Evening star., 1894-04-12
spdsslng on these premises Is
How He EufOys life.

How He Enjoys Life.
Rudyard Kipling enjoys life. He takes a
great deal of pride and pleasure in his little
baby, which the coachman and a maid take
out for sleighride nearly every day.
Sometimes he is seen about his place with
his wife, who carries the baby. and once he
and his family and the family of his broth
er-in-law, Beatty Ballestier, took an oxen
ride around the farm.
Rudyard Kipling enjoys his home. His
mouse is very luxuriously furnished, and his
den, which is in the southeast corner On
the first floor, Is very comfortably appointed
He has plenty of books there and soft rugs
ana pleasing objects of art, and he likes to
sit there and write.
Rudyard Kipling enjoys his pipe. He
thinks so much of IL that nobody ever has
seen him on the streets of Brattleboro' with
out 1t. 1t is short and black, and is made of
French briarwood. 1t is always the same
old pipe, and II sticks from between his
lips wherever he appears.
Rudyard Kipling enjoys the freedom of
old and shabby clothes. He carries his en-
Joyment in this respect so far that strangers
in Brattleboro' who haven't heard about
Kipling, and who see him for the first time
on Main street, are inclined to think that a
cowboy has come to town. He wears a
rusty sombrero whenever the weather per-
mfts him to go without thick cap, and his
trousers legs are tucked into rough boots
Of the cowhide kind. His greatcoat Is al
whole makeup contrasts very strangely
with the alert, spectacled eyes and the gen.
eral look of quick observation which this
queer little figure bears
But Rudyard Kipling is not like a man
who doesn't know what il is to wear good
clothes for every evening, when he sits
down to dinner with his wife and baby in
the long rambling house on the steep hill
that rises above the rolling waters Of the
Connecticut river, he is always appareled in
the conventional dress suit of polite society.
he never negiects this custom, and for an
nour perore dinner every evening Mr.. Kip
ling is in his room attending to what must
be in his case a very elaborate toilet
His Social Side.
Although Mr.. Kipling goes to TSrattleboro'
every day and stops In the post Office to get
his mail, which is frequently SO large that
he could not carry it alone to his house. and
although Mr.. Kipling holds gracious con-
verse with the shopkeepers. and often chats
with the proprietor of the hotel, and sits in
the office there for half an hour at a time
reading the papers. yet only once has he
appeared at any public occasion of merry
making. This was not many weeks ago.
when he came down to the hotel in evening
dress and danced half the night at a hop
he was very vfvacious and friendly then,
ana didn't seem a bit reserved or disdainful
AT his house at Dummerston Mr. Kipling
has furnished room to be used for a hill
lard and pool apartment. Sometimes he
drops INTO the hotel at Brattleboro' and
plays game of billiards. but even his nosf
ardent admirers say of him consoli1gly
that "he hasn't practiced much vet, but he
may make good player some day."
Mr.. kipling never carries any money with
him when he is in Brattleboro'. His wife
attends to everything I'm the financial line
and 1t is said that even his own income
which has been estimated at over S20OO 2
year, he places in her control
One day when he had no tobacco he asked
his coachman to buy him a plug. and said
to him. You can collect of Mrs. Kipling. /"
The advice which was given to Little RI
Peep seems to have been adopted by the
Brattleboro' folk with profit in their rela.
tions with Kipling. When they sought
nlm ne was not TO be found, but when they
LETT him alone he came TO them.
When his barn was finished early in the
winter he ordered ready a four-horse sleigh
and invited as many as IL would carry ur
10 ms mouse, where the evening was spent
| in feasting and dancing.
Just after Christmas he got his four
horse sleigh ready again and took TO hi,
house the whole big choir of the Episcona
Church, which he and his wife's family
attended. The boys had very deliehtfli
time, and Mr.. Kipling played several game.
with them, and all the boys thought IL i'm
possible for man who was so famous evel
to have been young enough to learn suct
things.
Withal that Rudyard Kipling is eccen
trio in his behavior toward strangers n,
is by no means exclusive
Some Points About Him.
Mr.. Kipling travels a good deal to New
York and Montreal
He likes Vermont, and declares that
there is nothing like Vermont air FOL
babies"
The men who have worked for him. lik,
the carpenters, the plumbers and the do
mestics, say that he is the kindest and
most generous of EMPLOYERS They ais
add that he pledges them to secrecy about
his own daily life and the incidents of hi.
household affairs.
He is not interested in public affairs, and
has not indicated any intention to becomt
citizen or to get interested In any of this
| matters of the local government
one day he stopped Chinaman at the
depot in Brattleboro', and talked with hin
in Chinese for half an hour to the amaze
ment and admiration of Cinnamon and by.
ISLANDERS generally.
He is going to England next spring for :
visit.
He never shaves himself. but lets tn.
barber in Brattleboro' hotel attend TO that
duty for him.
He sometimes stops in the street when M
one is around and makes notes on a bit OF
loose paper that he rests against the wal
of a building.
He sayS "begad' and damn" very offer
in his conversation, and one day he asked
his parson, much to the mingled amuse
ment and surprise of that worthy man
whether he knew what had become of THAI
driveling idiot who cracks his joints" re
ferring to some strange character that hs
had picked up about town.
Early in the winter he Joined a party o
farmers who were breaking out the snow
covered roads, and he handled a plow hall
day with a good deal of skill. and boastec
good-naturedly of it afterward
Rudyard kipling married Miss Caroline
Ballestier, the daughter of Wolcott Bales
tier. the son of Joseph Navarro Ballestier
She had a brother named c. w. Ballestier
who was John w. Lovelrs London agent
through whom she became acquainted with
Rudyard Kipling.
As Heard by an Old Engineer.
From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
II was lettering around the streets las