Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — HAS TEAR OF PADEREWSKI. [ARTICLE]

HAS TEAR OF PADEREWSKI.

Beautiful Story of How an Admirer Caught and Preserved One. Some time ago the announcement was made In this column that a Philadelphia woman, whose name was not mentioned, possessed one of Paderewski’s tears, which she had enshrined in a locket. The paragraph traveled to London, where it was taken up by Punch in the form of a poem. Now a New York paper claims to have discovered the Identity of the mysterious heroine of the lachrymal romance and announces gravely that she Is a Miss Grey, which is not very definite. It also gives the following explanation of how the souvenir came to her, says the Philadelphia Record. According to Miss Grey’s story, she Ckme into possession of the precious tear at a dinner given to the piano player in Philadelphia some years ago. Among the dishes served were raw onions, which, it is said, the pianist likes exceedingly. Despite his many daily repasts on the common vegetable of commerce, prior to having fabulous offers made to him to play the piano, he never had fully mastered the secret of devouring the vegetable with any great avidity without giving way to tears. Miss Grey was seated across the table from the Polander at that dinner when he began to shed tears. Grasping a locket that hung about her neck, ■he begged him to shed one tear in it, and he, being as gallant as anything human that ever wore the glad raiment of eventide, placed one optic over the tiny golden receptable and wept in it.