Answer. To show the merit of his work at the expense of the interviewed.
Q. Is there any choice in selecting a subject?
A. Very little, all that is necessary is that the name at the head of the article shall be fairly familiar to the general reader.
Q. Need the interviewer record the history of the interviewed?
A. No; unless matter grows short and the exploits of the hero are required for padding.
Q. But have not those exploits made the hero famous?
A. Yes, and consequently they have become "old matter." To be interesting, details, if frivolous, must be up to date.
Q. Which would be the better copy—an account of the subject's most successful campaign, or a description of his wardrobe?
A. Undoubtedly the latter. The exploits will certainly have been described a score of times, but a list of coats, hats and neckties will probably have the charm of novelty.
Q. Then you would not value your subject's diary?