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city conveniences in most rural localities. Supplies are obtained from
super markets, and the store room has given way to the deep freeze.
Vacuum cleaners replace the old fashioned brooms once made by the
Indians.

Clothing and textiles have changed too, women no longer spin and
weave except as a hobby, and many man-made fibres have replaced cotton
and wool. Silk has been replaced by nylon and other synthetics, which
require little care. Clothing is simple and practical and easy to care for.

Staples, neatly packaged, now fit into modern kitchen cupboards,
tropical fruits are now flown in a matter of hours to our markets—there is
very little in the way of foodstuffs that is not available. Now there are
many kinds of “mixes”, relieving the housewife of long hours of baking,
meat is all cut up and packaged according to the family needs. The auto-
matic washer and drier have eliminated the back-breaking Monday wash
day, and women are finding more time for club work, public office
and hobbies. Women’s Institute members across the Province, join with
others in looking back over these hundred years and rejoice in the progress
that has been made in our way of living.

WOMEN ARE
Some cooKs!