The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-06-22
PREFER TO BE LET ALONE.
Celebrities who Are Mach Averne TO
Being Made the object
of Curiosity.

OF all famous people with an indy
ing hatred Of being looked at or hay-
ing strangers around them, Rudyard
Kipling is one OF the chief, says Lon
don Answers. He takes extraordinary
pains 70 avoid the usual consequences
OF fame,-so much SO that he has re-
Gently given up the house he had lived
IN 50 long, and was SO attached TO,
and hed from the face of man. He
settled years ago in a SECLUDED house in
the little village Of Nottingham, near
Brighton, hoping 10 escape the world
at large. But be was soon found out,
and besieged by admirers.
Finally, char-a-baDc owners took 20
running special Kipling excursions
from Brighton, bringing wagon-loads
Of people TO see the house and plot
TO get 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. Is
he loycs The sea--to a spot among she
Sussex hills. near Burwash. far from
any road or railway station, where
he bought a fine old farmstead buried
in the depths Of the country. Every
year he goes 10 South Africa for a
spell. and avoids society as much as
possible. He has the name for being
rude and curt. which belief arises sole
IL from his horror Of being pestered.
Another strong obiector TO famean
Inspection and fQss Of any kind is Mar
conf. the electrical genius Of the day.
His pet method IS 70 take a remote
country cottage for a 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 be shifts to
another and does nearly an his work
either alone or with a single colleague
He is so followed up"-especi
when iu America-that he som etimes
finds the papers publish his intentions
of going away to some retreat for
day or two. upon which he quietly goes
in a precisely opposite direction. and
bafiled reporters have even declared
that he drops hints Of his intentions of
going to q certain place and then quiet
ly chuckles 10 himself and goes else
where. leaving the pursuers lamenting.
The greatest lover Of solitude in
Britain. however. Is Lord Salisbury,
who inherits the peculiarity in addi-
ton to acquiring It. When he was not
forced to be in the center Of the wheels
even then he was far iorelier than
most politlcians-during his premier
ship. he used to steal away in a little
brougham-oitena a four-wheeled cab
TO Kings Cross and bury himselfin the
recesses Of Hatfield as long as possi-
bic. The place itself Is sternly seclud-
ed, and even when political garden
parties had 70 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 an the windows and outlets by
which Il was possible to see any part
Of the house from outside the ground
hricked up or covered in and no one but
members Of the household staff was al
lowed inside the rates
Lord salisburv gets a carriage re-
served for hir4 when travelling by rail
OF any arranged Journey and when
travelling a short distance 30 a public
car1iatc busies himself in a book and
IS often not Ioticed AZ Oh by the other
travellers
But Of sa famous people who de-