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The Signpost, ‘May 1, 1985, lenow your Federated Women's Institutes of Canada ’ 9000UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU AS THE WORLD SEES US We're going to show you As well as we can How the world sees the women Who make up our clan Women’s Institute members Are normal, you know. But the way the word sees us Is not always so. We think of ourselves As plain Mary or Jane And we don’t think our actions Are hard to explain. But I'm really surprised And I'm really surprised And I’m sure you are too At the way people see All the things that we do. To many fine people The housewife is our role With a mop in our hand And no hope in our soul They see us as noble Dependable creatures With red dishpan hands And non-descript features. There some folks who think Doing crafts is our thing That we knit and we knot And we crochet with string That we quilt and we sew And we hook, rugs we mean And we garden and plant To keep Canada green. Some people think gossip's The- thing that we do And at meetings the air turns A fine shade of blue But we have to remind them The men tell us more When they come from the mail Or the General Store. And then there's the people Who want a good meal For a wedding, a banquet A fair or bonspiel They don’t have much money ‘GauSe ,mebody blew it But the know that 'The institute Women will do it. There's a terrible image We put to rest , Thatiiv'e’re all nearing ninety Arid way pasmur best by: Jane Burnell We're seen as the grandmas Who drink lots of tea And talk of the way That the world used to be. The husband is left holding The baby at home When to meetings, conventions, And minis we roam They look at our motto And say with a groan I’d mind the country if she’d mind the home. Some organizations see Us as the goose That lays golden eggs That their projects could use Their needs are so great And their problems are worse They’d love to dip into The Institute purse. They’re never at home They're all over the earth At meetings in Kenya And Hamburg and Perth A passport in one hand A map in the other You‘d wonder their husbands Don’t go home to mother. And then some folk think Women’s Lib is our cause The radical fringe Out there changing the laws They ask us "why haven’t you Burned your bra yet" Well, most of us need all The help we can get. 50 there's some of the ways That the world seems to view us Some candid appraisals What harm can it do us The view of the masses Don't let it trouble Nothing can hurt F.W.I.C. So there’s some of the ways That the world seems totv‘iew us' it's not hard to see All the harm it can do us Folks really don’t know 1 All the good things we do How we strive to help women And families too.