Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16
Two Styles Of interviewing Sharply
Contrasted.
FACT AGAINST 4 VIVID IMAGINATION.
A Newspaper Man and His Friend
the Orator.
PLAIN TALK AND RHETORIC,

one OF the reporters for The Star knows
an orator. He also knows q convict and q
Congressman. In fact. his acquaintance il
quite extensive. II not select. The business
OF the day. however. is with the orator. The
orator has flow Of rhetoric at his command
that daily brings q blush Of shame to the
ghostly cheeks of gentleman named Cicero.
who used to think he was some shakes
himself On many occasions this orator has
transfixed the reporter by a now OF Ian
guage. dazzling display OF SMILES and a
corruscation OF metaphor. Yesterday he
| did 1t again in a new way
| The Orator Makes a Remark.
| The reporter was having lunch with him.
| The orator had eaten some hot cakes and
piece of pie and they evidently went to
his head. The trouble with you newspaper
| men," he said. lis that you are not literal
enough. You allow your imaginations to
soar up into the emperean above. instead
OF combining yourself to life's dull reality.
You Interview a man and then make him
say things as foreign from his nature ~
these cakes are from terrapin."
Coming from the orator this was amax-
ing. and the reporter got right up and pro-
tested. That's all internal nonsense" said
the reporter The trouble with you Is that
you don't know an interview from a cold
boiled potato. See here. III interview our
| "AItIess ana you can write IL up.
| tn do it," said the orator. lend for once
IN your life you will see an interview &C.
| curate In every particular"
The Waitress interviewed.
The neat dispenser Of cakes and sausage
was thereupon assailed with a formidable
lot OF questions. which she answered briefly
and clearly. Afterward the orator wrote It
all out in his own sweet way. The girl had
said her name was Susan and that she
/ txylrIr H. a.
car, and her brother, who hoped to some
day. All this, however. was too common
place for the orator He said IL was per-
fectly ridiculous to call any girl Susan, and
that waitress was not named Eta, why,
she ought to have been. Then he evolved
the following Introduction:
Rhetorical IntroAu ctfou
Eta is a cafe attache. She lots down
your order and sees II served Eta is M
prlsnt, quick and merry a twinkle She
Is business from the crown of her coilsd
| tresses to the soles of her Cinderella feet
She waltzes all along the borderland of
irritation. but never oversteps the bounds.
II you speak, SO does she: II you smile. so
| does she; but II you make a break you
VIII. Eta Is as pretty as the sweetheart in
novel Her oval face is q heaven of ex-
pressive smiles and bushes. Lit with the
sunshine OF blue and honest eyes. Eta an
peareo TO The Star man to possess some
ioses and the interview was as follows"
NOW this was a sweet sort OF way TO faIt
about a red-headed waitress whose idea Of
or paz poy?' ~
.o The FIRST part Of the real interview was
What Was Actually SaiA.
What do you think OF men?'
On! They are q tough lot. Most men
haven't got any more morals than a TOM
cat"
You don't mean itr'
You bet mean It. You've all got more
coneeit than anything else"
Nor
Yep. 1 just tell you. II women could see
men as 1 do there would be a merry old
time in this town."
That was the first part Of the talk with
susan. alias Eta, but this is the way the
orator with his love for being literal put 1t:
What Might Have Been said.
What do You think Of menr' said the
reporter.
We'll. very little. The morals Of the av-
erags male are not so well developed as his
conceit. do not think that the species
man has hade any great advance In cour-
tssy since his wayback ancestor ate his
quota OF the apple and burdened all the
blame on Eve. / think II mothers could
see their sons. those sons that are superior
to all other sons. in the light in which /
see them. seas Of tears would flow: II sweet
hearts could look in on their faithful lovers
here their life would be a pang of heart
ache; IL wives could see their husbands in
my light Cupid's occupation would be
gone"
How about that from a girl who made
g week and did not know whether Vas
sar was a state prison or an insane asylum
Two Kinds of Freshness.
In another part Of the talk Etta-Susan
had said, with directness, Men are too
fresh for anything. They think because
US girls works for our living that they
can say what they please to US. At home
men have to keep the badness down. but
it gets away with them as soon as they
get out. and you know 1t a. well as DO
You're all alike"
That is what Susan said. but the orator
made Eta use the following classic Ian
guage:
Of attic salt makes them fresh. They think
that because girl completes in the sphere
OF work and wages ana hustles for her
quail and mama that she is his legitimate
prey. They lack that perception which
prompts some people TO look for q cause,
rat than n, to SIMPLY rest content by look
domestic necessities which may have com
PEELED her to enter this work-a-day world
He does not think Of infirm parents and
youneeF Cniluren VINO may be dependent
on the girls effort. It does not occur to
him that there is nothing essentially abas-
ing In work. She has to work TO live and
he Is perfectly willing to take advantage
OF her necessities. The reason OF this is
that he has thought Of himself 30 much that
himself has become his sole idea, and ne
cannot get away from his Ego, even though
IT should ever occur to him to try He
feels that he is the center OF the human
system, and he is 30 slavishly conscious
OF himself that II never suggests itself to
him that other people are not. In the So
ciety OF people of equal or greater authority
with him. he must obey certain repressiye
rules Of action. When he comes here the
pressure 10 removed, and see him pretty
much as he is. The animal In his natural
state IL before me. Off-colored stories and
rancid Jests are his delight"
The idea OF Susan talking about "att,c
salt" quail and mama" cause ana effect''
and "Egos." 1t was enough to reanimate
the dust Of Sappho, but the orator stuck n
out that Eta said exactly as quoted.
Notes va. Imagination.
According to the reporters notes in
another portion OF the conversation. susan
had further expressed her opinion of men.
and especially Of men with q salary of "a
a week. who made believe they were million
aires.
In this conversation Susan said: sIf there
is one thing above another that makss me
tired. it's these six-dollar-a-week dudes. who
try to throw on so many Tugs You'd think.