WOMEN'S INSTITUTES
"The Federation of Women's Institutes is one of the most cheering symptoms, of the New England arising in our midst," says the East Anglian Daily Times. "There was a time when, in most parts, the rural population seemed destined to decline, tihe towns absorbing more and mjore of the younger generation until ! it appeared that the fate of the average village must be stagnation. Many a rural parish felt its remoteness; the inhabitants had a sense of isolation from, the rest of the county and country; and most of them were imbued with the sense of caste, voiced in Mrs Alexander's famjiliar lines: I" ' The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate.'
"Then came the war, uniting not only the classes and the parishes, but the nation, as never before in comimon suffering, sacrifice, and endeavour. Before the grim struggle ended the Women's Institutes has been born in the English countryside. The motto of the movement was, and is: 'Home and Country,'' and its success is attributable in no small measure to the sustained emphasis on this twofold ideal."
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3504, 11 August 1934, Page 3
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