Show NEITHER WARS NOR RENTS DISTURB THIS CURIOUS PEOPLE the cone code dwellers ellers of asia minor I 1 technically known as tile the troglodytes of cappadocia are harassed not at all by tile the housing problem for they live in nature made apartment houses fashioned hy by trickling ling streams and volcanic violence nor Is it likely that they are concerned in tile the least about their political fate for though they inhabit what nhat Is characterized as the cradle of civilization liza Ilza tion they are more inore prim primitive ithe in some particulars than the most benighted tribes of africa or the south pacific A communication by J it Sit lincton sterrett to the national geographic society dew describes ribes the Cappad Cappadocia ocl ans ns as fol follows loiNs residing within a stones throw metaphorically speaking of tile the wonderful civilization which flourished on the banks of the nile years ago of 0 the mighty kingdoms of assyria and A r 1 M i nr i lez cone dwelling which arose in the valleys or of the euphrates and the tigris their pour tint and splendor dazzling lazz ling the world orld 2000 years before 04 cht fra era ond ind lit at the very threshold of ancient greece walli fill its unrivaled culture and political leil advancement the troglodytes troglodyte of n cappadocia still retain toward their fellow men an attitude of mind akin to alint which obtained in tile the stone age lien there was ins no such thins thing as human odar tint hut every man inan was wag his annn low law anti and tile the mortal enemy of ills his ilie be cades cones and cliff dwellings of the troglodytes ot of both ancient and modern jes times are to be found in greti greatest test number in the shadow of asia Min orSi loft loftiest iest peak snow clad lit bit argalus called by the turks dagh an extinct volcano whose eruption lu in the dim past laid the foundations and supplied the material for these remarkable habata auns the tha halys river of the ancients now known as armak in succeeding centuries became their tireless architect thi the practice of living in eaves caves in claffa or in exe exempted mated cavities in the open plain is to be traced to a state of society which we of today have some home difficulty in aeple depleting ting to ourselves and yet the central thought of the troglodyte habit la 19 the basic principle upon which ancient civilization was founded they have sought and found for complete isolation they seem to haie hae none of the instincts of fl agricultural gri cultural man and they are wholly ginlio ibe entrances to their dwellings nio all high up in uio almost perpendicular walli of the cliffs and they are bleached leached solely by means of long poles which are light enough to be drawn up finhen the lord of the den and ills his family are safely hou d and 1011 loused ed they really are safe from intrusion teu slen for it would require ft a host to force an entrance against the will of tho family one ancient writer tells us that some troglodytes made a practice of killing all those thos e who iio were not in first rate physical condition on the ground that a man who cannot earn his own living has bas no right to live and when mien one sees these dwellings one can imagine still atilt another reason for killing off tile the aged and the infirm because or of their inability to get in or out of the house |