The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1920-10-19
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 Estelilne Bennett.

Mrs. Coolidge sat In a day coach on
q 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
rs 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.
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 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 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 arc 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 II 10
a little hard for US to give up pie" she
laughed at the tradition that has be-
come a Joke, I'VE lave learned to use
ell 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, lf-and half, is delicious, re-
qulres 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 Dir. Coolidge
moved when they were married and
took with her when she moved. The
second came when the nrst left to &c
and live with her sister.
There must be q reason for theii
staying, II was suggested TO Mrs. Cool
idge. and she thought possibly there
were several. She thought the type Of
maid had something 10 do with II
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 reasonable
J 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 o
work. A woman expects one maid 4
do the cooking and scrubbing and ev
: erythlpg else and still be dressed up II
black dress with white cap and apron
3 ready 10 answer the doorbell any min
ute II Isn't humanity possible. l al
, vays answer my doorbell myself.
do II for two easons. In the mrs
, place, there Is no one else, and, In tn
3 second, I like to greet my friends
: the door myself" --T
Have Home orchectra. ~.
, Mrs. Coolidge Is OF medium, height
. with brown hair, hazel eyes that hoi
good deal Of merriment and yer
. oulck sense of humor. At home sh
= and her children have little orches
ira. Mrs. Coolidge plays the plano
John the violin. and Calvin, inter cor
siderable discussion, In which he II
yored a bass drum, compromised on
banio.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 n part of Mrs Coo
idge's educational pollcy-that chi'
aren should work when they work al
play when they play and keep the I"
separate. That was why she sent h
boys 10 the public schools of Mort
ampton when they were Ave years oil
Every p,ornlng when she Is In Mort
appton, Mrs. Coolidge takes her DO
ton bag and goes TO market II u
neighbor next door is going Mrs. Coo
Idge goes with her In the car. othe
wise she walks, Size has no comes.
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