The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-08-19
PREFER LONELINESS.
Celebrities Who Hate Even the slight
Of Man.


OF all the famous people with an
undying hatred of being lohed at or
having strangers round them Rudyard
Kipling is one of the chief. He takes
extraordinary pains to avoid the usual
consequences of fame-so much so
that he has recently given up the
house he had lived in so long, and
was so attached. to, and fed from the
face of man. He settled years ago
in a secluded house in the little vii
lnge of Nottingham, near the Brigh-
ton, hoping TO escape the world at
large. But he was soon found and
beseiged by admirers.
Finally, char-a-banc owners took to
running special Kipling excursions
from leighton, bringing wagonloads
of people to see the house and plot
to get a view Of its owner. This was
so exactly opposite to the tastes and
wishes of the famous author that he
recently stole away inland-much as
he loves the sea--to q spot among the
Sussex hills, near Burwash, far from
any road CT railway station, where lie
bought fine old farmstead. buried in
the depths of the country. Every
year he goes to South Africa for a
spell and avoids society as much as
possible. He has the name for being
rude and curt, which blief arises sole
ly from his horror of being pestered.
Another strong objector to fame and
inspection and fuss of any kind is Mar.
hn oil Af hn
His pet method is to take a remote
country cottage for holiday or for
study, and hide himself completely,
so that no interviewer or photographer
can rout him out and torture him.
If one abode becomes known he shifts
to another, and does nearly all his
work either alone or with a single col
league. He is so followed up"-espe-
cially when in America-that he
sometimes finds the papers publish his
intentions of going away to some re-
treat for day or two, upon which he
quietly goes in practically opposite
direction; and bafIled reporters have
even declared that he drops hints of
his intentions of going to a certain
place, and then quietly chuckles to
himself and goes elsewhere, leaving
the pursuers lamenting.
The greatest lover of solitude in
Britain. however, is Lord Salisbury,
who inherits the popularity, in addi'
ton TO acquiring it. When he was
not forced to be in the centre of the
wheels--even then he was far lonelier
than most politicians-during his
premiership, he used to steal away in
little brougham-often four
wheeled cab-to Kings Cross, and
bury himself in the recesses of Hat
field as long as possible. The place
itself is sternly secluded: and even
when political garden parties had to
be given there the ex-premier often
contrived to escape and get away by
himself. His father was an even
| stronger lover of solitude, and had
all the windows and outlets by which
It was possible to see any part of the
house from outside the gropnd bricked
UP or covered in, and no one but men,
bers of the household staff was al
lowed inside the gates.
Lord Salisbury gets a carriage re-
served for him when travelling by rail
on any arranged journey, and when
travelling a short distance in a public
carriage busies himself in book, and
If often noticed at all by the other
| travellers.
! But of all famous people who detest
being surrounded is Rockefeller, the
oil king, and the richest man in the
world. He passes from one house to
another, often seeking solitude in the
| little cottages built for him in the
| Adirondacks and other semi-wild dis
tricts, seeking always to keep away
| from the world at large. His chief
exercise is digging. at which he never
misses at least one hours work a
| day, and he goes into large cities as
| little as possible.
Having a good many enemies-on
paper, at least-he has often been
warned against the danger of isolatine
himself, for it is said he gets-or used
to get an average of two letters a
week whose writer's threatened to
shoot him. To these and the warnings
he pays not the slightest attention. but,
if he finds himself worried by curious
| people in one spot, simply moves to
| another Qndon Answers