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ME es o Eooae --f n & uo 4 reren c n . >( ~raiiienseneniaeimine 1. )/ 44 i uce * ¥1--q é L2 & 5 p ;/| L2z \F) 8b E . / / l > t Y / 2 Teotren + x/'D-- y } Syé4C WBb Y o t 1. in ue -- Li ¢ ) /\C§ = -t s _ 7 e S ( 4 7A =C o adenamndecmmets cats in | a MR . " ' 897, the first women's institute was ofganize® y D " Why did this organization of farm women, banded '] I ing. grow into somothin «o far reaching and so signi-- | : ficant? We have a good part of the answer in the | 7 7 7 manner of woman who was its founder | 1\[)'41 IJ//\ ) & ) ) 1y S : Crasader For Houschold Science Adelaide Hoodless--Adslaide Hunter before her marriage--was born on a farm near St. George in k =-- smm Brant county, Ontario, one of thirteen children. Her brothers were university men and Adslaide grew up in a home of culture and uncompromising Presby-- & > * terian ethics; grew up, too, with all the social graces as a pioncer in a dult education Pnd adice ar rtornt phaem mds gearh cngapiount There is no doubt that her personal appeal helped her over many difficult places, but she never depended ma>.. on it. I saw a copy of her letter to Sir William Mac-- ; donald asking for funds to build Macdonald Institute, . p and certainly there were no "'woman's wiles" in evi-- / dence. It was as clear--cut and forthright as a case 7 $-- --A history; she made her enuse plead for itsclf. Perhaps ' o a a her experience as one of a large family gave her the P 4 emotional hardihood and the perseverance she needed «CA N to carry through some of her schemes in spite of criti-- | & voml ut 4 'é\ cism and opposition; no doubt her own youth on a | [ | "wp it j\ ' farm gave her an understanding of the needs of farm :b p \ women ) | * @iy fl But there wan no experience to prepare her for a | Al " I ) trouble that struck in the early years of her married i /,,"' A r d life. Her first baby died when he was eighteen mont T s * uk ara ; es\ old, and she felt that if she had known more abo 2 Tt ies | } how to take care of a baby she might have saved hi Cl \ > \ -- 3 / \A Also it was discovered too late that the milk delivered Lath * to her house was not safe for babies, and she felt that ( . 1 she should have known about that, too. Out of her hi \ A f 4) »b grief came the resolve to try to save other women | C f Mro. Hoodless was from suffering like her own. So she hended a campnign hJ y a acomen ol aredt for clean milk in her city, and she began her crusade / personal charm. for home economics education for. girls--"domestic ' C w science" they called it then. And for women whose { C " school days were over, she started the women's insti-- e o# tutes, one of our fist Canadian ventures in rural ndult education r ethoo e Still Moderr by ETE L C H AP M A N Her Methods Ar uII'I.ln In laying plans for the womsn's institute, it is to be noted that Mrs. Hoodless, fifty--three years ago, followed adult education principles that are approved TJMEN the Amociated Country Womon of the . Union was planning its annual meeting at Guelph, _ by the experts today. Her subject, the home and the \' World met in Copenhagen thi eptember in 1896 meone had the bright idea of brinting in a _ family, was of vital and almost universal concern to tribute wan paid it in nt ul nawmblies of . woman speaker, a Mrs. John Hoodless of Hamilton, _ women. Study wis combined with sociability--the his international body--to the name of Adelaide who was creating quite a atir in that city by agitating _ women held their meetings in one another'a homes foodIi the Canadiin woman who. founded: the for the teaching of "domestic acience" in the public . and there was always a tea party afterwards. As far irtt (Womon's Institute nt Stoney Creek, Ontario chools, It is impossible to say whother the Union was _ as possible, everyone had a part in the program and, ind so started a movement that hm sproad protty . particulirly intereated in Mrn. Hoodlesa' mossage or _ because they prepared their own papers and gave voll nround the world. There are now women'a inati whether they wanted m special attraction for their . their own demonstrations, they "learned to do by uten in every province of Canada, in Groat Britain, _ progeam, for however queer her views might be, this . doing."" They were organized for action as well as lelium, Frince, New Zenlund, South Africa and . crusader already had n reputation as an entertaining . study--they not only had talks on recreation and ndin; and no doubt the institute idea hn prompted . speaker, At this meeting Mra. Hoodleas heard the . good books; they provided community skating rinks he formation of nome other groups that go to make men discussing the health of farm animals. When her ind libraries. Modern adult education tries to break ip. the. world's organited. country : women turn came sho argued that the health of their families . down social barriers and cultivate tolerance; it was It munt have taken tho cournge of n ploncer, fifty wis more important than the health of their cattle understood from the bexinning that the womon'a enrn nifo, to Inunch in educational movement for in approach that is still used by home economist« . institutes would favor no race, creed, class or political vomen who were right in the thick of their heavieat _ doing rural extension work. party imily . reaponsibilities, mont of 'them frrm women At the Guelph meeting a publicapirited young And how timeless the original homemaking ob M@lliiiE® with all that this implica in the way of limited Telsur firmer, Erland Lee of Stoney Crook, was particularly tives were, how aduptable to progress. "A bettem ime, And certainly it took n pioncer's vision to Iny moved by what Mrs. Hoodless said, ind he aaked if understanding of the economics and hygienic value, ling so sound that the objectives are atill adaptable ho would speak it a meeting of his Farmers' Institute . of foods" as it was written in the constitution, now ' o changing conditions, the progrim still attracting _ when they would have the women out to hear her. . covers not only the most up--to--date knowledge of rmm en after balf a contury At that meeting Mra. Hoodless suggested that the . nutrition, but of food prices and distribution. "The ) The J i1 t . women have an organization of their own to study . scientific care of ch-Hr_-n" takes in not only the | to First MPoman's Institute homomaking just as the Farmera' Institute studied . pediatrician's rules for feeding children but also the The story of how the first women's institute came . farming. She offered to meet with them to talk this . whole field of child paychology. It is not surprising nto bring is protty well known, In Ontario, back in . over and a meeting was arranged for the next Friday _ that after a year or two there was added to the study the Inte 1800'8, the. farmers had what they called . night Thirty--five women promised to attend. When . of homemaking in the institutes' program "the carry«s "\ln ors' Institutes: They also had in Experimental _ the night came, one hundred and one women and one .. inx on of any lins of work for tha uplifting of the home Union, very busy just then with a campaign for the -- man, Erland Lee,rcrowded into Squire's Hall in the or the bettermant of conditions surroumting coms health of firm animals, And when the Experimental _ village of Stoney Greek and there, on February 19th, _ munity life"; for we potice, (Continued on page amik f o s pruaman' )j agatuoras , ie