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Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless Stoney Creek, Ontario. BABY'S DEATH SPURRED MOTHER ON IN COAST-TO--COAST CRUSADE Visions of a Hamilton, Ontario, woman---Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless---were recalled on the 48th anniversary of the founding of Women's institutes in Canada. Mrs. Hoodless, wife of the Hamilton school board, conceived the idea that if rural women were to obtain better living and social conditions they must unite. Her plans were put into force by the untimely death of her infant son, who died as a result of impurities in unsterilized milk. Determined that other Canadian babies should not experience a similar fate, she started a crusade which has since spread all over the world. In canada alone, more than 70,000 rural women belong to the 5,000 odd women's institutes operating-