Michigan Artisan; 1907-11-25

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Eighth Year-No. 10 NOVEMBER 25. 1907 Semi-Monthly The ROYAL is the Original- Push Suiton Morris Chair THE." ROYAL PUSHBUTTON MORRIS CHAIR BigLt Years of Te51:Have BstablisLed Its Supremacy ALL OTHERS ARE IMITATIONS MORRIS CHAIRS FROM I 16.25 to 130 I CAT ALOe UPON APPLICATION. Royal Chair Co. STURGIS, MICHIGAN Chicago Salesroom: ",Ceo.D. Willianu Co .• 1319 Michifan Avenue, First Floor, Chicago. Uf· The One Motion, All Steel GO-CART FOLDED FOLDS WITH ONE MOTION NO FUSS. NO FOOLING FOLDS WITH ONE MOTION All Steel; Indestructible. Perfected Beyond All Competition. Frame of Steel Tubing. Will Carry 100 Lbs. Over Rough Pavements. The Only Perfect Cart With a Large Perfect Quick Action Hood. CATALOGUE UPON APPLICATION. STURGIS STEEL OO=CART ===COMPANY == STURGIS. MICHIGAN The Dining-Room Furniture Season • Upon Us IS Now is tbe time you must have a little nice dining-room furniture ou your floor. Nothing will please your trade more tban a moderate-priced, higb-art complete suite, such as our No. 5028shown above. The Nortbern Furniture Company entered tbe field tbree years ago with a full line of moderate-priced, beautifully artistic, and compactly designed dining-room suites. We were the first. Now, manufacturers of table:;,sideboards,and:buffets, everywhere; are going into the suite line. Imitation is the sincerest flaltery, and it shows there is a steady market for dining-room suites. People want tbem. and you must buy tbem. Nowhere in America today will you find as compact, as artistic, and as convenient a complete line of suites for dining-rooms, as the Northern. For tbe number you see on tbis page, we bave bad orders for 50 at a clip, and quickly . followed up by repeats at tbat. But we can say the same of several other items in our line. They sell, and they sell quickly, If you baven't seen our catalogue. or have mislaid your copy, drop us a postal and we will give your request immediate attention, At this season of the year we act quickly, po-you act quickly. too? Northern Furniture Company Sheboygan, Wisconsin The Standard Line of America Will be on e~hibilion as U5ual in CHICAGO ONLY, 1319 MICHIGAN AVE .. Fin' F!o-o"-MANUF ACTURER5' EXHIBITION BUILDING, No.9:t.5% BUFi<ET Do not fail to see our line of CHINA CLOSETS, BUFFETS and BOOK'CASES, 1\0.461 ClilNA (LQSE:T No. 924 BUFFET The following well known representatives in charae: f· P. F15HER F'. £. BACKMElER FRED PARCHERT FRED LUGER G. C. DIEDEN ROCKFORD STANDARD FURNITURE CO., Rockford,Ill. Five Complete Lines of Refrifierators at RIGHT PRICES t]' Opalite Lined. 4]' Enamel Lined. IJI Charcoal Filled and Zinc Lined. fJ Zinc Lined with Removable Ice Tank. tI Galvanized lIOn Lined; Stationary Ice Tank:. Send fol' new Catalogue and let UI na.me you pri(;.e. Challenge Refrigerator Co. GRAND HA VIlN, MICH. U. S. A. 2 I· Luce Furniture Company Godfrey Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. NEW FEATURES in Upper Class CIRCASSIAN WALNUT· A LARGE ADDITION TO I OUR LINE OF STAPLES MEDIUM and FINE FURNITURE . for the CHAMBER and DINING ROOM , , !'~, I ,. 11 .} 28th Year~No. 10. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., NOVEMBER 25, 1907. Trade Days for Children. All kinds of "days" for promoting trade have been inaug-urated by enterprising merchant!;, but aside from the Christ-mas season there arc no trade clays of ~;pecial interest of chil-dren and the mothers of children. Every merchant carries goods suitable for the wants of juveniles in stock and whe11 proper attention is given to the rising generation valuable trade 'will follow the passing of the years. The butcher. the baker, the grocer and the huckster seek favors of. the. house-maids, and it is a wel! known fact that the goddesses of the kitchen and the laundry exercisE: considerable perwer in the placing- of orders for snpplies for the households in which they find employment. Dealers in confections know the value of the trade of children and studiously cultivate it. The buyer of a penny package of candy will, in m,l11yinstances, be the king or queen of the automobile class in the future. Deal~ ers in furniture and kindred goods lind no dilficulty in ob-taining the stock 11ecess3ry for the successful exploitation of trade day"" for children. There are so many useful and pretty things manufactured for children that the problem is 311casy O!le. J tlstances have been reported af the 11l<lkingof suitable prescnts to children under a certain age, brought to the store of the merchant by their parents, who were bor11 on the day of the month whell the children's trade day was held. It was not always easy for a mother to furnish proof of the birth of her child on the day of the month designated, but the wise merchant never doubts the word of a woman Upon any ques-tion in which her children arc interested. Visit the Markets Frequently. The buyers for leading mercantile firms visit the furniture markets fret/uently because it has been profitable for them to do so. A eOllsidenlble number located in the eastern cities make from fOUfto six vi:.;its to Grand Rapids ,11ldChicago an-nually, while the Xcv.' York market is so near at hand that they can drop ill every week, \.,'hen the lilles afe strong enough to command their attention. Buyers located in the west and south visit St. Louis, Grand Rapids and Chicago frequently. The lines ::Ire ever ready for inspection, and with the new pieccs added from time to time, the time and expense of the buyers are fully repaid. These facts should be considered by the stay-at-home buyer. He alone must de-termine \'Vhich way is the better way. Rewards for Employes Large manufacturers pay liberal sums to employes who suggest the means or invent tools by the use of which the cost of an article manufactured may be cheape11(~dor its con-struction improved. The vVestern Electric Company, for instance, pays $100 for every practical suggestion or im-provement originated in their shops. The plan could be employed as advantageol1s1y in the merrantile as in the