The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-28
KIPLING WILL MARRY.
His Betrothed Is a Well Known
Society Girl.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF PARNEll'
Mrs. ParneIl Will Decide Who Shall
Write 1.-THE Plans Of Moody ana
sankey--The Suicide Bridge Sores Its
32d Victim.
ESPECIAL TO THE sEws.l


LONDON, Nov 2s-The announcement
has just been made that Rudyard kipling
is engaged TO be married. Her name Is
"but that is another story" as he himself
would say. She is lady who Is very well
known in the society world, and on the re-
turn of the talented young author from
his trip to the islands of the South Pacific,
where he is visiting Robert Louis Stephen
son, the wedding will take place.
The whole Kipling family seems TO be
endowed with more than the ordinary
amount OF brains, and il is certainly re.
ceiving more than an average amount OF
notice from the papers.
Mr.. Kipling's father has recently been
engaged in painting some OF the rooms IN
illustrative of life in India; work under
taken at the special request OF Her
Majesty, who like many of her subjects,
have been much struck with the writings
of the younger member of the family.
But painting is not the only art OF which
the elder kipling Is master ana TINS
week several papers have puDnsheu
lengthy reviews of his book entitled Beast
and Man in India" 1t is an interesting
work and furnishes many details OF In
dian life which naturally are very attrac-
tive in themselves, and the book Will pe
"a
have derived pleasure from the short
stories of his son, because the scene COW
ers much the same ground.
In addition TO the data on Indian life,
Beast and Man" Is full of observation
of animals OF all sorts and OF the native
folk lore about them, and comparison
between the Indian and our own myths on
these subjects forms an interesting study.
Although speculation is rife on lhe sub
ject, nothing definite has been done with
reference TO the proposed biography of the
late Charles Stuart Parnell, and nothing
will be done until Mrs. Parnell RECEIVERS
sufficiently from the prostration her hus-
bands death has caused TO take an inter
est in the matter.
The papers he left behind containing
the material, which must inevitably be
largely drawn upon when the record OF
his career has TO be told, are exceedingly
voluminous and will require careful hand
ling, for there is much in them which
would probably serve no good purpose to
publish, and there are also certain letters
which, IL is whispered in well-informed
circles, will make the Gladstonians vince
should they ever be dragged from their re-
ceptacles and reproduced in cold type.
1t is altogether probable that Mrs Par
nells will be the deciding voice as to
which of the adherents of her dead hus-
band shall undertake what all would
doubtless consider a sacred trust, the pre-
pairing Of the biography. 1t is, of course,
never safe to prophesy unless you know,
but there is strong likelihood that four
Parnellites will take up the work and will
practically constitute committee to de-
eide what matters in the papers given TO
them for the purpose shall be published,
and what shall be left untold.
1t is a delicate Office for anyone TO be
entrusted with, and IL is to De hoped that
il will be done in such way as to add
dignity to a cause in which il must be con-
fessed terrible lack of il has been shown
by certain of its supposed followers, and
at all events to do justice to the patriot
whose life work IL will tell.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the great
revivalists, are once more prominent sub
jects for discussion by reason of the invi-
tation sent TO them from America, an in
vitation which they have decided to ac-
cept. Their work, however, has been laid
out for some time to come, and IL will be
impossible for them to leave yet awhile.
They will labor for n year on a mission
tour throughout Scotland and will then
turn their steps towards England for
short time before they can hope to set out
for the West.
The curious fact here, and it is good
deal commented upon, is that the chief in
terest in their work comes from the clergy,
who attend in large numbers all their
meetings in eager desire to find out how
the revivalists "do it,"
Inelr earntsUntsS anu t0e1T I0OrOuRn
lief In what they are doing seem TO have
lost none of their wonderful effect, and it
il these qualities probably, which are
meant when people talk of their mag
netism," factor as great in the pulpit as
il is on the stage, but with this difference,
that people gladly give up their money to
see IL in the theatre, but somehow are re-
luctant to do SO in church
Lord Rosebery's name has recently been
coupled with that OF several American
ladies, and the persistence Of these ru-
mors naturally led people TO assume that
where there was so much smoke there
must be some fire Accordingly the news
of his engagement does not come with
that suddeuness which might otherwise
have attended IL. The lady of his choice
is Miss Margot Tenant, the youngest
daughter of Sir Charles Tenant, Bart.
She is a very handsome girl and is reputed
TO be extraordinarily clever. A short
time ago it was reported in Scotland that
she was engaged TO be married to the Rt.
Hon Arthur j. Balfour, but this was con-
tradicted soon after.
Sir Charles was made a Baronet by Mr..
Gladstone in 1856. He is an iron master
and n very rich man. He Is an old man
and at one time represented Glasgow in
Parliament in the Liberal interest.
Miss Tenants marriage will be advan-
tageous in more ways than one, for besides
being exceedingly rich Lord Rosebery is a
man OF admittedly great intelligence ana
i'm the next Liberal Cabinet he will prob
ably occupy a very conspicuous position.
In fact, Lady Rosebery that is to be, will
doubtless have the Liberal Salon of her
generation, just as the former Lady Rose
berry did.
The Clifton Bridge 10y Bristol has long
been regarded as the great suicide bridge
of England, and this week il scores its
thirty-second victim. IL is curious how
any man can want To take his life from
such a spot, as the scenery of the sur
rounding country is exquisitely beautiful.
But the attraction, of course, is that the
bridge which rs a suspension one, is very
hign and the valley below is exceedingly
rocky, so that when once the fatal leap
has been taken, there Is no possibility of
anything in the nature of a hitch occur
ring to thwart the completion of the des-
perate design.
The one drawback Is that the suicides
body is picked up battered and mangled,
sometimes beyond recognition, but no SEN
sible suicide ever troubles his head about
how his corpus rilc will look when IL is
arrayed in its grave clothes, and he is con-
tent 10 know that once he Is started, moth
n. A. I'll. II