The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-08
AN AUDIENCE AT
THE VATICAN
How Pope Plus X. Received
Pilgrims to Rome.
INSTRUCTIONS AS TO DRESS


Appearing In Evening Dress and Wo-
men Without Gloves-Entrance of the
Holy Father impressive-kissinq the
Ring of ST. Peter.
The New York lost publishes the
following interesting account of an
audience with the late Pope Plus Y.
at the Vatican in Rome:
The 'permesO' (permission) which
mas been obtained after so much eff
fort is in Italian, partly printed, part
~ written. 1t states that his holiness
Will be pleased to receive in audience
at such and such a day and hour Signor
Blanc and four others. At the bottom
oI the page are instructions as to the
dress TO be worn. Gentlemen are to
appear In black clothing, with white
cravats. Ladies are to wear black.
with black wells. Monsignori and
priests are required to wear the garb
usual to their ecclesiastical rank. Sig
n1ncant is the warning that under no
circumstances will visitors be allowed
TO present photographs to his holiness
for signature. Inquiry brings the in
formation that the ladies are to ar
range the wells as a headdress and not
to cover the face and that they are to
appear gloveless.
The time for the audience having
arrived, visitors who come to the Vati-
can on foot must again pass the bar
rier of the Swiss guards and once more
ascend the long stairway This time.
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immense paved court in which are
many carriages that have entered the
grounds through a gate at an eleva-
ton somewhere in the rear Across
the court and up another magnificent
flight of marble steps is the audience
chamber, TO which scores are now
vending their way.
The PaPal Throne.
Every one seems TO have followed
closely the directions as to apparel.
The men without exception are in
evening dress although it is near mid.
day., with black waistcoats and white
cravats. True to the traditions of their
sex, the women are busy arranging
their wells in order that they shall ap-
pear to the best advantage when they
enter the audience chamber. AS little
time remains, the footmen here and
there urge the dilatory ones to hurry.
The chamberitself is of generous pro-
portions and is decorated in manner
BETTING the use to which it is devot-
ed 1t is hung in figured red silk. and
rich paintings are on the walls. At the
end of the room nearest the entrance
is the papal throne, set on a low plat
form, but the pope only occupies it at
private audiences.
Quickly the seats around the sides
are filled, and late corners manage to
| squeeze into corners. Perhaps 100
/ persons are in the room when a group
of nuns appears, and they find places
in the space between the throne and
the doorway
BY the time the seats are filed there
are some furtive whisperings. which
cease abruptly when the footmen APP
pear at the entrance One of them
raises his hand, and every one rises.
Then enter three cardinals in their
scarlet robes, and after them comes
/ the holy father. He wears white
cassock with a silken girdle. and on
his head is a skullcap of the same
material as the cassock.
Accompanying the pontiff and the
cardinals are several officers of the pa
pal guards in military uniforms of
dark blue. Remarkably handsome men
they are.
Nuns First to Be Greeted
First to receive the holy fathers
| greetings are the nuns, who have
come to present a memorial or peti-
| ton They kneel, and the pope offers
to each his hand, on the third finger
/ or which is the ring of St Peter-a
huge square emerald surrounded by
diamonds. After all the nuns have
kissed the ring they rise, and for sew
eral minutes the spokeswoman and the
/ noiy rather carry on a conversation.
the memorial is received and given to
one OF the cardinals, and the pope be-
gins circuit of the room
AS he advances one of the footmen
motions to the visitors nearest him
and ten or fifteen kneel and salute the
ring as it is presented to each in turn.
Some of the visitors are on both knees.
others on but one.
All the visitors kneel, so they rise
Ten or fifteen at time, until. the holy
father having completed the tour of
the room. he pauses near the door to
bestow his blessing, when every one
kneels again. In clear distinct tones
In the Italian tongue he asks the bless
Ing Of God on all present and on the
members of their families and on all
those who have asked the visitors to
invoke a blessing. Then. with uplift-
ed hands. he pronounces the benedic-
ZION in Latin and. followed by the
members of his suit leaves the room"
Bread Made Without Flour
owing to the anticipated shortage of