Evening star., 1923-10-10


was generally assumed that he in
| tended to use it as his own villegia-
| tura and to seek relief from the ener.
waiting climate Of the Eternal city in
| the iate summer and early autumn
months. But. although the pontifY,
formerly a celebrated and enthusi-
asttc alpinist, yearns for bracing air
or the mountains and suffers from
the breathlessness OF the Vatican
,, gardens, reeking 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 of converting the greater
portion thereof into a home for those
italian and foreign bishops. arch
! been obliged to resign their sees
through age or i'll health, have MT
| enough means to live without seri-
GUS hardships. 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 eyentide 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
F.! OF the Roman Catholic Church in the
United States who, long past dio-
ce5an work. will welcome this op-
portunity to spend the remaining
years Of their life in the immediate to
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
\, Cardinal Merry del Val. then secre-
tary of state. was wont 20 spend all
p, the hot summer months at Castle
Gandolfo. having the palace con-
| nected with the Vatican by private
| telephone wire. and would motor intb
/ the Eternal city to confer with the
pontiff on current business on three
days week, returning to the heights
| of the Alban hills at nightfal.
| The palace was built by the Bar
berini, Pope Urban VII, just about
three centuries ago. on the founda
tion of a grand old castle overlooking
| the lovely lake ofAlbano and perch
ed on one of the highest points of
/ the Alban hills, with a 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 X !:
Young Josselyn Hay, with whose
appearance the people on this side of
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
in
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 ErrolI 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
Kilmarnock. whose father is Sir Alan Alan
Mackenzie of Glen Muick While his
| father, Lord kilmarnock, has, as
British high commissioner of the
| interallied Rhineland commission,
with headquarters at Coblenz many
J American friends.
| Lady Idina Hay is a sister of the
\ young Earl OF DE La WAR; and has
| already been twice married and twice
divorced. Her first husband was
/ Capt. Euan Wallace of the Cd Life
Guards, by whom she has child. and
| her second husband a 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-
4, ter and heiress of the old multi
millionaire Earl of Brassey. Indeed,
Lady Idina's mother was the "MurieP'
! eff old Lord Brassey's celebrated steam
yacht the Sunbeam, whose cruises
were so entertainingly described In
| the once popular book entitled 1.-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
daughter. now Lady Idina Hay, may
be said to come by the divorce habit
/ through Inheritance.
! Young Josselyn Hay has royal
blood in his veins. For his grand
father. old Gen. Lord Erroll, is
himself a great-grandson of William
| w 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 E5rplI takes precedence
before every other noble and dienf-
tary in Scotland, Immediately next to
royalty