Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-06-01
BEAUvO|R SOLDIERS
HOME HOSPITAL
Appeals From Patriotic Missis.
sippians For Sufficient Funds To
Provide For the Confederate
Veterans in Their Declining
Years.
Beauvoir.

most influential U. d. C. members
makes an appeal for Soldiers Home
Hospital.
Have you ever visited the Missis
sippi Home for Confederate Veterans
at Beauvoir? If not, avail yourself
of the first opportunity-go see the
last home of Jefferson Davis-see
the old men, decrepid though they
are, in their joy and contentment in
their happy home, meet Mr.. Tart
the most efficient Superintendent the
Home has ever had. Meet Mrs.
Tart, his charming wife, who de-
votes her life and all her splendid
energies to making the old men and
the old ladies comfortable and happy.
To see three hundred war worn vet
Grams of the Confederacy, clad in the
gray uniform they so proudly wore
in their younger days, now relieved
of every care and anxiety, but pass
ing their days in contentment and
happiness, is well worth pilgrim
age to Beauvoir.
There is only one Beauvoir, there
is only one Home for Confederate
Veterans where their wives and
widows of Confederate veterans, true
Mothers of the Confederacy, are
made welcome, and this Home is at
, Reauvoir. Each inmate feels and
knows it is his or her homer~ Some
have their little vegetable gardens
some their flowers, others have their
fishing rods and fish from the long
pier extending out into the Gulf, ana
over all are the ever watchful and
loving eyes of Mr.. and Mrs. Tart.
If the old folks have their little
troubles, off they go straightway to
Mr.. or Mrs. Tart, like children to
mother or father, assured they will
find sympathy and love and help in
every time of trouble.
"Here and there on the broad We
randas are potted plants cared Tor
by the old ladies of the Home; un-
der the spreading live oaks through
out the ample grounds are rustic
seats where the old folks sit and en-
JOY the cooling breezs from the bright
and sparkling waters of The Muir
lmuring Mexico Sea-
'8Stll, with all this contentment
and happiness and comfort there is
nothing lacking-and Oh! how I'M
portant this one thing is. As every
one knows who has visited the Home,
the inmates are old and feeble and IN
constant need of attention; many OF
them owing to the infirmities OF age
are confined to their rooms; many
are in the little frame hospital, ut
terly helpless. Old age and sick
ness have rendered them all weak
and feeble. They are not able to
help themselves, much less help one
another. Suppose the Home should
be visited by fire, what would be-
come of these bedridden old men and
women? Famed by the winds from
the sea, this frail pine building would
be wrapped in flames before assist
ance could reach the invalids. The
present hospital is entirely too small
and is not properly arranged either
for comfort or sanitation. 1t was
built years ago and was the best that
could be built with the very limited
means then provided, but as time
rolls on the inmates of the Home
grow more feeble and more of them
should be in the hospital under COM
potent nurses. As it is, many of the
inmates of the Home are necessarily
confined to their rooms, because there
is no room for them in the hospital;
this adds greatly to the labor OF
caring for them. Do you know that
the grounds of the Home have a
frontage of more than quarter of a
mile on the water front or beach
This is almost entirely covered by the
buildings for the old folks. See
from this how much of the valuable
time of the nurses is spent in walk
ing, walking, walking from one end
of the grounds to the other to care
for these poor old soldiers of the
Confdeeracy.
men and women of Mississippi
will you not go to your respective
Board of Supervisors at their next
meeting and urge them the neces-
Ssity of an appropriation of one
thousand dollars to build this hos
EIfal? This will not cost the peo-
pie of Mississippi five cents apiece.