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She listened quietly to the interviewer's request for some of the "high lights" of her life and finally exclaimed: "Chile, why'ny you look among the living fer the high lights?"
The public don't care a hang nowadays where or how or when a man's born. What they want to do is to lift the curtain suddenly from his home and see him going through the common round of his daily life. By George, wouldn't they like to catch him beating his wife! A glimpse like that would make an interviewer's fortune.
Always twirl one of those revolving book-cases when you visit a scholar's library. That is the way to find out what books he does n't want you to see, which of course are the ones you particularly wish to see. "Some may call all this impertinent and inquisitive. What do you suppose is an interviewer's business? Did you ever see an oyster opened? Yes?
Well, an interviewer's business is the same thing. His man is his oyster, which he, not with sword, but with pencil and note-book, must open. Mark how the oysterman's thin blade insinuates itself, how gently at first, how strenuously when once fairly between the shells!
She didn't want them 'round her because they reminded her of him." Interviewer's Comment The subject did not wish to state her age. It is probably around sixty-five. Her mother was married shortly after freedom. And eight years is probably a liberal allowance for the distance of her birth from emancipation. Interviewer: Mrs.
Walter Poole should rise from his writing-table and come forward to meet him, and he expressed his gratitude to Mr. Walter Poole, whose time was of great importance, for receiving him. And after all this unction came a flattering description of Mr. Walter Poole himself. He was, in the interviewer's words, a young man, tall and clean-shaven, with a high nose which goes well with an eye-glass.
The interviewer's next remark is best represented by several "blank its," no allusion however being intended to bed-coverings. Then he cited the lower regions to know what it all meant. "It means that that chap Stirling has got to be fixed, and fixed big. I thought I knew how to wire pull, and manage men, but he's taken hold and just runs it as he wants. It's he makes all the trouble."
Have to wear something under my clothes. "I don't get a pension." Interviewer's Comment Smith is sensitive about his first name doesn't like to give it and about his condition. He doesn't like to mention it or to have it referred to. He has an excellent memory for some things and a rather poor one for some others.
Used to be that all the old people were mothers and fathers but now they are all going together. Everything is in a critical condition. There is not much truth in the land. All human affection is gone. There is mighty little respect. The way some people carry on is pitiful." Interviewer's Comment The men who bother Omelia Thomas probably take her for a young woman.
Among my impressions of America I have deliberately put first the figure of the Irish-American interviewer, standing on the shore more symbolic than the statue of Liberty. The Irish interviewer's importance for the English lay in the fact of his being an Irishman, but there was also considerable interest in the circumstance of his being an interviewer.
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