Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05
GUIDE FOR INTERVIEWS
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MARRIED
AND SINGLE MEN.

IT have been knocking about in active
newspaper life in the capital for about
ten years. remarked an old correspondent
to Star man yesterday, land whatever
else I have missed l have picked up one
piece of information, though l will not at
tempt to give its true solution-perhaps the
ladies may be able to decide 1t. Super
fcially the average man looks like his pro-
totype, and 1t Is hard to determine Off
hand whether man is benedict or a
bachelor. Belonging to the latter craft my
self, and having made the subject a close
study, I can hit 1t right about five cases
out of ten The benedicts have an indie
Unable shadow of mingled care and trouble
that seems to single them out from their
brothers. 1t is upon a correct delineation
of this fact that I attribute some of my
success in getting what / want from Of
ficials and public men, and the plan pursue
is this:
LAS is we'll known, the Washington cor
respondent Is more or less after things his
paper wants all the time, and to get this
information he has to approach men at all
times and on all sorts of subjects. Accept
ing the acknowledged theory that man
Is in better humor after a meal than be-
FORE when l wished to approach man
on something special, L would time my Wis
it's accordingly. 1 discovered, however,
that some men were grouchy on a full
as upon an empty stomach. This started
my think-pan at work and resolved there
from these conclusions, based upon actual
cases and careful inquiry:
Rules as to interviewing.
First. Married men IN nine cases out of
ten are in bad humor in the morning, but
warm up and thaw out after lunch. Con-
clusion--if you are asking favor, don't
ask it of a married man in the morning.
Whether it is because they are worried
about getting the exact match to the piece
of cardinal ribbon that may be seen shyly
showing from one side pocket, the bills that
are in an inside pocket that don't show
at all, or the cute little hard-boiled hot
bread buns that had to be eaten with the
morning coffee to preserve the family peace
l can't say, but the conclusion has been
too often verified to be gainsaid.
Second. Bachelors are always In GOOD
humor in the morning, and especially SO
after the ante-lunch cocktail and the SOL
ids that follow Concuson-it Is always
safe to tackle the bachelor within an hour
after breakfast, but it is doubly secure to
approach him after lunch. After dinner he
is a cinch. l wouldn't dare to differentfate
as to the actual causes of these conclusions.
There Is something in them, however. so
much So that L will not, If can avoid it,
hunt down a married man, If l know him to
be such, in the morning, but will postpone
my visit until the following day, if l can,
rather than break my rule.
ION the other hand, we correspondents
frequently have to interview the ladies'
The very opposite to the conclusions / have
expressed as regards married men and
bachelors obtain with the fair sex. Give
me the married woman for an interview
every time. She expresses herself better
and with more confidence than her spinster
sister. They are much more polite and
agreeable and free from restraint. some
of the best talks that 1 have ever secured
have been from matrons. When they are
conversant with the sub1ect-matter they
are easy and fluent in speech, and are will
ing to give you all the points they can.
Married women seem to at once understand,
as rule, that it is purely matter Of busi-
ness with the correspondent; that his
thoughts are upon the mission that calls
him in her presence and not her individual
self. The unmarried ladies seem to take
the opposite view. 1t is very hard, par
adoXical as 1t appears to an outsider to
get them to talk. Perhaps it is because
of that natural suspicion of us that goes
with the sex.
While correspondents have no choice
when 1t becomes necessary to interview one
of the fair sex, so far as their business is
concerned, most of us have a choice per-
sonally, though 1t Is only in the nature of
passing fancy. Most of us prefer a pre-
liminary interview with the baby of the
household as to whether mother will see us.
we don't expect much in the news line
from the baby beyond this extent, but when
the baby is of the feminine gender about
eighteen summers and no apparent win
tiers, rosy-cheeked and sunny-smiled, it
makes our assignment the lighter Cub
boy babies are invisible to our newspaper
eyes,