The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-01-04
interviewing a School Girl.
New York jour nall

law" @SAh oSpA hHA.j
Sheran up against an iron railing and
looked scared.
I'm call policeman" she said, pant
ingly, stif you insult me-
She was only IA, and her pretty, thin face,
with spot of carnation in each cheek, and
her little fiaxen curls hanging over her pale
forehead as If trying 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.
'sBut don't want to insult you my DEAR
said the reporter II only want to inter-
view you.n
Interview me?" she exclaimed. s'Oh,
don't, please. / haven't done anything. Go
and see Pc"
"Oh, nonsenser' said the reporter
"We've been interviewing pa for years. He
doesn't know anything about it. We've
wasted our time interviewing school super
intendents and principals and all the other
people who don't know anything about it.
Now, we're going to interview you. Don't
yoar head ache?"
''Minea Mop with little astonish-
ment).
s'Not when you have got to get all those
books into it9''
ooh, they don't make my head ache; it's
my arms
Sab! see. You carry them in your
arms, not in your head.''
Here the reporter made a mental exclam-
alton. Wonderful feminine instinct, to carr
~ the best things Of life in Ito arms, and not
Ia Its head
"will you let me read The titles of the
| books9i
ives, If you will strap them up again"
"Trigonometryl Do you study thatp''
ooh, yes"
"And surveying?'
She nodded her head affirm atiyely.
"And navigaiion?''
Another nod.
tle2'' As - ~
well, turn your head away
| Reporter-"Thunder and Mars (soto voce)
| What's this, French! Do you study
| Hrench?v
''oh, Pm in the French and German clas-
| ses."
"You don't say SOL But you havn't got
| into the Italian and Portuguese classes?'
SIR" 1850
"Well. if there had been, you'd have got
into them, wouldn't you?''
eyes, sir; hope so.'
"Physiology-do you study thatP"
"a little. I've only just commenced that
After tiuxions we talk halt an hour at biolo
gy, and then 60 to applied mechanics anG
biography. Pm going to commence organic
chemistry on Monday, after my music bu
ma thinks it will interfere with my paintins
in oil''
Il should think it would. Don't yor
ever sleep or play?"
ooh yes. | play the whole of Czerney's
exercises for the piano every morning, and
am learning the overture to Tristan ant
ISOLDE nsed TO go to sleep in the elias!
room, but it vas awful mean, and got ovel
II. MISS, our principal, says if we knew
what the mission of woman is in the nine
tenth CENTURY, we will not be caught nap
ping. Besides, If went to sleep wouldn'
| pass"
pass what?''
1.-THE examination.
but you might pass some other things. ,
"What other things?''
why, vertigo, nervous exhaustion, pre-
mature decline.''
"Oh, | don't study those yet.
NO, see you DON'T"
Let me go now, please
wait moment; want to ask you one
other question. Don't you ever feel tired?''
80 what's the use of feeling tired?
havn't got time. If a girl got tired she
wouldn't pass, would she?''
Il suppose not. But after you've passed
you intend to leave this world, don't you?'
"Oh, no. When | pass Pm going to study
for the stage, and get a yacht and live in
Chicago; but you mustn't put that in the
paper, because wouldn't like pa to know
| it."
| Then the American infant picked up hel
| books, gave her head little toss, and went
| Off with saucy air.