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Hand/ass Mns. Adelaide The story of the founding of the Women's Institute is so well known to .Institute members that it's scarcely necessary to repeat it here. It might be enough to say that Mrs. Adelaide Hoozlless had lost a baby and she felt that, as a young mother, she should have had a chance to learn more about how to take care of babies. She didn't want other women to suffer as she had done so she started a campaign to have househola science taught to girls in public schools. of course this didn't help women who had finished at school and who were already in charge of a family. The only way for womenâ€" or at least rural womenâ€" to get this education, Hrs. Hooalass thought. was to have an organi zation of their own to study homemakjng, just as farmers had their Experimental Union and their Farmers' Institutes. Mrs. bloodless said this at a farmers' meeting at the (ntarjo Agriculture College and one young farmer. :Jrland lee from Stoney Creek. was so 1111 pr‘ssed that he asked Mrs. Eoodless to come to his community and talk to the women about 111. Mm women came to hear herâ€" In? of them from the village and all over Saltfleet township. The result was that on February J9th, in the year J897, the first .’vomen's Institute was organj zerl in Squire's Hall in the village of Stoney Creek. Taken from a play givenin I957 at Lntarlo .‘sgrjcultura College on cccas‘on of ‘oixtjeth Anniversary and written by {1133 Ethel Chapman.