The Portland daily press., 1898-10-25
klPLING'S FIRST NAME.
A Romance About How He Came to Re-
ceive It.
(Kansas City Star. J


Into noisy. drunken, soidierful Chat'a-
uooga there came one day rosy, tweed
clothed Englishman with rich and mar
velous accent His name was j. bourne
Pinder and he was salesman for the
wares of the Doulton pottery, Staff ord-
shire, England. He was breezy sort of
chap, lacking the reserve attributed to all
travelling Englishmen, but the fact that
he was "bagman had, perhaps, some
thing to do with it. At all events, he
was soon on speaking terms with the lit
tie group of newspaper men in the hotel
and told some very amusing and instruc-
tive tales about England and other places
to which he had iourneyed.
One evening sat chatting with him
about unimportant things, when he
di vulged this interesting fact:
"Do you know where kipling got his
never seen the story In print. To begin
at the beginning, my father was Thomas
Pinder, OF the po tsry firm IF Pinder,
Bourne Co., now Doulton's, in Burslen.,
Staffordshire. In the pottery was young
man named John Kipling, a designer of
decorations. He Was a very clever young
man although somewhat eccentric de
used. remember, as a boy, to carry pet
mice attached to him by fine chains. he
was very vigorous man and full OF
amusing stories and could do innumera-
BILE clever tricks. When | WIS boy he
made casts of my face. He made paper
quills and put them in my nosfr1ls,
creased my face and then covered it with
wet plaster. 1t was Emo fun, can tell
you, but he was q good sort of chap and
used to tell me stories and sing songs and
| make things with a jaek-knifs for me, 80
/ let him do it. He was a constant visitor
at our house, and both my mother and
! father were very fond OF him.
30 day my mother gave picnic to
\ the young people of the neighbOrhood at
pretty little English lake between the
villages of kudyard.and Rushton, not
far from Burslem. John Kipling went,
of course. and there he met pretty Eng
Iish girl, Mary Mcdonald, the daughter of
Methodist minister at Endon. Kip1ing
| fell in love with her at once They met
| very often at my mothers house and 1t
| grew into love affair on both sides.
| Then John Kipling went to the art school
| in Kensington and was afterward sent
| out to direct the art schools of the Madras
| Presidency in India. When he went to
India he took pretty Mary Mcdonald
along as his wife.
.sIn the full ess of time son was born
| to the Kiplings in Bombay. Their first
| meeting at Rudyard lake must ha' been
the pretty plG OF Sentlmen5 OF Ghelr HSes,
| for when they named the son they took
for him that of the little lake on the
| banks of which they first saw each other.
"John Kipling came back aft, rward TO
| the old potting country and whe they
built an institute for the people wnere
Wedgewood first started potting, Kiping
modelled tina friezs for the building. The
| frieze describes the, potter's art with
| figures of the thrower, the plate maker
| the cup maker, and all the others. 1t
was work Of love. Rudyard Kiplng is
himself very fond of the Staffordsh .
countryside and has written the uialect
which he knows wsll,- of his mother $
people.
This is the story of the origin of Rud-
yard Kipling's christian name. tolu by
the son of the man under whom kipAing' s
father started on his art career,