Show SOP 11m KOVALEVSKY HE SAD FATE or TMO OirTBD RUSSIAN GIRL el lii > urn One fit the IrnMrit lelhe iiillil n The MnrfiU HnnnM W ere IINII lH > n liceshe Hint a llrarl Ilk llUnpixilnlnl VVmniin tmiNO this last rc r + winter the Revue de iris published I the rmlnl c nand n-and biography of I Imo Sophie Ko > nlfvek > une of the moot remarkable women of hit century cen-tury Affecting M Iho account of her life really It Inter ell In her botn II woman and genius la focused on this point lhAI her Ienl ui and her temperament were nt wnr To Rive Mine Idea of the environment and events which Influenced her career It may be well to tale something of her history Sophia Kovalevsky was born In InW Her parents were Ilus Iain of high birth but her own ae connta of her utterly neglected l chilli hood cane one In this age of pampered pam-pered children to pause aghaiL Her lellKht wa In studying the papers hunK upon the walls nf one of the room Ht apart for the children These paper pa-per were printed lecture on tbo integral In-tegral and differential ralcului and theee she porn over until some degree of Ihelr meaning dawned upon the brain of the child A few year later her father allowed her to have come Instruction In-struction and her mathematical ability one Immeillatclr recoRnlicd It was Just at lull time that Iho Intellectual restletumes this passion for change Ito desire for knowledge spread through ho IttiHlan women of the upper classes Sophie was domlnited by an older liter li-ter Anna of nn erratic and somewhat some-what sensational nature who Imbued her with the belief that the only I way for them to ecure the freedom their father fa-ther had denied them to study In n foreign university was for Anna to marry Her Idea was to contract ono of those ourloui nurrlages by no nienni uncommon In Ilussla at that lime In which It win understood that M oon ni the legal ceremony was performed both parties would bo at once tree to continue their studies apart Sophie Influenced by Anna accompanied accom-panied her to Iho ably of a professor of whom they had heard but never met There Anna showed no slgni of maiden timidity asked his hand In marriage staling her reasons for no doing hia politely but firmly refuted Nothing daunted Anna aught n young student Vladimir Koralovilty and repeated her offer Again the met with no encouragement encour-agement hut ho lemperctt lila refusal Haying that ho would gladly marry the reserved and iludloua little Sophie 8ophleprepnred makoanyiacrincoto pin thoknowlede forwhlch shelonged with all the enthuilaim of genius accepted ac-cepted It now became necessary lo mention Iho matter to Papa 1oor Oen Kroukovskyl Ono heart bleed for him To bo the father of an advanced ad-vanced young woman like Anna was bad enough but hero woo little Sophie following In her footsteps Of course ho refuted his content and now tbo paatlon for melodrama which Is Inherent In-herent In the Slav temperament asserted as-serted Itself In Sophie Whllo her father was enJOtllg a lltllo lull In household surprises and giving a dinner din-ner lo Homo frlendi a servant brought ii note from Sophie It was at brief ai the klngn In Iluy Ills lapa I have gone to Vladimir 1 beg your content lo our marriage On Kroukovsk rood lo lie occasion He lent for the cash children and announced their mar rfaffa lo his meats Monsieur and Madamo Kovnlcv sky now left for Kngland where they met a number of the moat celebrated people of the day After a brief alsy they went to IIcldelbcrR where they were enrolled ni atudenti Here Mme Kovnlovikya remarkable mathematlca ability noon attracted to her much notice no-tice After n Clue the went to Ilcrlln et r 80PIIIB KOVAIKV8KY to study but tlio great professor or mathematics here Wolrstraste received re-ceived her frigidly and ui n means of cooling her ardor lent her n paper which wn auinelcntly full of dlflleul ties lo daunt a Iralnnd ntathematlclan In a few days Sophie returned with tho correct answer to every question In a ihort limo Monileur Kovalevsky dlod and madame stricken with sorrow sor-row and remorse lay for a long tlmo very III After recovering the went to Sweden and begun those wonderful lectures In Stockholm thus discovering In hermit a new power for hen was the Ability to Impart knowledge In a very fascinating way Her reputation WM now established as ono of the flint mathtmallclani In Europe Perform leg prodigies of labor winning her reward re-ward In tamo and money petted and adored ai tbo woman of genius ever Is I r the yet longed for the girlish Joy sbe had mined In youth and prepared to gaily carelessly enjoy herself Dm at this time the liordln prise wu offered by the French Academy of Science for Iho moil excellent rupoiltloa of this subject To Perfect In One Essential I Point the Theory of lh Movement of a Solid Roily lloiiml an Immovable I Point Our this prlte 1 able determined to compete fully aware tint she wa entering en-tering the Una gainst the lavanla of Hutop While maaged In the ardu out work she had undertaken Madame Mad-ame Kovsltvsky met the man who In t iplred her a passionate and exclusive lore Thli ass no stetson of repose In In I happy and contented nffeilion Her paper wu written while alit are In n I stale of Intellectual and emotional ferment l fer-ment Her loser n UiiMlan gentleman 1 linked her to be Ma wife but she war too eiupicloim too exacting to creep the happiness offered < Her penelrallnR Insight In-sight had provnd Itself ngaln and again In every demonstration of mathematics Should the doubt her marvelous Intuition In-tuition now when they told her that tho man to whom elm gave the devn Ion of a passionate heart desired to pose M not Ihe woman he loved bat the enlui who would lend new luster to ila name in leaf the llordln prlae waa hen lo No 3 for the names were nclosed In realed envelop and were unknown to the Judgea On areount of ho Brest arlenlinc value of the work the prli waa ral1 from inoo to 10 000 francs No 2 was Sophie Kovalsv sky In one bound she had won her place among the foremost sclcntlola of lu rope She was the heroine of the hour In Paris and yet iho writes at that very lime that the has never In her urn been so unhappy |