Show Mme Curie Tells of Radi Radium m Marvel PARIS Jan 26 6 By U u. Radium P. the most valuable valuable- In lri the world worM was discovered in a crude tumbledown tumbledown tum turn down ble shed which h s served I Pierre Curie Curle and his wife as a laboratory The inspiring story of ot of the the discovery was recalled b by Mme Currie Currle In an Interview after France had granted the widow a pension of or francs I a year to keep her from privation and feted the twenty-fifth twenty anniversary of radium at the tIme Sorbonne Ml It It was bitterly cold those Decem Decem- I her ber lays days over twenty five years ago when we finally isolated Isolate radium said I Mme Ime Curie Curle Our laboratory was Just a tiny shed made of ot boards boardson on the Rue lIne Lhomond The Tle floor was just the hard ground Rain continually continual continual- ly lIp dripped through the leaky old roof root and the winter winds whistled through the cracks in the walls All day dav and Into the tIle night we worked In the darkness cam we wo would sit sometimes anti and watch the ghostly glow from test tubes contain containing In radioactive ra nit ra- mixtures The feeble light piercing the shadows s gave U ug Us hope Then we had our dreams I kept house houst doing the cooking of ot our simple meals with various ari us articles of laboratory equipment My Iy husband hus bus band spent long hours by his blackboard blackboard black black- board writing equations and calculating ting When hen 1 went back to visit the theae laboratory death ae h to his a fase last few figures g weeks k were er after still hd his on tho the board Mme Ime Curie dresses with the se severest severest severest se- se verest simplicity She Is now forced to wear heavy glasses Her lien face tace is tired and old |