Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 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.


y slow local train between EoSton ana
Northampton and talked about her
husband, her children, the high cost cf
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 ~ 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 II AL out. lis To vote for
the men whom they think will make the
RICH, laws and see that they are en-
forced. They have done all they can
Ia the home l think the reason there
Is SO much sugar on hand now Is be-
cause people are doing without II 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 substs.
"a
enough They'll have 10 vote the high
cost ~ living down
Here In New England. whore II Is
. little hard for us 10 give up pie" she
laughed at the tradition that has be
/ come a Joke we have learned To use
all kinds Of cheaper substitutes for
| butter and lard. and I'm my own house
hold we have experimental with DIFF
| ferent fruit combinations 10 find some
| thing We like and that will take the
! least sugar. Apples must be tart 10
1 make good pies. but we have found
/ that blueberres take less sugar and
/ the combination Of apples and blue
/ berries, half and half. Is delicious. re
| auires less svee'ening than apples and
e
I ries alone"
Knows No Domestic Problems.
The domestic problem. which II clos
/ ing homes all over the country and In.
creasinx the hotel population is some
! thing OF which Mrs Coolidge thinks
she has no personal. practical knowl-
I edge. She never keeps bur one maid
/ and she never hss been without one
/ Ir the fifteen years of her married life
sN1 has had only two The tirs' 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
and live with her sister.
There must be reason for their
! staying. fl was suggested 10 Mrs. Cool
lcse, and she thought possibly there
were several She thought the type ~
maid had something 10 do with IL
Hers both have been American vo-
men Old enough 70 have sense % 70
gent enough 70 respond To reasonable
I courteous treatment
"A good many women who keep only
one maid have trouble In their house.
I holds bacaus. both mistress and maid.
hat chiefly the mistress are afraid -
work A woman expects one maid 70
d. he cook ng and Scrghhing and sv
~ry'hln- elss and still be dressed up In
black dress with white cap and apron
ready 70 answer the Goorhell any min
ne. I, isn't humanity possible al
WAYS answer my dnor5ell myself
% (. FOR TWO reasons In the FIRST
Place there IS 10 one else. and, In the
second. Ike n greet my friends ~
the door myself"
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