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t7 "’ “Women's Institutes here began i jBrita‘in’s ‘ ':.Celebrciting Golden. Jubilee LONDON (OPlâ€"More than 500,000 women are celebrating jthe golden jubilee in Britain of the Women’s Institute. a society for rural triendship and educa- ‘tion that originated in Canada. The National Federation of tits birthday party when the ’ Duchess of Gloucester, the Queen’s aunt, opened an exhibiâ€" ” tion in London on “the countryâ€" woman today,” Queen Mother Elizabeth, like the other female members of ,the Royal Family 3 WI mem» ,ber, will attend the first day of the British iedei'alion's an- nual meeting at Royal Albert Hall today. Celebrations reach a climax ’ next Monday when represents tires of each of the 3,717 British ’mstitutes will attend a garden party given by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. The first Women‘s Institute was founded in 1897 at Stoney Creek, Ont, by Adelaide Hood- ’ less, who conceived the idea of a society of mutual help and ' instruction among isolated farm trues. STARTED IN 1915 The WI came to Britain in 1915 when a group was organ» ,ized in the Welsh community that claims the longest name in the world at 5 Mattersâ€" Llanlair PG for short. Sixmoreinstitutes were masons-rams ing six months and three years later there were 800 clubs on the island. Membership grew by 10,000 last year. The chairman of the British WI Federation is' Gabrielle' Pike, a magistrate who lives in the Berkshire hamlet of Cothill,l’“â€"‘ where her husband George is headmaster of a boys’ school., Mrs. Pike, a great-yeah granddaughter of the Quakerâ€"â€" prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry, is intent on some reforms her-' self, particularly in co-ordinatâ€" ing and streamlining some WI work, such as working with mentally-ill patients and pro- viding meals for spastic chil« dren. APPOINT OFFICER ‘ ‘ One reform just adopted was the appointment of a fulltimei, publicity officer, one of whose tasks will be a campaign to get WI correspondents to sharpenl up reports that appear reg- ularly in scores of rural British weeklies. One such report, published during the Second World War,» is still remembered It began by red the classics, t “1313”: while Miss Stewart w ‘principal of the high school at â€" _.’i- Longmont, Colorado, where. was member qf the Fortru 11;: 11; Club, that she composed Collect. sna tells us: “It; _ written as a. prayer for the 1 called it A Collect for Women, because Ifel’t that wu_ , â€" en working together With wide ,7 interest: for large ends waste} new thing under the sun, and,_,~~__< perhaps they had need 10:: spec- ‘ “"7131 petition and meditation othi _"7_Arfi Ime’l‘llliiso must have been true for. ‘uze Collect has found its way. “i about the world, wherever yvom- en get together. Indeed it has been reprinted in many lands.‘ Miss Stewart helped to org-1 rianize the National Federation 7 ‘0! Business and Professional‘ Women's Clubs. From teaching,,'_‘u â€" she went-into the Nafionallsltiamu lo ment Service as ass nit ‘77 7 r n stricter general; later wast?“ naming who presided and whor _, made assistantmrecmr of egfl read the minutes, ran on with cation in the bureau of Indium Who gave the “interesting talk“ ~ __ Affairs and continued in this and who poured tea. It con- work until a. year before her eluded With “19 Paragraph: > 7 death in 194.3. “Unfortunately the meetingi had to end early because a Ger. ‘7, 7 ._A m“ fighter sprayed bullets ‘hm‘lgh the roof or the villageiev . . .7- tâ€"___._‘_ formed in Britain in the follow» hall, killing the president."