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ionear work Mra. Blair formcd the b t Swttish Women's fnstitute at Longmiddry in J y a , 1917, and thereby stsrted e movement the objeat of whlch was to help the women of E ere setting out k g e k on anotlrer rural Ewtland to widen and develop both their home and +venture nnd we believe we are Wly their national life. E'Jiare was,anything the War tsught us, however, it wan usti6ed $ making the b t word of the t h ~ t Nation wae not meant to be the end ot our evoluB.w.R.I. Magazine one of Hope. Only a few yeago tha Institute tion in this particular direction. No nation ever sou bt movement itself waa a gmab d v e n b . national ends more zea~ouslythan did German but %er only Oo bring herself to the dust. andtltbe world Todav it is a meevdous reoord of achievement of which lte eeal -ed originitor may well ha proud-+ woman'?' movement with I to diaester. With the war there ended the era of nation worship. tremendous possibilities, ita alecbn cdl For Home and We pasad inin the dawn of tbs International with the birth Corn*." of the League of Nations and the vieion f a which it stands. To us who are women wmss a fresh clarion &For Kame, for Cauntry, and the World. I t should be easier for ua than for men to pass into International thought and oublook, for it never was m nacesaarg for un to cultivate an exoluaively national spint. We take it as the besb of omens that the Women s nab tute-aqe of the Brst gceat publio movements i n i t i d an: run snbdy by women-la a h d y of international s w p its nims end pdbilitiea of world-wide aigni6cance. It sei out to weld into one the lsbersats aad sympathies of amall and obaoura WP1 wmmunities, Bnd lo I an inbsmational bond waa B w somss tha Continents. It is one of the first objects the bond of unity among of tihis little Mngwine to .&@en Up to this atage woman'a work W P ~dD30Bt entirely oon- Swtbisb Institutes, keeping ever in mind that we are units b e d to the home, her iduence on a wider world being in one grset whole--e world-wide Pesoe, Gocdwill, and exerted oal thmugh the men of har own h&M. When He1 lulneau Crusade. 8%ht we then to t r a n ~ p p .the mobto? h d j not I ehe firrrt d t s h e d to seek a mom dire& ou6let for her desire to m n e her corntry she was re ulaed but the Qreet The o er of the motto is ri ht. I t a still a woman's duty and privil e to put home &at, and &e can best h?lp her War brought her op c-ty, and nob?y ah; rose to it. exe* her inIluence in the world by dolng so. Dthat &I time a h e r ' s aife who tRas .I- oountq a h e r ' s daughter book her W l *are h the busy home Ebe ma have a wider sphere, but she still has no finer or &I of bhe farm conmved bhe idea of mtmdcing inin h b nobler &a the preservabton and expansion of the home life land the Women'a Institub ~ovamqnt,whioh Mia, Wetit b whinh Scotland owed her greatnase. The Erat object of had rn s u m f u l l y launabed m C s n h After pfrenuous tbe Institute is to help her.