| Show TEAR FEAR DOWN HILDAS HILDA TOWER growth of rome necessitates necessitate the destruction st of hawthorner Haw her heroines 0 ne home rome home another landmark dear to the he hearts of americans Is to disappear from rom rame a where it has haa been necessary to destroy so much on ac I 1 lount of 0 the th tremendous growth of the CI city ty even those who do not know their flaw hawthorne thorne visit 1111 hildas das tower when in tome home and so much has it become an american possession that foreigners of all nationalities seek it out under that 44 ia hildas tower rome name for here pretty hilda lived and red fed her doves and their descendants can still be seen circling about the madonna and the tiny light in her honor which never goes out tho the tower Is being pulled down as a a street must pass over the place that part of rome being uncomfortably crowded so BO that those who wish to see aee 1111 hildas das home must be quick about it the history of the tower itsell itself was unknown until one day some hundreds of at years ago a monkey escaping from its master ran up the doorway and into a window where a young mother was dandling her infant the monkey probably in pure mischief seized the tha child and before the desperate woman could give the alarm was on the top ot at the tower with ll his pre clous burden making faces and chattering to the excited crowd beneath the poor mother sank on her knees and praying to th the virgin promised that it if her baby were restored to her she would put a figure of the mother alother tf god in the very place where the monkey sat and that there should burn for all time a light before it the monkey thereupon came quietly down and laid the smiling and happy child in its mothers arms who immediately set about building the promised shrine when the woman died she left the tower to her heirs on condition that the light should never go out and it if neglected the tower shoil should ild pass to others less careless |
