DEATH BEFORE UGLINESS.
Having for -long been a queen of beauty, Baroness Afon Scliwitzer could not bear the thought of growing old and ugly, so she committed, suicide. The baroness was q daughter of a Roumanian shopkeeper, and was -married at sixteen to a wealthy Russian, Count Taliewitch, who was captivated by her remarkable beauty. After a married life of twenty-four years the count died, leaving bis widow a fortune of over one million -pounds. St i'll beautiful, in spite- of the lapse of years, and with the added charm of immense wealth, the countess had no difficulty in finding a second partner, and 600 ii after her first husband’s death she was married to an Austrian nobleman, Baron A on Scliwitzer. Of late, though, tlie baroness, who ’ recently passed her fiftieth year, and lias always been very proud of lier remarkable beauty, bad become melancholy, owing to the fact that the ravages of time were becoming more and more evident. So greatly did the loss of her beautyprey on her mind that she attempted to poison herself. The effort failed, but she* obtained a revolver, with which she blew out her brains. (She left a letter stating that she could not- bear t-o survive lier good looks.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2145, 21 March 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)
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