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Show OLDEST WOMAN JN VIENNA DIES i $ AT REMARKABLE AGE i -i '? Special Cable to The Tribune. -'f HOME, Oct. 22. The oldest wo- v- man In Vienna, Katharina. Lustlg, h baa died at the age of 112 In tho Jewish almshouse here. Until re- :- ccntly she had been living with her 4 son, who is now over seventy years old. The old woman was born In a. small Hungarian town on Decern-4 Decern-4 ber 2, 179S, was the daughter of a v r tradesman and the eighth of ten children. It would seem that long- ! I- evltly was the rule In Kalharlna's . f- family, for her maternal grand- ! mother died at the age of 11 n, and I 4 her grandmother on her father's J r side at 1 10, One of her brpthcrs lived to the age of 90 and one of her r 1 1 ii to 01. Katharina's own ex- 4 -I- Jstcncc was a somewhat sad one. She marrlod In 1816 and had ton 4 children, six of whom died young. i I- Tier husband predeceased hor alt tho J I age of 10.1, aftor soventy-flve years ; ! oi married li fo. Katharina was able ! to support herself by umbrella- j making up, to 1901. and In tho course. ! of her active lire she had never used r spectacles. Her diet was of the v simplest, but she always drank a -I-I- pint of beer after mcali;. . I |