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Good neighboring has always been a practice of a good Women’s Institute — and not only through such organized projects as working for hospitals, children’s shelters and old people’s homes. These groups of rural women seem to find the most original, personal ways of meeting a need as it arises. For instance, the Aylmer Institute started a fund to buy an artificial eye for a young immigrant. Allen wood sends home baking to families in time of bereavement. Alliston helped a new Canadian music teach er by giving her the use of their room, rent free, as a place to do her teaching. Another branch reports sending gifts to a woman “whose finances had been exhausted through illness.” Institutes express their neighbor liness in sociability, too—especially in sociability with newcomers and strangers in the community. Conduct Cooking School Beehive Institute in North Wel lington has done an interesting piece of work in conducting a cook ing school for their new neighbors recently arrived from Holland. The Dutch women asked for this help in learning Canadian ways of cooking and they, themselves, organized the classes. The Canadian Institute wo man took turns in giving the courses according to their special abilities. The secretary reports: “One of our members offered us the use of her very modern kitchen and the Insti tute members paid all expenses. We had two classes of Dutch-Canadian ladies, one of women and one of girls. We taught them how to make tea biscuits, muffins, pies, tarts, cakes of all kinds and at their re quest we continued with lessons on meat and meat substitutes, potato and other vegetable dishes. Their progress and their enthusiasm were beyond description. We also spon sored a baking class at the fall fair especially for New Canadians. We gained much in the way of friend ship through this project.” Incidentally Kendall reports that their most interesting meeting of the year was the meeting when New Canadian women of the community demonstrated national dishes of their homelands — the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and Poland. And Huntingdon East's outstanding pro gram of the year was put on by a visiting Indian Homemakers’ Club, the Indian women giving the ad dresses and the entire programme.
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Milton Canadian Champion
Milton, Ontario, CA
Thu, Feb 11, 1954
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