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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4474, 5 July 1930, Page 4

With all his unbounded authority the Pope is perhaps the loneliest man in the world. Nobody may talk to him on terms of equality and lie confides in no one. 'Strangely enough, lie is hemmed in by an elaborate code of unwritten laws, immovable as those of the Medes and Persians and almost as ancient. One of them forbids him to sit down to a meal with another human being. He must breakfast, dine and sup all alone. No dish, no drink, however palatable, may be sent twice 'to his solitary table. All food that lias been served at once becomes the servants’ perquisites. Pins X, old and ailing, received a present of two bottles of old Tokay wine from an Hungarian nobleman. He sipped one glass at his frugal dinner, felt new life in his veins, and asked for the bottle next day. It was not given to him, so he had one glass out of the second bottle. By the time bis chaplain had communicated with the donor and aslked for move the World War was raging, and Pins lav on his deathbed.