The mirror., 1915-11-11
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By Beau Esprita
Rudyard Kipling

to the world of letters that we read
Rudyad Kipng We have keen of personal bereave
passing of great Anglo Indian poet and short
story writer Kpng intellectually to us than
than the lone figure towering above his fell
lows that stood for all that vre and manly in his chosen
field; with ves acquaintance
Muvaney, Orthors and Tearoyd; Dick Helda
and Torpenhow and the Ngha Mrs Hauksbee Strickland
and Minnie Gadsby. Many lonely hour has been made full
by the companonshp Kipng many bitter hour has been
frightened and sweetened by his song.
Rudyard Kpng began his literary reporter in
India about thirty years The game at that
and in that place what know today and the
imaginative and of the English cub
coupled with unique freshness and charm of STYLE
him a special writer and he had barely cut his wis
dom teeth before he contributing and
the columns the Pioneer other leading Indian journals
American magazine, however, that first introduced
Kpng world figure in the field of letters by undertaking
editing and publication of his stories of Angondian life, and
introduced his wonderful creative faculty earned for
him the title of foremost shorstory writer of his time in
any language He found his material in the life he knew
WE'LL the British civil and society in India and the lives
of Imperial Tommies" stationed in that colony. The Mu
vaney stories probably his best known prose writings
though his best. The Phantom Rickshaw" The Man
Who Would Be King" and The End Of The Passage"
probably his store indeed the second named
being perfect shorsory has been written
Of Kipngs poetry there is little need speak, it we'll
known
Imperialst with radical leanngs, Kiping was promi
neny mentioned for the Poet after the death
of Austn few but the freedom and vgor which he
had displayed attacking certain policies and of both
the parties England which he had considered wrong
operated against him. and the appointment the
atve Dr. Bridges. His latest published poem of import
THE Female OF The Speces leveed at the Woman
Suffrage movement at the height of the mtant campaign in
England
beginning of the present war great national poem
from the of Kpng confidently expected throughout
the literary world That the great poet then failing
of his gift demonstrated by the production which after
weeks of waiting he to his expectant admirers
that penned the brain that conceived England For Ali She
And Hod not the BRAIN the hand that gave the world
the Ballad Of East And Wes" Gungha Din, and Mother
o. Mne The degree of his decline further emphasized
by the speeches he began making the interest of recruiting
No longer the militant voice the Empire he rapidly dropped
into the background English letters When heard
Of he committing suicide seray disguised
respondent
The United States and Turkey the only
world that export goods than they import Now
der is this atering the Turks be caed with Uncle Sam
or vice versa?
yeti strangely that those countries which have
est banks have the poorest highways.
Now the reports of Halloween fatalities
Seems like life is just fatality after another
Woman Suffrage lost the Eastern states where
the proposed amendment voted this fall This what
the advocates OF the reform expected the favorable show
which the able make in these
communities large and than they had expect
ed and gives suragists just for rejoicing The
New jersey New York Massachusetts, Pennsy dem
onsrated clearly that suffrage growing
thing, of ultimate success.
woman looks for brains in husbands she knows
she has enough for both.
Some folks don't any to cry for Justice
Ignorance bliss.
Atho the people of the United States
hundred pounds salt during year. there are
still some of them who pretty fresh.