New-York tribune., 1908-06-14

ne'' She shy with other chils,~n .o -
-, Seioom had an opportunity to see any When
enc was quite small she had sometimes yr,sbad -
poS WIN the school children she met in her walks
D"' Her nurse was shocked a the idea for Sonia
was the daughter of a noble. and these children
were what the nurse called common brats =,
'Aid leIt very much ashamed of having wanted to
pay with them, and after while came to have M
uesire Tor playmates. When any little girl of her
own age came 10 the house she did not know uhs+
to say TO her. and kept thinking II Wish she ,o,,a
60. The only happiness she had was when alon.
Win the nurse, who was very fond of her and used
TO tell her delightful fairy tales But when she
was six the nurse was banished and she was CON-
signed to the of a governess who with the
best intentions in the world, made her very niser-
able
Utmost the only bright spots In Sonia's life were
Ne visits OF her two uncles, Peter, her fathers
brother, and Fedor, her mothers Uncle Peter
was gentle and stately old man, who was as
fond Of talking his brother was of silence
There was always talk the table when he was
there, and when he had else to listen to him
he would expound the most abstract theories TO
Sonia, who listened eagerly and did her best 10
understand. Uncle Fedor young gay and
handsome. Sonia could scarcely keep her eyes off
Of him, she thought him beautiful. There was
always talking the table when he was there
TOO, though his talk was less serious than Uncle
Peters, and after dinner Sonia would sit on his
knee and he would talk 10 her about coral reefs,
weeds, infusora and other wonderful things
IN which Anluta and Fedia didn't seem TO be bit
interested.
When Sonia about thirteen something very
exciting happened in the house of Krukovsky. To
relieve the monotony of her existence Aniuta be-
gan. secretly, TO write stories, and these stories
published and paid for by one of the best
Russian magazines The correspondence
ried through the housekeeper. who used to go
out to meet the postman so that the letters would
not fall into any elses hands. But one day
when every was busy preparing for Nine.
Krukovsky's birthday things wrong and the
general discovered the secret. Now, any father
in these days-even a Russian father, doubt,
would be proud of a daughter who could write
stories for leading magazine. but General
hrukovsky thought his daughters conduct
shameful that he had a severe attack of Illness.
He angry that Aniuta began to think she
really had done something dsgraceful. Yet she
would promise stop writing. and every one
was very unhappy for a few days. Then General
Krukovsky consented to hear his daughter read
one of her stories. II moved him and he
made no more objection to her writing. Poor
General KrukoYsky! He had to reconcile himself
TO many things than this before many
years had passed, and 1t is greatly to his credit
that he did at last come that the things
his daughters did not dreadful after all
Aliuta kept on writing and did many other things
contrary 10 the Krukovsky traditions while Sonia
became an eminent mathematician. She married
a brilliant young named kovaievsky and so
now we know her as Sonia Kovalevsky.