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Show AMERICAN WOMEN !$ DOING FULL SHARE FOR THE COUNTRY Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Wife of Republican Nominee, Praises Her Sex. DISCUSSES HIGH LIVING COSTS Declares In an Interview That Present High Prices Can Be Reduced by Votes. By Ettelllne Bennett Mrs. Coolidge sat In a day conch on slow local train between Boston and Northampton and talked about her husband, ber children, the high cost of living and the domestic problem. The conductor and the brakeman stopped as they went through the car to tnlb to her. She had made friends wltb them In her frequent Journeys back and forth to keep In touch with ber children In Bchool In Northampton and her husband at his duties In the state capltol She knlflcd diligently as she talked. During those trips she knits all the winter stocking1 and sweaters for her two boys John, eged fourteen, four-teen, and Cnlvln, twelve. "Too many people are nfrnld of work," she thinks Is the fundamental renson for the high cost of living and the much discussed domestic problem. "I think the only thing the women of the country can ,do now," Bhe said, with the quiet conviction of one who has thought It all out, "la to vote for the men whom they t'tilnU will mnke tho right laws and see that they nre en forced. They have done nil lliey can In the home. I think the reason there Is sn much BUgar on hand now Is been be-en use people are doing without It In their homes. Women Have Dona Their Share. "American women have done, and still nro doing, their full share. They have sacrificed and saved and substituted substi-tuted and made over. Hut tlint Isn't enough. They'll have to vote the high cost of living down. "Here In New England, whera It Is m little hnrd for us (o give up pie," she laughed nt the tradition that has become be-come n Joke, "we have learned to use all kinds of cheaper substitutes for butter and lard, and In my own house; hold we have experimented with different dif-ferent fruit combinations to find something some-thing we like and. that will take the least sugar. Apples must he tnrt to mnke good pies, but we hnvp found that blueberries Inke less sugar and the combination of apples and blueberries, blue-berries, hnlf-nnd half, Is delicious, requires, re-quires, less sweetening thnn npplcs'and has more character than the blueberries blueber-ries alone." Knows No Domestic Problems. The domestic problem, which Is closing clos-ing homes nil over the country and In-cteat-lng (he hotel population, Is something some-thing of which lira. Coolidge thinks she has no personal, practical knowledge. knowl-edge. She never keeps but one maid, and she never has been without one. In the fifteen years of her married life she hns hnd 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. Cool-idge. 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 wo-men old enough to have a sense of responsibility re-sponsibility to their work and Intelligent Intelli-gent enough to respond to reasonable courteous treatment. "A good many women who keep only on maid have trouble In their households house-holds because both mistress and mold, but chiefly the mistress, are afraid of work. A woman .expects jone maid to do tbs cooking and scrubbing and, everything ev-erything else and still be dressed up In black dress with whlto cap and apron, ready to answer the doorbell any minute. min-ute. It Isn't humanly possible. I always al-ways answer my doorbell myself. 1 do It for two reasons. .Int the .first place, there Is no one else, and, In the second, t like to greet my friends at the Moor myself." . T Have Home, Orchestra. Mrs. Cuolldgo' la of medium height, with brown hnlr, hnel eyes that hold , good deal of merriment and a very , quick sense of humor. At. Jioroo, sho and her children have n little orchestra. orches-tra. Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano, John the violin, and Cnlvln, nftar considerable con-siderable discussion, In which he favored fa-vored a bass drum, compromised on o banjo-mandolin. They play hymns and war songs usunlly the hymns they learn In (ho Congregational church and Sunday School of Northampton. They avoid difficult and unfamiliar' music, because the object of the orchestra Is entirely recreational nnd not educational. educa-tional. That Is n of Mrs. Cool Idgo's educational policy that children chil-dren should work when they work and play when they ploy and keep the two separate. Tlnt was why she sent her boys W the public schools of North ampton when they were. Ave years old. Ever morning when she Is In rortb nropton, Mrs. Coolidge takes .her Boston Bos-ton bag and goes to market. If the neighbor next door Is going Mrs. Cool-Idgo Cool-Idgo goes with her In the' car, Other-wise Other-wise she wniks. She has no domestic policy. She buys, she says, "whut Uif family need ncd can afford." |
