Eureka Reporter | 1906-02-02 | Page 3 | Kipling Made a Suggestion

kipling made a suggestion while summering in gloucester mass a number of years ago kipling received an agitated letter from the editor bojc a certain well known worn an s magazine stating that in a re bently written story and one that they were about to publish he kipling had committed the unpardonable error of making his hero and heroine drink wine to steady their nerves after a hairbreadth escape and as it was against the avowed principles of bis magazine to mention intoxicants of any description would mr kipling be so kind as to advise them what to do in the mattera whereupon kipling wired the tol lowing why not substitute foode naming a largely advertised food tor infants