Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-10
THE KIPLING FAMILY.
Mr.. Kipling's Steady Improve
ment.

Josephine, the Eldest Child, Died OF
Pneumonia ON Monday Morning---
Her Funeral and IncInerstIon---the
other News OF the Week.
The death of Josephine Kipling the
eldest child of the Kipling family, took
place at $3.50 o. clock last Monday morning.
As has been stated previously, all of the
Kipling children were suffering from a
bronchial trouble when they arrived in this
country. In the case of Josephine ma
lignant type of pneumonia developed on
the day after her father was stricken with
the disease. The little girl was taken
from the hotel to the home of Miss Julie
DeForest in East Thirty-fif street,
whose family have been for many years in
innate friends of the Kipling family, father
and son. IT, -..us 5 strength could not
be- maintained, and the disease refused to
yield to treatment. Dr. Conland was with
her constantly from Friday morning until
the end came. DIR. Janeway also assisted
in her treatment.
A short service was held over the body
Tuesday morning at the DeForest resi-
dence. The Rev. Dr. William r. Hunt
ington of Grace church officiated. There
were present only Mrs. Kipling, her sister,
of the DeForest household. After the
services the body was taken to the Fresh
Pond crematory and incinerated.
The news of the little girls dea.h caused
an intimate feeling of sympathy and re-
gret in the Brattleboro community. She
was a child of Brattleboro and the family's
personal friends have felt for her a real in
terest and affection. Her death is espec-
tally saddening because it is realized so
well by the friends here under what a Sc
we're strain the mother has been placed in
these weeks since the family landed in
New York.
Mr.. kIplinR's Improvement.
There has been no hindrance to Mr..
Kipling's improvement during the week.
He has gained steadily in strength, and
has been allowed greater range of nour-
isbing food from day to day. 1t was the
plan on Tuesday to move him on Wednes-
dag from his sick room to another room in
the hotel, which Mrs. Doubleday had fitted
up for him in reproduction of his favor
ite room at The Naulahka. Upt Tues
day, for precautionary reasons, he had not
been told of his child's death.
The public interest in Mr. Kipling's con-
dition has in no wise abated. Letters and
kilograms of enquiry, of congratulation
over his improven ent, and of sympathy
and coincidence, have continued TO come
from this country and Europe. The most
notable of these was this message from
the Emperor William of Germany:
BERLIN, March g.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling Hotel Grenobe: AS an
enthusiastic admirer Of the unrivaled books of
your husband, am most anxious for news about
his health. God grant that he may be spared 10
| you and to all who are thankful to him for the
soul stirring way in which he has sung about the
deeds of our great common race.
WILLIAM, l. R.
The leading German newspapers COM
ment on this message of the Emperor as
an evidence that Germany has only the
kindest feeling for America-these COM
ments being based evidently on the idea
that Mr.. Kipling is an American citizen.
A London despatch says that Alfred
Austin, the poet laureate, has telegraphed
from Florence to Mr.. j. Lockwood Kip
ling father of Rudyard Kipling, saying:
81 rejoice that your gifted son is out Of danger.
Had he succumbed, literature and patriotic senti-
ment woulo indeed have had cause to mourn"
The sale of Mr.. Kipling's books has
been stimulated beyond all precedent by
his illness, both in this country and in
England. "The Days Work" his latest
collection of short stories, published by the
Doubleday & Mcclure Co., is now in its
| 10th thousand.
The thousand and one messages of sym
pathy which Mr. Kipling has received
have touched him deeply, but it may be
safely questioned whether even that of the
Emperor William or of the Viceroy of
India has appealed so closely to his heart
as did the few words of neighborly SYM
pathy and confidence which his Brattle-
boro neighbors sent him before his illness
began.
DR.. Conland returned home to Brattle-
boro Tuesday evening.