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of this woman of action, she organized the school of Domestic Science and Art at Hamilton, securing finances by private subscription and a small Government grant. This school soon proved inadequate and Mrs. Hoodless presented her problem to Sir William MacDonald one of Price Edward Island's most public minded citizens, resulting in the building of MacDonald Institute at Guelph, where for many years, girls not only from Ontario but from every part of Canada have taken courses in Home Economies. To-day there hangs in the reception room of this college, a life sized portrait of Adelaide Hoodless, presented by the Womens' Institutes of Ontario in recognization of ‘her great and loving service to humanity. Since 1884 there had existed in Ontario, Farmers' Institutes functioning under the Provincial Government of Agriculture. Their purpose was the promotion of scientific methods in all branches of agriculture.‘ This was done by sending agriculture experts to teach the farmers the latest methods of grain growing, dairying, stock raising etc. Their success gave Mrs. Hoodless who had been born and brought up on a farm, the idea that â€"â€" it was far more important for rural women to know all about the proper feeding of their children than for farmers to be taught animal husbandry. Mrs. W. E. Walker of Bartonville Ontario, Past President of the Womens' Institutes of Canada has writ ten this brief history of the founding of the first Womens' Institute which was organized on February 19th 1897 in the little village of Stoney Creek, Saltfleet Township, ausntworth County, ontario. Prior to this for thirteen years a Farmers‘ Institute had flourished, mainly through the efforts of JJL. Smith, their public school inspector and his able assistant, n‘rland Lee who was a prominent, broad minded and public spirited young farmer In the'autumn of 1895, in Soltf-eet in the vicinity of Stoney Creek. lur. Lee attended the ixperiuental 'onion at the Ontario Agriculture Uolle