The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-10-21
&ars. Calvin Coolidge, Wife OF
Republican Nominee, Praises
Her Sex.
DISCUSSES HIGH LIVING COSTS
Declares h an Interview That
Present High Prices Can Be
Reduced by Votes.

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
a. 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 bis duties in the state
capitol She knitted diligently as sha
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, els to vote for
the men whom they think will make the
right laws and sea that they are en-.
forced. They have done all they can
Ia the home. I think the reason there
Is 80 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 substi.
tuted and made over. But that isn't
enough. They'll have to vote the high
csst Of living down.
Here In New England, where II Is
q 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
all kinds of cheaper substitutes for
butter and lard, and IN my own house
hold we have experimental with diff
fercnt 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 sw%eetening 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
ersaslng the hotel population, is some
thing Of which Mrs. Coolidge thinks
she has nc personal, practical knowl-
edge. She never keeps bat one maid,
and she never has been without one.
In the fifteen years of her married life
she has had only tive. The frst 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 nrst left to ca
and live with her sister.
There must be . reason for their
staying, Il was suggested to Mrs. Cool.
idSs, and she thought possibly there
were several. She thought the type OF
maid had something to do with 1t.
Hers both have been American wo-
men old enough TO have q sense Of re-
sponsibility to their work and intellI-
gent enough to respond to reasonable
courteous treatment.
"A good many women who keep only
one maid have trouble In their house
holes because both mistress and maid.
but chiefly the mistress, are afraid OF
work. A woman expects n maid 10
do the cooking and s%crubblng and ev-
erything else and still be dressed up In
black dress with white cap and apron,
ready to answer the doorbell any min
ute. II isn't humanity possible. l al.
ways answer my doorbell myself. I
do II for two easons In the first
place, there Is no enc else, and, In the
second, ! like to greet my friends At
the door myself"
Have Home Orchestra.
Mrs. Coolidge is Of medium height,
with brown hair. hazel eyes that hold
q coed deal Of merriment and a very
quick sense Of humor. At home she
and her children have a little orches-
ira. Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano,
John the violin, and Calvin, after con
siderable discussion, In which he ia
vcrsd a bss drum. compromised on a
banjs-mandolin. They play hymns and
war songs psuAlly-the hymns they
Learn n he Congregational church and
sunday School q Northampton. They
aveid dtfncuft and unfamiliar music
because the object Of the orchestra IL
entirely reefsational and not educa-
tionsL That 10 = part Of Mrs. Cool.
idse's educational ~policy--that chill
dren sheuie work when they work and
play when they play and keep the two
separate. That was why she sent her
boys ~ the public schools Of North
symptom when they were ave years old.
Every morning when she Is In North.
ampten. NrA Coolidge takes her Bos-
ton bag and gees to market. II the
neigAbor next deer Is going Mrs. Cool
idgs goes with her In the car. Other
wise she walks. She has no domestic
policy. She buys. she says. what the