The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-29

TO buy paper to write story on. Young
Burnett, whose family were among the
blue bloods Of the town, saw the child
and Immediately got his mother to take
an interest in her, and afterward he had
her educated. and, OF course, like the
real romance. married her.
DR.. Burnett and his fair young wife
then went abroad to live. while he fur
Their pursued his medical studies A
few friends assert that DIR. Burnett's
education was completed with the pro-
ceeds Of one Of Mrs. Burnett's first sto-
ries published in an American magazine
but the story can be denied on the best
Of authority.
A HAPPY FAMILY.
The ideally happy pair lived first in
Paris. in the Latin quarter, where Mrs.
Burnett wrote the story of that title
founded on facts, and where the eldest
son. Lionel, was born. He was the Joy
and pride OF both parents, and the first
great grief the mother ever knew was
in the death Of this fine young lad from
consumption. few years ago, while
they were travelling in the south Of
France in the vain hope of saving his
life
Mrs. Burnett's love for her husband
was marked and noticea BILE to the out
side world; not that she was ever fool
ish, but often among intimate friends,
when she was fatigued. she would lay
her head upon her husbands shoulder
in girlish fashion, calling him terms Of
endearment. and seeming to be salts
fed that her greatest comfort was in
his protection and love
Vivian, the next child, was the hero
Of Little Lord Fauntleroy," and today
is a Harvard student, being educated
in this country, much against his moth
er's fondest hope. for she wanted him
to be thoroughly English and a Cam
bridge or Oxford man, of course. But
like his father, whom ne extravagantly
admires, he is bubbling over with Am
ericanism.
DR.. Burnett who completed his stud
les in Paris, and Germany, is regarded
as an authority by those two nations
He is in love with his profession, and
his favorite patients are the poor, hun
dreds Of whom he has trea ted every
year without receiving a cent.
The family came to Washington to
live late in the seventies. Here Mrs
Burnett was ambitious to surround her
self with the stars of literature and
high life, but in her haste she chose too
many ordinary everyday people, The
consequence was that foreign circles in
which she afterward moved were far
more brilliant, and Mrs. Burnett in
Washington and Mrs. Burnett in Lon
don and Paris were two different per-
sOnages.
She always kept Sunday evenings Is
her reception nights, and at these in
formal cat homes the guests had
glimpses of the "dens" of both husband
and wife, for they each had one models
OF comfort and luxury. The house was
gaudily furnished, for Mrs.
is fond Of bizarre things, and
dresses herself rather Showily, always
wearing striking effects
SPOILED BY BRITISH PRAISE.
Mrs. Burnett enjoyed her everyday
American friends and her very Ameri-
can husband until foreigners took her
up, so 10 speak, She used to entertain
her friends with the abandon of a
school girl. She regarded her husband
as authority on all things, and acknowl
edged that she was never successful
with her stories until they were revised
by Dr. Burnett.
DR.. Burnett believes his wife to be a
genius, and is always ready to all to
her every glory; but he is morbidly SEN
sitive. He comes of real American
fighting stock, and one of the regrets Of
his life has been that owing to his af-
is lame in one leg-he was
not able to accompany the 700 young
men who went from near his home to
the war and were imprisoned in Ander- I
many Of them dying for the
Tag.
The admiration of English titled wo-
men and those OF rank for a poor coun- .
.rywoman Of their own, born in the di-
est Of poverty. has done more than all |
Use to break the tie between the once