Once again "Old Moore's" prognostica tions have been fulGiled. Of March he says: There will be goave anxiety expressed when we learn that one to whom we are much attached has been smitten down with a deadly disease;" it is certainly no exaggeration to say that all England, or perhaps I should say all educated England, has followed with the deepest anxiety the cablegrams which have appeared in the various issues of the daily papers telling of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's brave fight for life. Early in the week it seemed almost impossible that he could recover, both lungs were said to have almost entirely solidified and breathing was only maintained by the frequent use of oxygen. Fortunately to-day's bul-latins are decidedly more hopeful—though not entirely out of danger the patient is said to be "materially better," and good hope is expressed of his ultimo recovery. Sensational reports were cit culated yesterday to the effect that two of his three children were likewise lying dangerously ill, suffering from the same complaint and' that the third had a Ind cold which might develop into pneumonia Fortunately this proves only to have had foundation in the brain of some over-zealous reporter anxious for "advance copy." The children have severe zoids but nothing more.
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