The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-24
Miss krout's
Talk on KipIing


Miss Krout's talk on Rudyard Kip
ling at the residence of Mrs. G. M.
ternoon. was. as usual largely attend
ed. There We're many counter-attrac.
lions of a social kind, the week being
unusually busy, but, Notwithstanding
this, many declined invitations to hear
what might be said of the writer whom
everybody reads
lated an anecdote of a friend, an Irish
man, for many years a resident of En-
gland On a fine Sunday morning he
was walking with this companion on
the shores of Lake Rudyard. Both
were impressed with it's beauty and the
young Englishman remarked:
eff I ever have a son / shall name
him Rudyard.'
Thus the great author came by MS
name The father was an artist who
had studied at the Kensington School
of Art, and married Miss Mcdonald,
the daughter of Scotch-Irish clergy
man. They went out to Bombay,
where the father became instructor IN
drawing in the University of Bombay.
The son, Rudyard Kipling, was born
December 81 1865. George Macdonald
had said that it was a great advantage
to have come into the world well-born;
this. the speaker thought, applied not
only to ancestry, but, in as great
y OF
such heredity, Rudyard Kiplings mind
| was shaped from the moment of his
birth, and his future place was fixed.
While a clever child, like many others
who subsequently achieved fame and
success in literature, he was an indif-
ferent scholar, preferring, as such
| genius does, usually, to learn in his
own way. He was sent to the United
/ Service College, in Devonshire. osten-
sibly to be fitted for the army, but
| failed to qualify While there, how
ever. he did two things, rose to be a
person of consequence as a teller OF
stories. and won the gold medal for the
| best essay on The British POSSESSIONS
| in South Africa"-the latter, even then.
| indicating his literary tendency. He
returned to India and there entered
| Journalism, that experience placing him
I'm close touch with every phase Oh
/ native life. Through the influence OF
/ the Duke of Connaught, for some time
| comma nder of the British forces IN
/ India, he obtained permission, rarely
/ given to go to the front. live with the
| soldiers, men and officers, in the mess
and the quarters. and thus he learned
| to know both and knew them Well.
To this opportunity we owe Soldiers
/ Three the immortal Ortheris. Lea
royd and Mulvaney, THE Counting OF
| Dinah Shadd'' and the CHASTITY tragedy
| of 1.-The Man Who Was"
Kipling's adventures in America were
/ told, his dislike for San Francisco, his
/ first encounter with the q. S. trooper
| who, he said, kept his horse cow
| fashion and his accoutrements pig
| fashion, but who could shoot" Miss
| Krout was of the opinion that the U
| s. trooper had improved in the TIVE
/ aforementioned essentials, and that HI
/ could still shoot, even better than ever
/ In New York 1.-THE Counting of Dinat
/ Shadd" first appeared, and at the re
/ quest of the late Mary Mapes Dodg'
i the Jungle Books were written, which
1t was thought, would be an imperish
able part of English literature. Hi
acquaintance with Walter Balestier wa
mentioned, with whom he collaborate
the s.Naulahka,' and whose early dealt
was deplored. The lasting influence Q
this friendship was the marriage @
Kipling to the young authors sister
Caroline Starr Balestier. From tina
time Kipling's spiritual development be
gan. and his best work was to be done
He learned of a higher heroism in hu
man life than that which asserts itse
!. in bloodshed-the power to endure pa
tiently and uncomplainingly to recog
. nze duty without expectation of re
: ward. Amongst the poems, The Roa
, to MandeIay'' was read, it's low mora
> tone sternly deprecated and contraste'
, in it's effects, with The Cry of tn
, | Children and THE Song of the Shirt
;, The talk concluded with THE Owe
land Mail" as an example of Xii
ling's higher spiritual insight. TT
? :. next talk will be given on Friday a
: ternoon, the subject of which is 'J'
seph Conrad"