Show VATICAN DRAWS ORAS S SS RESULTS S S Exhibit Expected to Im- Im Impress press press Tourists During m it Coming Jubilee fly c c. VARnA United I Co Correspondent RO Rout ROME E Dec 1 15 By mail to the U. U PJ Although R-Although Although the press has so eo far said very little about it and official have been as s usual b by their ab- ab the fact remains that the Vatican is preparing a very unusual unusual unusual unus unus- ual exhibition and on such a II scale scalo as to make a permanent Impression Impression sion slon on all the tourists and who will visit Rome during il e coming coining jubilee or holy year ear After the consistory las last May the wrote to Cardinal Van Rossum Rossum Rossum Ros- Ros sum prefect of ot propaganda to prepare a missionary exhibition for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of ot acquainting the faithful with the doings of Catho- Catho Jf i missionaries in all an parts arts of the world he h results achIe achieved ed and the the v work that Is being done to 1 Initiate them Into the complex mysteries of modern civilized life life As usual the popes pope order ordet was I not discussed sed a small committee was was immediately formed and letters letters letters let- let dispatched to the four corners pf Jf-foUte Jf world ordering the heads o tho missions to collect tho necessary necessary necessary sary material The lie response was immediate ate and enthusiastic on the part of ot missionaries stationed in Africa Asia and the Sou South h Sea Islands I 1 JA A single Italian mission stationed sta toned in Africa applied for square metres of ot space which was I re retired to 1000 metres as the thea available a space do does s not exceed square metres The divided in into into into in- in The exhibition will be to to two tivo branches the tithe scientific and the ethnographic The firs first will house tho the maps of ot the districts where the are working Aryl and 1 will give complete Idea of ot the tho country the location of ot the tribes and nd the institutions lons established for their needs The exhibition will prove proe the most int interesting AccordIng According Accord Accord- ing to the Instructions issued to the th missionaries they must s forward forward for for- w ward rEl to Rome objects used by the savages In their every day life Ufe tools of ot the he different nt trades idols arms furniture re cooking utensils f ftc etc tc For the larger objects like huts homes boats replicas on a smaller scale will be made Above all he circular lett letter r says flays I the the the- missionaries should forward I everything pertaining to the religions religions religions reli reli- I gions of ot the different peoples like wooden idols objects of worship priests priests' frocks and replicas of or places of ot worship Th ThE The exhibition will be he housed Inthe in inthe inthe the Pigna court of the Vatican where a p pavilion will be erected at each of the four corners and In Inthe Inthe inthe the Vatican gardens where other pavilions will wUl occupy fifteen thousand thousand thou thou- sand land square metres of space Spread throughout the Pigna court and the gardens the visitors will find all the exhibits that can stand all kinds hinds of weather Cardinal Van van Rossum directed that a fire house be erected nearby the Pigna court and trained firemen recruited Fire Firefighting Firefighting fighting have also been purchased The exhibition will be open to the public on December 25 1924 and will r remain maln open throughout the following year ear I |