The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-10-14
AMERICAN WOMEE'
DOING FULL SHf Il:
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.
DISCUSSES HIGH LIVING COSTS
BY EstelIine Bennett.

nuSDanu, nCr cnuuren, the nlsn Cost OA
living and the domestic problem. The
conductor and the brakeman topped
as they went through the car 20 talk
TO her. She had made friends with
them In her frequent Journey, back
and forth TO keep in touch with her
children in school In Northampt)r and
her husband at his duties in tn state
capitol. She knitted diligently rs she
talked. During those trips sh" knits
oil 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 fundancntal
reason for the high cost Of living ami
the much discussed nestle pre- blcm.
II thinksthe only thing the women
Of the country can do now" 81 said
with the quiet conviction OF OF g who
has thought IL all out, "is to vDte for
the men whom they think will m; Ike the
right laws and see that they ire en-
forced. They have done all by can
| In the home. l think the reason there
| is SO much sugar on hand now IS be
cause people are doing withou II in
| their homes
Women Have Done Their Share.
American women have dom, 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 tie 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 las 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 fnG some
| thing we like and that will take the
least sugar. Apples must be art to
make good pies, but 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'
RE alone
| Knows No Domestic Problems.
The domestic problem, which IS clos-
ing homes all over the country and III
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 MARI ed life
she has had only two. The first one
she inherited with the furnisheG house
into which she and Mr.. Coolidge
moved when they NEre married and
took with her when she moved The
second came when the first lef. 10 go
and live with her sister.
There must be Il reason for their
staying. il was suggested 60 Mrs. Cool
idge. and she thought possibly there
were several She thought the type OF
maid had something to do with 1T.
Hers both have been American wO-
men old enough to have a sense of re-
sponsibility to their work and inteili-
gent enough TO respond to reasonable
courteous treatment.
"A good man 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. woman expects one maid to
do the cooking and scruhbiDg 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. 1t isn't humanity possible. l al
ways answer my doorbell myself. !
do il for two reasons. m tie first
place, there Is no one else, al d, In the
| a., ftsfT 1, Mt
the door myself"
Have Hor rehestra.
Mrs. Coolidge a medium height,
with brown hair hazel eyes tn [ hold
a good deal of merriment and a very
quick sense of humor. At hO' re she
and her children have a little riches
ira Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano,
John the violin, and Calvin, aft n con-
siderable discussion, In which he ia
vored bass drum, compromise on
ban They play hyn MS and
war songs usually-the hymn; they
learn in the Congregational chul CHI and
Sunday School of Northampton, They
avoid difficult and unfamiliar music
because the object Of the orcht stra Is
entirely recreational and not educa-
tionaI. That is part Of Mrs Cool
idge's educational pollcy-that chill
dren should work when they work and
play when they play and keep the two
separate That wac Why she mt her
boys to the public schools OF North
ampton when they were five We IRIS old.
Every morning when she Is In North
amptoD Mrs. Coolidge takes her Bos-
ton bag and goes TO market. If the
nci'l,bnr next door Is going Mr.. Cool
id;c ZOOS with her In the car. Other
wise nc wa ~ she has no )mestic
| policy =" 11rs she says, "wlat the
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