OPENED BY LADY LAKE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 17, 15 October 1943, Page 3

OPENED BY LADY LAKE

Gift Tea To Assist Funds Of Levin Home “This has been a very difficult year, we have had more than our share ot grave problems, and iu many ways it has been the most difficult year the home has ever had,” said Mrs. E. 11. M. Luke, president of the Levin Memorial Home Committee at the annual gift tea, heid at the home in Wellington yesterday. The annual event was the principal edort of the year and provided the main source of funds for the home, she said, lhe tea was officially opened by Lady Lake. . The home had two outstanding policies, said Lady Lake. The children were brought up with a dehuitely Christian background, and they were taught the domestic arts. Mankind had found it could not go forward without a religious background, as had been proved by history when nations had tried to do without Christian influence and had failed. By training the girls in the domestic arts the home was teaching them to be the best homemakers for the country in the future. There was a .saying which went, “A man may live without friends or books, but where is the man who can live without cooks.” Domestic work was of a highly-skilled kind, and it was a pity this was not more widely realized, said Lady Lake. It was complex and exacting, whereas a job in a factory, for instance, might mean only putting in a single nut or bolt all the time. A sheaf of flowers was presented to Lady Lake, and the children gave a short programme of songs before tea was served. Mrs. Luke took the opportunity of welcoming the new matron, Miss 0. Bainbridge, in whose judgment, she said, alt had implicit faith. Stallholders were as foflws .—Cakes, Mesdames L. 11. M. Luke, B. S. Ly > 11. J. Thompson, F. U. Johansen, lamley, flowers, Mesdames A. J. du Pont, R- LMacmorran. A. Morris Jones Miss Mar"•iret Arlowi needlework, Mesdames 1. S. Gotten, p. de B. Brandon G. A. Spink; produce, Mrs. Aylmg, Misses S. Levin. 0. Turton ; Mesdames G. E. Levin, Hamilton Gilmer; tea helpers, Mesdames Russell Young, Lewis Campbell, 1. I a P „, Misses Mayo Hemp ton (convener), -u. Young, M? McDougall,. M. McLeod, Wheeler.