All the furniture was made of the same glorious metal, and Scraps asked what it was.
"That's radium," answered the Chief.

"We Horners spend all our time digging radium from the mines under this mountain, and we use it to decorate our homes and make them pretty and cosy.

It is a medicine, too, and no one can ever be sick who lives near radium." "Have you plenty of it ?" asked the Patchwork Girl.
"More than we can use.

All the houses in this city are decorated with it, just the same as mine is." "Why don't you use it on your streets, then, and the outside of your houses, to make them as pretty as they are within ?" she inquired.
"Outside?
Who cares for the outside of anything ?" asked the Chief.

"We Horners don't live on the outside of our homes; we live inside.