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Show When Pius X Smiled. Pope Pius X looked habitually the saddest of the sad, without ill-humor or gloom. I am glad, therefore, writes a correspondent, to have chanced, the last time I saw him, on a gay moment. It was Candlemas day, and his holiness sat In one of the Vatican halls to receive two young representatives of all the orders or-ders of men, two by two. Who would have thought there were so many kinds of monks and friars in the world? As each pair come up they presented a candle, and for each they were most young men, with most beautiful faces the pope had a joke. 1 could not hear, but 1 saw and heard the courtly laughter. And to one of the robed striplings Pius X administered a most affectionate box on the ear. London Chronicle. |