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wednexbr kir ink pagk chatting m h b from th start of our trip to florida it was a standing joke each night to say therell be a big change to morrow meaning of course the weather if you have never travelled south before somehow or other you look for a sudden dramatic change to warm weather along the line in spite of common sense telling you this cannot be so indeed the transition is- so gradual you hardly notice it it is- just like driving into springtime the temperature had been getting milder and milder until now start 4ng out from atlanta on our third day the weather was quite jrnild and muggy with one accord we shed our warm suitcoats and put them in the trunk so began our drive thru georgia as i mentioned last week it was like a glimpse into a different world and not too nice a world at that but interesting the flat countryside has a cur lously open look due to the fact that there are hardly any fences anywhere we couldnt see the cot ton and sugar actually growing because it wasnt the season but where the fields hadnt been clea ned up after the harvest you could see the dead black stalks of the old sugar canes and cotton plants daffodils and narcissi appeared to be growing wild in many places by the roadside and the grass was getting greener in this upper stretch of geor gia roadside stores where the sold products made of chenille were numerous in order to attract the tourist driving by the had big outdoor displays of their pro ducts it was not at all unusual to see from 10 to 20 chenille bed spreads of eiery imaginable color and design flapping gaily on clo theslines strung from either side of the little store frequently a small factory where the chenille was manufactured was situated nearb but as we penetrated deeper into the southern part of georgia such signs of industry became fewer and fe wer and the dwellings became more and more tumbledown the first reallj rickety one we saw sit ting dose to the road but desol ate in a flat treeless field drew exclamations of disbelief surelj nobod could live there but my sister assured me that s nothing to what ouli see fartlur on and she was too right the farther south we drove the worse and more numerous these got surelj there must be some nice houses down that a but from what you see along the highwaj ou begin to doubt it glen taxi 3 cabs- 3 radio equvpb reuabudmvhts tr 72432 thm specialization mavial motor sales ltd main st tr 73411 twrmi9natr0nal from lack of pabft many have no windows or doors and the walls are full of what toe called vat holes where the wood was rotted away but the one redeeming fea ture nearly every one had is h verandah and we should add that there are also two other re deeming features the two ro cking chairs on the verandah these are well jised considering it was a weekday when we passed by and midafternoon at that and the whole coloured family ma pa and the many children were es- consed there enjoying the balmy afternoon it was too dull a day to take pictures so when we stopped at a stuckeyv roadside store to buy some pecans we were now in the pecan grove country i looked for postcards depicting the area we had just driven thro guess i picked one qf the less flattering ones for when i handed it to the chap in charge he said i hope yon are not feeling too sorry for the peo ple you saw living in those tum bledown shacks you know the fact is they are the happiest peo- le on earth they havent a care in the world a large pr of our tax ntoney goes to take care of them we educate their child ren and when they are in need we feed them their needs are few the man of the house does not be stir himself to find an odd job unless they run out of salt pork and flour keeping up with the joneses is no problem with them and they are happy here in the south where they are comfortable and content it is when they emi grate to the north that their un happiness begins well that was one viewpoint and no doubt it has some merit but to an outsider passing thru it was impossible not to feel com passion for these poor people liv ing in such miserable conditions brought aboutlhrn no fault of their own seeing it with our own ees makes you realize what a terrific racial problem the l s must solve as we neared jackson ville and the land became swamp and desolatelook ing even the shacks disappeared and there were great lonelj stre tches of road with little or no sign of human habitation we saw ourttrst cypress trees in these swamp everglades and also bad our first look at the gre moss which hangs in great fest oons from the trees often looping from branch to hranch in eerie fashion this is an air moss ver t plcal of florida opinions in the car differed about this mosa as to whether it was beautiful or nor rible must admit i didn t like it i felt that if i lived in honda and the moss started to hang from an of mj trees 1 would want to tear it off i don t know much about it but was told it docs not actualk harm the trees since it lives off the air certainu no bod down there seems to feel the wa i do for there is plcnt of it around even in the loveliest nsi dential areas incidental the moss has provided quite a pros perous industry for florida sinci it has been discovered that its re silient properties arc wonderful for filling cushions upholstered furniture etc in between the stretch es of swamp there were some truck gardens and al so on higher land pastureland where the strangelooking brahma cattle were grazing thc looked to me like a cros between a cow and a camel queer the are a special breed conditioned for the subtropical climate night was starting to close in b this time and with it a thick fog from the swampy areas we had encountered once before the temperature must have been in the 80 s and it was vcr humid the road was the narrowest stretch i i we had struck et but we eontin i jued on trwng to reach as near to st augustine as possible i think i we all felt a bit uneasy driving along that lonely swampenclosed road in the fog personal i ex pected anv minute to