Evening star., 1926-05-16

| IN referendum by a popular Paris
| paper on who Is the greatest per-
! son in France at present, out of
40 names returned by half MIL
| lion readers, Marshal Foch came
| first and Nine. Curie, discoverer OF
| radium. came second!
| Nine. Curie, highest parsonage in
| the world connected with radium, was
| training her two grown-up daughters
! to take places beside her as world
chiefs of radio activity.
Now she permits and encourages
| the younger daughter, Eve, to give up
| the unique opportunity in science and
| follow a resistless call of music!
Nine. Curie's official position is pro-
| fessor at the Sorbonne and director OF
| it's laboratory of radioactive matter
at the Pasteur Institute, where she
has % persons specialized under her.
The Pasteur Institute was chosen
because the great use of radium, at
present, is for the benefit of the hu-
man race-outside cancers, especially
| of the face. being so mastered and
cured that it seems incredible. While
| Nine. Curie is not personally occupied
with these applications, her counsel Is
| there. and she contis1fes her analyses
and discoveries toward the vital pow
ers of the universe.
Seated beside her is her elder daugh-
| ter, Irene aged %. Having already
attained her degree of doctor in sci
ence and being continually occupied
with her analytical chemistry, Irene
remains in direct line for an exalted
place in the world. similar to that held
by her mother.
Nine. Curie might have made mil
lions out of her discovery, and the
daughters were in line to be in a SINH
lar astonishingly fortunate position,
did they choose to profit by it. In
stead, Nine. Curie passes her time in
the research of radioactive matter,
intense scientific work done on the
university'S small pay!
Alongside this unself1sh trait is the
one already mentioned. Nine. Curie's
second daughter, Eve, was being
trained up, equally in her mothers
footsteps y Never had two girls such
chance to become universal figures
in radium by mere birth, work and
routine.
Eve Curie had already finished her
baccalaureate first part, science; sec
ond part, philosophy when, with her
mothers approval, she threw all such
advantages aside and gave up her
place in radium to become an artistic!
Eve Curie has actually become
pianist She Is not yet a professional:
but she surely will become so. and the
two concerts she has given warrant
it in the style of great players.
Eve Curie is a strip of a girl Of %
with hair shingled like a boy. Add
that she is a first-class chauffeur, a
very practical notwithstanding girl
of the latest modernity, strong, 1.-THE,
energetic, alert, very fine and very de-
termined.
She is as pretty as a picture, with
eyes that burn as she talks first
in one language, then in another. At
the age Of 6, she played the piano
"as most children do; and Paderew-
ski, on hearing her one day, recogniz-
ed some particularly of touch or man.
ner and advised that she be brought
up a high-class pianist, even a pro-
fessional-of course. in Paderewski's
views, an artist is greater than any
scientist!
The child's life being already all
planned out for radium science, this
advice was not followed as Eve grew
I'D, but was never forgotten.
The rest is told by Mile. Eve her.
self.
'Tn my early years." says Eve