, f ' 'EVENING PXTBtilO (DED(ER-ifiIUADEi;PHIA; FRIDAY, 'AtJGTJST 19, , 1S21 i ' i' ' 57OA0 CLOSED ALL DAY TOMORROW WANAMAKER'S WANAMAKER'S WANAMAKER'S WANAMAKER'S WEATHER Fair The Wanamaker Store Will Be Closed All Day Tomorrow rm. Jt I " ? h Here Is a Newspaper Page to Take Home With You and Talk Over With the Family It Is About a Great Sale of Pianos at the Wanamaker Store Next Monday Sailing One Morning Over the Gulf to the Caloosahatchie River, we met a stretch of the main land on which for a long distance there was nothing but scrubby trees; and a little later we passed a lovely field of radiant green that rested the eye and offset all the uncultivated acres of miles of virgin growth of pines and palmettos. Such is life. We journey far with eyes weary of heavy tasks. Suddenly the Whole aspect changes when a cheery man or woman crosses our doorstep, whose time is not wasted when their visit is a sunbeam that shines away the morning shadow. Signed August 10, 1021. Qffijfamafc. Eight More Days the August Furniture Sale of Every Day a Day of Opportunity Do you need some new furniture, or are you likely to need some within the next several months? If so, now is the time to buy it. Of the Wanamaker Great August Furniture Sale there are just eight days left. Time is one of those all-conquering things that nobody can get ahead of. N But people get ahead in ever so many other directions by knowing how to use it and using it. You remember the old adage too many people are inclined to forget it "time and tide wait for no one." Neither will the opportunities in the Furniture Sale. These will go and go rightfully to those who act and not to those who wait. Not, however, that the sale is becom ing a picked bush, or anything like it. It is still a sale of abundances. , It will be a sale of abundances up to the last day and hour, because we have the goods to keep it just so. Nobody coming in next Monday morning and seeing the assemblage of fur niture on these floors could well imagine that we have sold more furniture since this sale began than we have ever sold in any corresponding period. So far as the goods arc concerned it looks more like the beginning of a sale than the beginning of the end of it. In one sense eight days is a good, long time to have for taking advantage of the opportunities in this sale; and cer tainly there are plenty of opportunities to be taken advantage of. But there is no longer any room for putting things off. The last six or eight days of these sales are amongst the days of greatest ac tivity, and the business becomes greater and greater the nearer we get to the end. The thing to do is to come in at once and take advantage of all that the sale means to you, and that is a great deal. (Fifth, aixth nnd Seventh Floor.) WHERE is the home that can do without a piano ? Especially if it is a home with children in it ? Who is there that can afford to deny to the children the joys and the opportunities of music ? The piano is the one essential musical instrument of the modern home. It is the universal instrument. It is the instrument that every one can play or can learn to play. The modern American home can no more do without a piano than it can do without books, than it can do without curtains, than it can do without the rugs on the floors. Sooner or later every home must have a piano especially if there are children in it. The piano to buy is a good piano. It is a great mistake to have any other kind. It may be an inexpensive piano, but it must be a good one. The piano that is not faithful to the fundamental principles of construc tion can never in a thousand years be a good piano. Yet, not every new home can afford to buy a fine, new, good piano. And at the same time there are many homes that can afford very well a fine, new, good piano but where it is deemed wiser to get a used piano for the children to begin their lessons on. For these two kinds of homes the Wana maker Annual Sale of Used Pianos is a golden opportunity. It is the one Sale that brings good pianos of standard, meritorious makes at low prices, many of them even much less than half price. If your home is a home that needs a good piano at a low price, then take home this news paper tonight, go over the list and talk it over with the family. Then come in next Monday morning, bring the wife and children and be prepared, after having read the advertisement, to pick out the instrument you want sent home. This will be wonderfully easy to do. You can pay for the piano at once, or you can buy it upon a system of extended