The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-07-20
Has Hasty, Frugal Meals When
He Feels He Can Spare Time
From His Duties.
SIMPLICITY RULES HIS LIFE
Unusual Number of Audiences Granted
by Pontiff in Few Months-Refuses .
to Allow Traditions to Interfere
With Mode of Life.

ROme.-Pius NJ is man who
thrives on work, and he insists, against
his doctors orders on devoting at least
TO hours of the "A to management of
the church.
Probably never since the time Of Leo
NH have so many audiences been
granted as in the last few months with
diplomats as well as pilgrims The
pppal encourage, accustomed to Bene-
diets precision in keeping to one o'clock
ag his luncheon hour, find il little
difficult to adapt themselves to Plus
new rule-that audiences come first
and meal time is second conSdera-
ton Many thousand pilgrims hasiened
TO Rome for the Eucharistic congress
and within a certain number of days
were due to be on their homeward jour
ney. In consideration of this the pope
decided that all the different groups of
pilgrims must be received and greeted
within this limited time.
This necessltated making the holy
fathers luncheon movable feast.
Some days he lunches at two o'clock
and sometimes few minutes before,
but never at one o'clock or u 80
o'clock, which was always Plus KS
hour. Though the pope's doctor in
sists that no man can stand this and
keep well, hard work in Rome being
contrary to habit and the climate, the
holy fathers only answer is that he
has always been a busy man and likes
t. get through what he sets out to do,
No amount of demonstrating causes
him to change his mind
Breaks Old Custom.
It always has been the custom for
the pope to have the walls of his suite
covered not with paper but with dam
ask, and up to the present every pope
has accepted what was tradition in
rapal housefurnishing. When Plus XI
visited his apartments on the third
floor of his palace he ordered that the
tapestry he taken down, the walls
scraped and white wall paper put up.
with the exception of his private
chapel which was to remain decorated
with damask.
The papal private suite consists of
seven rooms, besides a waiting room
and n modern bathroom, which was re-
modelled this year. There Is, besides
the pOpe's bedroom, drawing room. din
ing room, two waiting rooms, study
and chapel suite for the private sec
retaries Monsignor GonfalOnief and
MonSignor Nenlni, who held their posts
with the pope wnen he was archbishop
Of Milan. Plus MS chapel is the room
where Benedict died. The present bed
broom was under The last pontfcate the
private chapel It is a moderate-slzed
room. with a brass bedstead, a ma
hogany chest of drawers and small
desk. Above the bed is a large picture
of the Madonna Of Good Counsel
On the chest Of drawers is a small
mirror, the only one In the suite Of
rooms. Three straight chairs. one In
front of the desk one by the bed and
one against the wall, complete the rest
of the furniture in the room, When
the private secretaries suggested that
an easy chair would be OF use his
holiness pointed ont that he had given
up sitting in easy chairs, as he feared
1t would make him grow stout.
Cares Nothing for Tradition.
His holiness IL not one to allow ira.
dition to interfere with his usual mode
Of life. He wishes to follow the same
simple customs he has been used to
all his life. one OF these Is that in
bis own private apartments he has
around him only his personal attend.
ANTS. who know his love OF simplicity
and abide by 1t. In his life down in the
papal reception rooms he allows the
tradition OF centuries to be kept up.
For this reason no one Is allowed In