Connecticut western news., 1920-10-07
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Wife ot Republican Nominee, Praises
 Her Sex.
DISCUSSES HIGH LIVING COSTS
Declares in an Interview That
 Present High Prices Can Be Reduced by Votes.
By EsteIIine Bennett.

u SLOW lOCdI ITdl1 DelWeeH DoSton dLd Northampton and talked about her husband, her children, the high cost of living and the domestic problem. The conductor 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-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
 'T 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, f'is 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 in the home. I think the reason there is so much sugar on hand now Is be cause people are doing without it fin 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 l 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 Is little hard for us to give up pie," she | laughed at the tradition that has be come a joke, i've have learned to use all kinds of cheaper substitutes for .butter and lard, and in my own house hold we have experfmented with diff ferent fruit combinations to find some thing we like and that will take the least sugar. Apples must be tart to l =e:eskzo good pies, but we have found i that blueberries take less sugar and the combination of apples and blue Berries, half and half, is delicious, re =uirss jess sweetening than apples and Aas mere character than the blueber- sies alone"
  The domestic problem, which is clos 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, I and she never has been without one. | In the fifteen years of her married life she has had only two. The first one l she inherited with the furnished house l into which she and MT. Coolidge I 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 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 a sense of re | sponsibility to their work and intelli- gent enough to respond to reasonable courteous treatment.
 "A good many women who keep only | one maid have trouble in their house holds because both mistress and maid, | 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 humanly possible. al ways answer my doorbell myself. I do 1t for two reasons. In the first | place, there is no one else, and, in the second, I like to greet my friends at the door myself"
 l Have Home Orchestra. ... l. Mrs. Coolidge is of medium height, with brown hsir 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 orches tra- Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano John the violin, and Calvin, after con- siderable discussion, In which he fa- vored a bass drum, compromised on a banje-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 is entirely recreational and not educa- Il ,tional. That is a part of Mrs. Cool bfdge's educational policy-that chil-
 dren should 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 they were five years old ] Every morning when she is in North ampton, Mrs Coolidge takes her Bos-
 ton bag and goes to market If the neighbor next door is going Mrs Cool idge goes with her in the aearJe Other wise she walks She hassno domestic policy. She buys. sine says, "what the I family need and can afford" .><~ ti5 sA... stas .=a