The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-12
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A Woman Reporter Tells What He Is and
How He Lives.

As I remained silent for a moment he
said, $50 you are a lady reporter and
write for the papers aud that Is your
lrt?"
Eyes, ! am a woman reporter, and hat
ia my work: not so pleasant as yours"
ssMine IL work. too, for everything Is
work in this world that Is done well, and
music is hard work"
"Do you vary it with outdoor ex-
ercise?"
"Not a great deal; not SO enuch as /
should while on my tours, but occasion
ally ride, drive, a walk when have
tIme.o
"Do you ride q bicycle?"
'Nol Noil" horrihedly.
"How do you spend your timer"
swell, very mo%notoaously, and / sup
pose most people would think there IL
very little pleasure i'm my existence, and
there 10 when am on a tour;
erally?''
each day Is very much like another.
/ rest as much as possible the days / give
a recital, and i always rise late, for / al
WAYS sleep poorly the first part OF the
night. After take a little breakfast,
and / feel equal to It, i Often play a game
of billiards with DIR. Goerlitz, for am
very fond of the game and it is my great
est recreation. Then we sometimes walk
or drive, N after dinner / retire to my
apartments aud practice, AMI that is my
day.
6Don't you read or write or amuse
yourself In any way?"
: nOh YES, / read, but IdeHit write when
/ can help it, and my time is sometime
much taken up with seeing young folk,
young men and women who aspire to
fame, and they want I play for me, and l
cannot always refuse To hear them. Not
that l would refuse anyone IL / could
help it, but / must do so, and 1t is hare
to make distinctions.
ssIndeed his time would every minute
be taken up by the young aspirants to
fame" said Mr.. Goerlitz at this point.
'sIf / would allow them all an audience.
/ make IL a point to refuse as many as L
can. because Paderewski is physically
unable to see them, and they fairly swarm
to see him, to bring their compositions.
and TO play for him.
"How about the ladies who call to see
him; society women who wish to meet
him and to lionize him?"
81 will not allow him TO see them," said
the manager, .'because be works too hard
MS it is without being bored in such a
manner.
/ turned to MIR. Paderewski again and
asked him If he read the newspapers.
Taking up a cop of The Post-Dispatch,
which lay on the table, he turned the
pages over quickly, glancing over the
headings as he did so, saying:
''This is the way i read the newspapers"
"Don'G YOU care TO read the nice things
they ssy about yourself?"
"But they are not always nice things"
III said, smiling, sand IL upsets me to
read about myself. SO / have not read a
press notice OF myself or my ~recitals since
/ have been in America this time.o
"Do you KNOW j said, 81 had an idea
before | saw you that you were a bru-
nette?"
"Indeedl Why did you think that9"
I" don't know, except most Polish
men were dark, and the most beautiful
women of your country were blonde"
sob, no, you see, / am far from dark:
but my sister, she is brunette. Now, the
De Reszke brothers, who are Poles, are
both dark, and you will find the same
difference in Polanders as you find in this
country"
ssIs your sister a great artist, too?"
"No. she does not aspire to be an artist,
but she can play well on the piano, Of
course"
Noticing how his hair stood up as IL
each separate hair had life, / felt the great
est desire to touch it and see il it felt
like that OF other people. never have
seen any hair like it before, and the color
is such that / could not decide whether
IL nhb Olt&A ASo'AEh Va NAAht
1t seemed TO change in every light and
with each motion of bis head. i said:
'sWm you be angry II / ask you a very
personal question, Mr.. Paderewski?"
"No. l won't be angry; you said you
were going to ask me questions, aud /
promised to answer as far as lay in my
p over"
swell, it was stated you were losing
your hair, that it was falling out, and
that you would be forced to cut it of; is
1t true?"
"No, no, it is not true, does it look so2"
aud he shook his head until every hair
stood up, sh~ining--not like gold, for 1t
was brighter than any gold l had ever
seen.
"No, my hair is as it always has
been. ] have IL trimmed each summer,
and / have not lost any Of it in any other
way"
While we were talking / noticed that
Paderewski sat in his chair very much
like Southern men,, which means that he
took a very easy position, almost lounging,
and bent forward, looking frankly into
my face, and his hands were hardly ever
still.
lie has very characteristic hands, very
white, like his face, his fingers being
quite long and slender, and he holds
each finger quite apart from the other,
like IN holds them in performing on the
plduo. iHS DdllS are well ltIlntu anu
well cared for, but his hands were far
from small or notwithstanding. His
hand shake reminded me OF an incident
long ago. When L was a child a distin-
gujshed Kentucky statesman reproved me
for allowing my hand to remain passive
when shaking hands, and tried to teach
me to shake hands properly, saying that
he knew a young lady who had very little
beauty, but won every mans heart the
minute she shook his hand, from the
characteristic and expressive way in which
she did it, making him feel as il he was
welcome and al honored guest. Thought
OF this the minute that | shook hands
with P~aderewski; his handclasp was so
genuine, SO cordial, his fingers so cool
and firm to the touch that Il was a dis
tinct pleasure TO exchange with him the
hsndclasp of which the American nation
is so fond.
Several messengers have come for the
great artist while | was having my talk
with him, but he was too polite to allow
me TO be driven away until my questions
were answered.
"Before | CO." I said, 81 want to ask
you whst you think of the new woman,
Mr.. P~aderewski?p
"New woman? / don't know what she