The Holbrook news., 1922-07-28
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 XI is a man who thrives on work, and he insists, against his doctors orders on devoting at least 16 hours of the A to management of the church.
 Probably never since the time of Leo XIII have so many audiences been granted as In the last few months with diplomats as well as pilgrims. The papal entourage, accustomed to Bene- diets precision in keeping to one o'clock as his luncheon hour, find 1t little difficult to adapt themselves to Pids new rule-that audiences come first and meal time is a second cOnsidera- ton. Many thousand pilgrims hastened 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 necessitated making the holy fathers luncheon a movable feast.
 
 and sometimes few minutes before, but never at one o'clock or 12 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 to get through what he sets out to do. No amount of remonstrating 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 papal housefurnishing. When Plus XI visited his apartments on the third floor of his palace he ordered that the tapestry be 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 sevCn rooms, besides a waiting room und 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 ofo or;a NnnSinnAr roIa avI MonsignOr yenlni. who held their posts with the pope when he was archbishop of Milan. Plus XI's chapel Is the room where Benedict died. The present bed room was under fhe last pOntiflcate the private chapel. It is a moderate-sized room, with brass bedstead, ma hogany chest of drawers and small desk. Above the bed is large picture of the Madonna of Good Counsel On the chest of drawers is a small 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 out that he had given up sitting in easy chairs. as he feared 1t would make him grow stout.
 Cares Nothing for Tradition.
 His holiness is not one to allow tra- 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 his own private apartments he has around him only his personal attend ants, who know his love of simplicity and abide by it. 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