Show lI l t I All Cleaned Up p fo for or an Interview Interviews s By RING RUNG LARDNER To the tho Editor The other wk I was setting around the home wI wishing wilting callers would come or something so I would have a excuse to mix mis up a cocktail aU when all aU of a sudden what should ring but the telephone telephone tele phone bell so of course I thought at first It must be the tho wrong No like HIce usual but I answered it and the girlie So I said eaid sn says s 's Bridgeport wants you yes I suppose they do but I cant can't live wheres at once and then another female voice spoke up lTd she said she was a reporter on the Bridgeport Herald Heral and when could Q get het a In lew cr t So I thought for tor the second time that they must be calling the thc wrong No but soon I remembered who I am nm amso amso so I kind of ot snarled back at nt her like HIe all the big birds do when you ask them for a n Interview but I didn't snarl eo so as ns she could hear me for the fear she would think It was a 8 sincere snarl and would hang hung up and end It H Hall all and little by little we got more friendly and she said she would be over oyer the foiling rolling Tuesday So then the both of us hung up on each other and andI I come back Into the parlor with a n kind of pale look and the Mrs said sahl who was that woman and I said she Is Isa Isa isa Herald a reporter on the Bridgeport 1 What hat does she want She wants wantS' to Interview me because 1 am notorious Yes but you been notorious ever since you were kiddish and nobody wanted to interview you TOU till tm now Well I said the N. N Y City papers I lugs lias started the thc fashion by Interview Interviewing ing lug George that cant can't even parle pane anglais and this lady Is going Coing to show them up by talking to a poet witch can say something back besides beside and anyway she Is coming comins over here next nest Tuesday to see m ma co that a t. t Yes les es replied the Mrs but you used to interview notoriety like T TyCobb Ty TyCobb Cobb and Jessie Willard fez ter instants why you done It without golD going to no bother like seeing them So I said shut up and that day which was a Thursday cn the foiling folling Tuesday I took light I and read and eat a good and ond things went along about as without with out no marked change till tb tIn Monday bonday night when I begin to feel a o little dizzy right after the Ule supper cad 1 I thought at first it must be I had eat or something till 1 c cS the kids happened to make the tho remark mark that tomorrow was Tuesday cn cud th then n nIt it flashed fla hed on me that all that between the Bridgeport lady eaiS H i iwas was a ordinary Monday nl t b to t tux on n-on e time mo u. u But was It a ordinary Monday Moo i right I god forbid I retired early an cad lay Icy there and tossed and read the of Joseph and tossed c commore com cams naE more until it mu must of at been 9 o'clock when I into o Q H lIt t floze ae c witch came camo to a sudden terming ot ct 7 30 Tuesday A. 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M and It tread day and I got up and shaved to c IQ and dressed the latter and cam cama rm to breakfast Already the women Pours was cleaning up the parlor ia to h or of the occasion emptying ft tSa a ern b h trays chairs and etc They was a sensation wi c 1 I catered catered ca cn the dining room ahem too ta S elderest children was working eta their prunes How do you yon happen to ta 00 op one What have you got a collar ca on Wear Vear is your whiskers whiskers' So I gave them each a Q and they shut up and I set down dowa end ea eat t a hearty breakfast of tart and coffee Promptly at a V 1 I of 12 what ch ring the door bell and who can aaa there but the lady from Bridgeport I Ko- Ko body We shook hands and a few and I led tes la In e parlor and was Just going to call br tension to It being all aU cleaned cp op ter the occasion when my eye happened to tIo stray under the radiator and tb r was the mouse trap Well you of knock me over with a n big e rodt tr when I seen It but lucky Ito lat latest t 1 quarry had been removed but they aas O Ono no telling wh n the next little I rascal rail would scamper in and get himself lr In la trouble and probably ralsa raisa enc gu h he hell Il 11 about It to spoil the party Eb to lad lady may of wondered why ft It vr aro 7 fl I kept stomping my ft and and etc Well VeIl It was to warn oil all ver vermin min that the room was to nth ESS ESSa OO a frog expression and dont don't only at your own risque The details of the Interview c CEO an y 6 r. read rend In the Bridgeport Herald but bat en any anyway way before It was over they as ae noises towards the dining room roam door and a df beans and pancakes star te the nostrils and the lady Indy act net a au and pulled a camera and asked t the she could take a picture of whatever olds kids they were left in the house so 80 o I went for one and he be was broughten down and didn't know lenow me on acct of off being belDt shaved at nt that hr of the day end and busted ted out c crying Ing so I kind triad of ot choked him a little and he quit and we was all photographed and the Mrs not ant the lady from Bridgeport would she stay at nt lunch and she said no and walked ed out on us to some place where the washer W woman man dont don't come Tuesday and have to be surfeited with bake beans and pancakes So when the lady had left I took th the a Mrs In the parlor and showed her bel a aI c certain article of at furniture that laid there under the radiator In plain site I and then I went In the thc dining room and eat a hearty lunch of pancakes and bake beans beang by myself l t ft Q by the tho Bell Ball 1 syndic Syndicate te In lao 7 |