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Show I i f 4 Daughter of Peer Becomes Cave-Dweller i I V. T'nlverss 1 Service I LONDON, Julv 29. Search for a picturesque setting for her next novel 'pas ioj Lady Dorothy Mills, tho beautiful beau-tiful and talented daughter of the Karl lof Oxford, to mnk'e a highly adven-iturous adven-iturous trip to the fnstnes. ,f the .troglodytes, or cave dwellers, In the Tripolltan "North Africa i nftfuntalns. She has returned to London knowing know-ing that not only Is she the first white woman to make the acquaintance of ,lhe mysterious cave men but that she has spent six days of her life as a leave woman, unattended by white projectors. pro-jectors. v Iad Dorothy, the author of 'Card I Houses" and ' Laughter of Kools." told I her story with a delightful naiv ete. She penetrated 1,50 iiw!c, inland, by imotor ar and the wild, fleet desert-ipony desert-ipony of the Arab. leaving the French military outposts far behind. "No one would dream that the i LVBS held the population lhat I found them to contain," said Lady Dorothy, "Cave children wore running in and out of them llko rabbits playing around a warren. "In color nnd feature the troglodytes are nlmost Strictly European. There Is nothing either Semitic or negroid ibout them. "The features are rather fine, the color a pale cafe-au-lalt. Some of jtho girls were really beautiful, with warm, expressive eves and stralgh' black hair " Lady Doroths continued: "Iove in i the caves Ih a simple affair The mar- J riage Is generally a matter of barter, land the husband Is merely supposed to provide clothing and such Jewelry 'or beaten copper Ibrhaments as his position po-sition will allow. "If he doesn't like the bride after !thc first day he can lake his present! 'back and send her home. "No, 1 don't think modern women I would sigh for the cave man lov, after Spending a night or two In the leaves, perhaps separated from the I fiee-inf CSted camel merely by a bungling bung-ling rug." |