Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-10-08
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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.
BY EsteIIine Bennett.

Mrs. Coolidge sat in a day coach on
o 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.
81 think the only thing the women
of the country can do now" sh2 said,
with the quiet conviction of one who
has thought it all out, "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
III the home. l think the reason there
is so much sugar on hand now is be-
cause people are doing without 1t 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 is
a little hard for US to give mp pie" she
laughed at the tradition that has be-
come 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
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"
Knows No Domestic Problems.
The domestic problem, which is clos
ing homes all over the country and in
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
Ir 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 ant
! took with her when she moved The
second came when the first left to gt
)! and live with her sister.
There must be reason for theil
:, staying, it was suggested to Mrs Cool
idge, and she thought possibly there
were several. She thought the type O
maid had something to do vita it
Hers both have been American wO
men old enough to have sense of re
sponsibilIty to their work and intelli
, gent enough to respond to reasonabI,
: courteous treatment.
"A good many women who keep onl,
one maid have trouble in their house
holds because both mistress and maid
, but chiefly the mistress, are afraid 0
! work. A woman expects one maid t
dc the cooking and scrubbing and ev
, erything else and still be dressed up Il
black dress with white cap and apron
ready to answer the doorbell any min
) ute. 1t isn't humanity possible. | al
= ways answer my doorbell myself.
I. do 1t for two reasons. In the frs
= place, there is no one else, and, in tn
. second. I like to greet my friends a
| the door myself"
Have Home Orchestra.
Mrs. Coolidge is of medium heigh
). with brown hair, hazel eyes that hOl
COED deal of merriment and yer
quick sense of humor. At home sh
and her children have a little orche:
ira. Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano
John the violin, and Calvin, after col
siderable discussion, in which he fl
vored bass drum, compromised on
banjo-mandOlin. They play hymns an
war songs usually-the hymns the
learn In the Congregational church an
Sunday School of Northampton. The
avoid difficult and unfamiliar mus
because the object of the orchestra
entirely recreational and not educ
tional. That is a part of Mrs. Coo
idge's educational policy-that chi
dren should work when they work al
| play when they play and keep the tv
| separate. That was why she sent h,
boys to the public schools of Mort
smpton when they were five years oil
II Every morning when she is In Mort
ampton, Mrs. Coolidge takes her Bc
ron bag and goes to market. If Il
neighbor next door Is going Mrs. Coz
idge goes with her in the car Otht
wise she walks. She has no dOmest
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