Milford chronicle., 1920-10-15
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 EsteIIlne Bennett.

Mrs. Coolidge sat in day coach on
a 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.
Il 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, "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. 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
little hard for US to give up pie" she
laughed at the tradition that has be
come a 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
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.
ard she never has heen without one
In 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 go
and live with her sister.
There must be a reason for their
staying, it 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, o
Hers both have been American wo n
men old enough to have a sense OF re .
sponsibillty to their work and intelll- Il
gent enough to respond to reasonable {
courteous treatment.
"A good many women who keep only 81
one maid have trouble in their house in
holds because both mistress and maid, a
but chiefly the mistress, are afraid OF p
work A woman expects one maid to VI
dc the cooking and scrubbing and ev- Ia
erything else and still be dressed up IN "
black dress with white cap and apron. ol
ready to answer the doorbell any min b,
ute. It isn't humanity possible. l al ca
ways answer my doorbell myself ! D
do It for two reasons. In the first st
place. there is no one else, and, In the dr
like to greet my friends at Ia
he door myself"
Have Home Orchestra. {
Mrs. Coolidge is OF medium height.
with brown hair, hazel eyes that hold
, good deal Of merriment and very
quick sense of humor. At home she
and her children have little orches- st
ira. Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano dc
John the violin, and Calvin, after con ",
siderable discussion, In which he ia. In
Fored bass drum. compromised on IN
They play hymns and III
war songs usually-the hymns they
learn In the Congregational church and
Sunday School Of Northampton. They TO
avoid difficult and unfamiliar music VII
because Ine ODJect OF lhe orchestra Is ed
entirely recreationa1 and not educa CT
.ional. That IS part Of Mrs. Cool
dge's educational pollcy-that chill III
lren chould work when they work and pc
play when they play and keep the two w
separate That was why she sent her clC
boys 10 the public schools Of North pu
lmpton when they were five years old wi
Every morning when she is in North jul
impton. Mrs Coolidge takes her Bos his
on bag and goes to market If the tn,
leighbor next door is going Mrs. Cool fol
dge goes with her In the car. Other up
wise she walks She has no domestic no
,ollcy. she buys, she says, what the an
amily need and can afford" bu
tis