see an alhg ator go slithering across the road in front of us was glad when lights ahead told us were heading into civil in tion again all of a sudden we were out of the swamp and into a dry area where beautiful motels abounded we stayed at the first likely looking one and went out for dinner this time it was an 1 italian one with no hush pup pies served which reminds me to tell you i had a nice note from mrs j alex gretg lake rossean which i appreciated ver much in which she answers my query about the origin of the name hushpuppy mrs- greig ex plained that in the old days when the people were cooking their fish they usually had a num ber of hunting dogs and puppies around the stove begging so when they got to the operation of mak ing the dougnutuke affairs as 1 call tfaem they would throw some to the dogs and say hush pup pies so now weall know thanks to mrs gretg the greigs former residents of town now spend their winters in florida and summers in muskoka no doubt the name sashpuppy- had h trignea them toi home school assoc formed at norval the initial meeting ho form a home and school association for the nerval public school was held in the school on tuesday evening may 20th the meeting was opened by the local trustee rev g l royal who briefly explained the aims and endeavours of a local group in conjunction with the ontariowide home and school association af ter the short survey of home and school work in the province fred fendley was elected as chairman for the evening and mrs bui hun ter as secretary mrs joe emmer- son of georgetown was present at the meeting and answered the many questions put by the t local people after a prolonged period of discussiow the group voted af fumatively to associate themselves as a home and school club with the larger ontario grouping rath er than a strictly local parenttea cher federation the following officers were el ected president fred fendley vice presidents wray youmans and mrs ormie carter recording secretary mrs ivan reynolds cor respondence secretary mrs don murray treasurer bui hunter members without office tom kalsbeek mrs robert crawford mrs gerald shoring mrs lock hart royal and mrs ken radab- alski others present in addition to the above listed officers were mrs tom kalsbeek mr and mrs norman fendley mrs aubrey gray john walker colin gordon mrs percy donaldson mrs wes ley louth mrs wray youmans mrs rill hunter rev g l royal with the election of officers it was decided to hold the installa tion meeting in september when a provincial officer will officiate after the meeting was adjourned by the newly elected president two films were shown regarding the 69 year olds and the new age of science by mrs ormie carter coffee and cookies were served by mrs shoring mrs mur ray and mrs royal during which an enjoyable halfhour was spent the red cross blood donor clinic on june 5th your blood is needed weaving course now available at ont ag college three years ago a group met in toronto with delegates from all weaving groups in ontario the purpose of this gathering was to discuss the possibilities of furtber educating weavers most of whom had basic training given by com munity programmes branch of the dept of education or from the lo cal technical schools this organization became known as the ontario handweavers an spinners with mrs george reid of kingston ont heading the group after 3 yeans hard work they have arrived at an open road the greatest achievement of the ontario handweavers and spinners has been the establishment of a summer school at macdonald in stitute oac guelpb ontario this school now in its second year is staffed by a number of people stril led in the craft of weaving classes this year will be in session from may 18 to 30 weavers may attend for either work or both as desired at a modest rate enrollment in each class or is umi ted in order to provide maximum contact with the instructor and access to equipment and faculties techniques such as warpfaced weaving inlay ecclesiastical weav ing rug weaving belting lace wea ving summer and winter and wea ving with new fibres will he cov ered this year anyone is ptivil eged to ask for instruction in a new technique for the following year the educational programme has been met and welcomed by other leading colleges through the pro vince each year for four years there has been a conference tor onto st catharines kingston at queens university and this year in london a huron college with london district weavers as host an invitaun has been received by the conference for next year from the hamilton weavers to confer at mcmaster university the conference opens with reg istration of some two hundred members first on the agenda is tne execu jneeting followed by a general meeting always there is a workshop with looms set up demonstrations questions and an swers and this year a panel dis cussion by the judges of the lon don district weavers exhibition of all canadian handweaving mrs henryk schoenfield as moderator questions were asked far the mem bers answered and generally anal ysed by the judges miss mary black bedford nj mrs ethel simons st catharines ont and mrs hugh mckentie i linton ont the project of the past year and through the coming year un der mrs frank anders leaming ton ontario has been the circula tion of some 30 books of outstand ing samples of weaving each wea ving group in the province makes a book of its best samples or made up articles with drafts fun instruc tion and detafts expiauied these are rotated from club w club with time for thorough examination of the books all weavers or woulde weav era would do well to affiliate with this group and receive its benefits if summer school is not possible or the conference is too distant then the weaver still may receive the bulletin published four times a year filled with valuable informa turn the revival of weaving aside from utilitarian purposes is a fine art where one can weave articles of original design and b for the home upholstery wearing apparel drapery and finer pieces such as place mats evening bags etc