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Home Life in Early Canada NTRODUCING “God Bless Our Home: 1 Domestic Life in Nineteenth Century Canada“ the author, Una Abrahamson says: “This book has grown out of my Interest in early housekeeping books. It has been a labor of love to record our history from within the framework of the nineteenth cen- tury home; to go back in time and live for a while under that ornate and reassuring par- 91! lot motto â€" ‘God Bless Our Home. There is nothing in the book to make the reader homesick for the “good old days.” Vile read of superstitions, hypocritical soctal values. home cures almost more distressing than the ills they treated, housekeeping with- out benefit of labor-savers and cookery that must have required a staff of hired servants in a home â€" for example a soup that “must boil fast and uncovered and be stirred con- stantly for eight hours.” But it is all well au- thenticated and recorded with such humor and color that it makes entertaining reading. One amusing section deals with “Deportment” â€" etiquette in situations common to the times. “the art of letterâ€"writing", parlor games. how a woman conveys messages with her fan. Something of the nature of Canadian life in the nineteenth century is conveyed in re productions of newspaper advertisements of the times. One introduces the cook’s friend. "Baking Powder." Several Show upâ€"toâ€"the minute furniture and clothing including a cor~ set with bones guaranteed unbreakable. There is a very ornate advertisement of an “Under- taking Establishment.“ The book. backed by a Canadian Centen- nial Commission grant, is beautifully made and profusely illustrated. Publishers, Burns and MacEachern. Ltd; price $9.50. Costumes for Canada’s Birthday HE CLOTHING STAFF of the Home Economics Branch have prepared a study kit, “Costumes for Canada’s Birthday", which is now available to any Women's Insti- tute wishing to borrow it from the Loan Li- brary, Home Economics Branch. Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, 20 Spadina Road. Toronto, Out. The kit includes a section on styles in wom- en‘s and girls‘ Clothing fashionable in Con- federation Year; suggestions for preparing 20 centennial costumes; a radio script on RESIuIH-IL, Old Costumes; and some ideas for men‘s unit boys‘ clothing. (It is noted that little boys mm kept in skirts as long as possible and W illustration shows a typical kilt, trousers an jacket outfit with a straw sailor hat.) Then. EL. beautifully illustrated booklets. one Show .L, women's costumes in early Ontario and an on fashions from 1867 to 1907. Another book in the kit is "A Centur it Fashion", issued by the Centennial Plan Commission, helpful either in the stud costumes of the period or in actually m: _< them. Here again the illustrations are exec And there is a good historical pamphlet, " ning and Weaving in Upper Canada.” a I in Awards at Guelph University WARDS AMOUNTING TO $13 t A have been won by students fitter the University of Guelph this Over $26,000 in awards were presented l recent awards banquet at which Dr. 1 MacLachlan, President of the University. guest speaker. He said in part, “Scholar achievement stems from two primary sou your inherent intelligence. and your degrt concentration upon the academic pro; Naturally you as students have more co over the latter than the former." Commenting on the trend toward unh- education and the vast sums needed to capable students to attend university, Dr. ‘ Lachlan said, “Directing the limited avai. monies to students with financial need drastically reduced the amount of govern funds available for scholarships. I fern hope that some level of scholarship mt- regardless of source. can be established it can be excluded from the loans and burs monies." The Frasident of Brock Rood Women's Institute. i M. W. Staples, presents a cheque for the Universitl Guelph Development Fund to Dr. .I. D. MocLochi ' President of the University. HOME AND COUNT-(V