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, reqamurney: 4 35 “.;' c% S 1 ,»3 ° b ® { | ' s - U/' § f ir ~a f , e f eÂ¥ o «/ * 3 ‘v â€" e 2 4 B _A voice that ; s ia} & & e a # cried in the wilderness wl | e ~ Xts l § % v h. M io % . 4 a y s 8 AbAFyHn i n } By MARCUS VAN STEEN I‘g> ;'é- a ~ . 6 < 4 bs r rHREE-quarters of a of greatest value to them as raising the gengral standard a .;‘r. y \ n<y century ago, a baby boy _ womenâ€"the rearing of chilâ€" of the life of OUF people." ‘a d 4 $ . “0 died in Hamilton at the _ dren and the proper manageâ€" Mrs. Hoodless made her | & 3 3 & + As age of 18 months. In those ment of a home," she said. first big step. toward her Ei /A €, f. days, however, one child died Thanks to her efforts, this chosen goal when she became in : hss € % in five and every family had _ cannot be said with the same _ president of the Hamilton Fas 55 R its small graves in the churchâ€" _ degree of truth today. YWCA, which took her to S lh 3t 3 C ‘ yard. Mrs. Hoodless was born Chicago in 1893 as a deleâ€" f f 0 “\‘_«, ; What made this case dif _ Adelaide Hunter, youngest of _ gate to the World Conference S 5 d ferent was that the baby‘s the 12 children of David and _ of Representative _ Women. f A F mother refused to accept the Jane Hunter, whose small _ ‘The 17 years of her life which situation with resignation. farmhouse still stands off followed were years of She set to work to find out Highway 5 between‘ Brantâ€" â€" achievement. They were also & why her own child died, why _ ford and St. George, Ont. Her _ years of nervestraining work, uind : so many other children died, parents were hard-workling and tireless efforts to break onE en eP and studied ways to lessen _ Irish Presbyterians who had _ down firmly entrenched preâ€" 5 s > No en‘ iUissarrow mnd iut‘fering. come dercamaaim iss0lBey judices This portrait of Mrs. Hoodless is at Macdonald Institute What she accomplished has the time she was born, Feb. In 1894 she sponsored a stamped her nameâ€"Adelaide _ 2"+ 185"; her father was dead, _ resolution before the newly Hamilton mothers no longer It calls for higher ideals of Hunter Hoodless â€" on the and during her earliest years _ formed Nationd Society of able to teach their daughters home life and more respect honor roll of women‘s organâ€" the family had a serious ecoâ€" _ Women, asking that Canadian how to cook?" asked the for domestic occupations. In fations in (Canada ‘and) the tomic struggle. schools introdute m a n ual Hamilton Spectator. And the _ Sshort it is a direct education world over. By the end of her Adelaide‘s only formal eduâ€" training â€" whith, for girls, suggestion made frequently for women as homemakers." brief 52 years of life she had Cation was at the nearby â€" meant domestic science. in letters to the editor, from Just as the determination founded ar hely founc: the _ SCh00l in St. George, but she "When I starthd to prepare public platforms, and even _ t0 start these classes had been Young Women‘s Christian As. badenough refinement, social a paper to accompany my from some pulpits, was: one of the main reasons she sociation of Canada; the Vieâ€" Charm and natural good looks _ resolution I found it imposâ€" ‘"Why doesn‘t she stay at accepted the presidency of torian Order of Nurses; the to marry a very welltoâ€"do sible to get any upâ€"oâ€"date home and look after her own the Hamilton YWCA, the National Council of Women; Hamilton businessman, John _ information in Canada," she . family?" same aim next prompted her the Macdonald Institute at_ Hoodless, when she was 24. . related. "The subject had not It is difficult to appreciate _ to found the YWCA of Canâ€" Guelph; and Women‘s Insti The test of her life might even attracted) the atiention fully what Mrs. Hoodless acâ€" 2da so that the knowledge of duitesâ€"nevoss the world. have been spent in a quiet, of our educatcrs, as I soon complished until we rememâ€" her Hamilton classes might When Mrs. Hoodless learnâ€" unassuming round of social learned, and as Mr. G. W. ber the social prejudices of Scpreag to