Show OLDEST DOLL IN THE WORLD believed to aiato front the de ianiri In niri or of tile chri iliin ira im francella A hitchcock in tile the dolls dressmaker tells an interesting story of the famous Barri lambdo bino di ara cocci it is the oldest doll in the world and if tradition is true almost a as old as tile the christian religion reli ion for it is is claimed to have been carved carved out of at a tree from the lount of olives in ia the time of the apostles and to have been painted by st luke lie be this true or not it has been in the eternal city many hundreds of years and is called the ara caeli coeli bambino baby because the church of that name one of the oldest and most interesting in rome is its home this church I 1 is built on the site of a very ancient pagan temple and its nave is formed of tt ent two columns the spoils of the ancient buildings the inscription on the third on the left proving it to have been brought over from the pallee of the Cic sars I 1 shall never forget the first day we visited this vast and solemnly picturesque edifice it II was ivas ju just st at sunset and golden shafts of light illuminated the mosaic floor lighted up tip the richly gilded ceiling above and lashed flashed in wondrous bril biancy bianc over the or manger chere lay the miraculous lambiro in swaddle swaddling clothes literally crusted 1 3 F lii r es a and bif other otaie precious stones while its neck and wrists were entirely covered with strings of the purest oriental pearls |