COUNTESS AS A MONK

Evening Star, Issue 14530, 5 December 1910, Page 4

COUNTESS AS A MONK

The fit. Peter-shun: correspondent of the 'Journal' states thai a woman of great beauty, the Countess KJuzinska, has just, been arrested alter passing eighteen years as a man in th.t monastery of Solowcstsk, where she was known as Brother Arser.e. The countess, who is now about forty years of age, was the heroine of a much-discussed lovo affair (the 'Morning Leader' states). A duel fought betwsen her lover and her husband ended fatally for the. latter, and the lover, conscience-stricken, retired to the monastery of Solowestsk. The, eountess, -unable to bear the separation, disguised herself, and, to be near her lover, gained access to the convent, and lived there unsuspected during all lh> eighteen years.

In tho scores for tho silver medal at tho St. Clair golf links appearing on another pago W. Porter's name is omitted. lie. made 99 (27 handicap, 72 nal). Mrs Edwards, of South street, Queenborough, Sheppey (England), has been presented with a pnnso containing £lO on tho occasion of her hundredth birthday. The mono? was subscribed publicly. Mrs Edwards doee her own cooking and sewing, and reads the newspaper regularly. Kecently she walked without assistance to her granddaughter's, a diftanco of threequartere of a mile. She retains all her facu&M,, ejecopt that of aeariajj.