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Good neighbouring has always been a practice of a good Women’s Insti tute and not only through such or ganized projects as working for hos atais, 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. Allenwood sends home baking to fair ies in time of bereavement. Alli ston helped a New Canadian music teacher 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 neighbour liness in sociability, too—especially in sociability with newcomers and strangers in the community. Beehive Institute in North Well ington has done an interesting piece of work in conducting a cooking school for their new neighbours re cently 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 men 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 Institute members paid all expenses. We had 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 friendship through this project.” Incidentally Kendal reports that their most interesting meeting of the year was the meeting when the New Canadian women of the com munity demonstrated national dishes of their homelands - the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and Poland. And Huntingdon East’s outstanding pro gramme of the year was put on by a visiting Indian Homemakers’ Club, the Indian women giving the addres ses and the entire programme. Ex change visits with Homemakers’ Clubs are becoming very popular with Institutes in areas close to an Indian Reserve. ‘Op uvs |]NANSUy SUaUIO AB sBUIYA 9A109JJ0 4SOtU BY Foduo aq ABW anog -Ysteu pood € Buteq ‘szay4edoqpy
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Orono Weekly Times
Orono, Ontario, CA
Thu, Jan 07, 1954
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