Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1960, page 11

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A Look Ahead Minor)“. Note: This is by no mmm I/tz’ mmtplrlu my; of [Ursa Skinner's udu‘rtau'. .Mrs. Skinner did not have (I manuscript .m the following it trunpilt'ti from reporter’s notes. are always affected by change itnd the rate of change gathers momentum every yCflr. Perhaps this change affects women‘s work more than men's because women‘s goals are not .cl as clearly defined as men's. Anyway the WW tire of change shapes us all whether we are ciy. can or seventy-five; and we have to decide what u discard and what to keep of the old, what to nstttute of the new, [ am a housekeeper. a grandmother. a good -itizen, I hope. So was my grandmother. My rttndmother had very much the same potential 3 l have. How do our lives differ? My grandmother. in my decade. sat in the .iimney cornerâ€"literally and figuratively. I set- ‘nm sit at leisure. My grandmother knitted caps. .nfflors, mittens for all her grandchildren: she NO MATTER what decade we live in we - a comparison of styles of today and twenty-five :ars ago, at Dufterin County’s 4»H Homemaking Club's .enly«‘fif|h anniversary celebration, Willimene Block of caldemar club models the dress made by Mrs. Margaret .ills in her 1935 club project "A Simple Cotton Dress." ‘irs. Mills arranges the dress. Made of sparva cloth at I cents a yard. the dress cost $2.23. FALL I960 Lighting the 25th anniversary birthday cake. Letl, Mrs. Bess McDermand Skinner who as Superintendent of the Ontario Women's Institutes Branch introduced 4-H Homemaking Clubs in Ontario and Miss Florence P. Eadie, Supervisor of Junior Exlension, Home Economics Service, director of the club programme from its begin- mng. also knitted for grandfather. I like to knit. But if I knit sweaters for my twin grandchildren I know that it machine could do it much faster so I am interested in knitting only something cre- alive. My grandmother made the best ungcl Cake in the community. At church suppers it was a centre of admiration and gave her a sense of achievement. It took ten fresh eggs and a great deal of time to make the cake. I make an angel cake from a mix, It isn't its good as grand- mother‘s but it‘s still seventy-five per cent better than the avertth homemade angel cake. It costs less than the ten fresh eggs in grandmother's recipe, it takes ten minutes to make it, and it has builtâ€"in maid service in the wort. done in the factory. I‘m making use of the production line outside my home. I do not have my grand- mother's sense of achievement but for me my way is practical. What about our family life? My grandmother‘s family iivcd T'tcttl' her. My family are scattered. I am part of u Community in which my family does not participate. My grandmother entertained her relatives: she knew them well. My husband and ] rarely entertained relativesflthey were too far away. We entertained business associates from all over the world and mttde deep friendships \Vilh people of common interests. Where did my grandmother go'.’ She Went. to church. She was driven thereâ€"a distance of one- half a mileâ€"in :t clean buggy with a shining horse and greased harness and was helped out at the entrance with dignity and decorum. And at her church she met not only her God but her 11

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