The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-17
FOR A WOMAN'S BEAUTY.
Baths In the Blood of Maidens, for Which
Hundreds Were Put to Death.

Baths Ia the Blood of nIaidens, for Which
Hundreds Were Put to Death.
Paris has just been edited by work
treating of the life and proceedings of
lady of the sixteenth century, who
carried her care for her beauty to the
very utmost limits This is not fairy
tale. but sober, historical fact, backed
by many official documents of I'M
doubted authenticity. and the lady's
Hmiable weakness is described with
wealth of detail and a forcible sim
plicity of description that IS apt 10 turn
the reader sick.
The lady in question was named Eliz-
abcth Bathory. COmtesse Nadasdv. who
married at the age of fifteen. in 1895,
Comte Francois Nndasdv, who was not
Of too mild nature himself. as, when
his wife complained one day that her
maid had been impairment, he ordered
the erring handmaiden stripped,
smeared with honey and laid on
wasp's nest, from the effects of which
gentle admonition she subsequently
died The Countess Elizabeth was left
widow in 1904. and began simply at
first TO try to keep up the rigorous
discipline enforced by her late husband.
Unhappiiy one dav she struck her
waiting maid and so wounded her that
her mistress hands were covered with
blood. When they were washed the
countess remarked that her hands
were whittier and the skin more supple
and firm. and thenceforwsrd her nstu-
h.. he.
frenzied desire TO retain her waning
beauty at any price.
Ode though it may seem in the pres
ent day. she used a. a cosmetic from
that time on bath of human blood,
and the tradition goes that anything
so superb in it's brilliant fairness az
her mplexion sannot be imagined
She murdered all her waiting maids,
one by one, aided by three accomplices
her old nurse being one Of them, and
when she could ge1 no women 10 enter
her service she cocUv sent +ler emisss-
ries 10 kidnap the peasant girls OF the
neighbsrhOod a. last. however. the
ghastly scandal rose TO such pitch
that even Hungary in the n ddle ages
could not afford 10 close its ears TO the
wall OF bereaved families: and the Gull
prit's first cousin, governor of the
province. entered the castle on Christ
mas eve. 1910 20 Inquire into the truth
Of these horrible stories. and discov-
cred his fair ana sonored relative. her
fair chin propDed by her exquisite
hand. calmly watehinythe death ago
Mes OF three girls while her attendants
were filing a bath with the life blood
that was 20 preserve ner beauty. The
countess herself vas too great a per
sonage 20 incur capital punishment
but Tor thirty years she was shut up in
solitary confinement in the castle %
Cseibhe. in Hunyarv. where she finally
starred herself - death. A. FOR her
sccorn plices, they had their hands cut
Of and were suoseoueutly burned a;
the stake. a.. being common people,
there VAS 20 reason tor sPaTIug Their
live
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