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i i * COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Thank God for dirty dishes; They have a tale to tell â€" While others may go hungry We're eating very well. I With home and health and happiness I shouldn’t want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence God has been good to us. * ir * “We thank you for helping to get slides to send to the Institutes in the North,” Mrs. Matheson said. “It is to be hoped that this exchange of slides will prove a source of education for those who have never been down Bomb. The two girls whom we Sponsored last fall under at Centennial Grant and brought to the 4â€"H Club Week with their leader Mrs. Craig, were most appreciative of this instant education. We have made application for a larger grant to bring out three or four girls to the 1966 4-H Week. “There is a possibility that there will be an Area Convention in the North this year. Each group is so far away from any other that the progress is slow, but with the help of all of us a real break-through in the aims and ob- jectives of our Women‘s Institute may be in store for us in general and for them in par- ticular. Your contribution, through Gift Cou- pon No. 367 is used to finance the work here. We hope that our objective of $20,000 may be reached before 1967, the date when we hope to go over the top! It is not charity that we are giving; we are helping our first Canadians to help themselves.” During the meeting the Ontario Institutes presented Mrs. Matheson with a cheque for $2.500 for work in the North and a collection taken at the meeting of $187.22 in Pennies for Friendship. International Interest After paying a tribute to the hospitality of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association at the 1965 A.C.W.W. Conference held in Dublin, Mrs. Matheson reported something of the inter- change of ideas among the delegates from the “have” and the “have not” countries of the world. She said: “The work which the Irish Countrywomen’s Association members did in organizing and carrying out the responsibilities of being hos- tesses to such a tremendous conference of ap- proximately 1500 delegates and about the same number of guests at some times, had to be experienced to be really appreciated. The warth of the welcomes, the hospitality, the friendliness, the concern, the organization, the laughter and lilt of Irish voices still remains 16 with us. From the first ‘Oéad Mile Fame. [U the last ‘God Bless’ it was a thrilling, educzie tional and never to be forgotten experiencc “Among other things, we heard of the pro] ect carried on in eighteen villages of wt... Bengal. The aim is to spread education an‘ train the village women in literacy, home ec, nomics, home management, budgeting, nur tion, handicrafts, child care, etc. Local lez. ers will be selected from amongst those v.‘ attend classes. Refresher courses are bei held to give further training to those lead.â€" from the Six villages, in the art of guiding .- educating these rural women. In the Sea] year, a similar project is carried on in anoi. set of six villages and the third year in a fun set of six villages. These plans have t» carried out with the assistanco of Mrs. A Dutt as Area Vice-President for Asia â€" r our International President. “It is said that the work carried on her the best thing which A.C.W.W. has ever do Most of the people being trained are mor" who have never planted a seed, never hel- needle in their hands, never cooked a meal and know nothing of nutritiOn, child or the simplest things. The younger gCT‘ tions are being trained, but we are working a lost generation." “At the Dublin Conference,” Mrs. Matt reported, “A.C.W.W. agreed during the three years to (I) Help to improve the ‘ conditions and nutrition of people in 1 America by setting up and backing a training centre for rural leaders in Colon (2) Build up its scholarship fund to send u en to study outside their country and re to their people with new knowledge, espen; in nutrition. (3) Endorse more coordinatet search on chemicals essential to modern i ing, and become better informed on men.- preventing pollution of air, water and (4) All societies were urged to study - programs in their own territories and to , parents to set an example of courteow r driving to their children. Changes on the Home Front After sketching the history of women v'. in this country over the last centuryâ€"the r savers, the automobile, the communicatio -~ plosion, the revolution in our educations v tem and the fact that in the modern i Id there is no place for the untrained or u I1- cated, the speaker said: “As parents we are challenged to en Ir- age our children to continue with their 2U- cation as long as possible. Good corv- *3- tion about worthwhile subjects, around '1'? dinner table, can do much to open chil- .‘nlS‘ minds and make them receptive to educa' “H- HOME AND cot 1""