The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-04
RUDYARD KIPLING.
He Departs for Europe, and Later
VIII visit India for Material.

New 1OTk Suli.
When the North German Lloyd steamer
Lain drew away from her pier in Hoboken
yesterday morning a dark, slender young
man in spectacIes stood by the starboard
rail lust forward of the cabin, holding in
his arms a little golden-haired, blue-eyed
girl. The child wore a bright red yacht
ing jacket and red Tam O'Shanter cap.
The man wore a mixed gray golf cap,
cinnamon brown Norfolk jacket, and mixed
gray trousers The little of his dark brown
hair that was visible was closely cropped,
and his little black eyes twinkled bright
ly from beneath heavy eyebrows and lashes
as he talked and laughed with the child
in his arms
The young man in spectacles was the
poet, story writer and odd genius, Rudyard
Kipling. The child was his little three
year-old daughter. Mrs Kipiing, a younger
child and a maid were down in their state
room. The author and his family were off
for an indefinite stay abroad. All that the
Kipings have left in this country is their
beautiful home and its furnishings, near
Brattleboro, VT.
Just before the steamer sailed Mr.. Kip
ling talked with a Sun reporter. He said
that, leaving the Lain at Bremerhaven. he
and Mrs. Kipling would spend time
on the continent, going from there to Eng
land. How long a time he would spend
there he did not know. Eventually he
would go to India, he said, the country of
his birth. and possibly he would visit
Samoa and other of the islands Of the
southern Pacific, trip he contemplated
taking several years ago and gave up.
viii you return to America and if So
when?" Mr. Kipling was asked.
'Oh, yes, l expect to come back again.
when l get ready. 1 haven't the slightest
notion as to when that will be-
DO you call America your homer
THAT is my home where L choose to
live"
With that Mr. Kiping set out to look aft
er a missing piece of luggage.
"A friend of Kipling's, who was also a
passenger on the Lain, told an interesting
story apropos of the authors trip abroad at
You remember" said this friend, 'the
ddiihculty that kipling had with his wife's
Well, you remember that he had Balestier
arrested for using improper and indecent
language toward him and threatening his
nfe! When Balestier came up for examina-
ton Kipling had to so on the stand. The
court room was crowded with as many of
the citizens of Brattleboro and the sur
rounding country as could be packed.
damned and wedged into it.
From the time kiplinS first came to that
section OF Vermont none of the people had
ever been able to find out much about him
He held himself aloof from the natives
minded his own business and discouraged
any advances that most of them made
toward establishing friendly relations
They wanted to know what his house was
like on the inside. They never found out
because they never got further than the
door They wanted to know how he lived
and worked what he ate and when and how
much he slept. They never had a chance
to crafty their curiosity until the Balestier
case came up. Then they concluded that
they might have a chance to feast their
eyes and ears.
titioners, understood the motive that at
tracted SO many people to the trial, and
WIS TO 40 an they could for their fell
popularity, they asked Kipling ali sorts of
questions. Neither Kiplings nor BaIestier's
lawyer interposed many objections to ques-
tons that clearly had no bearing on the
case-were irrelevant and immaterial, as
ut happened. therefore. that Kipling
was obliged TO give, In the course of his
examinations, a great deal of personal and
family history. While he was on the stand
Brattleboro learned more about Kipling
than 1T ever hoped to know. and was
had taken much pleasure. up to this time
in knowing that his neighbors were lust
devouring themselves with a curiosity that
they had no means of gratifying. When
he found that he had to tell so much about
himself he was the most Disguised man in
the State of Vermont. The one thing he
wanted was to ge- away from the place and
forget, IL he could, all about his first and
only experience in an American law court
Almost immediately after the case was
concluded and Balestler was bound over To
keep the peace the Kipiings began to
Il
1t will be Some time before they return to
America
But there is another reason-one con-
nected with his literary career-that
prompted the trip. A few years ago a
critic, writing of Kipling's work done in
India, said: Besides the silly world that
disports itself throughout most of his po>
etry and some of his prose, there is an
ether Arglo-Indian world. which for high
aims and certain steadfastness in effort
after the personal interest in effo I
is well nigh dead, has never had an equal
in history. Some day q writer will arise
perhaps this young man-who viii make
that nobler Anglo-Indian world known as
il really is
Kipling paid more attention to that crit
his writings. RE made up his mind 70 fol-
low its suggestion. When he gets to India
he will make a new study of Anglo-Indian
life, remembering the critics suggestion
and new volumes OF prose and poetry in
an entirely different vein from anything
that he has yet written. viii be the re-
suit.
Rudyard Kipling has lived little over
three years in this country. He was mar
ried on Jan. IS. 1892 to Miss Carolyn Bales
tier, daughter of the late Walcott Bales
tier sr., a wealthy resident and retired
lawyer of Brattleboro VT The wedding
took place in All Souls Church. Portland
place, London. II said to be the ful-
filment OF wish expressed by Mrs Kip
ling's brother. the late Walcott Balestier.