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, Ers HE 5mm , momma Slt'e: the Bronttord farmhouse where she was born as part of its regular teacher training system." The government agreed to run the school if Mrs. Hood- less could see that it was properly housed, so she went to the Montreal tobacco mil- lionaire Sir William Macdon- ald, who donated $125,000 for a school building attached to the O.A.C. at Guelph, and in 1904 the Macdonald Institute was opened, with Mrs. Hood- less herself as one of the lec- turers. . During these years, too, she worked tirelessly to help or- ganize the Victorian Order of Nurses. Even in this her single»minded campaign to further the education of wo-' men is discernible, [or the Order would bring to women in their homes some of the basic [acts of hygiene and nutrition. In the meantime, still an- other of Mrs. Hoodless' or- ganizations had come into be- ing. In the winter of 1896 a young farmer from Stoney Creek, Erland Lee, had heard Mrs. Hood ess argue thatni't' men can ind enefit from Banding together to work and Mrs. Hoodtess From Page 11 institutions of this country," Among her often-used axioms were: _'"You purify society when you purify the home," and "A nation cannot rise above the level of its homesz" And she was fond of quoting Herbert Spencer's theory that "The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of so- ciety." One of the first people Mrs. Hoodless won over to her side was Mr. Ross, who later be- came Premier of Ontario, and it was on his suggestion that she undertook a _strenuous program of addressing vari- ous school boards throughout the province. In the period 189496 she made 60 such addresses, all in addition to her work with her classes in the Hamilton YWCA, not to mention the care of her hus- band and three children. Meanwhile, the National Council of Women (which she helped organize) was spon- soring her household science education program in other parts of the country, with particular success in Nova Scotia, where a domestic science course was introduced, in the teacher training school at Truro in 1897. As a result of her Ontario campaign, a number of -On- tario centres decided to intro- duce domestic science into the school curriculum. This created a demand for teachers, to meet which Mrs. Hoodless expanded her YWCA classes into the On- study, women could do like- wise. Impressed, hc asked her to speak at a'mceting in~ Stoney Creek. Mrs. Hoodlcss agreed. The upshot was that on Feb. 19 1897 101 women responded to her gal an association dedi Building a better nation_by building better homes. Thus was formed the first Women's Institute. The more ' ment has now spread through- out all Canada and across the seas. When the representa- tives of the Associated Coun- trywomen of the World met in Edinburgh last August, one of the first items of business was to pay tribute to Mrs. Adelaide H u n t c r Hoodless whose inspiration sparked the movement which now em- braces six million women in 27 countries. This was but one of the tario Normal School for Do- ,"m'ihg "35""? ape mcstic Science and 'Art in Hamilton, with financral help s /W\ V V J 7 7 7 from Lord Strathcona -- the Ontario Government still be ing reluctant to spend any money on this new-{angled notion. ' Within a few years this school had grown to such pro. ' portions that, as Mrs, Hood- tributes recently glven to a less put it: "It seemed infra remarkable woman whom digto have it depending upon most people have'been in- thc efforts of one woman, so clincd to underestimate for [appealed to the Department I too long, Early this/winter, of Education to take it over rations near Shearwm, world-wide uuzation which Mrs. tioodle' founded. However, her nai did not appear on the sta , and the women's institute 1'0 renew. mg an earlier re St that a Hoodless stamp bflSSUCd this year comm, ting the i fiftieth anni ary got her ' death. 'Mrs. Howie" di £th 26. , stricken by a helirrr attach in thLl I 5. 2&3 ' ' " thi' ' i - ' Club 0 Womens Canadian {or a Toronto on the need arger and more advanced 3 teachers' training college I" r domestic science, Mid- . a law minutes after the start { f her speech, jog--,9. W fevater, and collapsed on the Iplatform where s e ie , within a ew nunutes. She i {had barely fwd--"£524" t ear, but she had lived long {non to have received in- '3, crnational recognition for_ 1,her work. A few years earlier a British publication had i ' icked her as its Most Dis- inguishefl Woman or tile Year. And in 1909 the Direc- ' tors of the Carnegie Tech- .uicai Schools asked her to _,inspert their work in the 'Uniled States and make a re- , rt with recommendations. After her "death, even the 'A