The Glenwood post., 1920-10-16
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.
sy RstsIlln. Bennett.

0y 1stslllns Bennett.
ArA Coolidge sat in 4 day coach on
{ slow local train between Boston and
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.
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, "is to vote fer
the men whom they think will make tho
right laws and see that they arc en-
forced. They have done all they can
In the home. think the reason there
is so much sugar on hand now IL 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 1t 10
4 little hard for US to give up pie," she
laughed at the tradition that has be-
all kinds of cheaper substitutes for
butter and lard, and in my own house
hold we have experime ented with diff
ferent fruit combinations to And some
thing we like and that will take the
least sugar. Apples must be tart to
make good pies, but we have found
that bIueberries take less sugar and
the combination of apples and blue
berries, half and half, is delicious, re-
CURES less sweetening than apples and
has more character than the blueber-
ries alone"
Knows No Domestic Problems.
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
and she never has been without one
IT the fifteen years Of her married life
she has had only tive. The first one
she inhsrited 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 nrst left to Gn
and live with her sister.
There must be reason for their
staying, It was suggested to Mrs. Cool.
idge. aAd 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 q 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 scrubbinE 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 humanIy possible. I al.
ways answer my dOOrbell myself.
DO 1t for two reasons In the nrs,
place, there 10 no one else, and, In the
second, ] like TO greet my friends ~
the door myself"
Have Homo orehestra.
Mrs. Coolidge II of medium height
with brown hair, hazel eyes that hold
q coed deal Of merriment and very
quick sense Of huinOr At home she
and her children have a little orches.
ira. Mrs.. Coolidge plays the piano
JOhn' the violin. and Calvin. after con.
siderable discussion. In which he IA.
vored bass drum. compromised on q
banjo-mandolIn They play hymns aRd
war songs usually-the hymns they
learn in the Congregational church and
Sunday School Of Northampton. They
avoid dlflcult and unfamiliar music
because the object Of the orchestra Il
entirely recreational and not sduca
fional. That II . part Of Mrs. Cool
idgs's educational policy-that chill.
dren should work when they work and