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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 October 1910, Page 70

The Pope, whose pastoral letter denouncing prevailing feminine fashions has been widely circulated and preached upon in Italy, has never been a lover of what Americans call new notions. A year or two ago someone presented him with a motor-car. When it arrived in the gardens of the Vatican, his Holiness looked at it curiously for several minutes, examining minutely the various parts of the machinery. Cardinal Merry del Vai, who was present, suggested a ride round the gardens in if, but the Pope shook his head. “You go,” he said, “and I’ll walk after you.” The Cardinal, however, persisted h!« point. “Why should I do that,” was the answer, “when, as it is, my walk in the garden is over all too quickly? Why should I usd this machine, which s will shorten ihy usual exercise stilt further?

No, I will not use it, .but it will make a find show in Museum. We’ll Slave it put into a glass case,'iny dear Cardinal.” Of late, the Pope has taken a consider- ~ able interest in type setting machines, of ■which now no fewer than four are es-

tablished in the Vatican printing department. It is by no means an unusual sight for the “comps.” to see the Pope assiduously working at the keyboards. '“A knowledge of printing may come useful,” he recently remarked, “if * strike should occur.”