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seven cooks 70 make little broth for !
a poor manr' The holy father pre-.
ferred the plain food he had eaten in :
Venice to the delicacies from .he lar |
ders of St. Peters. At most of his
meals be sat at table with his secre
taries
With slight variations, this was the
routine of the late pontiff: Celebrated
private mass at 9 o'clock; ate q light
breakfast; attended to vast CORE
spondence and met the papal secre-
tary Of state; devoted an hour to audi
ences to foreigners; visited the Vatican
museum of inscription; was driven to
the grotto of Lourdes, built in the gar
dens by his predecessor; prayed at the
shrine of the Virgin in the grotto, took
short walk and usually stopped at
the den Of Gagged lions that Negus
Menelik Of Ethiopia gave him; took a
short walk, followed by his carriage;
had luncheon in his private apartment
Of the palace, followed in the warm
est weather by siesta, according to
Roman custom; received his prelates,
who apprised him of their decisions
and asked his approval; omitted din
ner as a rule and spent the evenings
alone in his study reading the days
reports and deciding cases upon which
only the pope could act; ate a light
supper and retired for the night. His
| apartments were practically policed
! by the Swiss guard, which had strict
,, orders to let none approach the cham
| ber.
Rumors as to Pope's Health.
Rumors regarding the pope's health
were circulated at frequent intervals.
Some said the holy father suffered
from gout and others that his heart
was affected But Pope Plus K. 30
far as the public knew, had never been
| dangerously sick until his fatal illness.
| When he read that he was expected
to live to be pope not more than nine
years he is said to have remarked,
This time am going to disappoint
| them"
When he had been pope seven years
he had become stouter than he was
1 when patriarch of Venice, but this
| might have been due to the more
phlegmatic life he was obliged to lead.
On Aug 4. 1906. the third anniversary
Of his elevation, there had been two
momentous questions to absorb the at
tention of Pope Pius-the separation
of the church and state of France and
the attempt of the pontifcate to es-
tablish some sort of modus vivendi
with the government of Italy. On the
f1ftieth anniversary of his first mass
emperors, kings and republics lavished
gifts upon the holy father. Women Of
the United Kingdom sent 362 chalices
to Rome. Pope Plus named a commits
sion to revise the Latin Bible, and in
January, 1909. it was said this task
would take eight or ten years. In Au-
gust, 1909, the pope criticised AN ad-
dress of DR.. Charles W. Eliot at Ear
Yards summer school on the "Reli-
gion of the Future" DIR. Eliot had said
the new religion would not be based
upon authority. spiritual or temporal.
and would admit no sacraments ex-
cept natural. halloweG customs"
Plus X. having no family coat of
arms, adopted part of those of two
bishops of Treviso. his friends. and
preserved his arms as patriarch Of
Venice. His escutcheon or shield was
oval, and the crest, which was exclu-
sively his. consisted of tiara with
fanons or flaps and st. Peters keys in
satire above the chief. at was nei-
ther an imperious nor strictly ecclesi-
astical pope | represented on canvas" :"
said a painter for whom Pope Plus
once sat, but. rather an indulgent,
plying and deeply religious pope"
a London Photographic who had
been asked to Rome to take the pope's
likeness asked the pontiff to place
himself in the attitude of pronouncing
blessing and later said: "A marvel
GUS change came over him. The man
vanished, and the pope. the great
father of his people, appeared. His
face wore a look of wonderful love
and power. | never could have be-
lieved that any human being could be
come so instantly transformed"
A graphologist said of the pope's
handwriting: THE large, round letters,
substantial. grave. elegant and har-
monious. pointed to an artistic imagi-
nation, large, strong. simple intelli-