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within motoring distance of Rome il
was generally assumed that he in
tended to use IL as his own villegia-
tura and to seek relief from the ener.
waiting climate of the Eternal city in
the late summer and early autumn
months. But. although the pontiff.
formerly celebrated and enthusi-
astic alpinist. yearns for bracing air
OF the mountains and suffers from
the breathlessness of the Vatican
gardens. reekinS with damp and
malaria, he evidently believes that
the time has not yet come for him
to emerge from the precincts of the
Vatican.
1t now turns out that the elaborate
repairs which he has just completed
at Castle Gandolfo have been for the
purpose or converting the greater
portion thereof into a home for those
bishops and cardinals who. having
! been obliged to resign their sees
through age or ill health. have not
| enough/mean TO live without seri-
Gus hardshlps. He has been distress
ed at the idea of prelates who, hav-
ing given their youth and strength
to the church. being left in very
straitened circumstances, sometimes
almost destitute. in the eventide Of
their lives. Henceforth they will be
| able to exist in comfort at Castle
Gandolfo. free from care and anxiety,
amidst stately as well as picturesque
surroundings all the year round, fed
and lodged at the cost Of the holy
father
There are several aged dignitaries
of the Roman Catholic Church in the
! United States who. long past dio-
! oesan r,., work. will weieome this op-
years of their life in the immediate
vicinity of the holy seat. The entire
ground. second and third floors are
| assigned to their use. only the first
| floor being reserved for the eventual
use of the Pope himself. or possibly
of his secretary of state. Indeed.
! during the ten years reign of Plus
Y. Cardinal Merry del Val. then secre-
tary OF state. was wont to spend all
!, the hot summer months at Castle
Gandolfo. having the palace con-
nected with the Vatican by private
telephone wire. and would motor into
| the Eternal city to confer with the
| pontiff on current business on three
days week. returning to the heights
| of the Alban hills at nightfall.
The palace was built by the Bar
| berini, Pope Urban VII, just about
three centuries ago. on the founda:
| tion of q grand old castle overlooking
| the lovely lake OF Albano and perch
ed on one of the highest points of
the Alban hills. with superb view
of the mountains and the Cam
( pagna and even Of the Mediterranean
! in the distance. The lake itself con-
veys the idea of a diamond set in
green enamel.
x !; i x
Young Josse1yn Hay. with whose
| appearance the people on this side of
J the Atlantic have become familiar
! through the photographs recently
printed in the American illustrated
press representing him promenading
ION the sands of the Lido, near
Venice, arrayed in a most gorgeous
pair of pajamas. with his fiancee,
now his wife. Lady Idina Hay, cling
| ing to his arm. is the grandson and
eventual heir of the twentieth Earl
! of Enroll and destined. as such. to
! eventually become the hereditary
lord high constable and chieftain of
/ all the peers of the kingdom of Scot
land. Another hereditary office to
which he will likewise succeed is that
of Knight Marischal of Scotland He.
| has only just come of age. will be
| tvery rich through his mother, Lady
| Kilmarnock, whose father is Sir Alan
/; Mackenzie of Glen Muick. While his
father. Lord Kilmarnock. has, as
British high commissioner of the
iinterallied Rhineland commission.
with headquarters at Coblenz many
Young Earl of De La War; and has
! already been twice married and twice
divorced Her first husband was
| Capt. Euan Wallace of the I'd Life
Guards, by whom she has a child. and
her second husband Capt. Gordon.
| She is nearly ten years older than
| her present and third husband, has
| a comfortable fortune through her
mother who was the favorite daugh-
| ter and heiress of the old multi
millionaire Earl of Brassey. Indeed.
/ Lady Idinas mother was the "Muriel''
lof old Lord Brassey's celebrated steam
| yacht the Sunbeam, whose cruises
| were SO entertainingly described in
| the once popular book entitled THE
Voyage of the Sunbeam Lady Muriel
| Brassey was Obliged TO divorce her
| husband. the late Earl De La War;,
years before his death. so that her
I daughter, now Lady Idina Hay, may
! be said to come by the divorce habit
/ Through inheritance.
/ Young Josselyn Hay has royal
tblood In his veins. For his grand
! father old Gen. Lord Enroll, is
himself "a great t-gra ndson of William
t1V and of the latter's actress friend.
Mrs. Jordan. But it is not through
this king descent but as lord
| high constable and Knight Marischal
THAT Lord Enroll takes precedence
before every other noble and digni-
ttary. in Scotland, Immediately next to
royalty.
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