Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-10-07
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.
DISCUSSES HIGH LIVING COSTS
BY EsteIline Bennett.

by -GSASlIUS oSHHett.
Mrs. Coolidge sat in 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 frc4uen; journeys back
and forth to keep In touch with her
children in school IN Nor, hampton and
her husband at his duties in the state
canit4l. She knitted diligently as she
Il: ktHis5 During those trips she knits
oil ihe winter stockings and sweaters
tor her two boys John, aged four.
teen and Calvin. twelve.
S"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.
Il think the only thing the women
of the country can do now" she said,
with the quiet conviction of one who
has thought II 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
IN the home ! think the reason there
t. so much sugar on hand now Is be-
cause people are doing without II In
their homes.
Women Have Done Their Share.
"Ar2arirnn women have done, and
ptIt Lot i,.,i, Cali ch. hnx
nave sacrificed and saved and subst!,
tuicd and made over. Eut that isn't
enough. They'll have TO vote the high
cost of living down
Here in New England. where II Is
a little hard for us 20 give up pie" she
laughed at the tradition that has be.
come n joke. 1--WE Lave learned to use
oil 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 sweetenlng 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 two. The first 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
second came when the first left to 60
and live with her sister.
There must be reason for their
staying, 1t was suggested to 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 b. 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
do the cooking and scrubbing and ev- q.
erything else and still be dressed up In
black dress with white cap and apron.
ready to answer the doorbeIl any min
ute. 1t isn't humanity possible. I al
ways answer my doorbell myself. ]
do II for two reasons In the first
place. there is no one else, and, In the
second, l like to greet my friends at
the door myself"
Have Home Orchestra.
Mrs. Coolidge Is Of medium height,
with brown hair, hazel eyes that hold
a good deal Of merriment and very
quick sense of humor. At home she
and her children have little orches
ira. Mrs Coolidge plays the piano.
John the violin, and Calvin, after con-
siderable discussion, IN which he IA
vored a bass drum, compromised on
banjo-mandolln. 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.
tional. That is part Of Mrs. Cool.
idge's educational policy-that chill
dren should work when they work and
play when they play and keep the two
separate. That was why SIZE sent her
boys to the public schools of North
ampton when they were Ave years old
Every morning when she is In North.
ampton, Mrs. Coolidge takes her Bos-
ton bag and goes to market. II the
neighbor next door is going Mrs. Cool
idge goes with her in the car. Other
wise she walks. She has no. domestic
policy. She buys. she says, what the
family need and can afford" .-5a