Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 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 EsteIIine Bennett.


Mrs, Coolidge sat in day coach on
slew 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.
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, lis 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 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 II Is
little hard for us to give up pie" she
laughed at the tradition that has be-
come joke. 1--WE lave 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
ieast 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.
'reasing the hotel population is some.
hing 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. |
lr 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 reason for their
1t was suggested to Mrs. Cool.
dEe. 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.
TO theil work and intelli-
gent enough to respond to reasonable
treatment.
"A good many women who keep only
me maid have trouble in their house
lolds because both mistress and maid,
tut chiefly the mistress. are afraid Of
york. woman expects one maid to
le the cooking and scrubbing and ev.
'rything else and still be dressed up In
lack dress with white cap and apron.
eady to answer the doorbell any min
tie. 1t isn't humanity possible. al
vays answer my doorbell myself.
% II for two reasons. In the first
lace, there is no one else, and. In the
econd, like to greet my friends at
he door myself"
Have Home Orchestra.
Mrs. Coolidge is of medium height.
nth brown hair. hazel eyes that hold
good deal OF merriment and very
uick sense of humor At home she
nd her children have little orches-
a. Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano.
ohm the VIOLIN and Calvin, after con-
derable discussion. in which he f..
ored bass drum. compromised on a
anjo-mandolin. They play hymns and
ar songs nsually-the hymns they
arm In the Congregational church and
unday School of Northampton. They
void dif1cult and unfamiliar music
cause the object of the orchestra is
ltirely recreational and not educa.
onal. That is part of Mrs. Cool
ge's educational polfcy-that chill.
en- ch0uld work when they work and
ny when they play and keep the two
parate. That was why she sent her
'ys to the public schools OF North
npton when they were five years old
Every morning when she is In North
npton, Mrs Coolidge takes her Bos
n bag and goes to market. II the
'ighbor next door is going Mrs. Cool
&c goes with her In the car Other
se she walks She has no domestic
'licy. She buys. she says what tn,
mily need and can afford"