at Guelph. Many were his efforts to assist education in his native 
     
     Province as well. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the reception hall of MacDonald Institute hangs a beauti- 
     
     ful life-sized portrait of Mrs. Hoodless. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Within one decade Mrs. Hoodless overcame tremendous odds 
     
     and accomplished two major projects: the teaching of Household 
     
     Science and the training of teachers in this subject. It has been said 
     
     “educate a boy and you educate a man; educate a girl and you edu- 
     
     cate. a family.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mrs. Hoodless began a campaign for government support to 
     
     give University training in Home Economics. While speaking on 
     
     “Industrial Education for Girls” at the Toronto Canadian Women’s 
     
     Club on February 25, 1910, Mrs. Hoodless died at the early age of 
     
     52 years. She had crowded into her life tremendous efforts for a 
     
     tremendous cause. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     At this time, Miss Laura Rose, along with five other organiz- 
     
     ers took up the work. They travelled through the province of On- 
     
     tario to bring to other women the story of Stoney Creek Women’s 
     
     Institute, and of the work that had already been accomplished 
     
     through this organization. Although they met with some opposi- 
     
     tion, by 1902 thirty-nine Institutes were organized with a member- 
     
     ship of 2,081. In that year the Women’s Institutes received legislat- 
     
     ive recognition in the Agricultural and Arts amendment Act. By 
     
     1916 approximately 900 branches were formed with 30,000 members. 
     
     Nearly 500 branches had been formed in the other provinces, with 60 
     
     in British Columbia, where Miss Rose organized the first 15 in 1909. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the United States the influence of Women’s Institute Work 
     
     was being felt. An organizer had been working from 1902-12 with 
     
     great success. Women’s Institute work was introduced to the Brit- 
     
     ish Isles in the year 1915 by Mrs. Alfred Watt, the first group was 
     
     fOrmed on the Island of Anglesely in Wales — similar to those of 
     
     British Columbia. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The idea was accepted very quickly and Mrs. Watt was asked 
     
     by Queen Mary to explain it at Sandringham palace, resulting in the 
     
     formation of Sandringham Women’s Institute with the Queen as 
     
     President. Since that time succeeding Queens have held this office 
     
     and others of the Royal Family have been members. During the 
     
     First World War the British Country Women assisted greatly in 
     
     increasing the food supply, and the Institutes became known as “Can- 
     
     ada’s gift to the Motherland”. Mrs. Watt was awarded the Order of 
     
     the British Empire by King George V for her services. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Burn down your cities and preserve your farms, and your 
     
     cities Will spring up again; but destroy your farms and the grass 
     
     will grow on the streets of every city in this country.” — Wm. Jenn- 
     
     ings Bryan. 
     
    
   
   
    
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