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Signed August 5, 10SI, pimai tN THE designing of good furniture, as in the designing of so many other things that can be called good, the thought of the old-time craftsmen is still the prevailing influence. The essentials of har mony and beauty were long ago discovered, and no matter how many free and fanciful themes may be worked around them, the principles remain un changed. It requires very little imagination or perceptive power to distinguish in the austere lines of Adam fur nl. ' ' ' ' A Few Ideas Intended to Be of Help to Home Furnishers and Wriuen With Special Reference to the Wanamaker Great August Furniture Sale niture something sugges tive of tie art of old Greece. Practically all of Thomas Chippendale's work was a declaration of faith in the principles handed down by the designers of other times and other countries. Not only was Thomas a shrewd and discriminating borrower and adapter, as most designers have been to some degree, but he at tained to something like a mastery in turning his ap propriations to advantage. It would seem as if he had taken for his motto "Nothing new under the sun" at least in cabinet making. The Influence of the Masters Dependence of this kind upon the finest achieve ments of the past is visible in all the arts from archi tecture to poetry; and the world awaits the master who will create something on a par with the great old modejs, but independent of them at the same time. The finest example of architecture today is the easily recognized offspring of an ancient school. This is not a plea for conservatism, least of all for conventionality, but an avowal of N faith in fine standards. Honor to the innovator who will produce some thing really beautiful. Meantime, it is best to hold fast by the great old models. These we can never afford to discard. John Wanamaker Philadelphia , l . , ... .t - i ,.) M The Wanamaker Store Will Be All that is beautiful and harmonious in furniture today, as in the case of architecture, goes back in direct line to the ages of art. And the most beau tiful furniture made today is that in which the ideals and standards of the ages of art, whether of Greece, or Rome, or France, or Flanders, are interpreted in the spirit that originally inspired them. It is our business to as semble the most beautiful and dependable furniture we can find for our Great Sale, about which we are now going to say some thing. This Is the Sale That People Have Wanted jPVERY Wanamaker furniture sale is looked forward to with much expectancy by a great number of people in different parts of the coun- i f V f w. ESS l WfWWK Mirer, Wl&f Jl Closed Ml Day Tomorrow IK try, but no sale was ever specially watched for and waited for by so many people in so many different places as the August Sale now going ahead so won derfully. There is nothing so heartening in a business of this kind as to know that people are able to prove to their own satis faction that a store event is as good as it was said to be. They are finding this August Furniture Sale to be as good a sale as we promised them. The best proof that they are finding it to be a sale of extraordi nary advantage to them is the extraordinary advan tage they are taking of it. They are taking advan tage of it in a way that leaves no room for doubt but that this is the sale they wanted. If there is anything cer tain in things of this kind i it is that a furniture sale is as strong or as weak, as good or as bad, as inter esting or as uninteresting as the goods which it com prises. For a sale can no more rise above the goods in it than a stream can rise above its source. We could print nothing better of this August Sale, or nothing truer than this, that it rises to the height that is to say, the char acter of the goods which are its mainstay. No other sale can pos sibly reach that height, because no other sale is backed with the same class of furniture in the same splendid range of variety and at the same low prices. A Sale That Will Stand the Test Test it fairly and in telligently in any section and if you don't find that it is as good as we say it is, please let us know. Do you want a bedroom suit of the good, medium grade, moderately priced kind in mahogany, walnut or oak? For every one such you will find anywhere else, we will show you at least three. We will show you a col lection of these suits which in desirableness of type and excellence of make and finish have no coun terpart anywhere. In dining-room suits of the moderately priced kind I' the selection is relatively fine. The showing of bedroom suits and dining-room suits of the finest grade is still more incomparable. In pattern, construction and general character there has probably never been such a superb assort ment of these high-grade suits shown in Philadelphia at the same advantages in price. It would take at least three goodly sized stocks combined to match this in extent, but no three could match it in character. As for living-room fur niture, library furniture, occasional furniture and fine individual things, the showing of these on the fifth floor is worth coming far to look at. And all of these, no matter how exquisite, or uncommon, are included in the August Sale at re ductions that mean some thing to people looking for distinguished, home enriching furniture of this kind. Now for Monday Morning w Up to the present time this has been the greatest August Sale on record as regards volume of busi ness, because the people can see that it lives up to what we say about it. For the same good reason they will give it a splendid new start-off next Monday morning. 1 ft f! r, -a t t i I V t i m .31 i? f-d
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