Smart Son

Louis Osborne, six, is the smart son of Rome's suave Dr. Algernon Osborne, commercial attache at the U. S. embassy. He has a sister Maria Christina, another sister Isabel. Like the Jaeckel boys (sons of the U. S. consul general) Dr. Algernon Osborne's children go to Miss Ruth Faison Shaw's school for offspring of the U. S. colony, and all lisp fluent Italian.

A great and good friend of Miss Shaw is Monsignor Eugene Burke, rector of the American College at Rome. Came news last week of a memorable treat he had arranged for the small students.

Led by Teacher Myrtle Pierson, the little girls in white and the little boys in black walked into the Vatican, past towering papal guardsmen in medieval armor. Conducted by scarlet ushers into the audience chamber of the Supreme Pontiff, they were arranged in a neat, kneeling row, faces upturned, eyes sparkling with interest.

Majestic in his great robes, Pope Pius XI entered, silently, paused before each of the kneeling children, allowed each to kiss his apostolic ring. Not until he stood opposite small smart Louis Osborne did the Holy Father speak,

"How old are you, my son?"

"Sei, Santissimo Papa!" chirped Louis, could afterward boast to his playmates: "I was the only one Papa spoke to."

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