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Show POPE RECEIVES HIS NURSE. No papal audfence which has been granted at the Vatican in this jubilee year of brilliant audiences was invested in-vested with so much appealing interest in-terest as the private interview given by the pope a short time ago to an old Italian peasant. The honored guest was Anna Moroni, an aged woman who has long passed her hundredth birthday and who, as a young girl, acted as nurse to the little Joachim Pecc:i who now sits upon the throne of Peter. Anna Moroni was received re-ceived with the most distinguished honor. She was conducted over the "royal staircase" otherwise reserved for sovereigns and sat opposite the pope in a big arm chair, also an extraordinary extra-ordinary favor, much against Vatican etiquette. The holy father smiled benignly on "Signora Anna," cautioning her to rest well before she spoke. After a while the old woman commenced com-menced to talk of old times and old friends: "Do you remember when good old Auntie Protperi saved you from the bad boys on the market place in Belletri? They would have whipped you sure if auntie hadn't interfered, for you were not a strong! hoy." The two talked for over an hour, the venerable pontiff and his ancient serving woman. Occasionally Dr. Lap-poni, Lap-poni, the pope's physician, who was present, interpreted, for Anna is very hard of hearing, and the pope's ears are not so sharp as they used to be. As she hobbled away the old woman excused herself for having given the doctor so much trouble. "That's all right, Annina," said the holy father, "both of us have heard so much in our long life no wonder our ears refuse to serve." Anna left the Vatican in a papal carriage car-riage holding in her lap the golden rosary Leo had given her and a document docu-ment granting her an ample life pension, pen-sion, payable by the Vatican treasury. |