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Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead nishings added, the Adelaide Hunter Hoodless homestead becomes more and more truly a replica of Ontario farm homes of the period when Adelaide Hunter lived there 7 she was born in this house over a hundred years ago, in 1858. 3‘ S RENOVATIONS are made and fur- Situated on Highway 24 one-half mile from the junction with Highway 5 and not far from the town of Paris and the village of St. George, the old white house had had many tenants after the Hunter family left it, before the Fed- erated Women's Institutes of Canada took it over as a historical site, in memory of Adelaide Hunter Hoodless. founder of the Women's In- stitute movement. It was a sturdy little house but in need of considerable repair and reâ€" furhishing. The first work done was to build front and back door Stoops, remove old shrubbery that had grown wild and make a start on new planting. The lot of three acres has a grove of trees and recently the Township (South Dumâ€" fries) bought the adjoining two-acre lot which will be developed as a park, Altogether this gives the homestead a very fine site indeed. The house has been repainted entirely in white lace curtains drape the parlor windows, The eighteenth century grondluther's clock was a gift from the late Mrs. Hugh Summers. 3'7 3 The Hunter Hoodless Homestead in early 5r, â€"colored trim was not used one hand: CM, ago. And this year washrooms have m, stalled at the rear of the house. Three rooms have been partially I. my The hall opening from the front door 1hr stairs to the second floor are carpet um rag carpet donated by the Women's i out of North Waterloo. There is a hatâ€"r. "-L‘ru and the Canadian Home Economics .m- tion is providing a lectern for the m Book â€" the book itself is a gift from 'Itlt‘ Economics Service. Points of interest in the parlor 'llL‘ Axminster carpet, Franklin stove, Walt its, and chairs upholstered in black tapesti ‘ .i tiny rose design, two walnut and t .:It chairs, a grandfather‘s clock made the eighteenth century, donated by the I. tr» Hugh Summers, an old desk, rocker. l .ir- tains, some steel engravingsâ€"one Ol - A picture of Queen Victoria around the at her coronation. Several pieces of 1' in came from the home of Mr. and Mrs. 7l~ in Paris, contemporaries of Mrs. B ~.~ And a number of articles were den "3 the Hunter family, including a framed c of Mrs. Hoodless’s mother, her Dir Bible and pewter candle holders. The parlor bedroom and the girls' b- "it have beds with rope "springs" and strt: Jr tressesâ€"a maple four-poster in the lit bedroom, a spool bed in the other: 01 tic bedroom china and old-fashioned pictu; in! religious mottoes. There are pieced q d log cabin quilt and a crochet bedspreat in the Hunter family. The “drum” in the L‘- Pipe in the upstairs bedroomâ€"an 01" 'W contrivance to increase the heat from th UL â€"attracts a good deal of attention fron. il ors. Women are interested, too, in [ht J1 papers in the rooms that have been don; ‘r The furnishing committee tried to find r m of the style used on parlors and bedmt t u century ago, HOME AND couv it"