other YWCAs across ed that her baby‘s death was aX: %n indication of how caused by contaminated milk, { faflin mavancedotither fime sh{efwas lsdholfked éhat,She h:g‘ Ad I ‘d H d, d d Mrs. Hoodless was, many of self could have been so negâ€" - s her speeches,â€" delivered 60 ligent. She was even more era1ige qod1ess gre gz~ and more years ago, still read ih(;fked to le;'ffi"“fa‘ m::‘l"y 5 s g very much .like yesterday‘s ahies were dying drom NC II h editorial or next week‘s adâ€" same cause, not only in Hamâ€" fo ca runnlng a nome lmporfanf dress by a child psychologist ilton but all over the conâ€" > ~_ _ to the local PTA. Long before tinent. s * the First World War and the And her awakening had 3 motor car had torn the Vieâ€" dnly begun. She soon became _ pleasures and civic duties, if Ross, Ontario‘s Minister of her time. Althou gh she _ torian home asunder, she was aware that, although a great she had had a better millkâ€" Education, admitted." eventually won a great many _ preaching the vital imporâ€" Tz deal of scientific research _ man. It was the death of her She discovered, however, people over to her cause, at tance of a stable home to a was being devoted to finding _ first baby that gave her life that a great amount of work no time during her life was . stable society. She blamed â€" the best possible feed for pigs _ its purpose. was being done in domestic she ever free from criticism "the rising tide of lawlessâ€" and cattle and even hens, What this purpose was, ° science education in Britain, and even calumny. But as . ness, the empty churches and little or no thought was given _ Mrs. Hoodless herself sumâ€" Germany and the United she herself said, there were . the disturbing increase in diâ€" to finding the best food for _ med up in a remark she made _ States. Still she was not able. magnificent compensations. vorce statistics" on the weakâ€" human children. She noticed, _ shortly before her death: to convince Mr. Ross or anyâ€"â€" _ The first thing Mrs. Hoodâ€" _ ening of the home ties. too, that, where local farmers _ "Apart from my family one else. Nevertheless in _ less‘ school demonstrated was "The management of the would entrust their horses to _ duties, the education of betâ€" 1895, she went ahead and ~ that domestic science educaâ€" home has more to do in the the care of only highly qualiâ€" ter mothers to make better started a household science tion was not just a matter of _ moulding of character than fied men, they would often _ homes has been my life class in the Hamilton YWCA cooking and sewing. "Doâ€" . any other influence, owing to pick, as mothers for their _ work." Nor was she any less _ as a pratical demonstration of mestic science," she explainâ€" _ the large place it fills in the children, women with no _ clear as to what she thought what she was PToposing. As ed on many occasions, ‘"is the _ early life of the individual, training at all in child care _ was needed in the education _ she later put it: "Lstarted my application of scientific prinâ€" . during the most plastic stage and household management. _ of women of her time: "... a _ Class almost alone, and in a ciples to the management of _ of development," she said on "Canadian girls today learn _ special attention to sanitation _ small way, but in strong a home. It teaches the value _ one occasior_L “We are, thereâ€" a great many things, except . . . a better understanding faith." of pureâ€"air, proper food, sys fore, justified in an effort those things which will be . of the economic and hygienic She needed the faith, beâ€" tematic management, econâ€" to secure a place for home 10 . value of foods and fuels . . . _ cause the openIn6 Of her class . omy, care of children, doâ€" _ economics, or domestic Mr. Van Steen is a Brantford d a more scientific care of _ was aeccompanied by a chorus mestic and civic sanitation . science,. in the educational freeâ€"lance writer, of children with a view to of scorn and detision. "Are and the prevention of disease. Continued on Page 20 The Globe Magazine, February 27, 1960 Page 11 | pasd