American Agriculturist, September 1,1923 
149 
The New President’s Wife 
Mrs. Coolidge as Her Neighbors Know Her 
H ER neighbors run to her to be 
shown a new fancy work stitch. 
She made a playhouse in the back 
yard for her young sons, from a piano 
box. 
She likes picture puzzles and enjoys 
working them out of an evening with 
the boys. 
She’s a great knitter and hopes to 
win a prize for her original afghan, 
submitted in a recent contest. 
She’s called by the people in the vil¬ 
lage “an ideal backdoor neighbor.” 
Who’s this? Some up-State Farm 
Bureau member or club leader? 
Not at all. She’s Mrs. Calvin 
Coolidge, wife of the new President, 
who has therefore succeeded to the 
highest title an American woman can 
claim—the simple one of “First Lady 
of the Land.” 
It is a hackneyed saying that any 
boy born in the United States may some 
day be President; we don’t so often 
think that; any American girl may be 
mistress of the' White House. Surely 
the young Vermont teacher who visited 
the President’s home with a party of 
tourists some years ago had no idea 
that she might preside there herself 
one day. And it’s quite certain that 
the gruff old guard who warned her 
off when she rather enviously touched 
the famous gold piano (Mrs. Coolidge is 
a musician, too) had no idea that he 
had scolded a future President’s future 
wife! Mrs. Coolidge can play on that 
gold piano as often as she wants now, 
without fear of reproof. 
Her story is just such a one as demo¬ 
cratic, but romance-loving Americans 
like to think typical of this “land of 
the free,” where almost anything may 
happen to almost anybody. She met 
her husband when she was teaching 
in a Northampton school for the deaf 
and he was a young law student. The 
rent of their first house was $32 a 
month and they complained about the 
way the paint had peeled off the front 
porch. 
Mrs. Coolidge is that rare woman 
who combines strong domestic tastes 
with real social ability. One neighbor 
will tell you she has helped her hus¬ 
band most by the way she has kept 
his home and brought up his boys, and 
another will say she’s done most for 
him by her social charm and brilliance 
as a hostess and in public affairs. 
Washington society has already had 
a chance to get acquainted with Mrs. 
Coolidge and found her a woman of 
delightful personality. But “the folks 
back home” are not a bit impressed 
by Washington’s discovery—they’ve 
known Grace Coolidge all these years, 
and wherever she is, she’s “the life 
of the party” and “just about right.” 
And somehow one thinks that the 
verdict of her back-yard and front- 
porch neighbors means more to Mrs. 
Coolidge than all the “high society” in 
the world. 
FIVE FALL PATTERNS FOR THE UP-TO-DATE WOMAN 
No. 1823. Here is the dressy little frock 
for Sundays or evening wear. A comfort¬ 
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