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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919
The Wanamaker Store Will Be Closed All Day Tomorrow
Back to the Home
One Reason Why This Is the Greatest
August Furniture Sale of Them All
A FEW years ago there was a growing
tendency to dodge responsibility in the ,
s raising of children or the tending of furnace
fires.
People who lived in houses were turning
to apartments and people who had lived in
apartments said that the .perfect life would be
two rooms and bath in the Hotel Ali Baba.
Anything to get more .time to do nothing.
Then something happened to the world
and we found that hone of us could dodge
responsibilities. We had responsibilities thrust
upon us and after the first few grunts of pro
test we rather liked them. We found they made
us grow, and we got a little more out of life.
And people began to find that they needed
homes to grow in. Some place where they
could have their own things about them. Some
thing they could take an interest and a pride in.
Folks have been fond of saying that the
old home-life of Philadelphia was disappearing.
We didn t like to believe it, and now, by gravy,
' we dont have to! It isn't true. 'There was
never such a clamor for homes.
The "Companionable"
Furniture Is Going
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could tell it by this August Furniture" Sale.
It is the good companionable furniture that is
going out in such volume., The bedroom, and
. dining room, and living room furniture that is
to make homes livable and lovable.
And when men and women stand off and
cock their heads at a piece of furniture and say
"We'll stand that in the bay window," or, "That's
just the chair for thexhall," you know it; is going
to the kind of a home you like to visit.
It was for such people that we collected
this furniture so carefully. They want furniture
they can live with and take pleasure in, as in a
fine picture.
There are all kinds of furniture and only a
small percentage of it is really fine furniture.
But there is only one kind of furniture in this
Wanamaker Sale, and that is the finer kind.
That doesn't mean that it is all high-priced
furniture, for it isn't. There is a complete and
satisfying assortment of all kinds of furniture
at the prices the average family expects to pay.
Quality considered, we do not know where you
can get as much for your money.
The savings in this Sale range from 10 to
50 per cent and they are real. As a matter of
fact, they mean more than that, for they are
based on the old prices. New prices will be 10
to 70 per cent more.
Most important of all, people who buy fur
niture in this Wanamaker Sale have the satisfac
tion of knowing that they could not get better
furniture for the price elsewhere, and probably
none so good.
Only worthy woods are used in it and only
skilled cabinet makers are employed on it.
In period furniture the designs are true to
the period reproduced, and the spirit of that
period is carried out faithfully.
And the best of the new designs are assem
bled for those who like things modern.
Looking Forward to a Cozy
Winter in a Cheery Home
THIS August Furniture Sale comes at a time
when the people of Philadelphia and round
about are particularly receptive. So many of
them are looking forward eagerly to .the first
Winter in their new homes and planning how to
make those homes most attractive.
This month is the climax of the vacation
season, and with the coming of Fall the thoughts
of thousands turn to the cozy indoor time.
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Certain changes that have taken place
throughout the country meanthat wholesome
and simpler pleasures are going to take the place
of much of the hectic gayety of other years.
People will entertain more at home.
Conversation may be reclaimed from
among the lost arts.
Families - will find more interests in
common.
Houses and apartments will take on the
character of their occupants and have a charm
they never knew as mere dormitories.
Back to the Home!
Please Believe Nobody
who tells you that the present difficult conditions
in the furniture market oblige him or oblige you to
''take anything and be thankful."
Not while this Store stands and remains in the
furniture business.
Be thankful, yes but thankful that there is
as good timber in the forests as ever grew, there
are better brains in the world than ever before, and
tha4-- this big and varied stock of Wanamaker fur
niture for every room and every corner in the house
shows itself to be the product of the better brains
and the good timber.
Let us have in our homes only furniture of
charm and excellence. During August, Sale prices
make it as inexpensive as any of the "cheap kind."
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