THE DEATH OF BEAUTY.
Having for long been ,a queen of ;'%• Baroness 'von Schwitzer, could ,iiot .-boar the thought of growing' old'and ugly, so sho coinI mitted suicide. The Baroness was tho daugli- / ter. of' a Roumanian shopkeeper, and was V married at. 1G tp,;a; wealthy' Russian, Count .Taliewitch,' who was captivated by her rsinarkablo beauty. After a.jnarriod lifo of 24 years the'Counb died, leaving his widow a fortune of over £1,000,000. : Of late thoj Ba■■•rovtssfc who recently' passed her fiftieth ryear, ,- and had always (been very proud of her re- ' luarkablo beauty, ; had bccome very melancholy owing to the fact that tho ravages of time wero becoming more and. more evident.: So greatly did the loss of her beauty'prey on ; her mind that sho: attempted!to,poison liorsolf. Tho effort failed, but sho was determined on self-destruction, and obtained a re- ■/. volver with which. she blew out her brains. . Sho left .a letter stating that she ciould not ■ bear to survive her good looks.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 3
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