Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — AMERICAN WOMEN DOING FULL SHARE FOR TRE COUNTRY [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN WOMEN DOING FULL SHARE FOR TRE COUNTRY

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Wife of Republican Nominee, Praises Her Sex. DISCUSSES HIGH LIVING COSTS -V ; , * • Declares In an Interview That Present High Prices Can Be . Reduced by Votes. . j By EetelHne Bennett. . Mrs. Coolidge sst in a day coach on a slow local train between Boston and Northampton and talked about her husband, her children, the high cost of living and the domestic problem. The cpnductor and the brakeman stopped as they went through the car to talk to her. She had made friends with them In her frequent Journeys back and forth to keep In touch with her children In school In Northampton and her husband at his duties in the state capitol. She knitted diligently as she talked. During those trips she knits all the winter stockings and sweaters for her two boys—Jolin, aged fourteen. and Calvin, twelve. _ “Too many people ’are afraid of work," she thinks is the fundamental reason for the high cost of living and the much discussed domestic problem. think the only thing the women of the country can do now.” she said, with the quiet conviction of one who has thought it all out, “Is to vote for the men whom they think will make the right laws and see that they are enforced. They have done all they can In the home. 1 think the reason there Is so much sugar on hand now is because people are doing without it In their homes Women Have Done Their'Share. “American wdmen have done, and still are doing, their full share. They have sacrificed and saved and substituted and matte oxer. Bui that isn’t enough. They’ll have to vote the high cost of living down “Here In New England, where It 1s a little hard for us to give up pie,” she laughed at the tradition that has become a joke, **we have learned .to use all kinds of cheaper substitutes for butter and lard, and In my own household we have experimented with different fruit combinations to find something we like and that will take the least sugar. Apples roust be tart to make good pies, but we have found that blueberries take less sugar and the combination of apples and blueberries, half and half, is delicious, requires less sweetening than apples and has more character than the blueber-

ries alone.” Knows No Domestic Problems. The domestic problem, which is closing homes all over the country and Increasing the hotel population. thing of which Mrs. Coolidge she has no personal, practical knowledge. She never keeps but one maid; and she never has been without one. In the fifteen years of her married life she has had only two. The first one she inherited with the furnished house Into which she. and Mr. Coolidge moved when they were married and took with her when she moved. The second came when the first left to go and live with her sister. There must be a reason for their staying,- it was suggested to Mrs. Coolidge, and she thought possibly there were several. She thought the type of maid had something to do with It. Her’s both have been American women old enough to have a sense of re sponslbillty to their work and Intelligent enough to respond to reasonable courteous treatment. “A good many women who keen only one maid have trouble In their house holds because both mistress and maid, but chiefly the mistress, are afraid of work. A woman expect? one maid to

do the cooking and scrubbing and ev- ■ else and sllll be dressed up In black drew with white cap and apron ready to answer the doorbell any min ute. It Isn’t humanly possible I always answer my doorbell myself I do It for two reasons. In the first place, there Is no one else, and. tn 4be second, I like to greet my friends at the door myself." Have Horhe Orchestra. Mrs. Coolidge is of medium height, with brown balr. hazel eyes that hold a good deal of merriment and a very quick sense of humor. At home she and her children have a little orchestra. Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano. John the violin nnd Calvin, after considerable discussion, in which he fa vored a bass drum, compromised on a banjo-mandolin. They play hymns and war songs usually—the hymns they learn in the Congregational church and Sunday School of Northampton. They avoid difficult and unfamiliar music because the object of the orchestra la entirely recreational and not educational. That Is a of Mrs. Cool tdge’s educational policy—that chll dren chould work when they work and play When they play and keep the two separate. That was why she sent her boys to the public schools of North ampton when tney were five years old Every morning when she Is In Northampton. Mrs. Coolidge takes her Bos ton bag and goes to market. If the neighbor next door Is going Mrs, Cool fdge goes with her tn the car. Other wise she walks She has no domestic policy. She buys, she says, "what the family need and car. afford."