Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-16
Rddyard Kiplipe
A H. Vermont Home.


ling, and there is no man of letters
about whom there is so much inquiry.
He is very little known. He has what
ifs sometimes called the British in
sular prejudice against inquiry into
his private life and habits.
' A good many hundreds of people
no have come in contact with him
ave called him all the names that
bne may use in polite society. The
Explanation thereof is simple enough.
ir. Kipling did not care to know
hem and resented their attempts to
\ now him. To these Kipling is in
med to be exceeding short, not to
Ry rude or boorish. He believes that
|e gives the best he has to the public
n his writings, and that it has no
Fight to bother about his private life.
4 To those to whom he gives his
friendship-and he is not an aristo-
crat always-he is as genial, as kindly,
as warm-hearted as any one could
ask. He is the most delightful of
companions.
Personally Kipling is as complex
and remarkable as his writings. He
Is cheerfully profane and genuinely
religious. His affection for his wife
and children amounts almost to
worship, but even they are not i'm
mune from his sense of humor. He
calls hi5 first child his international
baby"
His study in his home in Brattle-
boro UT. is long, narrow room,
most artistically adorned, which can
ba/reached only by passing through
Mis- wife's boudoir. In it are many
4 books although he carried a large
number of them to England when he
removed there to make it his home
Everything in connection with his
life in this country shows how desir-
Gus is the young man to avoid peo-
pie who bother him. He absolutely
refuseH to be lionized, and the thought
of seeing In print what he eats for din
ner draws from him language as
picturesque and as vivid as In bis
poems, but not so printable.
OF course Il Is natural that a dyed
in-the-wool Tory like Kipling should
hardly be happy outside of England
yet he has q genuine love for Yer
mont. and 1t Is possible that had il
not been for his trouble with his
brother-in-law, he might not have left
this country.
He prefers Vermont in winter time
although 1t is cold and cherries
enough to most people. Perhaps the
long years he spent in the heat OF
India may count for his delight in
cold weather. He has often said
that thereAs nothing like Vermont
air for babies.
This Prattleboro house is as pecu-
liar as Kipling himself. 1t is in an out
of-the-way place. on the side of a hill.
Properly speaking it is not in Brattle-
boro atsall, but just across the line In
q littlefplaee called Dummerston. The
hill slop1s down to the troubled waters
of the Connecticut river
The house is long curious-lool.
ing structure, fashioned after the plan
of an Indian bungalow. A long cor
ridor DIVIDES 1t from end to end. sc
n that the arrangement of rooms il
something like those in hotel There
are no fences around his extensiv.
grounds. bnt there are still to bC
seen the sftAs which Kipling hat
placed wen he moved into the hous,
about nW years ago, and which read:
sTresnRssing on these premises Is
forbidden" In order to further avoid
iptrustdh there is but one enhance tC
the house, and that is on the side
aAvay from the road.
Nov. the people of Bratteboro oil
course heard that the Kiplings were
returnipg, but they would not believe
the news until they saw the slight. ac-
tive man, wearing a thick cap, big
shabby ulster, and old trousers thrust
\ into heavy boots appear among them
And when they saw the little Jack
prlarwood pipe upon which he puiied
Qntentedly no doubt was left in their
pds.
Tile looked up his old friends, and
be has many in Brattleboro The ma.
Njority of them are humble folk, who
fsay that kipling is one of the finest
l.snen in the world. They are men who
have character. however, and from
fhem this marvellous young man ex.
y tracts much.
Kipllng seems to enjoy the freedom
of his shabby clothes and of the ru.
raj community. He likes the slelghing
He is fond of wandering about on his
place. When there is fresh fall OF
snow he usually takes hand In
shovelling paths IL those keen
specialized eyes were hidden a stranger
might take him for one of the en-
ployees
But when evening comes Kipling
makes an elaborate toilet. If you
read his books you know that when
pictures a man in the wilds of India
HON he really wants to have re-
pected he always makes him put on
Bis evening clothes at dinner time.
ipling lives up to this. II doesn't
ktftr II there are no guests in the
6use. he always dresses for dinner.
:f5>Qf course a man who is so par leu
1ar must have his chin smooth, and
n might be supposed that he shaved
himself But he doesn't He travels