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Like many other club leaders. Mrs Stanley Franks traces her interest as a leader back to her experience as a club member. This is part of her story: "I started homemaking club work when I was about seventeen and our Institute sponsored its first club â€" the "Supper Club". A lot of us lived away out in the country and it was a wonderful chance to get out together once It week or so. We enjoyed the fellow- ship: we loved cooking and sewing or shampooing someone's hair in the 'good grooming” lessons. My sisters and I put on snow-shoes and tramped across the fields when there was no other way to get to a club meeting. I think I took six club units. Then I married and led one club the following year. I have five children so I did not have much time for club work until about 1951. There was no Institute in the community where I was living â€"â€" one has been organized since then: but I allowed myself to be persuaded to lead a club. It was the Sleeping Gar- ments club and I had fourteen girls. Only about two of them could even use a machine so we really had a time. However. my assistant leader was an excellent sewer, and she had the only button-hole maker in the community which was a wonderful help. Those pyjamas eventually got to Achievement Day and I was proud of them and of my girls. They came to us for help between meetings and I like to think we helped the girls who needed help." Mrs. Franks later moved to another community where she again worked both as assistant and as leader. Mrs. D. C. Johnston is one of those who became a leader g first a leader's assistant â€" while she was still a club member taking the project herself. She says: “I think my mother had as much as anyone to do with my becoming interested in Women‘s Insti- tutes and Homemaking Clubs. She has been a very faithful Institute member and took her turn as a club Icader, and I guess some of her interest rubbed off on me." Mrs. Robert Smith says she is a club leader beâ€" cause she enjoys working with girls and because it is rather difficult to find leaders in her locality. There are a good number of girls in the community and she does not want them to miss the opportunity of club work, She adds, "Also, I feel I am getting a great deal out of the Leaders‘ Training Sum.” in sewing and nutrition.“ As one of her reasons for being a clutt tum. Mrs. E. Carman says: "During the vteen “wimp are in a receptive frame of mind so I am .,11 f taking advantage of it." We think that Mrs. 1 ,. 0 l‘ hots r -' own experience as a girl may be partly n. “2:8: for her interest too. Starting club work in i .35 \he had completed enough clubs to receive he. t film“ Honours in 1939. She explains: "I missed . duh ifi l I937 as my mother died suddenly that you “my remember I felt overwhelmed with my run imhii. lies. I recall that I wanted especially to t.t‘ Man in the Menu' as I had to buy and cook tht ti [or the family and it was something I had t i am before." Later Mrs. Carman has led clubs l 1 m, 5 Clothing and Gardening. Her daughter hot m re; ceive her County Honours this year and ‘1. (gr. man says "I feel she is doing better we. Mm if she were just learning under my direction," lcels however that club girls are helped greuti the encouragement of their mothers. Mrs. Frank Brown is a leader became fen she would like to have a share in helpin It to have the best available knowledge of hm he a happy, healthy and economical homemat \Irs. T. Gemmill, because She has a 'teenagt shin who is now taking her tenth unit and bee. i fatten she sees, at an Achievement Day, the TL'U- wk: and the work the girls have done, she ll the time she has spent with them has been to. we Mrs. N, Norsworthy, like several otln LIVES her time and talents to club leading lJEC‘ttlI' i; a club member meant so much to her as a And she adds: “Although Mother was a wonder ime- maker and a good cook and sewer, it is (lltl i: for a mother to teach her daughter all the intt r.‘\ of baking and sewing. They just don’t have rt. ‘ e to sit down with their daughters and explain 1h such as fagoting, shell hems and all the diffen Milli unless the girl is making something that ‘tlllES these. Some mothers never had a chant». wart] all about the structure of woollens or the t: titles for health." Miss May Hayward began leading a El when she was only sixteen years old. Now «it her lennox and Addinglo" counlY gir|5. 0t One Of the forty Achievement Days held in 1935. the first year of‘ the Homemaking Club programme. The girls are wearing dresses they made in the Clothing Club unit "A Simple CottOn Dress". 20 HOME AND CO”“‘“