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the Federated Women‘s Inâ€" stitutes of Ontario purchased, for $11,500, the old Hunter farm near Brantford, where Mrs. Hoodless was born. The intention is to turn the farmâ€" house and threeâ€"acre propâ€" erty into a national historic site in honor of the institutes‘ foundress. Earlier last year, on May 13, the Canadian Post Office issued a special postage sta m p commemorating the worldâ€"wide organization which Mrs. Hoodless founded. However, her name did not appear on the stamp, and the women‘s institutes are renewâ€" ing an earlier request that a Hoodless stamp be issued this year commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of her death: f Mrs. Hoodless died on Feb. 26, 1910, stricken by a heart attack in the midst of her work. While addressing the Women‘s Canadian Club of Toronto on the need for a larger and more advanced teachers‘ training college in domestic science, she faltered a few minutes after the start of her speech, took a sip of \ water, and collapsed on the platform where she died within a few minutes. She had barely finished her 52nd year, but she had lived long enough to have received inâ€" ternational recognition for her work. A few years earlier a British publication had picked her as its Most Disâ€" tinguished Woman of the Year. And in 1909 the Direcâ€" tors of the Carnegie Techâ€" nical Schools asked her to inspect their work in the United States and make a reâ€" port with recommendations. After herâ€"death, even the Hamilton Spectator, which had criticized her so sharply a decade earlier, was able to say: "She had the prophet‘s vision of what ought to be, > and nobly took upon herself the burden of being the voice crying in the wilderness." @