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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1947-07-03, Page 8DETROIT'S "FIRST" IN CONVENIENCE • COMFORT • QUALITY In the heart of the downtown, office, theater, and shopping area. Friendly, courteous service to make your stay in Detroit a pleasant memory. The Tuller Coffee Shop or Cafeteria for excel. lent Food modestly priced. The Hotel Toiler, Detroit's largest, is the place to stay. VISIT OUR eocktaiatnufge ONE OF DETROIT'S FINEST 800 ROOMS WITH BATH FROM $275 Rote! Vuller FACING GRAND CIRCUS PARK HARRY F 0 BRIEN, Manager III'1ili lUuni ..... 111 III 10 0 ql Sun-Tested Wallpapers FOR EVERY ROOM IN THE HOUSE Priced from 15c per roll up THE -WALLPAPER, SHOP elp Wanted. WOODWORKERS with some experience in Bench Work or Machine Operations, also Young Men to train for Permanent positions. — Apply to — C.- LLOYD & SON LIMITED WINGHAM ONT. Edwards' Motor Sales Chrysler, -Plymouth' Cars and Fargo Trucks SALES and SERVICE We .have . the latest tools for Fender &Body Work No job too big for us to handle or too men to interest us. EXPERT WORKMANSHIP Your Satisfaction Our Guarantee ONE HOUR SERVICE ON WASHES Telephone—Days 417, Nights 426 Winghatn WO 00 the 'the fovea See thel °duo "test pfd on the Recta.-- )0116Mt ne cot 4 6 e bn vout Of terfe04610Sta fifth day and the twelfth juryman was still, unconvinced. "Well, gentlemen,". said the court officer, "shall I order twelve dinners as usual?" "iMake it," said the foreman, "eleven dinners and one bail of haY."' toossissounto For Your BUILDING, CARPENTERING Repair ark` Built-in CUPBOARDS S E E — Bennett & humors `Phone 447 Winghiun 4111IN 4066mitin CLASS atch Repairs For the Preient, Watchii Only. George Williams John,Street Next to Masonic Hall General Accountancy for' the. SMALL BUSINESS MAN, PROFESSIONAL MAN, • and THE FARMER, BUSINESS & TAX SERVICE St J. Ppm* P. 0, Box 74 'Phone 23 LUCKNOW ONT. CIGARS SMOKERS' SUNDRIES MAGAZINES eiseigro'Ves SMOKE SHOP ‘, ' NO WONDER More People Ride On Goodyear tires Than On Any Other kind GOO 10, IE '•• • 41t1k1r7e6ra• -60 t444661(ar4,666.6,666.6.66,66----.-6,,,,,,,* 444,4, RAGE MGM '1114 WINGNAlvl ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, July 344947 History. of • Women's institute (continued from page 7) Atedical doctor for the district, others sponsor baby clinics, chest and throat clinics. In the winter of 1923 a two weeks nursing course was held in Grey Coun- tr, and one member, sixty years of age walked five miles to and from the course each day, did all her housework and never missed a lesson. With spirits like that what wonder our Women's institutes have grown and flourished .ais they have. In 1947 there are thirteen hundred si" III II It hit 11111,, and eighty branches of the W, I, in Ontario, and . a membership of thirty SIX thollsad eight hundred and fifty, This, as you can readily see, represents a large percentage of Ontario rural women„ There arc some three thous- and branches with a membership of nearly seventy thousand in Canada. In the early 'days of the Women's Institute there were few good books in most rural homes and still fewer librarys to meet the real hunger for food for the mind, circulating libraries were formed but were soon outgrown And the travelling library system 'of the Department of Education took their place. The Institute in some places help finance the local libraries. It was not until 1924 that music was added or encouraged. In that year Hal- '1111 .1IIIIII... It Iih 14 14 ton County Institutes brought musical instruction to the schools. So popular was this that 1$00 were taking part in less than four years, and this led to the choral festivals in 1926, in which fivecounties took part. Beyorida doubt this was the proof of its value which led to the recent inclusion of musical instruction in the public school ow- rictthn by the Departtnent of Educa- tion. One of the greatest of the little com- forts adtled.to community life by the Women's. Institutes was the establiSh- ment df rest rooms in the towns and Villages, where the farm woman could rest and wait for the ride home, as well as wield a comb and powder puff after the long drive in. Surely it is the right of every woman to be well dressed. 