The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-20
Nine Years of Happiness.

Nine Years of Happiness.
There is little to detain the narrative
in the record OF the next nine years
in a metropolitan see; where all goes
we'll the record OF the well doing must
be az brief as the monkish chronicle.
His mother had lived to see him
Cardinal. her vow for her first born had
been performed in richer measure than
she had ventured to hope. Sufficient
requital was hers when she first heard
him sing the mass. pleasant picture
OF the sturdy peasant stock hangs
somewhere in this gallery. Mindful or
what she had done for him in Rtese. the
Patriarch OF Venice would have her
share his palace In the city Of the
waters-her declining years were to
be passed in such comfort az his state
as a Prince OF the Church could offer
her She came: her own eyes saw; but
II was not for her Peasant she was
born. peasant she would be: sturdy.
imnutable good stock Of the soil. She
admired. but she did not envy. Her
only care was to charge her daughters
that theirs should be the task to see
that their brother did not want This
.. was more than mere anxiety or
mother that her son should fare we'll
II was known to everybody that the
living of the Patriarch was OF the sim
plest. He grudged the necessary house
keeping money so long az there was
case OF charity. More than once he
raided the larder TO relieve the hungry
| hn1aa for n Car
| dinal was trial to those devoted
sisters.
The good Patriarch's one concession
TO the vanities of the flesh was tobacco
II was he who introduced the pipe &c
| the Vatican: perhaps relief to some
of the younger members of the papa
household. Yet the Patriarch's tobacco
pouch was open to all Nenice-mors
than once after his generosity had done
,ts utmost he found himself In that
wholly human position commonly known
az .h,st diving for n smoke" A TOURING
American loading his pipe In the Plazzt
was conscious of fellow smoker VIII
an empty pipe. Just the slightest trace
of red showed the high ecclesiastica
rank: but the comradery of the pipe II
n great ,eveller. Filling his pipe wher
the pouch had been offered, the Patri
arch puffed and then inhaled-no trivia
smoker can inhale a pipe in its stoute'
days of usefulness.
"Brave Daughter of Brave Mother
English" queried the Patriarch
mon Angli sed"-
mo. American"
"Ah, the drawer daughter OF brave
mother. But closer to the kingdom o.
heaven. such heavenly tobacco
To feel It fully one should have
smoked italian tobacco. In Italy one
grows accustomed to strong favo
OF tobacco in the salt. In the tobac
co the flavor is Of nothing 80 lnnocen
AZ mere salt. Tho two articles are
Government monopoly and are sold II
the same shops
In stormy Mantua he was found re
Taxing from the trials of his diocese
In the study of the pure type OF tn
Gregorian chant, In which pursuit h
engaged his seminarians. In Venice
he soon found Dom Lorenzo Perosi AM
carried out the same studies with thu
| assistance or tndt master Oh f'Cl'SIdSli
cal music. Together they worked GU
tho archctype clear of the growth o
ornament with which In the course o
time during luxurious ages the simp
choral and plain song OF the church ha
been overloaded. II was a choice com
bination of jealous students. the maste
of tho classic music, the profound stu
dent OF ritual observances, divers ele
ments working tremendously towar
restoration. Salzano long before shove
that in the restoration OF stone an
mortar he was faithful to the best ira
dtions, The restoration of the tru
Grcgorian chant will be not the lcas
OF his monuments when distance al
fords the true measure of his pontlfl
cate. But not yet was this restoration
to be- the most that the Patriarch. 4