The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1920-10-21
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.
DISCUSSES HIGH LIVING COSTS
BY EstelIine Bennett.

Mrs. Coolidge sat In a day coach on
slow local train between Boston and
Northampton aud 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 10 keep IN touch with her
/ children in school In Northampton and
her husband Al 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 10 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
ia 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 substl-
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 is
a little hard for us 10 give up pie" she
laughed AT the tradition that has be-
come a Joke, I'VE have 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 20
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 aud Mr.. Coolidge |
moved when they were married and
took with her when she moved The 1
second came when the hrst left TO go
and live with her sister.
There must be a reason for their
staying. Il was suggested TO Mrs. Cool
idge and she thought possibly there
were several She thought the type Of
maid had something 10 do with IT,
Hers both have been American wo-
men old enough 10 have sense OF re-
sponsibility TO their work and intelli-
gent enough TO respond to reasonable
courteous treatment. II
"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. woman expects one maid to
dc the cooking and scrubbing and ev-
erything else and stlll be dressed up In /,
black dress with white cap and apron,
ready to answer the doorbell any min
ute II isn't humanity possible. ! al
ways suswer my doorbell myself ] I.
do IL for two reasons In the FIRST
place. there Is no one else. and. in the
second. ! Ike 70 greet my friends Al
the door myself" Ii
Have Home Orchestra.
Mrs Coolidge T. 0f medium height,
with brown hair. hazel eyes that hold
q good deal OF merrlment and O very .
quick sense Of humor. Al home she
and her children have a little orebes
ira Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano
John the violin. and Calvin. after con
siderable discussion IN which he IA
vored 3 bass drum. compromised on {
banjo mandolin. They play hymns and
war songs usually-the hymns they
learn In the Congrega fIoual church and
sunday School o. Northampton. They
avoid difficult and unfamiliar music
because the object o. the orchestra Is
entirely recreatlouaI and not educa-
ii6nal. That Il part % Mrs Cool
.tge's educational policy that chill.
drpn should work when they work end
play when they play and keep the two
separate That vas why she sent hef
boys % the public schools - North
smpton when they we're eve years old
Every morning when she Is IN North
ampton. Mrs. Coolidge iakes her Boz
ton bag and goes 10 market II the
neighbor next door Is going Mrs Cool
Idrs goes with her IN the car Other
wise ste walks she hss 20 domestic
policy she buys. she says what the
family neec and can G1ord-