Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-14 | Page 17 | Wife Prevented Diaz from Resuming Fight

Wife Prevented Diaz From Resuming Fight MME. PORFIRIO DIAZ, wife of former president of Mexico, who prefers to spend her days in European society. Former Ruler Woul3 Havje" Returned After Maderos Fall, but for Wpman. Special Cable to The Tribune. LUCERNE, Sept. 13. One of tho most interesting persons liere at tho present timo is Mme. Porfirio Diaz, wife of tho former president of Mexico. Mex-ico. Mme. Diaz is a strikingly beautiful beauti-ful woman of tbo higher Spanish typo and her black 03-03 sparkle with a quick intelligence. It is said bjr those who are close to her and the grim old Mexican Mex-ican warrior, that if it had not been for her. General Diaz would have yielded yield-ed to tho appeals that came to him after aft-er the fall of Madero and returned to his country. General Diaz is now a feeble fee-ble old man but even so it is said that it was aU" his wife could do to keep him in Europe. Mme. Diaz doos not share in her countrymen's antipathy for Americans and some of her closest friends aro numbered among the latter. Sho and her husband aro living at the Hotel Montana with several members of their family. Thoy were recently ontertalned by Mr. and MrB. A. E. Stflwoll of Now York. Since living abroad Mme. Diaz has bocomo a thorough European and expresses ex-presses herself as having no desire to return to her troublouB country.