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Coast, and Agricultural Journals throughout Canada would be glad to 

 have matter regarding our Institutes, and several requests have come to 

 the Secretary lately for articles and accounts of our work. 



When there are better office appliances available more can be done 

 in this direction in the way of supplying matter and in distributing 

 newspapers, etc., containing Women Institute items to the Institutes. 

 The Chronicle of Vancouver has been sent each week to some of the 

 Institutes, according as the articles therein seemed appropriate to their 

 work. The preparation of circular letters to the Institutes regarding 

 matters of general interest has been regarded as a means in the work. 

 The subjects treated with have been such as should be brought to the 

 attention of the Institutes and the fact that the letter is written directly 

 to the Institute on any subject must arouse some attention. It is plain 

 that in this manner a number of topics have been taken up at meetings, 

 which perhaps otherwise would not have been considered. 



The planning of study courses for the Institutes will have to be a 

 matter for early consideration, but it is a heavy task and unless there 

 is a general demand on the part of the Institutes for such assistance it 

 is probable that for the present it may have to be left to individual efforts. 

 One Institute has already a systematic course of study with the develop- 

 ment of this work in Ontario of late years, it is likely we will soon have 

 to fall in line. 



The matter of the official journal for B.'C. is, as stated, a problem 

 requiring still further elucidation. Only papers and accounts of meetings 

 of general interest are desired by the Canadian Home Journal, whereas 

 our interests, in order that the work may spread, need an organ wherein 

 space may be freely used. The Secretary hopes that early consideration 



be given this matter. 



OFFICE EQUIPMENT. 



The equipment of the Board for this work so far has not been 

 sufficient. The fault lies largely with the members themselves, since at 

 the outset they did not know what they should need, and since then have 

 been backward in their requests. There are now in the hands of the 

 Secretary, the twelve volumes of the Library of Household Economics, 

 published by the School of that name in Chicago, and the following 

 magazines are coming regularly: "The Canadian Home Journal," "Good 

 House-keeping," and the "American Journal of Home Economics." 

 Pamphlets also come from various colleges, experiment stations and depart- 

 ments. The Secretary also is permitted to purchase such pamphlets and 

 magazines as seem desirable in the interest of the Institutes. Number* 

 of the Garden Magazine, The House Beautiful, Country Life, The Delineator, 

 and other publications have been purchased and sent out from time to 

 time to the Institutes. The excellent publications of the Seattle Board 

 of Health, which are especially suitable for housewives and mothers, 

 have been sent to every Institute. Pamphlets and Bulletins of different 

 Colleges have been also distributed or handed about. 



Attention is particularly directed here to the Bulletin lately issued 



