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$ 5 | ‘_ Adelaide Hunter Hoodless was an © _ extraordinary trailâ€"blazer. She was ADELAIDE HOODLESS founded first the youngest of 12 children born in W.1. on Feb. 19, 1897, to promote a small clapboard farmhouse near |__rural sanitation after her baby died St. George, Ont. Her father, David ,__ from drinking contaminated milk. Hunter, an Irish Presbyterian immiâ€" 7 § ‘ s grant, died shortly after her birth on | *y * Feb. 27, 1857, and her family enâ€" | S . a + dured a hard struggle. p 5 e A When she was 24, Adelaide married & 7 a wellâ€"toâ€"do businessman, John Hoodâ€" s & o #5° less of Hamilton, Ont. She might have " k 3 become just another housewife: A F p â€" j buxom beauty, with widely spaced + iA te= blue eyes, blonde hair piled â€"high,:, a touch of stubbornness to her finely h modelled chin. But then her baby, F 4 gz\fl John, Jr., died at 18 months from e «l ;‘«.“,_;‘ drinking contaminated milk. Adelâ€" EB â€" [A§i peert 24 aide Hoodless was shocked to learn +â€" A hedc Cl that thousands of farm infants were e * f similarly perishing from a lack of f \_ sanitary measures. Out of her grief c and anger, she became a reformer, determined to educate rural women.