payments, and you can have the piano sent home at once. Please note that the Wanamaker piano sales are different from any other piano sales. They are held for one purpose only, and that is to clear out our warehouses of accumulated in struments taken in exchange or reduced from the regular stock. The new pianos reduced offer great op portunities; in some cases hundreds of dollars are taken off the prices, simply because of almost undiscoverable case blemishes. Think of choosing pianos with such re nowned names as Schomacker, Knabe, Chicker ing and Emerson, practically brand-new, at two or three hundred dollars savings, as you will find in many cases. HERE IS THE LIST Let us know on Monday which of the pianos you want. USED UPRIGHT PIANOS Price if Our Sale New Price Waters , $275 $75 Stuyvesant 350 75 Hallet & Davis.. ,.,.. 375 125 Ivers&Pond .. 400 125 Haines Brothers w .. 375 125 Martin Brothers 300 150 Hallet & Cumston... 295 150 Keller Brothers ...... 300 175 Haines Brothers 375 175 Madelon 350 175 Cornish Company . ... 375 175 Huntingdon... 350 175 Stuart 300 175 Needham . 300 175 Ivers & Pond 400 175 Decker Brothers ... . 500 200 Majestic ..,..,.. 300 200 The Birth of Music To Be Read to the Children There is an old, old story, which it is said the ancient Greeks used to tell to their children about how music came into the world. It is a story of something that hap pened ages and ages and ages ago, in the very golden dawn of the world. It was before there was speech, before there was song, before there was sound of any kind. It was even before the trees began to grow, or the clouds to gather in the sky, or the rains to fall. It was before the sea had begun to move, and before the living creatures of the earth and the sky were even awake for the first time. Only the fairies and the young gods of the fable stories and the magic tor toise of the sea had begun to live. And it was in the sunshine of this earliest dawn that a wandering god found on the golden sands of an Orient shore a tortoise shell that had a few dried strands stretched across its empty bowl. In his play, the sportive god caught up the new toy and swept his hand across the vibrant strands and a chord leapt forth. It was the new world's first sound it was music. USED PLAYER-PIANOS Price If Our Sale New Price Cable & Sons . . $550 $300 Blasius 675 400 Behning 750 450 Angelus 850 450 (3) Lindeman 850 450 Doll &Sons 650 450 Pianola 750 475 (3) Doll & Sons 650 475 (4) White 750 475 (6) Lindeman & Sons 850 475 (2) H. & S. G. Linde man 750 475 (2) Pianista 750 500 (2) Pianista 750 525 Marshall & Wendell.. 800 565 (5) Angelus 900 575 (2) Shoninger 950 625 Emerson Angelus . . .1050 675 Schomacker Angelus . 1200 750 Chickering Angelus .1250 795 (2) Knabe Angelus.. 1250 800 USED GRAND PIANOS Our SaU Price $275 350 375 325 Price If New Weber ,. ... $900 Weber 1000 Chickering 1250 Hallet & Davis .... 1000 Price if Our Sale New Price Russell , 375 200 Harrington ,. . 350 225 Vose 400 225 Vose & Sons 400 225 Mozart 390 225 Shomacker 600 250 Frederick 375 250 A.D.Cameron ,..375 250 Armstrong 400 250 Ludwig 400 250 Blasius 425 250 Regent ..375 275 Steinert 375 275 Emerson 550 275 Henry F. Miller 500 275 Knabe 600 295 Haines Brothers 600 295 (2) Schomacker 650 295 Steinway & Sons 750 295 Haines Brothers 550 295 Schomacker 650 325 Knabe 600 395 Schomacker 750 525 NEW REDUCED UPRIGHTS Hegular Reduced Price Price (4)Stodart ...$395 $295 (6) Lindeman . .. . 475 350 (2) Lindeman 475 350 (2) Marshall and Wendell 525 425 Haines Brothers 575 475 Schomacker 765 650 Knabe 1150 800 Chickering 1150 850 NEW REDUCED PLAYER-PIANOS Pi-ice If Our Sale New Price (8) Stodart $750 $525 (3) H. & S. G. Linde man 750 535 (3) Angelus 900 695 (2) Pianista 775 525 (2) Pianista 800 550 (3) Lindeman 850 685 Emerson 900 800 J.C.Campbell (Phono graph Attachment) 1000 785 Schomacker 1200 1050 NEW REDUCED PLAYER-PIANOS (With Motor to Operate Electrically) frxce if Our Sale New Lindeman si nnn & (Motor included) n Emerson 1150 (Motor included) 1?" pWe? of $150 additional an electric motor KnniS sta,led'" any foot-pump player-piano, so that it can be operated electri 'y. B Price $750 950 TERMS: Any piano in this collec tion, or any piano in our store, may be bought upon a plan of extended payments, covering, if the customer wishes, a period of several years. This will be arranged in all cases to suit the convenience of the customer. John Wanamaker Philadelphia T't vi. v) v, ,, jt ,Vim , r V i , 'I " H , - tT A, n,h t am n V . - m t
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