cililfii HOME AND COUNT”:Y