CAVE WOMAN’S LONELY DEN

Shannon News, 3 April 1928, Page 4

CAVE WOMAN’S LONELY DEN

SOON GOT TIRED OP SOCIETY.

Having decided that in civilised society all is vanity, Mrs. Florence Adams, of Kansas City, U.S.A., has returned to the hermit island in a lake where she was born. There she is to live like a real cave woman, scorning the foibles and fripperies of the modern Eve. That in short, is the decision w? a woman whom nothing-r-not even the sacrifice of husband—would deter fro |i plunging back into the jungle which she so eagerly deserted years ago. To the rude amenities of her cave home Mrs. Adams has. taken her two sons. Her father has spent his whole life on the island kingdom. Mrs. Adams lived upon this island until she was sixteen. Her home was a cave, hidden away among the trees and under-brush. Her Only Companions. Her only companions were her father and her brother, her mother having died shortly after her birth. The cave had been furnished with a hand-hewn table held together, with wooden-pegs, and a heap of damp straw in cne corner served as a bca.

The stove was an fire in the centre There were no seats except -protruding rocks. Yet, despite all this, she was delighted with it. They fished and shot s their own food, and life passed seren* •ely.

Her life in this areadia ended only when the local education authority 'heard about it, and she was dragged ■to school at Topeka. A.t this she at once became a part 'of civilisation, passed her examinations, graduated, and then, as a token of complete absorption into the social scheme, married and had two sona. Pound it Very Irksome.

Mrs. (Adams never took kindly to tho irlcsoine routine of civilised life.

Comparing the primitive with the civilised, she was constantly annoyed at the restrictions. »

A fow weeks ago she took a last look at the kitchen sink, the range, and the wasiitub, and decided that civilisation meant nothing to her. !slo she called upon an attorney and court decided that there was nothing left to do but grant her a divorce, since her husband had no taste for simple life. They granted- her the two children, and now she, with her family, has returned to the deserted island. j ; She finds that her brother has left, but that her father is still sole master of the cave.

She has given one* sigh of content. Washes her hands of , progress and .everything akin to it and says that now she intends to do a little real living.