Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-23
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. II. FELTON,
"AEIEK PAIL STUNFN

tn HE attack made on Mrs. Coolidge by
woman speaker in New York Gin the
- advocacy of her chosen candidate)
was mentioned in several newspapers, and
Miss Marbury finds it difficult to place
her eXplanation-either as joke or as an
attack--of the serious variety.
Miss Marbury is distinguished as a the
atricaI manager, and publicst according to
a rating in such magazines as the Saturday
Evening Post Her articles in the Post were
quite interesting, leaving out the ego, which
generally taints the character Of a writer's
literary excellence. She seems to appear
lately as a stump speaker, and shot arrow
at the presidents wife, who could make good
biscuits and generally bought constructed
her daiIy-worn shirtwaists for zone dollar
and siXty-nine cents!"
The why and wherefore of this inaamma-
tory Grafton was antagOnism to the Repub-
Iican candidate, who had selected such COM
mon sort of a life "partner!" She called
Mrs. Cooidges economical houseWifery "miII
pail uff!'~-recalling, l suppose. the story
of Maud Muller, that l first read about maybe
fifty years or more ago. The New York
Times, said to be of Miss Marbury's political
faith and order, commented rather sayagely
by saying Miss Marbury made two mistakes.
First, in her arraignment of Mrs. Coolidge
as a hOuseWifely person with a leaning to-
ward economy, and second, in trying ito pass
her words off joke" when it was seri-
ously intended. 1t is no secret that both Mr..
and Mrs. Coolidge were raised in economical
homes. There had to be saving before there
could be spending, and despite the trend of
the times toward spendthrift waste and eN
trayagance among society women, the people
Of this country do not object to healthy
household economy and the presidents con-
sort, without parading her economies as
milk pail stuff" has furnished an object
/ lesson to thousands upon thousands of
American women that should bear wholesome
results in due season.
Only today I read a discourse from noted
educator, saying Automobiles and jazz"
were weakening the human race more than
all other outside forces put together Only
today tourist from Kentucky going all the
way to lower Florida said to me, "Cigarettes
are the bane Of the growing youth of this
country" and continued he, mot confined to
seX," in his denunciation of the excess Of
/ the cigarette habit.
1t is likely, at least suppOsab1e, that Mrs.
Coolidge has too much good, common sense
to feel humiliated by the words of the wom-
an stumpspeaker who derded her economies
The Times says: Miss Marbury admits the
use Of the words ascribed to her, but she
insists she speaking in a seriO-cOmc vein
and she only found fault in the exploitation
of this milk pail stuff by press agents, film
makers and campaign managers. 1t is to be
feared that neither an apology or an eXplana-
ton will help much in cooling the rage of
Miss Marbury's critics. They will continue
to say that Mrs Coolidge had no part in the
exploitation of her domestic proWess and de-
served Miss Marbury's sympathy, rather than
what was taken for Miss Marbury's derisOn
1T is well in this connection to say that Mrs
Coolidge has lately gone through a period of
severe affliction in the death of her very
promising son, Calvin, and the country has
given sympathy as we'll as profound respect
to the brave mother who has shown such
remarkable courage and unseIfish regard for
her surviving family in doing her very best
for her husband in his strenuous position
|NObOdy-nOt Miss Marbury even-wiIl at
tempt to discount this good mothers sore be-
reayement. While it is mo harm" to wear
Inexpensive shirtWaists in the White House.
I it is presumabe that the mothers mind was
not filled with a desire to lead the fashion
for American women in any particular style
of dress, or to rival any former occupant of
the White House in the high price of such
apparel. AS the story goes, Miss Marburv is
having the time of her life in explaining away
her contemptuous illusions to Mrs. Coolidge's
biscuits and her inexpensive homemade shirt
waists.
Party strife has reached a low plane
or level when women who claim to be of
the upper crust can thus 'stumD-speak'
without a better argument against the re-
election of the offenders husband to the pres
ldency than such contempt for domestic
duties or the cheapness of his wife's every
day apparel in which the public takes small
interest. Women as political leaders have
q good deal to learn before they can EXPECT
to sway party spirit and enthusiasm 'Peck-
Ing on other women might do in a scramble
with rivals in Women's organizations, but it
Will always discredit them without effective
results for their own party in any campaign
for the big offices. Womankind are too near
~ related to their menfolks to claim eXtraor-
binary patriotism or loftier sort of political
method than the public has been acquainted
with for many decades under the sole dom
inattOn Of the masculines
The people of Georgia, during the various
primary elections of 1924, have discovered
that women voters are as easily led and as
successfully hoodwinked as the men, if not
+ little more so. There is sprinkIng of
the Marbury type, perhaps, throughout the
forty-eight states of the union.