AN ORIGINAL WOMEN’S INSTITUTE INDUSTRY

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 19 (Supplement)

AN ORIGINAL WOMEN’S INSTITUTE INDUSTRY

The Scottish Home and Country magazine reports from the P a f®* of a popular Canadian Journal an original local industry formed by the Women's Institute of Nova Scotia. The undertaking has for its aim, the perpetuation of a national costume or of a personality wide interest. The members of the Women's Institute there have, m the past few months, made and sold to tourists, 350 dol s, all alike and all named “ Evangeline" after Longfellow’s heroine, in order to preserve the name of the poet’s charming creation. Such an idea worked out in an artistic way, and correct in eve y detail would surely interest tourists from all parts of the world who want a souvenir of definite national and artistio value. . . , , There are still local national costumes in the British Isles, mainly in Scotland and Wales, it is true, but England herself offers example of regulation dres of national interest—the robes of a " gl l. h n | BV J in full regalia, of a Coster girl, cf a North Country factory hand even of a smart English housemaid or hospital nurse. The historical an regulation costumes of Beef-eaters, Chelsea pensioners, judges, bauds ters and policemen also offer a vast field of enterprise—an undertaking calling for more effort at the start, perhaps, but it should not.be beyond the powers of Women's Institute members to copy the costumes on BUUa fn e a“e d for the scope it offers for original methods of exploitation. in the Countrywoman.