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'777r5 a' aide. Hucd ass -0'. ..~~ V. _. . . -». Through tragedy a world-wide organiztion was bornt Mrs.Adelaide HOodless lost her eldest son at the age of eighteen months.The Doct-r told her that this death could have been pre- vented as it we. caused by the use of impure milk. Grief and remor.e stirred Mrs.Hoodless to action.She travelled about addressi ; meetings on the need to have Domestic Science taught in the s hools. .Mr.Erland Lee,a farmer living in the vicinity of Stoney Creek, had aided J.H.Snith,I.P.S. for Wentworth County,to organize a Farmers'lnstitu e some years before.Mr.Lee heard Mrs.Hoodless address a meeti ; at Guelph and became her advocate. With sympathy a d concern for rural women,Mrs.Hoodless and Mr. Lee arranged me-tings and visited homes throughout Wentworth County. -;So,it came abou' that one hundred and one women attended a meeting at Squines'Hall in Stoney Creek,0ntario.w1th forthright determination tlose women speedily organized the first Women's Institute on Fe-ruary 19,1897.