The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02
FAUNTLEROY IN REAL LIFE.
The Famous Original Of the Little
Lord" Is Ill.

tention.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Washington. Aug. 25.-Vivian Burnett
will always, suppose, be Little Lord
Fauntleroy."
He might say, as Polixenes said to Her
mione in the winters Tale:
We were fair queen,
Two lads that thought there was no more be
hind,
But such day tomorrow as to-day
And to be boy eternal
for he is certainly TO be boy eternal"
Little Lord Fauntleroy' can never
grow old, and so Vivian Burnett must al
ways be young in the mind of the great
public which knows him only as the noble
boy of his mothers story.
Yet, as a matter of fact. Vivian Burnett
is almost man, for he was born in Paris
on April 5, 1876, and is therefore well
into his nineteenth year. Time flies so
fast that when it was announced the
other day that Little Lord Fauntleroy
was seriously i'll with typhoid fever it
was dificult for those who had not seen
him to realize that the lovable cEild had
become an attractive young man, and il
! seemed very strange that he should have
| passed his preliminary examinations for
Harvard. He will never be very tall, for
he is like his father and mother, who are
both under the medium hight; but he is
an athletic fellow, strongly built, and
may be stout. He has fine face, with
dark eyes. thick brown hair and indi
cations of a moUstache He has all
the charm of Little Lord Fauntleroy, for
he has the real courtesy of the heart He
has been entirely unspoiled by all the at
tenlions he has received from the time
his mothers story appeared, and is with
out any atiectauon. He has decided talent
in several directions In the public
schools of Washington, where his parents
Tor good American reasons had him edu-
Gated, he stood high. and he graduated
from the high school in June year ago
with credit. Meanwhile he had had the
advantage of being much with his father
and his mother. He was abroad with his
| mother three or four summers and after
his graduation he went with her to
| England and remained until last De
mber. Since then he has been COM
pleting his preparation for Harvard under
tutors. He had passed the first examina-
| ton creditably. and was to have taken
the second examination this fall, but his
father says he must wait till next year
now. and will probably go abroad for the
coming winter. He is great reader and
he writes well, although he has never
published anything for the public except
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ture printer which he wrote for a syndi-
cate OF papers last winter.
FIRST ATTEMPT AT PUBLISHING.
In view of the fact that his mother
prefers that he shall be a publisher rather
than writer, 1t is interesting o read
what he wrote about his first attempts at
publishing an article.
Il commenced" he said, "when l was
about years old, with a small Balti-
. va.g i
| as Christmas present. At that time |
had 4 friend working in the Office of a
newspaper and it was he who had fired
| my ambition to become a printer We
| had in the beginning a lone font of type,
! but our ambitions were not small in pro-
| portion to our possessions. for in the be-
| ginning we asplred TO nothing less than
| to publish newspaper. 1t was called
The Reportr, and would have been The
Reporter had not the els in the font given
suit. Such as it was, however it had a
circulation of nearly twenty divided up
between the members of the household,
and we reaped a profit of 20 cents on the
only issue that ever appeared.
This time we aspired TO pocket money,
and, after having added more type to our
| plant, we set ourselves to securing the
neigh bOrhood for individ uals who wished
visiting cards printed. We soon had
| quite numbe of orders on hand | will
not vouch for the workmanship on the Jobs
| printed at that time, but the people who
! got them were satisfied and they brought
in money. The money in the treasury
was Immediately invested in more plant
j and our Office kept growing larger aud
| larger, until finally it had to be moved
down stairs into a room by itself At
! this point, through the generosity of the
! home office, an appropriation was made
! TO get the shop large press. Christmas
being near, ii was not deemed necessary
! 70 stint our demands, so fine large foot
| power press was added, besides a great
| quantity of new type. Then, indeed did
we think we had started on the high road
| 10 success.
Finally, following our former princi-
| pie of investing all our money in plant
and having added other presses to our
| equipment, we blOssomed forth in news
| paper again. This time it was more of a
| permanency. II was not as large as one
| of our dailies, but it served its purposei
ana fer three years running paid hand
some dividend of several hundred per
cent"
The rest of the article was practical
/ description of his printing office. illus
trated with photographs, including one
| of himself in his snirtsleeves at his
! press, which he took himself, for he is as
/ good photographer as he is printer.
FRIENDS AMONG OLDER PEOPLE.
| He is fond Of being out doors. and is ac-
/ complished in several sports, especially
| tennis. He likes to dance He has an
/ parently very few intimates among BOYS :
| those that he has are quiet fellows with
/ congenial tastes. But he has a host of
| friends among older people; for everyone
| who sees him like him. One Of them
| said TO me to-day; "Fauntleroy, beloved
OF two continents, he left his sash. his
velvet and laces, even his long golden
hair, far behind him; but the same in
! fictitious laugh, deeper and stronger, be-
trays his whereabouts; he has the same
! social nature. the same receptive faculty
! the same Catholic taste in friendship. in
which his eye discerns merits and at
fractions often invisible TO the world at
large, and the same delight in Offering
hospitality and gifts TO those he loves.
When / first saw him, long ago, he was a
round, soft ball of red and white, with a
very few clothes, ana a head that looked
like bunch eff floss silk In high wind
his cheeks were wet with tears and his
legs laced with long red scratches. He
had fallen asleep curled up in the parlor.
overcome with the ingrattude of a large
| fierce cat which he had tried forcibly TO
! adopt and which had scratched him pain
fully, though 1t was the wounding of his
feelings which made him cry. He was
really as quaint as his mother described
him and quite as original Fauntlerov