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EVENING PrBfrlQ? LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA,' FRIDAY, AUCil ST 15, 11)11)
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The Wanamaker Store Will Be Closed All Day Tomorrow
Midway in the August Furniture Sale Without
Any Letting Down of Opportunities
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'EGEND says that a
certain text-book on
English grammar
and rhetoric, widely cir
culated in its day, makes
the following statement in its chapter on
"Prepositions":
"A preposition is not a good thing to
end a sentence with."
Ordinarily we would agree with the
learned author who was able so
strikingly to illustrate his own point.
But when we attempt to illustrate as
strikingly, by means of word-pictures,
the Wanamaker Furniture Service as
embodied in this August Sale, we find
ourselves obliged to commandeer all
sorts of prepositions "to end a sentence
with."
You see, it is so pre-eminently '
The Sale to come to
The Sale to walk about through
The Sale you can't afford to stay
away from
The Sale to pin your trust on
The Sale to measure other furniture
sales by
And the Sale to buy in!
For us, its creators, it was a Sale to
work for, with the achievements in mind
of previous great Furniture Sales held
here, which it must eclipse and work
we did.
The Result Is Our
Greatest Assemblage
in quantity, of furniture which, in qual
ity, is better in many respects and
inferior in not one single respect to the
great August Sales that have made the
words "Wanamaker" and "Furniture"
notable in association.
This Sale started August first and is
now two weeks old a ripe age for a sale
but is still doing a great, a rushing,
we may say a serious business.
The stocks are not tired, thinned out,
or reduced by eliminating processes to a
"ragged regiment" of undesirables, as
is so often seen in the sort of a sale that
has a fag-end and usually has it
mighty soon.
There were no. undesirables in the
stocks to. start with, and of the 16,000
different "desirables" shown on the
floors at the start of the Sale, the
majority was and still is represented
liberally by duplicates in the contents
of the great warehouses which are still
sturdily backing up the still splendid
display, still numbering 16,000 pieces
placed out on the floors.
Not a clearance, not a riddance just
abundance.
As fast as one piece goes out, another
frequently its "twin" comes in.
The people are not tired of viewing
and admiring and purchasing the furni
ture, which, no beholder is pressed or
driven to buy, but which is being bought
all day, and, we verily believe, would be
bought all night, if the summons of the
bugle didn't close the Store promptly at
5 o'clock.
For the home-makers are in earnest
in this matter of buying their furniture.
With them, as has just been said, it's a
serious matter.
Buying it here is a matter of
Reduced Prices
in a Rising Market
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and this does not mean unworthy furni
ture, but the worthiest kinds of cabinet
making known or seen in the United
States. Such an opportunity is too sub
stantially good to let pass.
The time is here and the goods are
here and the man or woman who needs
furniture is either here or is coming.
If coming, there is no better time to
come than now.
We do not expect our large stocks qf
excellent furniture to be exhausted, for
that's not the way we keep store.
But we do expect the month of
August to end on the 31st, and the sell
ing at August prices to end on the 29th;
Saturday the 30th completing the series
of Summer Saturday holidays given to
.our employes.
We sell, and of course enjoy selling,
much handsome furniture to the kind
of people who buy furniture whether
they actually need it or not. They have
a love for beautiful things around than,
or they have a taste which like a Sum
mer train-table is subject to "change
without notice," and they are frequently
fortunate enough to be more or less
indifferent to price. Even so,
Their Eyes Are Often
Seen to Quicken
a little as they note the August prices on
the blue tags, and compare them with
the regular selling figures, also stated
and stated truthfully on the tag.
Nearly all folks are human, you know.
But, of course, we sell still more fur
niture to, and therefore buy and select
much furniture especially for, the sort
of people who furnish a house but twice
or thrice or possibly but once in a
lifetime; and the people who don't even
buy the furniture they need even a
single piece without doing some think
ing and figuring first.
And can't you guess how we enjoy
selling to those people?
We rejoice in the thought that what
ever they buy here, it is good furniture.
Furniture that neither they no,r their
children will be ashamed of; furniture
that, given proper usage, neither they
nor their children will have to retire on
account of disability for service.
We take satisfaction in knowing that
whatever price they pay is the lowest
price they'll be asked anywhere for
goods as honestly made, good in quality
and design.
For Folks Who Must Count Cost
Cut Corners and Contrive Carefully
In Buying Their Furniture
This Advertisement Has a Message
And This Sale Is an Opportunity
Oh, yes, we are talking to the man who is fond of the expiehsion,
"coming down to brass tacks "
To the young couple with a precious nest-egg to invest in furni
ture for their new home
To the family who wouldn't furnish a guest-room just now, or buv
Father an arm-chair or Daughter or Boy a chiffonier, if they could get
out ot it, and are still debat
ing whether they cent get out
ol it.
That's their bushiest, to decide, but for all who have reached
the point in their household all airs where some furniture MUST
be acquired, we are going to answer in advance a question that
may be in the back of some minds
"Does this big Wanamaker Sale of
fine furniture include OUR kind of fur
niture? Will there be anything there at
OUR price?"
We answer positively,. YES, IT
DOES: but don't sit here reading about
it: come and see the furniture for
yourself!
We back up our statement, and also our furniture backs up
our statement, that there is no Sale in Philadelphia or vicinity, no
Store in the United States of America and vicinity, in which small
money can bring returns so "big for its size" as this Furniture
Sale and Furniture Store can give.
"Why! You Can Buy
Them as Low as "
Bedroom Suits
for $140 to $Jfe0, in mahogany, Amer
ican walnut, oak, enamel and birch
with mahogany finish. Styles include
Colonial, Adam, Sheraton, Queen Anne
and William and Alary.
Dining-Room Suits
for $185 to $450, in mahogany, Ameri
can walnut and oak. Styles include
Queen Anne, William and Mary, Chip
pendale, Adam and Sheraton.
Overstuffed Living-Room
Furniture
in a great variety of styles, can be
matched up in three-piece suits, start
ing at $200. Pieces may also be bought
separately.
JOHN WANAMAKER PHILADELPHIA
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