The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-13
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The Worlds AbIest Woman.
She Discovered Radium.
100000 for One Grain.
Your Opportunity.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyright, ls21.)

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Madame Marie Curie, discoverer
OF radium and ablest woman in
tne world, will visit this country
In May. That interests you. and
you may PROVE your interest.
The women of America have un-
0ertaken to raise q Madame Curie
Fund Of 100000. The money is
not for Madame Curie. Money
does not interest her now, any
more than when she lived in Paris
as young girl, washing bottles in
laboratory that she might con-
tlnue her scientific studies on an
Income Of twenty dollars a month
and q diet of black bread and milk.
The 100000 Madame Curie
Fund will be used to purchase one
grain Of radium for the woman
that discovered radium. And that
radium will be used by Madame
Curie in her scientific studies
the studies that have given such
magnificent results to the world
OF science and have never given
one penny Of profit to Madame
Curie.
Radlum Is the one hope of un-
happy thousands that suffer from
cancer Radium is destined to
open many closed doors of science.
Radium will furnish the key to
material equilibrium in the uni
verse. What is the worlds debt to
the woman that discovered radium
and gave her discovery to the
world FREE?
AS you answer that question, re-
peat the useful formula supplied
by James, i:22:
But be ye doers of the ,Oord,
Gnd not hearers only."
This writer sends one hundred
dollars to the Marie Curie Ra-
dunn Fund.-" in care of Equitable
Trust Company, New York city.
The modest contribution is sent in
memory of Julia Ward Howe. Be-
Ing sent in memory of an Ameri-
can woman, it will, perhaps, be ac-
cepted by an American woman's
fund. Julia Ward Howe, when she
wrote the Battle Hymn of the Re-
public" produced a spiritual ra-
dunn that penetrated many cold
hearts and many dull minds.
There should be a thousand men
In the United States eager to send
each one hundred dollars to such
fund, and to each will occur the
name Of some good American
woman in whose honor the money
could be sent and thus made ac-
ceptable. There follow some facts
about Madame Curie.
DR.. Ladislas Sklodowski, profess
sor of physics at Warsaw, married
Bfonislawa Boguska, principal of
q girls school.
>. On November 7, 1867, their
daughter was born. She grew up
in her fathers laboratory, looking
after his test tubes, crucibles, and
other apparatus from the time she
was six years old.
At sixteen Marie Sklodowski,
now Marie Curie, was graduated
from the Girls Gymnasium, re-
ceiving a medal of gold. She was
then a well-educated scientist.
Next she worked in the physics
laboratory Of the Industrial Mu-
scum in Warsaw.
On her fathers death she went
to Paris to continue her scientific
studies. On an income of $40 a
month she lived alone in one small
room, her furniture an iron bed
and one chair. her diet black bread
and milk.
She found work in a scientific
laboratory as a washer of bottles
and continued her studies. Pro-
fessor Lippman, observing her
ability, enabled her to obtain a
free course in physics, chemistry,
and mathematics at the Sorbonne,
where she now lectures and teaches,
the first woman to be thus hon.
ored.
You have heard proud man"
question woman's mental power.
It would do such men good to fol-
low Madame Curie's work as it led
up to her discovery of radium, a
discovery shared by her husband,
Prof. Pierre Curie, but due chiefly
to her.
Everybody knew that salts OF
thorium and various substances
emitted rays possessing the quail
ity Of radiation, discovered by Pro-
fessor Becquerel. Madame Curie
and her husband learned that
pitch-blende also produces radio
active force that will pass through
any substance, lead and steel ex-
cepted.
That vague information satisfied
others, but Madame Curie was de-
termined to know just WHAT it
was that caused the radioactivity.
For three years she worked stead
fly, intensely, using in experiments
every penny above the actual cost