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Show The following story comes from Rome. Some ladies made their appearance at a papal reception, to the grave displeasure displeas-ure of the pope, in a ball room dress. A well known cardinal was instructed to apprise these offenders of their breach of etiquette. The cardinal thus-fulfilled thus-fulfilled his somewhat delicate mission: "The pope," he said, "is somewhat old-fashioned old-fashioned and does not like decolette dresses: but I am quite accustomed to them, for I have seen so much among savages when a missionary that I do not mind them." |