. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ive, and it takesbut little imagination to fill out a realisticpicture. From the girdled pebble club-head tothe girdled tomahawk is but a .step, for itneeds only the sharpening of one end ofthe club-head to make a tomahawk; thegradation is often very gradual. Toma-hawks are of all shapes and forms; somelong and slender, others short and thick,and the difference between the tomahawkand the axe is very slight; the real differ-ence is a difference only in size. Thelargest axe in my pos
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ive, and it takesbut little imagination to fill out a realisticpicture. From the girdled pebble club-head tothe girdled tomahawk is but a .step, for itneeds only the sharpening of one end ofthe club-head to make a tomahawk; thegradation is often very gradual. Toma-hawks are of all shapes and forms; somelong and slender, others short and thick,and the difference between the tomahawkand the axe is very slight; the real differ-ence is a difference only in size. Thelargest axe in my possession weighs overeight pounds. It is not to be understood that an In-dian could cut or chop wood in the sensethat we use those terms as applied to oursharp-edged tools, but by charring a treetrunk by fire they could cut away theburnt wood, and eventually fell the treeand convert the trunk by the same meansinto a canoe. The trunk was first leveledflat, then by means of wet clay laid uponthe fiat surface, the fire was confinedwithin certain limits till the wood wascharred : the axe or stone cliisel was then. A Plainfirld Residence i6 THE SUBURBANITE brought into play, and the charred woodremoved. By repeating this process theymanaged to hollow out their canoes, someof which were 30 and 40 feet long. One of the prettiest specimens of anaxe or tomahawk that I have seen Ipicked up on the Grant avenue site. It ismade of green stone, nicely polished, witha smooth °dge and groove neatly cutaround it. It was evidently a toy, for itmeasures but 2^ inches in length by ij4inches in width. I have another a littlelarger, about 3 inches long. If these werechildrens toys, the parents undoubtedlybelieved in bringing up a child in theway he should go—/. e., to knock hisfellow mans brains out. In the manufacture of arrows andspears the Indians of Plainfield were notbehind their more western brethren; theyworked in all kinds of stone. I have anumber of nodules, evidently obtained bythe local
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