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living in remote parts of the town, stopping in to rest before the long walk home, have dropped donations into the collection box as have rural people also. With a growmg popu- lation and a touring public the new attractive Rest Room will be a real asset of which all concerned can be proud. The new Rest Room was opened formally on Tuesday, February 12. Mrs. C. H. Helsdon, President of the Women’s Institute, cut the ribbon at the door and the place was declared officially open by Reeve Howard McCombs. Reeve McCombs, Councillors Wm. Smith and L. E. Force, members of the Norwich-Otter- ville Lion's Club and the Women’s Institute, with a few spectators, attended the official ceremony. After Mrs. Helsdon had cut the ribbon, Reeve McCombs presided at a brief program, thanking all who had helped for their co-op- eration and expressing the Council’s satisfac- tion in the building. Mrs. Helsdon then inâ€" vited Mrs. Donald Moore, a Past President, to give a brief history of the lnstitute’s conâ€" necton with the Rest Room. She then thanked the Council and the Lion’s Club for their con- tributions, and Lion President, William Butler, congratulated the Women’s Institute on their achievement and expressed his Club’s appre- ciation of being able to help in making such an attractive and useful building available. Editor‘s Note: It seems to us that the fine com- munity coâ€"opemtion in this enterprise is as note- worthy as the Rest Room itself. Dr. Mary Rulnom â€"Phato courtesy Toronto Telegram 30 Dr Mary Rutnam [TH the Associated Country eryn 0, v 8/ the World meeting in Ceylon tin; tea, Canadians may be rather prgud m; fact that it was a Canadian woman, Dr, . 7 Rutnam, who was responsible for the mum: zation of Women’s Institutes in that U, i - Dr. Rutnam, who was Mary Irwin bc-L was married, is a native of Clinton, 0- After graduating from high school in ( she attended Toronto University whr met her future husband, a native of :7 1,7,], It was in 1896 that Dr. Rutnam went to 1, V1,”; as a medical missionary. Two of her 5‘ also medical doctors. Dr. Rutnam learned about Women's, ,,1_. tutes when she was back in Ontario ‘ 1,. lough in the year 1903. At this time t .m some lecture work for the Women‘s It Branch, speaking at the Summer 8-. Meetings on such subjects as Sanitar: m1 Health, The Law and the Gospel on .1. «u ty, Temperance Considered Sciem ,\' She made a further study of the In ' when she came back to Ontario in 1‘ When Dr. Rutnam returned to Ce}; Slu- rim Rm: :ht; ql' was anxious to get the Institute mt- tint started there. As the result of an addr in: gave at an Allâ€"Ceylon Conference oi .sl Workers held in Colombo in 1929, th ciated Board of Charities was organi: m a Homecraft subâ€"committee prepared a. ‘li7>- mitted a scheme for establishing Won't: In- stitutes in Ceylon. The first Institute 0" ma Mahila Samiti was organized at Pan: .3‘a in August, 1931, with 41 members. B: in! of the following year 12 branches he. -:v:-n organized. There are now over 720 b' lies with a membership of 35,000. Naturally Dr. Rutnam stressed heal up cation. At the A.C.W.W. Conference T07 ronto, Mrs. de Mel, President of the ska Mahila Samiti of Ceylon, said that th‘ ‘J'U- duction of five simple health rules t: as be followed in even the poorest hor ad resulted in an almost complete eradic: 2 of diseases such as hook-worm and malar: ThH decline inchild mortality is also we A of record. In addition to these achieveme 31': Samiti are active in raising vegetables .i 50 imPI‘OVing the diet of the people, in han all nurserY education, cultural education :u i so- cial activities. Dr. Mary Rutnam, a diminutive, vi“ ""115- keen-minded woman of eighty-five, 7:5 a warm place in the hearts of the wow :11 of Ceylon. Her trip to the A.C.W.W. Conl £1199 in her native Canada was the gift of hateful women of Ceylon’s Lanka Mahila Samii ‘ HOME AND CO‘LJE‘ITRY