Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-10-22
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 Estelline Bennett.


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 10 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 nor two boys-John. aged four
tsen, aad 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, lis 10 vote for
the men whom they think will make the
right laws and see that they are en-
forced. They have done MI they can
In the home. 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 snbstl-
tuted AID msde over Eut that isn't
enough They'll have to vote the hlgr
cost Of living down
Here in New England. where II Is
n little hard for us 70 give ~ pie she
Laughed az The tradition filat las be-
come a Joke We lave learned 20 use
Ell kinds Il eiieaner substitutes FOR
butter and lard. aud III M own house
l1pla we have cSperfmenfed with dix
ferent frus combinations h find some
thing re re and that VII take Tie
least euear Apples must be tart 70
make eeoa nias huf we have found
tlat blgebef4ies take less sugar and
IRE coordination 81 apples and blue
berries. half and half IS delicious r.
aidrea less sweefeIHg thaa apples and
las iaose character sl.an tie hlneber-
RIGS alone"
Knows 10 Domestic Problems.
Tie domestic problem. which IS clos
lag homes al OVER fAe country ard in
ereaslng fifa heiel population. is SOME
thing Of which sfrs. Coolidge thinks
she has no personal, practical knowl-
edge She never keeps but one maid
and she noeer has been without one
n The fifteen years Of her married life
she las had only two, The first one
she Inherited with tie 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 go
and Ike with her sister
There must be reason for their
atayng, II WAS suggested TO Mrs Cool
idge. and 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 a sense Of re-
sponslbility to iheii 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 70
dc The cooking and scrubblng and ey-
erything else and still be dressed up IN
black dress with white cap and apron,
ready 10 answer the doorbell any min
ute. II isn't humanity possible. al
ways answer my doorbeIl myself.
do It for two reasons. In the first
place. there Il 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
q good deal Of merrimenf and very
quick sense Of humor. AT home she
aud 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
yored a bass drum. compromised on a
hanjo.mandoln. They. play hymns and
war songs usually-the hymns, they
learn In tho 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-
tionaI. That is a part Of Mrs. Cool
idges 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 10 the public schools OF North
ampton when they we're Ave years old
Every morning when she is in North
ampton, Mrs. Coolidge takes her Bos-
ton bag and goes to market. II the