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Twelve-yeor-old Elizabeth Fun of Macao, the child Rocklyn Institute has sponsored for three years through the Save the Children Fund. With her is her little sister. Since their mother died Elizabelh has taken care of the little one, besides going to school father. a refugee from Canton, is a mechanical engineer and teaches in Macao at a salary of approximately $23 a month. Since we ‘adopt- ed‘ Elizabeth her mother passed away and she must now care for her younger sister as well as go to school. She is a very good student, receiving high marks. “A member of our Institute. Mrs. Horwood, returning from the A.C.W.W. conference in Australia tried to visit Elizabeth, but because of the huge numbers of refugees entering Macao at the time she could not get through. Since that time, Mrs. Horwood has sponsored a child on her own through the Save the Chil- dren Fund. 75 is $5: As a centennial project, Rocklyn bought and planted thirty flowering crab trees. The presi- dent says: “We hope they will be in full bloom to help ‘make Canada lovelier‘ in 1967." Ruscom reports a very successful “Tweedsâ€" muir Tea“ at which they had on display their Tweedsmuir History and a large “beautifully designed" and framed painting of the Women‘s Institute Badge with the motto “For Home and Country.” The report says: “The badge was done by people of the community and later purchased by the Institute.” 28 Mainsville, in addition to sending Chrlslmqs baskets to the sick and shutâ€"in and card; [0 senior citizens, helped to cut the grams in a local cemetery and paint the fence posts New Hamburg, for a national and intvmd. tional program had a study of the Norm-mm Territories, based on the reports of Mrs i’iil . gcrty and Mrs. Hough following their «or, to Women’s Institutes in that area a year ,2” In the social hour following the program aim, had a game unscrambling letters to gi‘ ih‘c names of the twentyâ€"four countries haw In. stitutes or comparable organization .11 A.C.W.W. rr: >k * * Mrs. E. McDermott local leader on the Bracebridge gronp in an extension at ICU Block Printing project. reports that felt at; project: Institute members made four pu til curtains for the windows of the District 7 m. en‘s Institute Rest Room in Bracebridge he curtains were decorated with block print: at shown in the accompanying illustrations sch woman‘s individual design being used \x .1 conventional group of lines separatin: EL‘ from anOther. Pictures show a closeup \ , mt- “pattern” and the general effect of 1hr. Hrâ€" tains hung at a windowâ€"an original uni pleasing idea. =1: ‘4: Lakeview in Elgin county reports a his :il research program that might offer suggc h to other branches. The roll call was “.-neer pastime,” a reminder of corn l’tl, a; bees, fulling bees, quiltings, sugaring-of: r ties and others. Then they had the histor‘ it families on a certain street or road in the i n:- munity. Our reporter, Mrs. C. Roy B It gives some idea of the interest in this it ! comment: “Some families walked from i; agara and even carried their first plougi it their shoulders.” There was a paper or ‘ early Baptist churches in the area. This ‘ ‘- tute had two family nights with a social it and pictures taken by a local member r-i it Tobacco Board on a trip to Rhodesia. a: 4: Mill Creek Institute made their Internal :l Night 3 special occasion, entertaining if husbands and Central Dumfries Institute M bringing in “foreign students” (we prc- i: from Waterloo University) to take part u, w program. The student guests were Miss i ii- ela Morris of Pakistan a nurse at a Willi Wu" hospital, Miss Hiroko Sato :1 teacher tron MA Pan and Mr. Fulton Seundrine of Tri‘n‘wsl- who works with emotionally disturbed Chllu‘ Un- They spoke of their own countries and View impressions of Canada and Miss Sato. drr: rd in Japanese costume, danced the Cherry l'fil'w som dance. The Mill Geek Institute presrucnl. HOME AND COUNTRY