Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-06-12
CAVE MAN SCORNlNC
RENT Man IN ITALY
FROM HIS OWN CAVE

tons In the district along Lakes Mag
Riore and Como. Italy. has driven
many peasants 90 dix houses for them
selves In the hillsidcs where they live
In primitive simplicity, newspaper dis
patches say.
"The inhabitants ~ most OF the coun'
tries ~ the world have M soi1e stage
IN their development lived IN cave
dwellings. A belt OF such dwellings cN'
tends from China across India Ia Asia
Minor and Arabia. thence along the
shores ~ the Mediterranean Ia the
Canary Islands. the West Indies. Mex
leo ana North and South America. In
a few places today mankind Ftill lives
In this simple and inexpensive fash
ion." says a bulletin from the Wash
ington. ID. C.. headquarters OF the Ma
tlnnal Geographic Society.
'1saye Cave" Welcome 10 Traveller.
ION Easter Island. In the Pacific.
where innumerablc caves and grottocs
have been formed BY "a" washing away
AZ soft deposits which lie beneath the
hard volcanic strata. housing accommo'
datlons present no problem MANY Il
the natives slacp IN tho open OF IN thcs"
caves. and chrcrfulH point them out
70 the traveller az the logical shelter
for him during the night.
"ln one Of the widest portions q
Northern Africa. near GuermeSSl. on
the top OF a sugar.loaf mountain. who's.
sides rise prccipitously for hundreds OF
feet "a fierce and warlike race now
ike for three months IN the year in
nfone caves followed out IN the noun.
tain sides. The trail to the dwellings
has been worn "a smooth as glass hy
CENTURIES Of constant use. which makes
an approach difficult for man and
beast. These mountaln men have cut
separate establishments for themselves,
their wives and their children. and have
furnished them with rugs from kairo-
wan and Persia. and numerous leather
cushions stuffed with sleeps wool.
Tvagledytr srruxslss" Guard Homes.
suspicious Of other cave.dw.lllng
people near them and hating the stnn.
ger. they spend the remaining nine
months IN the year wandering with
their ficcks VI long.halrcd goats. broad.
tailed sheep and onmels on the bor.
ders Of the Sahara. Down In The val
leys too there are plantations OF su.
perb olive and fig trees. which they
protect from the other troglodytes dur.
ing this SEASON. while their houses In
the mountains are being guarded by a
few trusty men.
AT Matmata and Medinlne In Tunlsla
are extraordinary underground ~,
dwellings. When he II told that h. II ap.
preaching one ~ these villages the trav.
eler experiences n queer sensation az
seeing nothing ON the landscape cxcep,
craterllke holes In IN earth. which
look like they might have been caused
by the explosion ~ enormous shells.
As he peeps over the rim Of these holes
IN the Earth he sees below him the init.
iife Of the family. their dogs and
camels. This II their common living
room. which IL entered from above by
. slanfing subtcrranean chnnnei other
rooms enter into u by means ~ lateral
passsyeways. and are sometimes excs
waited one above the other for two OF
three stories. II IL said that as MANY
as ECO people live In these pits.
tenn Dwrl,crs Have Skycraprrs.
There have been cave jewellers In
Asia Minor since long before the time
of xenophon. who says that their houses
were underground with entrances like
wells. and that In them the members
Of the household lived with goats. cows
ara chickens. Here. too. they stored
the hay for their animals and their
own supplies Of wheat. harley and veg.
elables. In the region sround Mount
Argaeus. In Cappadocia. southern rur.
key. there are cone dwcllers living 70.
day. whose hahitations perhaps more
nearly resemble the American cliff
housrs 70 b. found In Arizona and New
Mexico than any others In existence.
and were used az hahltatioes as far
hack AZ 5000 u. C. The chambers a
these dwellings. followed out In the
solid stone. are spacious ana the stair.
ways resemble round tunnels leading
from each floor 10 that ahove ~. Houses
have been In some instances made nine
stories high. but usually they are not
81 prctentious.
The country % the troglody,es a!
Asia Minor II Inaccessible. and the Wis
itor might make his way over noun.
tains and past rivers when his path
h. discernible onh a few feet In from
Of him.
Perhaps the greatest an, most beau
tifui Of the cliff cities built since th'
heginping II time is Petra. on the ols
caravan route from Damascus 20 Mecca
Though II u unoccupled today. Edom
ttes. Phoeniclans. Egyptians and Ro
mans have carved I'm artistic designs OF
the ose-red walls q - temples. amphi
theatres shrlnes. and houses record
~ their successive occupations.
freorA Cave Houses Nov Stors Rooms
Europe. ton. has her cave jewellers
Near Tours. France. there are a fey
caves that are inhabited. but for tn
most part the older cave rooms. po.
sibly used by the Aauitani u Caesar'
time. are used as storage rooms will
the dwellings built cut In front o. them
In Spain theru are many artificial caves
formerly inhabited. which are now Use.
By Spanish Eypxies.
In the Interior mountainous regiol
az Gran Canarla In the Canary Island
there are numbers 81 the natives Twin
IN cave houses whose doorways star