and Canon
Kingsley. In those days you could have carried Kipling around in a
lunch-basket; now he fills the world. I was young and foolish then; now
I am old and foolisher."

At the Authors Club he paid a special tribute to Rudyard Kipling,
whose dangerous illness in New York City and whose daughter's death had
aroused the anxiety and sympathy of the entire American nation. It had
done much to bring England and America closer together, Clemens said.
Then he added that he had been engaged the past eight days compiling a
pun and had brought it there to lay at their feet, not to ask for their
indulgence, but for their applause. It was this:

"Since England and America have been joined in Kipling, may they not be
severed in Twain."

Hundreds of puns had been made on his pen-name, but this was probably
his first and only attempt, and it still remains the best.

They arrived in Sweden early in July and remained until October. Jean
was certainly benefited by the Kellgren treatment, and they had for
a time the greatest hopes of her complete recovery. Clemens became
enthusiastic over osteopathy, and wrote eloquently to every one,
urging each to try the great new curative which was certain to restore
universal health. He wrote long articles on Kellgren and his science,
largely justified, no doubt, for certainly miraculous benefits were
recorded; though Clemens was not likely to underestimate a thing which
appealed to both his imagination and his reason. Writing to Twichell he
concluded, with his customary optimism over any new benefit:

Ten years hence no sane man will call a doctor except when the knife
must be used--& such cases will be rare. The educated physician
will himself be an osteopath. Dave will become one after he has
finished his medical training. Young Harmony ought to become one
now. I do not believe there is any difference between Kellgren's
science and osteopathy; but I am sending to America to find out. I
want osteopathy to prosper; it is common sense & scientific, & cures
a wider range of ailments than the doctor's methods can reach.

Twichell was traveling in Europe that summer, and wrote from
Switzerland:

I seemed ever and anon to see you and me swinging along those
glorious Alpine woods, staring at the new unfoldings of splendor
that every turn brought into view-talking, talking, endlessly
talking the days through-days forever memorable to me. That wa