The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-24
Lady Mills Tells Flappers Cave
 Man Love An Illusory Dream

London, June 24.-American flap pers" who long for "cave man" love are grasping at an ilIusory dream according to Lady Dorothy Mills. Lady Dorothy has visited the cave dwellers of the TrogIodytes to gather material for a novel. In the following article she sets forth her impressions of the leave man.
 BY LADY DOROTHY MILLS
 (Written for the International News
 Service.)
 Four days journey southwest from Gabes, rail head Of Tunisia brought me to the mountains of the Troglo- dytes, or cave dwellers.
 These cave men are not the hir- sute creatures of the fiction magazine T doubt if any such still exist in the worldl They are what is left of the Berbers, who, from the dim re- cesseS of time, long before the Arabs and the negro races from the South swept over North Africa, have lived among the mountain tops flor protec- tlon in a constant warfare against the predatory tribes across the Tripolitan frontier.
 The villages lay among high noun tains, black, twisted and desolate. From a kilometre away they are quite invisible, being just a rabbit warren of little caves hollpwed out of the solid rock, reached by narrow wind ing goat paths from which in time of warfare they can hurl down rocks on the approaching enemy.
 Cave Houses Comfortable.
 Except for lack of light and ven tilatiOn the cave houses were not too uncomfortable, generally consisting of one long narrow room hollowed out of the rock with a raised ledge or alcove covered with rugs of came1s' hair where the family slept
 Meals were gargantuan affairs five different dishes of mutton, some beans. goats milk and grayish-brown bread of which one had in common n fa1r f night they used politely to bar me in. and, rolled cocoon-wise in the rugs. l slept on the stone ledge, which was more than a little cold and hard, while the heaS ran races over me.
 In all the Troglodyte towns that visited I was treated with the great est hospitality, and regarded with the keenest interest and curiosity, espec- tally by the women. It took infinite ffrmness\ and tact to prevent the lat ter from undressing me half a dozen times day, so anxious were they to know exactly what I wore, why my skin was white and why my hair curled; and one of them counted my toes twice over to make sure that I had the usual number.
 Sought Personal Details
 They wanted to know every possi- ble sort of intimate detail about my private life, and in particular how many wives my husband had at home 1S-
 Their social status is merely that of superior livestock. A husband can on any or no pretext divorce his wife by simply making a verbal statement before the head man of the village. He then takes back the clothing or jewels with which he has dowered her, and is merely bound, if she comes from distance, to provide her with a donkey to carry her back to her parents.
 I have often been asked since my visit how the cave man makes love. It is disapp pointing to have to upset a popular idea, but as far as I could ascertain he appears to make love much as any other man does. Ap- parently he finds no need for a club. since he does not as a rule possess one.
 Courtshie Is Formal
 His courtship is formal and rather expensive. It is done through his parents. and he is expected to provide the trousseau of camels' hair cloths and cClored silks, and. if he be rich some jewelry of beaten metal The value of his offerings depends upon his means end the beauty. age and eligibility of the lady A bride over eighteen would expect comparatively little
 I do not think that the role os cave man or woman would suit the nor nal civilized being. Cave life though picturesque enough for a short time, would scarcely, I think 1 gratify a jaded appetite for sensa- ton.
 The social and domestic codes are in their own way just as rigid as ours. | and disregard of them more swiftly | punished One has to be just as care