'Gone are the days of the dow- dy conspicious fariti woman, whose main concern was that her wardrobe be neat and well wearing. When the travelling seamstress came once or twice a year to do the family sewing. Now our farm women are among the best and smartest dressed in the prov- ince. The Women's Institute short courses have taught the best in style and workmanship, how to buy as well as how to make. In 1913 a clothing specialist was ap- pointed to bring uniform demonstra- tions and lecture courses. As John Ruskin once said, "Clothes carefully cared for and rightlyworn show a bal- ance of mind and self respect". In the same year the department ap- pointed a special instructor in housing Conferences were arranged on furni- ture arrangement, The 'refinishing of fine old furniture, remodelling big old kitchenS into modern workshops, The revival of the fine quilting and rug making of an older time. The gospel of the open window, the undrawn blinds and cluttered 'rooms was continuously.proclaimed. We want only the finest for our Canadian homes, Homes are just not four walls and a roof for "It takes a heap of living to make a house a home. There is no doubt the Women's In- stitutes were founded with vision, but it is not likely the founders ever dreamed that from their small local group of homemakers should come forth a powerful world-wide organiza- tion such as we have now. The hope expressed by the first Provincial president was for Imperial. Federation, That hope has been more than realized, for not only are the parts of our Empire linked in this fine sis- terhood of service, but our motto "For Home and Country",unites rural wom- en .arottnd the worl. The associated country women of the world, This is indeed Ontario's gift to the world. During the world war of 1914-1918 an Ontario enthusiast Mrs, Alfred Watt, M.A.B.E,, carriedthe story of the movement across the sea to Greal Britain. This was a ecomp lished through the courage and perseverance of Mrs, Watt and in 1915 an Institute was started in a little village in Wales. Later MA, Watt was rewarded by see- ing the. Institute well and firmly es- tablished 'in the Motherland. Within ten years some five hundred branches 'had been organized, one of them the Sandringham Women's Insti- tute, at present Queen Mary is honor- ary president,Queen Elizabeth is presi- dent and Princess Elizabeth is a Mem- ber* While Mrs. Watt was busy in Eng- land, Miss Emily Guest was no less active in Scotland. , From the first Women's Institute formed in Febru- ary 1897 at Stoney Creek, a little yin- age four miles east of Hamilton, On- tario, to Women's Institutes found in England, Scotland, Wales, Eire, Aus- tralia, New Zealand and South Africa, mid before the present world condi- tions, in European ,Countries. The name of Federated Women's LastitUte$ of Ontario was adopted upon the suggestion of Mr. G, A. Putnam, Superinteudant of Institutes and the constitution .drafted with his co-opera- tion and help, The optional fee of fifteen cents per member per year from the branches to the Provincial body was his suggestion One quarter of it to be paid in as On- tario's share to the Dominion Federa- tiOn. In. 1933 this fee was discontinued and ten cents per member was appor- tioned to the province from each twen- ty five cent membership fee: There is great work to be done still in our Women's Institutes. We are about to see great changes in habits of living, and ere long there will come a new Canada, grown up suddenly as a world power, to even mention each of the hundreds of fine projects carried through by the Wont- en's Institutes in recent years would take far too long, but we just cannot fail to mention the war work so won- derfully carried on. The one hundred and twenty two thousand four hundred and sixty pounds of jam and jelly made and sent to Canadian Military Hospitals, and to victims of bombing raids. The British war guests cared for, the crippled veterans helped and be- friended. Few branches of committee work has been of greater value to Ontario than that of Historical Research. The patient, persistant efforts of sub-con- venors gather and verify all the tra- ditionaI and ancestral history, and these are being preserved carefully in village or county buildings. Canada now stands high as a leader of world policy and Canada will be as great as it's homes. Our founders had the courage to blaze new trails, we