The Pulaskian., 1920-06-24
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How Can People Live in the Hot
 stuffy Cities?

Stuffy Cities?
 How can people live ill the hot, stuffy cities and towns? I can not understand it myself It was hot and dry at home and my garden was burning up, so I realized that I would have to ramble and hunt for another rain or carry water from the creek to water my garden. I worked hard pull ing the bell cord over my neighbor Austins little mule, Pluto, to get the garden in shape. so I did not get to Little Rock until Saturday, and that made it necessary for me to stay there over Sunday When Monday came I was all in and would have returned home, but it was necessary for me to find that rain I was after As sum- mer comes on I find the rains harder to find, but after ramble through the country returned to Little Rock and found it there. When l got home my garden had all the rain it needed.
 Confederate Boulevard and Home.
 rambled out the Confederate boule- yard to the bauxite mine. They have their railroad now running into the pit and are hauling the bauxite to their new crusher, which I shall have to visit soon. A " Browns folks were picking blackberries, and al. though 1 am anxious for information about the berries l was hunting shade and not sunshine, so l went on to MT Cloar's. Then I visited Dr. Mason. superintendent of the Confederate Veterans Home. Receiving a cordial invitation from him to spend the night there. l did so. l never enjoyed a visit more. l was given nice cor ner room, which extended out iron, the main building in a way to give it light and air on three sides. In Little Rock 1 had been too hot; here it was so cool 1 had to cover up, and if had not been too lazy I would have let down a window It was so nice and pleasant. the generous hospital ity was so free that it took but little imagination for me to imagine l was back in some old Southern mansion before the war.
 Dr. Mason is making fine super intendent and is giving his personal supervision to the small details. Dr. Turner is the physician in charge. He has only been there about two months. Dr. Mason is great archaeologist and his collection of Mound Builders and Indian relics is so great that the curator of the Smithsonian Institution made visit to him to examine them. A large number of them are on ex- hibiiton in the Department of History at the State Capitol Of those he has at home the most interesting to me were a couple of cocoanuts, carved by one of the old Confederate veter- ans. A description of them will con vey their history.
 The workmanship is wonderful and shows that the engraver possessed the patient and logged persistence all most of the Indians. who with only crude stones for implements, carved wonderful pictures on the hardest granite. It was a revelation to me hat cocoanut shell would take such q fine black polish. In the small end is a round hole, which represents a mouth, above it are two eyes, and the mouth is surrounded by whiskers. It is easy to perceive at first glance that it represents the face of mon key. This is the small one and was engraved for Mrs. Mason in 1916. On beautifully engraved scrolls the in- scriptions on it read Presented to M. H. Mason by a Participant in an Heroic Struggle 1S61-65, R. J. Bailey, Srd Arkansas Regiment Inf Hood s Old Texas Brigade, A. N. V, 1916.a .Nobilitas Sola Est Atquevica Virus, ? He Shall Come Down Like Rain Upon the Morn Grass as Showers That Water the Earth. Psa. 72-6.s
 The other, presented to Dr. Mason in 1911, reads: Carved by Confed- crate 1865 Soldier, 3rd Ark, Regt. Inf. l9l1." ~The Heart for Mercy Graves. 7 Dr. c. K Mason. Vain Is the Help of Man. MT. Bailey was by trade a silver and gold engraver.
 Another very interesting relic is a watch made in Dublin, Ireland, some 200 years ago. It is well made. and the engraving on the works, which are made of brass, is very fine. The