Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1920-10-21
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 .E.te.l,ne Bennett

y SLOW lOC6l ICAlu O0LWe3u 0O6IOu anu
Northampton and talked about her
husband, her children, the high cost Of
living and the domestic problem. The
conductor and the brakeman stopped
rs 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-John. aged four.
teen, 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.
II 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, sis to vote for
the men whom they think will make the
right laws and see that they are en-
forced. They have done all they can
1 in the home. I think the reason there
is so much sugar on hand now is be-
cause people are doing without It In
their homes.
Women Have Done Their Share.
American women have done, and
still are doing, their full share. They
have sacrificed and saved and substi.
tuted and made over. But that isn't
enough. They'll have to vote the high
cost Of living down.
"Here in New England. where It 10
/ q little hard for us to give up pie" she
laughed at the tradition that has be-.
come a joke. 1--WE have learned to use
all kinds of cheaper substitutes for
butter and lard, and in my own house
hold we have experimental with DIFF.
ferent fruit combinations to find some
I: thing we like and that will take the
least sugar. Apples must be tart to
make good pies. but we have found
that blueberries take less sugar and
the combination Of apples and blue
berries, half and half, Is delicious, re-
quires less sweetening than apples and
has more character than the blueber-
ries alone" ~. s ss,
Knows No Domestic Problems.
The domestic problem, which IL clos
1 ing homes all over the country and in.
creasing the hotel population. is some
thing Of which Mrs. Coolidge thinks
she has no personal, practical knowl-
edge. 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 60
/ and live with her sister. "a
There must be n reason for their
staying, 1t was suggested to Mrs. Cool
idge, and she thought possibly there
were several. She thought the type Of
maid had something to do with It
Hers both have been American wo-
!! men old enough to have sense Of 70
sponsibility to their work and intelli-
gent enough to respond to reasonable
courteous treatment. 81
"a good many women who keep only
one maid have trouble in their house
holds because both mistress and maid,
4 but chiefly the mistress, are afraid Of
work. A woman expects one maid to
dc the cooking and scrubbing and ev-
erything else and still be dressed up In
black dress with white cap and apron
ready to answer the doorbell any min
ute. It isn't humanity possible I n.
ways answer ny doaFhell myself. ]
do It for tWa reasons. In the 4rst
place. there ID no one else, and, In the
second, like to greet my friends at
the door myself s4l5
4 Have Home Orchestra. d q
4 Mrs. Coolidge 10 Of medium height,
with brown hair, hazel eyes that hold
Q good deal Of merriment and q very
quick sense Of humor. At home She
and her children have a little orches.
ira. Mrs. Coolidge plays the plano.
John the violin, and Calvin, after con.
siderable discussion. In which he a.
vored q bass drum, compromised on q
banjo-mandolin. They play hymns; and
i war songs usually the hymns they
learn IN the Congregational church and
i Sunday School Of Northampton. They
avoid dimcult' and unfamiliar mullt
because the pbjketa At tho orGhestra' 10
entirely recreAtioRal and not educa.
tional, That u part Of Mira Cool.
.idgs's educational apolicy that chill
4 dren should work when they work and
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