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Introducing Food Forums of the Ontario Department of Agriculâ€" ture Home Economics Extension Serv- ice is working on a new project for 1963-64 in an effort to extend the service to all women. particularly young homemakers who may not belong to organizations. There are a great many of these young women who are anxious to learn more about foodsâ€"meal planning, shopping. food preparation. time- and-moneyâ€"saving ideas, and so on. And the Women‘s Institutes are the groups who can best put this new service across and so bring to the young women of the communityâ€"â€" whether they belong to the Institute or notâ€" a service that may be of very practical value. THE FOODS AND NUTRITION Section During the past few months the County or District Home Economists in a halfâ€"dozen cenâ€" tres have arranged meetings to discuss local needs with Advisory Committees of women and a representative from head office. These meetings have been very useful and some exâ€" cellent suggestions have been offered. The idea is that the Foods and Nutrition Section will prepare special topics, as far as time and staff permit. and open meetings will be arâ€" ranged on the subject agreed upon by the local committee. A test Food Forum was held in Brockville in April on the topic “Tricks With a Mix." ir * 3" JUNE By james Russell Lowell \Vhat is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it he in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, \Ve hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature’s palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun Atiit like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun p _W1th the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings- He sings to the wide world and she to her nest â€"’ In the nice ear of Nature, which song is the best? it * if 22 t * it PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER Margaret E. Bruner My mother was not one who cared for H. u ., As many did â€"» she chose the hardy kind: Perennials that stayed . . . but many hm.- Shc tended vegetables, nor (lid she mind The toil, for these meant sustenance In I. The hungry mouths: these homely plants In rows, to her, were beauty â€" were a ti Of usefulness, a pledge that she had fllfltl. s ‘Ck Always she liked the elemental [hing-4 a The quaint old ways of doing work by It She liked the fields â€" the song a wild lw Theirs was a language she Could untlerstan. She liked the tunes â€" the poems learned I‘ _.lv And all her long life through she reveran ,i, i it it The instructors made the mix and enc- at the women to make their own at home n, working together the County Home ECt-i -1, with a Foods and Nutrition Speclallhl .m headquarters. and the Foods and N .Il'l supervisor speeding things up in the l n, turned out an array of dishes such he women had never seen at a demonstrai. er fore. There were tea biscuits of Cu 7 plain and in a dozen variations: and scor .ltl coffee cake and fruited yeast rolls zll'lt .‘h biscuit dough desserts as an apricot roll- it and steamed pudding. There was a PM; c. Onion Biscuit Squares to serve with ma i. Meat Turnovers and Salmon Pie ant cakesâ€"plain savoury and dessert w Surprisingly perhaps. in all of these the we economists found a basis for nutrition ing as they went along. The demonstration was held in the c\ t A press report says “Our demonstrator ated nine dishes in the two-hour demons: n but they had worked all day preparin it their show and making other dishes tr hibition. At the close of the program th was turned over to the women for samph 7 and from comments that have been conu ever since, they found it good." Nearly one hundred women from all Leeds county attendedâ€"some from Wol Institutes, some from other organizations. t ably some who belong to no organizati- all: for the Ontario Department of All ture's home economics extension service i all women. Forums are organized through the ("v or District Home Economist. There are h other than Mixes to choose from. The my to this introductory forum in Leeds \va .V good that forums will be held in other a during the year. Any group interested slit . ui get in touch with its County or District Ht e Economist. HOME AND COUNL'V