can do no less, we must go forward to far greater things, only if we never forget to be cheerful, be neighborly, to love little children and cherish their right to be well horn and well fed. To be cordial to strangers, generous to friends and helpful to every human life we touch in short to love our nei- ghbors a little better than ourselves. Only then do we justify our motto: "For Dome and Country". EIN err Specializing in Cemetery Work Only BOX 373—'PHONE 450 ' Wm. Brownlie Inscriptions Repairing Sandblasting Memorials 25 years experience • • WINGHAM - ONT. Orders should be placed as soon as possible The Latest in Portable Sandblast Equipment ca- terian church. I get down here once each 'spring and I must say I enjoy ADOWS thyself most right here with you folks." LAZY ME The' court was impatient. It was the PHIL OSIFER OF VHAT is the Torture Test? Two tires . . a Goodyear ... add another make ... are clamped in running position against a motor-driven drum. The surface of the drum is studded with thick, steel bars. i The switch is thrown! 'Round and 'round spins the drum...grind- ing with equal force against both tires... pounding, punching, pum- melling . . 24 hours a day. Simultaneously, both tires are iven the same terrific, smash- ng punishment. Finally, one of them gives way. But one rolls on' and on! The winner? Test after test dis- closes the same result: Goodyear tires are superior in performance to all others! In addition, Goodyear tires are successfully performance- cheaked against all others on a huge test fleet of cars and trucks. Of course, the final test 'of Goodyear superiority has been made by millions of motorists like yourself . . right on their own cats. The result? For 32 consecu- , five srears, Goodyear has been Canada% first choice tire. You don't stay first unless you're best! Put new Goodyear tires on your car. 'ou% get 'more mileage . more safety .. more value for your money. By Harry J. Boyle We had a visitor for dinner last Sun- day. It was Jake Hislop who liVes on the concession north of us. Jake work- ed for my father one time and takes quite a lively interest in What's -doing with us, He's a. bachelor and comes once.a year, usually just after the seed- ing is over. Jake arrived last Sunday dressed u'p in a faded black suit that is green and shiny with the combination of age and' wear. He had his old Model T, sedan, all shined up and he himself looked as if he had soaked in water for at least two days. The leathery tan of his face and the back of his neck looked almost as if he had waxed it, Jake has never Worn a tie, even to his brother's wedding but he does con- descend to Wear a high, stiff collar that resetales nothing so much as a board fence, with a new coat of whitewash. The collar has wing points and Jake hasn't ,much freedom in it. When he turns his head he turns his body as well. Jake, who chews tobacco *the way a ten year old boy would wolf down lic- orice sticks, turns to cigars on his visiting occasion, 'It's a little doubtful as of what type of cigars they are, and it has even been suggested that they would make an. excellent thing for bunting ill a henhottse to smoke out lice. He arrived last Sunday about ten in the morning and Sat its the rocker in the kitchen getting caught up on the gossip and the news about the family. After dinner he Moved out to the back stoop, taking, the rocker with him, It was a trifle chilly out. there, but we all insisted on going in the fear of asphyx- iation in the kitcheit from the cigars. Late in the afternoon we all walked down across the farm and looked at the crops,. Most of them are under wa- ter however. Then we looked the cat- tle over and fenced around a little a- bout trading horses, Neither or tta Were very serious, It was really just good Conversation. We had our supper and listened to the radio for a little While. Jake cattle out with me while I was milking the cows and afterwards we stood and leaned over the ,barttyard fence and shafted for awhile, Darkness started to come down so we inoseyed back to the house: :fake decided to go horde and went through the ritual of shaking hands 'With all of us, before he left he Said, "Well folks 1 go out three tithes a year, alwayS go to the Fall Fait and theft hicause toy- folks was P6sisytttians en to the ti41 softer at 'the Proby-