The Washington times., 1922-08-27

ou of the natural rock the hunting do to provide
food and clothing for his family and crops to SOW
wherever arid nature gives him chance; his spare
time is filled in by sanguinary warfare with other
tribes. With all this he feels he has surely done
enough to prove himself fair to average hero In the
J. eyes of any woman.
-; Such primitive conditions the people live
lin are enough to knock the romantic stufng out Of
anybody, and though the cave man is picturesque
enough in appearance the romance of him stops
there In his methods of loving he is as practical
and violent in his methods of fighting or hunt
ing He is like many another character Of fiction
whose characteristics are purely legendary. He
does few of the things that ascribed to him.
For example, if seriously annoyed with his lady
love he would certainly not take her by the hair OF
her beautiful head and club her into state of
bruised alteration. He would merely pack her back
to where she from, or, II her ofense was very
serious and derogatory to his masculine honor he
would probably knife her. The unwritten law II
very elastic among people, and they have most
parochal and earlyVictorian ideas upon the ethics
and general behaviour of their women folk, whether
wives daughters.
L,. cave man considers any i'll conduct the part
of his wife daughter blot on his family honor
only to be wiped out with blood. and he is utterly
ruthless in the administration of justice.
A case in point was the son of chief who, wan
derng far afield among the mountains, came upon
beautiful maiden tending flock of goats on
the hill side. She entirely responsive to his ad
vances, and all through the Summer they met and
loved in the friendly twilight.
But they were not happy. for he had been affi-
anced for some time to a girl whom he had never
seen and in spite of every that he could
jure up his parents using pressure to hurry on
the marriage. The lovers racked their brains to
think of scheme by which they could escape and
be free to love and marry each other. But tribe
law is irrevocabe and revengeful, and the great
bare black mountains that hemmed them in could
give them no help or refuge.
One evening the girl did not turn up at the rem
devious.
An Extraordinary
Conception of Morality.
., He searched and waited long, but in vain, and
eventually resigned himself to his forthcoming mar
riage. Through long day the wedding celebra-
tons continued till at night he led to where his
BRIDE her face painted with crude colors like that
of little idol, sat timdy awaiting him. It was the
girl he had met and loved in the mountains!
l. L For moment his heart beat at the sight Of her
81 beauty and at the happy chance that had united
a. them. But instinct was too strong for him. Not
!, needing her despairing cry he left her without
word and going straight to where the old men still
sat in concave he sought her father, saying that
all could hear II repudiate your daughter. She is
not virgin" and went back to his old home.
al The father said nothing but withdrew from the
assemblage, and hour later the village knew that
the bride lay dead with knife through her heart.
~ Indeed, of such cases have heard throughout
: the length and breadth Of North Africa.
! Love, or love making, il not to the cave man
ri science an art or the thing Of fire and fancy
that civilization has made it. 1t is to him merely
!. natural need undeberate. as imperative as the
meels he eats the hunting he must do for the sake
of the skins of beasts with which to clothe himself
~ And he is not fussy. Almost, indeed one might
call him indiscriminate. don't think Il matters
/ much to him which woman he loves any more than