. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . ts in it, and who take it to the fairexpecting that it will take a prize, without stopping to consider what it has to 1918 TIJK AGRKUFLTURAL SOCIETIES. 55 compete against. If tliev do not win a prize with it tlicy <,at (iisoourajred and stayaway the next year, instead of inakinf? another efTort with something new. Theymake a great mistake. Of course, it is very hard for young peoj)le to do very muchin competition with those who have heen making work for years, storing it up untilthey have several trunks full, and making a tour of nearly all the f
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . ts in it, and who take it to the fairexpecting that it will take a prize, without stopping to consider what it has to 1918 TIJK AGRKUFLTURAL SOCIETIES. 55 compete against. If tliev do not win a prize with it tlicy <,at (iisoourajred and stayaway the next year, instead of inakinf? another efTort with something new. Theymake a great mistake. Of course, it is very hard for young peoj)le to do very muchin competition with those who have heen making work for years, storing it up untilthey have several trunks full, and making a tour of nearly all the fairs within ahundred miles around thfin. This I do not think right, hut they get the prizesand keep the yoilng people out. Much could he said on the sul)ject of my address, hecause there are so manydifferent kinds of faiu-y work. Sometimes the material used is very poor, and, nomatter how well the work is done, it is still a poor ])iece of work. In order to geftthe hest results in all kinds of enihroideries and laces one should use the best. Holstein-Friesian. material that can possibly be obtained; it costs a little nu)re, hut the work has abetter appearance and that is what the exhibitor wants. It would take a long time to say something about eac-h of work that I seeat fairs; but if each exhibitor would look through her work every year, puttingaside all that has been used, meiuled and poorly laundered, just showing hernewest work, I am sure she would be better satisfied, and it would help to improvethe exhibits at the fairs at which she shows. Just a word as to placing initials or monograms on a long or square table-cloth. It is best to place them about eleven inches from either end of the tablejust beyond the salt-cellars. In this position it is less likely to be covered bydishes than at any other point, and shows to better advantage. 56 Till-: iiEiujrr uf No. 42 Care also should be taken in laundering all kinds of work; no starch shouldbe used nor a verv hot iron, for
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