Evening star., 1923-08-03
NEW FIRST LADY
OF HIGHEST TYPE
Mrs. Coolidge Woman of Edu-
cation, Charm and Is De-
voted to Home.

BY the passing of Warren G. Hard
ing, Mrs. Calvin c. Coolidge, wife Of
the Vice President. is to become the
nrst lady of the land and mistress Of
the executive mansion.
A woman Of education. charm. good
taste and ardent devotion to her hus-
band and two boys Mrs. Coolidge
will, take her new position equipped
with qualities which typify the finest
American womanhood.
Since coming to the nations capital
as the wife OF the Vice President Mrs.
Coolidge has distinguished herself as
a wife and mother. as hostess of
modest and unaffected charm, and
possesSor of an individuality which
neither went to the extreme of femi-
nism nor reacted to the anti-feminist
movement
Her friends predict that, entering
upon about a year and half expe-
rience as the FIRST lady of the land, she
will endear herself not only to Wash
ington. which she has largely won al
ready, but to the hearts OF the nation
as well.
Always Modest.
Mrs Coolidge has always been mod
T.,
ner of living. and is known to be SEN
sibly economic, thrifty and a good
houSekeeper. AT their nome in Norm
ampton, Mass, where the family lived
before moving to Washington, in a
double house, without servants. ex-
cept an elderly woman who occasion
ally came to help. Mrs. Coolidge in
sisted on the simple life. and was in
every sense an example of the devoted
wife and mother.
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tractive, and has gained for herself
the distinction of being always beau
tifuliy and becomingly gowned. She
Is stately, and filled with becoming
little. graces. which ever reveal them
selves in the brightness of a genial
smile.
The White House, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Coolidge and their two boys, will be-
come again more of boys home"
than it has been for years. neither
ing having sons to recall the days Of
Theodore Roosevelt, when the Staid
old halls re-echoed to the scrambling
of lively youngsters.
The Coolidge boys-John. sixteen.
and Calvin, jr., fifteen-however, will
be away at school, in Mercersburg
Academy, Mercersburg, Pa, during
the school year, and may spend some
of their summer in Massachusetts and
Vermont. But with their home at the
White House. it is expected there will
be a noticeable change in that par
ticular, with the tennis court behind
the Executive Mansion, now seldom in
use, again brought into activity.
Born in Vermont.
Mrs. Coolidge was born in Burling-
ton VT. and as Miss Grace Goodhue.
attended high school. and later
graduated at the University of Yer
mont She was a member of the Pi
Beta Phi. and one of the events of
her young womanhood was attend
ance at Berkley, Calf. of the conven-
ton of that sorority.
Meeting Calvin Coolidge at North
ampton. Mass, where the young
lawyer had gone shortly after gradu-
alton. to enter the practice of law,
married in 1905. In Northampton. she
had become teacher in a deaf mute
school. but gave up that position to
become Mrs. Coolidge.
In Washington, the Coolidge family
has lived at the New Willard Hotel,
in the suite formerly occupied by
former Vice President Marshal, where
Mrs. Coolidge has charmingly enter
tanned as became the wife OF the
Vice President.
During the summer, the family has
frequently visited at the summer
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stearns
Of Boston. at Beach Bluffs. Mass.
Mrs. Coolidge, although not a leader
of the day, nor, indeed a suffragfst.
votes, as an American citizen. and
has always evinced the deepest in
terest in her husbands political good
fortunes, as Governor Of Massachu-
setts and Vice President. At the time
of the election, when Mr.. Coolidge
became Vice President, she said:
Admired President.
This has been my first experience
in taking part in elections I am
deeply gratified at the result 1 know
Senator Harding is a great cam
paigner, because he Is a man of such
fine, true character. That stands out
in all his speeches. I am sure he will
make a great President But am
equally sure, from the reports of the
people who have had the good for
tune to visit Marion, that the i'm
preston Mrs. Harding has made on
her guests has spread all over the
country and made the people certain
that they wanted her to be the first
lady of the land"
Mrs. Coolidge has said she is a.
member of he Red Cross, but not of
clubs nor societies. Il suppose a lot
of women get enjoyment out of those
things, but 1 never cared much for
them. / have had two boys and my
husband to look after"