WOMEN'S INSTITUTE REPORT. il 



by the Good House-keeping Magazine Department, of investigating 

 and testing household appliances containing results of investigation into 

 recent domestic utensils. This fs" so exceptionally valuable a publication 

 that it would seem as if at least the officers of every Institute should 

 have a copy. It would be well also if this excellent magazine, certainly 

 the best of its kind in the world, should be more widely known among 

 our members. There should be a 'Canadian Good House-keeping Magazine. 



The filing and arranging of papers has occupied far more time than 

 it should had proper Filing Cabinets been at the disposal of the Secretary. 

 A typewriter is also urgently needed. The necessary waste of time in 

 making copies can thus be avoided and the official communications or 

 the Board present a better appearance. 



Suggestion was made that a room be set apart perhaps in the ne\\ 

 Parliament Buildings for the use of the Women's Institute work. In 

 such, a room the Home Economics Library could be installed and Women'b 

 Institute exhibits be placed there. There could be desk room also for 

 the members of the Board when in Victoria and later there could be a 

 woman worker in charge, who would be ready to give information abouc 

 this work to visitors. 



COLLECTION INFORMATION. 



When the Secretary assumed office there seemed to be little available 

 statistical information concerning the Institutes. The Secretary of the 

 Department stated that the Institutes did not send in reports or statistics, 

 changes in officers, as regularly as should be done. The Secretary has 

 now, however, collected, a matter of some time, full statistical and up-to- 

 da.te information about the Institutes. She is now in a position to answer 

 inquiries in this regard and indeed these are frequently received. The 

 recommendation 'made by the Board of having the. Institute report in 

 triplicate should produce good results. [The reports also of the different 

 members of the Board have this information.] The reports of the lecturers 

 sent out by the Department could easily contain more valuable information 

 than they do. We would respectfully ask that lecturers be urged to 

 give as full report as possible, and that consideration be given to our 

 recommendation that the lecturers be allowed some extra time to make 

 up their reports. Too much importance cannot be placed on this branch 

 of the work. It is absolutely necessary that the central workers are kept 

 fully informed of all that concerned the work of the branch Institutes. 

 It is very hard to awaken Institute Secretaries to their responsibility in 

 this direction. Some of the Secretaries are fully alive not only to their 

 own needs in this regard, but to those of the other Institutes, but most of 

 them fail to realize that the work will never spread and will never be 

 recognized by their Province as successful unless publicity is freely given 

 to the work. 



It has been part of the duties of the Secretary this year to collect 

 and transmit items of interest t o the Institutes. Considerable studying 

 and reading has been done with this idea in view, and all the members 

 of tjie Board feel much better equipped now than they did at the outset. 



