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What Country Women are Doing - 1933
Earlier this year, I wrote about a book which was edited by Sholto Watt titled “What Country Women of the World are Doing”. This volume of some 258 pages, compiled from submissions of country women from all active member countries of the Associated Country Women of the World, highlights some of the lighter, entertaining activities of the various groups.
Adelaide Hoodless’ pivotal part in the formation of the WI
The women decided to organise a group affiliated with the Farmer's Institute. Thus, February 19, 1897 saw the organization of the Stoney Creek Women's Institute - the first Women's Institute in the world. Through this new organisation, the members helped to improve the home from the physical, intellectual and cultural standpoints. The real object was to raise the standard of Homemaking.
