REAL CAVE WOMAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 306, 17 March 1928, Page 27

REAL CAVE WOMAN

GOT TIRED OF CIVILISATION RETURNED TO BIRTHPLACE 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, says “Reynold’s Weekly.” That, in short, is the decesion of a woman whom even the sacrifice of husband —would deter from 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 16. Her home was a cave, hidden away among the trees and under-brush. Her Only Companions Her 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 one corner .served as a bed. The stove was an open fire in the centre. There were rio seats except protruding rocks. Yet, despite this, she was delighted with it. They fished and shot their own food, and life passed serenely. Her life in this arcadia ended only when the local education authority heard about it, and she was dragged to school at Topeka. At 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 sons. Found It Very Irksome Mrs. Adams never took kindly to the irksome routine of civilised life. Comparing the primitive with the civilised, she was constantly annoyed at the restrictions. A few weeks ago she took a last look at the kitchen sink, the range, and tlie wash-tub, and decided that civilisation meant nothing to her. So she called upon an attorn€;y, and the court decided that there was nothing left to do but grant her a divorce, since her husband had no taste for the simple life. They granted her the two children, and now she, with her family, has returned to the deserted island. 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. _.