The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-10-28
AMERICAN WOMEN
DOING FULL SHARE
FOR THE COUNTRY
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Vile 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 Est.IlIne Bennett.

SLOW local train between Boston and
Northampton and talked about her
husband. her children, the high cost OF
living and the domestic problenf The
conductor and the brakeman stopped
* they went through the car to talk
to her. She had made friends with
them In her frequent Journeys back
and forth to keep lin 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
| Il think the only thing the women
Of the country can do now" she said,
with the quiet conviction of one who
has thought u ali out, sis 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
l
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-
tuued and made over. But that isn't
l Or. nfrh A. IL
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 has be-
come Joke, I'VE Lave learned to use
all kinds of cheaper substitutes for
butter and lard and in my own house
hold we have experimented with diff
| fcrent fruit combinations to find some
thing we like and that win 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
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
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 we're married and
took with her when she moved The
second came when the first left to go
and live with her sister.
There must be reason for their
Istaying. It was suggested to Mrs. Cool
lidge. and she thought possibly there
we're several. She thought the type of
maid had something to do with It.
Tiers both have been American wo-
linen old enough to have a sense of re;
lsponsibility 10 theii work and intelli-
gent enough to re pond to reasonable
courteous treatment
"A good many women who keep only
lone maid have trouble in their house
holds because both mistress and maid,
Ibut chiefly the MISTRESS are afraid of
work woman expects one maid to
do the cooking>and scrubbing and ev-
lerything else and still be dressed up In
black dress with white cap and apron.
ready to answer the do0rbell any min.
lutte. II isn't humanity possible, al
ways answer my doorbell myself.
do II for two reasons In the first
lplace. there is no one else. and, In the
second, 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 a very
lquick 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 bass drum. compromised on
lbanjo-mandolIn They play hymns and
lwar 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 recreatlonal 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 she sent her
boys to the public schools of North.
smpton when they were I've 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 IL 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"