Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-01-13
interviewing a School Girl.

She ran up against an iron railing and
looked scared.
CPL call a policeman" she said pant
ingly, "if you insult me-"
She was only fourteen, and her pretty,
thin face, with spot of carzation in
each cheek, and her little faxen curls
hanging over her pale forehead as if try
ing to look into her blue eyes, gave her
the adolescent aspect of a French doll.
She had a bundle of books that must
have weighed thirty pounds.
'But don't want to insult you my
dear" said the reporter. II only want
to interview you"
Interview me?" she exclaimed. "Oh
don't, please l haven't done anything,
Go and see pa"
ooh NONSENSE said the reporter.
" We've been interviewing pa for years.
He doesn't know anything about it..
We've wasted our time interviewing
school surpintendcnts and principals
and all other people who don't know
anything about it. Now we're going to
interview you. Don't your head ache2"
mime? Mop with a little astonish-
ment.t
books into it?''
"Oh, they don't make my head ache;
it's my arms"
"Ah! l see. You carry them in your
arms. not in your head"
Here the reporter made mental ex-
clamation. Wonderful feminine in
stinct, to carry the best things of life in
its arms and not in its head!
"Will yon let me read the titles ofthe
books?" ..,
eyes ifyou will strap them up again."
"Trigonementry! Do you study that?"
ooh yes"
"And surveying"
She nodded her head affirmatively.
"And navigation"
Another nod. ....
little?"
"Well, turn your head away" '.''
Reporter-Thunder and Mars! (sotto
voce) What's this, French! Do you
study French?
,"Oh, Pm in the French and German
classes"
you dou't say 80! But you haven't
got into the Italian and Portuguese
classesp"' -.
II don't think there are any Portus
guese, sir"
"Well, if there had been. you'd have
got into them, wouldn't your"
Eyes, sir; hope So"
"Physiology-do you study that?"
"a little. I've only just commenced
that. After tluxions we talk half an
hour at biology, and then 90 to applied
mechanics and telegraphy. Pm going
to commence organic chemistry on Mon
day, after my music, but ma thinks
it will interfere with my painting in OIL"
81 should think it would. Don't you
ever sleep or play2''
20 yes. play the whole of Czernews
exercises for the piano every morning,
and am, learning the overture to iris
tan and Isolde. fused to 60 to sleep in
the classroom, but it was awful mean,
and got over it. Miss-,our princi-
pal, says if we knew what the mission of
woman is in the nineteenth century, we
will not be caught mapping. Besides, if
I went to sleep wouldn't pass"
"Pass whatP"
"The examination"
"But you might pass some other
things"
"What other things?"
"Why vertigo, nervous exhaustion,
premature decline"
ooh, l don't study those yet"
ono, / see you don't do it."
"Let me 60 now, please"
"Wait a moment; l want to ask you
one other question: Don't you ever feel
tired?" '..i.-y
ooh, what's the use of feeling tiredP.
/ haven't got time. If a girl got tired
she wouldn't pass, would she?"
II suppose not. But after you've
passed you intend to leave this world,
don't your"
20 no. When I pass Pm going to
study. for the stage, and get yacht and
live in Chicago; but you mustn't put
that in the paper, because l wouldn't
like pa to know it,"
Then the American infant picked up
her books, gave her head a little toss.
and went off with a saucy air,-New York