New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-19
Camilla's back!

Camilla's back!
She came from the mountains yes
terday, leading her favorite horse be-
hind her. Her coming having been her
aided in advance, she was met by a
member Of The Tribune staff anxious
to secure an interview.
Hello, Camilla" said he.
"Hello" she rejofned, but seemed
willing to let it go at that.
Yielding to her reticence, the inter
viewer waited until she and he had led
the horse into the ladies cabin and
were seated side by side on the ferry
boat before pressing her further for
her views on the questions of the day.
Then, however, he jumped plump in
medias res, so to speak
SCOT any brothers and sisters, Ca
milla?"
This is not the question put down IN
the latest School of journalism text
books as first choice with which to be-
gin an interview with young lady just
in from the country. However, the in
terviewer expected TO find Camilla an
authority on sociological questions, es-
pecially home conditions in New York,
SO he used it.
SCOT any brothers and sisters !"
"Sure!" said Camilla; "my father an
two kids"
brothers, eh?" injected the inter
viewer, referring to the "two kids" But
Camilla scorned the interruption and
continued:
"My mother an Josephine"
Ohio" said the interviewer, enlight-
ened. "And has Josephine been to the
country, too?"
"No-o-o." replied Camilla, contemptu-
Gus of the questioner's ignorance;
shes gotta hold the baby"
THE baby is one Of the kids,
s'pose?" guessed the anxious young
man.
"Uhuh"
and how big is the other?"
This big" holding her hand about
on a level with her nose and leaving
the interviewer in doubt as to whether
he should figure the distance from the
hand to her lap or to the deck OF the
boat.
"O-o-oh! m | got anuther Barney
He goes to school in 8-A."
so ?" said the reporter, jottlng Bar
new down with feeling of gratitude
that she had recalled this brother IN
time. Then he egged her on:
what class is Josephine IN :?
"She's in 8, On'y she's gotta hold the
baby now, | told ye."
The reporter begged pardon for his
mistake, explaining that he had moi
realized that baby holding and schoo
attendance were mutually exclusive
classifcatiOns.
Camilla cut his apology short,
81 got two more, too-TonY an Mickey
They're big" .,
They are in business, of cOurse|
suggested the seeker after informat'on
"My mother gets crazy. They alwus
ask her for money. My mother am
got no money, and they alwus ask her
for it,"
Doesn't your father work ?"
Nobody works. On'y my father an
my mother works"
Again Camilla paused, this time as
though bit depressed by her thoughts
Then she frightened up and exclaimed
"Oh, yes, an got nuther one
She's Rosie"
shes big sister,"
"Uhuh; she works"
Just then the boat glided into the
slip. and the shadow cast by the buls-
head caused Camilla to look out the
window.
"O-o-oh, look! Look" she exclaimed
in astonishment. This boat walks"
While she looked, 0pen-mouthed, the
boat banged into the bulkhead and
Jared the favorite horse off his feet,
so that Camilla had to slide off the
seat and set him upright again.
His names Sport" she volunteered
"The lady | was to in the country gave
him to me cause | cried for my moth
err" And she continued: She's got
awful rice flowers in the country, the
lady has; on'y | couldn't bring 'em
home, cause had to carry Sport"
by the way, Camilla" said the re-
porter, suddenly remembering that he
lad almost missed one vital piece Of
information, "hoY old are your
Pm five an one of the kids is four,
An one of the wheels comes off this
horse when you pull it,"
Uhuh, as Camilla would say, 1t was
Camilla Fresh Air who was met and
interviewed yesterday. She was Jusi