Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-03-31 | Page 17 | Pope Pius Jokes with Callers; Dubs Self 'Venerable Bookworm'

Pope Pius Jokes With C U rs V Dubs Self Venerable Bo Bookworm By HUDSON Associated Press St Staff ff Writer CITY CIT cIT la 30 AP Ills holiness rope Pope Plus like most of his predecessors 11 1 i h-i-i 1 11 moments and jok jokes with wit h hs callers or members of at his house house- had hod like any other persan etson The recent conclusion Of the old year noman floman b by the signing of the treaty has so rejuvenated the pun pun- tiff who will be 72 on May Ia Ill 31 that It has accentuated this toward tu jovialIty and to totne totne wonderment and delight of those w who o come came in contact with him Shortly after the conclusion of the tho now famous accord with the Italian state the pope received a large delegation of professors and students from his home diocese of Milan 1 enrolled in the snI- snI of af that Lombard lIe gave ga them an outline of what the tho settlement gave the hol holy see and remarked that it might be said s he hat hac asked for far and ver very VENERABLE BOOKWORM Rut he added lapsing into ti- ti anese dialect and with a twinkle in tho those E steel grey e eyes es the settlement set set- Included the VatIcan library li- li one of the greatest on earth w a that not nat temptation enough for forthe forthe the venerable whom you now salute as pontiff too lie he received ed In private rl- rl vate audience an elderly lad lady of the French aristocracy who b by special favor was permitted to bring her 4 year old old ear grandson with her to the tha VatIcan The youngster all gotten up II the Lord costume whIch the rich and well to dO French still persist in Inflicting upon their frail and defenseless off ff spring had been threatened nIl all the way across town tawn that he must not ot s speak tk until spoken to aol that if iC and when the august pontiff d to address him h hp must t hii he Sure to o respond Mast rOst holy Father Or l I Your Holiness Otherwise the lad was n Warned lie he would have a good thorough French spanking and be deprived or of tIes tIes- essert es- es sert for a whole wee week I. I Totor that being the young Imps Imp's cowed anyway by his of old lace his black velvet suit his bru brushed h d hall hair his painfully cloan- cloan scrubbed bare knees his whito sox and his pa patent tent leather shoes that hurt him dutifully promised to follo fob fol- low lo orders But grandma once she was In the presence became v luah Wah man details sho toU the holy hab father Cather how she had at his Ius renounced the action Fran Fran- calse the French royalist parc with all Its works and pomp pomps ha hamade had made n to that effect and would never nevel return to It It All that harangue was ex- ex boring to 4 ear 1 also aso It may be said without irreverence irreVerence to a to the go good ladys lady's listener STANDS IT NO LONGER Totor could stand i no longer Disregarding all tons he piped up with Monsieur did you ou know V that I c had bolls boils Graham gasped at the sacrilege but ut rope Pope Plus Pius elderly f bachelor though he he is broke into a real Ical l ugh Amid chuckles of e- e meat lie he solemnly explained t the audacious young Uan b foe him that while he was gifted with InfallIbility in matters ot of he had not yet et that tha or of and that th he had not learned of Totor's painful Infirmity Ito Ho hoped ho he said that the situation wa-s wa n w bettered an anho and ho t vo Totor a specIal pat on he heh h head ad and a to particular benedictIon for his his' own own small self tors tor's grandmother is talking taU talk in ing a out It And Tot lJ spite hIS disobedience nt l' hr-eu hr cia de Iwi d or of dessert a single sing day