The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-12
Crowding Young Girls.

CrOWdlng Young 6lrlS.
She ran up against an iron railing and
looked scared.
"I'll call policeman. she said, pant
ingly, ''if you insult me-"
She was only fourteen, and her pretty,
thin face, with spot of carnation on each
cheek, and her little haxen curls hang
ing over her pale forehead, as if trying
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 I don't want to insult you, my
DEAR" said the reporter; II only want to
interview you"
Interview mer' she exclaimed. ooh,
don't, please. haven't done anything.
Go and see pa"
sob, nonsense" said the reporter;
"weve been interviewing pa for years
He doesn't know anything about it.
We've wasted time interviewing school
superintendent and principals and all
the other people who won't know any
thing about it. Now we're going to in
terview you. Don't your head ache?"
mine? mol" with little astonish-
ment.
Not when you've got to get all these
books into it?'
"Oh, they don't make my head ache;
it's my arms"
"Ah! 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 thing of life in
its arms and not in its head
will you let me read the titles OF the
books?"
Eyes, if you will strap them up
again"
"Trigonometry. Do you study that?'
ooh, yes"
..'And surveying?"
She nodded her head affirmatively.
"And navigation?"
Another nod.
will you excuse me while I swear q
little?"
"Well, turn your head away"
Reporter-"Thunder and Mars! Soto
voice. What's this? French! Do you
study French?"
"Oh, I'm in the French and German
classes"
You don't say! But you haven't got
into the Italian and Portuguese classes?"
"Idon't think there are any Portuguese
SIR"
"Well, if there had been, you'd have
got into them, wouldn't your
Yes sir; hope so"
physiology, do you study that?"
~ 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 in oil.'
Il should think it would. Don't you
ever sleep OF play?"
"Ob, yes. l play the whole OF Ger
neys exercises for the piano every morn.
ing, and am learning the overture to
'Tristram and Isolde l used to go to
sleep in the class room, but it was awful
mean, and got over it. Miss NJ, our
principal, says that if we knew what the
mission of women is in the nineteenth
century, we will not be caught mapping.
Beside, if l went to sleep | wouldn't
pass"
Pass whai?"
1.-THE examination"
But you might pass some other
things"
What other things?'
"Why, vertigo, nervous exhaustion,
nervous decline"
sob, don't study those yet
mo. / see you don't"
'Let me go now. please
"Wait moment. l want to ask you
one other question. Don't you ever feel
tired?"
"Oh. what's the use of feeling tired? 1
haven't got time. II n girl got tired she
wouldn't pass, would she?"
II suppose not. But after you've
passed you intend t. leave this world,
don't you9"
"Oh, no. When pass I'm going to
study for the stage. ard get yacht and
: live in Chicago, but you mustn't put that
in the paper, because i wouldn't like pa
to know it,"
Then the American infant picked mp
her books. gave her head little toss, and
went of with saucy air.