Despite all types of weather, they would take long walks. Marie Curie had gymnastic equipment installed in their garden at Sceaux and both girls earned first prizes from a local gymnasium for their skills. They learned cooking, gardening, and sewing. Along with their mother, they went on outings on bicycle, and during the summers, Marie Curie taught them how to swim. The one area in which their mother did not specifically attempt to give them direction, was in spiritual matters. She was unwilling to impose dogmas upon her daughters that she no longer believed.
During 1911, when Eve was less than seven years old, she and older sister, Irène both accompanied their mother to Poland, to visit Marie Curie's sister, Bronya, at the sanatorium. In Poland the sisters learned to ride horses and trekked into the mountains for several days, staying at mountaineering cabins during the nights.
Accompanies Mother to United States
In the spring of 1921 Eve, then 16 years old, and Irène travelled to New York with their mother on the ship, the Olympic, for Eve's first trip to the United States. Marie Curie was received with much fanfare by the people of the United States, and the two young women acted as bodyguards and also filled in for their famous mother at various social engagements for which she was highly in demand.
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