The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-07
DEATH OF JOSEPHINE KIPuNG
STRICKEN AUTHORS DAUGHTER
SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA.
Mr.. Kipling In Ignorance of His Be-
reavement-Mrs. Kipling's Re-
quest to the Press.

New York, March 6.-Josephine Kip
yard Kipling, and the oldest of his
three children. died shortly after
O'clock this morning, from pneumonia.
The child's death took place at the
home of Miss Julie De Forest, in this
city. Miss De Forest is a friend of the
Kiplings, and Josephine had been taken
to her home SO that she could be
nursed apart from her father. The girl
became i'll the day after Mr.. Kipling
took to his bed.
In all probability the body of little
Josephine will be taken to the Kipling
home in Vermont for burial, but no
definite arrangements have yet been
made. 1t was decided not to inform
the author of his child's death for sew
eral days.
1t was said at the hotel this morn
ing that Mrs. Kipling has not been al
lowed in her husbands room for near
ly a week, notwithstanding the gen.
eral understanding that she has been
at his bedside daily. He continues to
improve, having slept naturally the
greater part of last night. He has
taken no solid food, and it may be a
week before he is able to do so. He
is subsisting on beef extract milk and
other fluid nutrients.
Elsie, Mr.. klpling'S 3-year-old daugh-
ter. passed a good night.
Mr.. Doubleday, at 1880 o'clock, said:
"Mr. Kipling has had a splendid day;
that is. comfortable day. He is be-
ginning gradually to take nourishment
of more substantial kind. OF course,
he has the appearance Of a man who
has been at the point of death, and his
mind works very slowly. He has not
been told of his daughter JoseDhine's
death. Elsie has been somewhat better
today, and I think she is we'll on the
road to recovery
Then, referring to a slip in his hand,
he said: After talking the matter over
with me, Mrs. Kipling decided to make
this request to the newspapers: 1T is
Mrs. Kipling's earnest wish that all
matters connected with the funeral of
her daughter, Josephine, may be entire
ly private. She appreciates the fact
that information concerning Mr.. Kip
ling is of public interest, but this sor-
row is her own, and she feels sure that
newspaper reporters and editors will
not wish to intrude upon her privacy"
Mr.. Doubleday went on to say that
this meant that Mrs. Kipling did not
wish even the time or place of her
daughters funeral to be made public
Mr.. Doubleday said there were a num-
Der OF reasons that induced her to
MAKE that decision. and one of them
was that, for Mr.. Kipling's sake, the
death and funeral of Josephine must
be passed as quickly and quietly as pos
sible. Mrs. Kipling knew, he said, that
the papers could find out everything if
they tried, but in this case she asked
them not to do so.
London. March 1.-THE morning papers
almost universally voice the deep sym
pathy in the bereavement that has come |
to the KiDling family through the dealt
of Josephine.
The Daily News sensibly suggests that
there should be some intermission in the
private kilograms and letters of inquiry
which call for Mrs. Kipling's personal
adding that ''it is I'M
necessary to impose upon the sorely
stricken wife and mother a ceremonial
duty only less eXacting than a reception
of callers"
Emperor Williams dispatch to Mrs.
kipling was intended. the Daily News |
thinks. to pay a double debt, 'as the |
kaiser has notorious reasons for desiring !
to conciliate both America and England" !