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thers Traged lied eye To Founding of Wt Adelaide Hoodless was a to be portrayed in the histori- woman with a vision who cal pageant, Portraits From turned .a personal tragedy the Past, to be presented in into a crusade to raise the BCI and VS auditorium on standards of homemaking March 6 at 8.30 p.m. throughout Canada. Little did Mrs. Hoodless was a wo- sxhe realize that her vision man of culture and great would grow to a mighty or- personal charm with a know- ganization, the Associated ledge, gained during an im- Country Women of the World, poverished childhood, of. the t l t .2 4 3) comprising Women’s Institut- problems of farm women. es and similar organizations Born near Brantford in 1857, of country women in 108 youngest of a family of 12, tartar» . countries. , she married in 1881 and mov- Adelaide HOOdieSS She. is one of the characters ed to' Stoney Creek, near ? ' . _ Hamilton. There her four children were born, and there her youngest, a‘ son born in 1888, died in anfancy as the , result of a disease transmitt~ ed through contaminated . milk. It was her remorse at her lack of knowledge of child care that stirred Mrs. Hood- less to a crusade to save. other mothers and babies from the same fate. She E argued that women needed an organization for training in homemptking, similar to the then~popular Farmers’ Insti- tutes organized for the study of crop raising and animal husbandry. Indeed, she de- cleared, women’s work, home- craft and motherhood, was much more important than the work of men. In Febru- ary, 1897, at Stoney Creek, the first Women’s Institute Fmauy' She launched a ‘ . cam a' ' “rag organlzed “’ith D‘II'S. p lgn m 1910 for a school H dl _ at university level in Toronto. 00 685 35 honorary PF951‘ While making the keynote d18nt. She Chose the motto, speech that began the cam. l‘or Home and Country, used paign, she suffered a heart by thousands of Institutes in, attack and died a few min- many countries today. '1 utes later. But her pioneer Mrs. Hoodless’ next problem_ work led to the founding of was to provide trained home the Department of Household economists for schools need- Science at-.the University of ing teachers and for Insti- Toronto tutcs asking for extension scr- In a lite devoted to furthen vice. With a donation from ing the interests of women, Lord Strathcona, she had Mrs. Hoodless had a part, in opened the School of Domcsâ€" founding the YWCA it. Can- ‘ tic Science and Art in con- ada, the National Councilor nection with the Hamilton Women and the Victorian YWCA, of which she was Order of Nurses. But her president. She wanted to most enduring contribution move this school to a perm- was the Women’s Institute, ancnt location at the Ontario a devoted to the continuing edu- Agricultural College and per- cation of women “in the im- suaded Sir William MacDon- a provement of the home from ald of Montreal to provide the the physical, intellectual and building for MacDonald In- cultural standpoints”. stitute at Guelph. _â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"- . l a w r l \ l r t 4 L ' ‘ 4 . - - .- , 1‘ j .x .‘ .1 "v‘. . ~71": «91.5». ’1': /7/ 1' ,: ’j/ _;_' 5 L 7’7] 41,? f, f“,;«-) i I ' .1,