MADAME PADEREWSKI

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 13 March 1934, Page 11

MADAME PADEREWSKI

WIFE OF GREAT PIANIST

One of the happiest domestic unions of modern times was severed- by- the death recently, at•,Mprges ) ;:pn,the :Lake of Geneva,; of'Mhie. Paderewslcij" the devoted wife of M. Paderewski, the great pianist, states the "Daily Mail." She had been ailing for several years, but, although last autumn she knew the end could not bo long delayed, she insisted on. her.-husband fulfilling his engagements iii^the United,/ States and other countries)' Many ofrf^liich were entirely for charity?:^ ,/J *•■' fei . Her bqdy ; vwill:be talcen^'to j?aris for burial. '"';;; i -:M '^;Z ft;; M. Padorewsfeas a brokenpinan. For more than; 3V4 years his wife 'had been his constant companion, sharing in his triumphs and always ready 'to shield him when his life was threatened while he was first Premier of the new Polish State after the war." v 'T ' :" ' ;- •' ! Until the-beginning of her illness j her, activities?were manifold. When | her husband'became Premier of Poland !in 1919 she founded a poultry farm at Morges and collected some of the finest I breeds in the world. Some specimens | fetched prices unheard of until then. j Another of her ventures was a huge fruit farm adjoining her villa. Like her husband, she spent much of her time in the cause of charity. She offered- prolonged hospitality at Morges to many needy compatriots. ',