River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-01-11
interviewing q School Girl.

She ran up against an iron raili's and
looked scared.
'Ill call policeman" she said pant
inCly, ''if you insult me-"
She was only fourteen, and her pretty,
tain face, with spot of caGnation in
each cheek, aud 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 French doll.
She had bundle of books that must
have weighed thirty pounds.
'But l 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 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 1T.
We've wasted our time interviewing
school surpintendents and principals
and all other people who don't know
anything about 1t. Now wore going to
interview you. Don't your head ache?"
mime? Mop with a little astonish-
ment.>
mot when yon have to get all these
books into it?"
"Oh. they don't make my head ache;
it's my arms"
"A6! 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 headl
"Will yon let me read the titles ofthe
books?"
eyes if you will strap them up again.
"Trigonementryi Do you study that?"
ooh yes"
"And surveying"
She nodded her head afirmatively.
"And navigation"
Another nod.
"Will you excuse me while l swear a
Iittle?"
"Well, turn your head away"
eporter-Thunder and Marsl (sotto
voce) What's this, French! Do you
study FrenCh2
ooh, Pm in the French and German
classes"
"You dou't say so! But you haven't
got into the Italian and Portuguese
classes?"
~ don't think there are any Portu-
guese, sir"
"Well, if there had been, you'd have
got into them, wouldn't you?"
Eyes, sir; hope So"
Physiological you study that"
"a little I've only just commenced
that After fluxions we talk half an
hour at biology, and then go TO applied
mechanics and telegraphy. I'm going
to commence organic chemistry on Mon
day, after my music, but ma thinks
it will interfere with my painting Ia oil. "
rt
ever sleep or play?
so yes I play the whole of Czerney's
exercises for the piano every morning,
and / am learning the overture to Iris
tan and Isolde. fused to go to sleep in
the classroom, but il was awful mean,
and ! got over it. Miss-,our prinei-
pal, says if we knew what the mission oil
woman is in the nineteenth century, we
viii not be caught mapping. Besides, il
/ went to sleep | wouldn't pass"
pass what?"
'The examination"
but you might pass some other
things"
"What other things?"
"Why vertigo, nervous exhaustion,
premature decline"
"On l don't study those yet"
mo, I see you don't do II"
"Let me go now, please"
| "Wait moment; | want to ask YOU
one other question: Don't you ever fee
! tired?'
"Oh, what's the use of feeling tired
| / haven't got time. If a girl got tired
| she wouldn't pass, would she?"
al suppose not. But after you've
passed you intend TO leave this world
| don't your"
30 no. When I pass I'm going Il
study for the stage, and get yacht anc
live in Chicago; but You mustn't put
| that in the paper, because / wouldnf
| like pa to know il"
/ Then the American infant picked III
her books, gave her head little toss
! and went of witha saucy air,-New YorE
] Journal.