ward” in raising the standards of education in Prince Edward Island. 
     
    

    
     It is with keen anticipation that we look forward in this, our 
     
     50th Anniversary year, to visits from our National President, Mrs. 
     
     Haggerty, and our International and much loved World President, 
     
     Mrs. van Beekhoff. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Much has been accomplished in the past—let us go forward in- 
     
     to the future with even greater zeal and ambition to spread abroad 
     
     our banner of peac‘e and good-will throughout the world — in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     words of the Mary Stuart Collect, may we say: 
     
     “Grant that we may realize that it is the little things that 
     
    
   
   
    
     create differences; that in the big things of life we are one.” 
     
     Jean F. Wilkie, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Convenor History Committee. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     A Message to Institute Members 
     
    
   
   
    
     — from — 
     
    
   
   
    
     L. M. MONTGOMERY 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Dear members of Women’s Institutes all over my own dear “Island”: 
     
    
   
   
    
     When I was “down home” in October your Editor asked me‘ 
     
     to send her a little message for you. I couldn’t then, but now I have 
     
     found a moment of spare time and I want to tell you all how much I 
     
     think of the work your Institutes are doing all over Canada. It is 
     
     really such a wonderful work and it can be done only by women. 
     
     There are things in Empire building that only men can do, but our 
     
     part is just as necessary and just as well worth our efforts. Because 
     
     it isn’t manpower or Parliaments that make a nation great or happy. 
     
     It is the women of that nation who have it in their hands to do —-— 
     
     because it is they who make the “little homes”, where love and faith 
     
     and laughter can live on, no matter what storms may rend the body 
     
     pelitic. It is women who can and must see that children they bear 
     
     get a square deal, the right to play, the right to be happy and the 
     
     right to feel secure. 
     
    
   
   
    
     We hear a great deal of “careers” in these days, but the home- 
     
     maker who adds to the beauty of the world by planting a garden, and 
     
     to its courage by keeping a cheery smile on dark days, to it’s ultim- 
     
     ate redemption by holding fast to high ideals, has the “career” that 
     
     is truly the most worthwhile. We Islanders have a rich heritage to 
     
     live up to and pass on increased to those who come after. (Taken 
     
    
   
   
    
     from “Institute News” January 1933). 
     
     It 1s interesting to note that the Chairman of the History Com- 
     
    
   
   
    
     mittee visited Lucy Maud Montgomery (Mrs. (Rev.) Ewen McDon- 
     
     ald) in 1934 at her later home near Toronto, Ontario and she 
     
    
   
   
    
     has in her possession the autograph of the authoress. 
     
    
   
   
    
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