Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-10-15
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 EsteIlIne Bennett.

Mrs. Coolidge sat In q 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 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
al 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, ais 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
H. the home. think the reason there
Is so much sugar on hand now is be-
cause people are doing without It 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
a little hard for US to give up pie" she
laughed at the tradition that has be-
come a Joke. I'VE have learned to use
al 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 viii 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-
81 quires less sweetening than apples and
a has more character than the blueber
s ries alone"
Knows No Domestic Problems.
The domestic problem, which is clos I
ing homes all over the country and In
creaslng 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.
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 Ar. Coolidge
moved when they were married and
took with her when she moved The
second came when the frst left to 90
and live with her sister.
There must be a reason for their
Staying, 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 Ii.
Hers both have been American wO-
men old enough to have sense of re
sponsbility to their work and intehi-
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
Dc the cooking and scrubbing and ev-
srything else and still be dressed up in
Black dress with white cap and apron. 2
-eady to answer the doOrbell any min
BITE. 1t isn't humanity possible. l al c
nays answer my doorbell myself.
10 It for two reasons In the first 5
olace, there Is no one else, and. In the =
iecond. like to greet my friends at
be door myself"
Have Home Orchestra
Mrs. Coolidge is Of medium height.
With brown hair, hazel eyes that hold
good deal of merriment and very
iuick sense of humor. At home she
nd her children have a little orches s.
"a. Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano d
ohm the violin, and Calvin, after con-
iderable discussion. In which he fa IL
ored bass drum, compromised on a u
anjo-mandolin. They play hymns and ID
'ar songs usually-the hymns they
earn in the Congregational church and
unday School of Northampton. They 10
void difficult and unfamiliar music Vi
ecause the object of the orchestra is &c
ntreiy recreatlonal and not educa CT
onal. That is a part of Mrs. Cool
ige's educational policy-that chill II
rem should work when they work and pc
lay when they play and keep the two W
Pparate. That was why she sent hel ei'
0Es no the public schools of North pU
n pton when they were five years old vi
Every morning when she is in North lu
mpton. Mrs. Coolidge takes her Bos M
IN bag and goes 10 marker II The tn
eighbor next door is going Mrs. Cool 10
lse goes with her In the car. Other UP