Show A Beauty in Old Age By Marquise De Dc Fontenoy TI LENTY OF OP PEOPLE have portrayed portray ed the Countess Count ss de Castiglione as she sher PLENTY r appeared In the days of her glory at the court of the and won well deserved celebrity as the most m oct peerless beauty of the nineteenth century But no one so far as I know has attempted to describe her as she was toward the end of her life Ufe Small wonder that she secluded her herself herself herself self from the gaze of her fellow creatures es s declined to receive her former friends and never ventured out of doors doo rs save after dark For this thia magnificent cent specimen of plastic loveliness w iv hose figure was so perfect that her dar daring daring ing jug scantiness of dress suggested no m ore Impropriety than an ancient Greek statue had developed Into an infirm o 0 bese and creature with a huge goitre disfiguring her once lovely love lovel I y neck while her mouth that had re resemble ret Cupids bow bo was rendered hid by loss of teeth and a strongly t developed moustache I mention this because her Jewels have just been sold In London her pearl necklaces In parti part cular realizing very large sums I DE FONTENOY |