manufacturing business. $1.00 per Year. New Lines in Grand Rapids. The "bookings" of the exposition managers for 1908 con~ taln the n;J.111('S of many hldividuats, t1rms and corporations that have not placed goods on sale in Grand Rapids in re~ cent years. The selling forces ..".ill be 1ncreased and many new faces will appear. The market promises to be the most most complete for ,t winter season in the history of the in-dustry, Sleeping Partners. "Sleeping partnerships'" are common in the business af-f, lirs ofEllgJand. Information as to the beds used is lack~ ing. The relation is akin to the "silent partnerships" of the United States. The sleeping, as well as the silent, partner usually makes his appearance as a preferred creditor when re-verses come. DeseTves a Large Sale. A firm engaged in the publishing business in Londoll. England, have issued a "business book," containing among other things, information and suggestions as to the best means for obtaining extra capital. The book should have a large sale in the furniture trade of the United States. ouu Spr(IAlIMPrRlAl wrATnrurD OAKOil STAin is the, standard all over America. Are YOUusing it? Write us for Samples and Quotations of the BEST S"ElLAC VARNIS"ES --- --~-- 4 MR. FLATDWELLER MOVES From a Large Flat Into a Smaller Place-How They Man-aged to Squeeze in. "There are mallY things which seem impossible to us that we rl1ld we can get a' ...a.y with all right when we have to," said 1\1r. Flatdwelter. "One of them consists in condensing the outfit of a large flat into the space of a smaller one. "Tn the bigger flat we had none too much room and not a blessed thing that 'we could throwaway, or so we thought whell we first talked over the 'moving p:-oblcm. But as the day (atTIc nearer and the sn~al1er flat stared us closer in tl~e face we made up our minds that verhaps we could throw away this thing and that, one or two little things that \ve did 110t care much about, and then when the day was right at hand aud we were actually brought face to face with the pro-position of putting a quart into a pint pot, why, you know wl:at ·we did? Why, certainly. "The first thing to go was a double ,voockn bed tbat we'd had for years, finding always at least one room big enough for it. But there· wasn't any such room in the new flat, and so down to the basement with the double wooden bed and springs, to be given away or thrO"'Vllaway; you couldn't sell a bed like that nowadays for 50 cents. Its place in our new flat we supplied with a single iron bed. "A thrce-qLlarter iron bed and spring"s we sent also to keep company witb the old double wooden bed, that three-quar-ter which we had set Llpin the spare room of the old flat we had no room for at aU in the new. "And then we discarded one single iron bed that would have gone into the smal1est hedroom of the 11ew flat, hut which with a bureau there would have left scant room be-sides. and we bought to go in that room a folding bed. "So, while a month before we had though,t we hadn't a thing we could thrml\" away, not a blessed thing, we started off by throwing away three bedsteads, not such a bad beginning, and then we got busy in a room that we had used for a store-room and in which, as a handy place of disposal, we had been' accustomed to put whatever we couldn't find room for any-where else, and there we found rich pickings in things that we'd been taking around witb us for years, but ..".hicb we couldn't by any possibility find a'ny room for in the new apartments. No storeroom there! "And it was astonishing what a lot of truck we found in that storeroom that we really had no l1eed for, stuff out of date or absolutely useless, which we had kept because we hated to throw it away. but w1-lich now we had got to do something with. And we did it all right, and before we got through got so that we could do it without a qualm. "This to be thrown away?" asks some member of the fam-ily, holding up something, and "Yep,' 'says the Arbiter, and to the kitchen it goes. to be piled up there till we'd got enough faT a dumbwaiterful, and for some' days we kept the dumhwajter busy with a strange assortrr:ent of odds and ends dug out of that storeroom and gathered from other roon:s, and from closets in which they had been stored. No spare doset iooin, either, in the new flat. "And we put into the discard a dilapidated chair or two that had stood around modestly in the old flat alld added to them for good measure one table and o'ne big old fashioned sideboard that we were going to have no place for, and I don't kno·w what else; but there was a lot of it. "You never can tell what you can do till you have to, but the great joke of it all to me was that we\'c never missed a thing of all those things we threw away. And I'm glad my-self that we've got down to something like .light marching order. We're all the more ready now in case we should move next time i.nto a still smaller flat, where you da"n't use even single or folding beds, but those bedsteads that are built with one bed above another, rising in tiers, two or three.stor-ies high." Stockholder-Salesmen. A considerable number of traveling salesmen are owners of stock in retail stores managed. by corporations. Their ownership is not an advantage to the corporations in ques-tion. Naturally, the buyers for such establishments fed under obligations to place their orders for goods with the stockholder-salesmen, and such purchases are seldom made with wisdom. A salesman representing an independent manufacturer would not be able to compete with a salesman who owned stock in a mercantile corporation, and was en-titled to examine its books and records. What salesman handling a line of chamber suites would call upon the buyer A Room Scene Effective. A music room, containing a piano, several s111a11stringed instruments. a piano bench, a music cabinet and other fur-nishiJlgs suitable for such an apartment, is a show wind:nv attraction in Philadelphia. Oair CO. RICHMOND, INDIANA Double Cane Line SEE OUR NEW PATTERNS CATALOGUES TO THE TRADE WE SELL TO FURNITURE DEALERS ONLY. WE MANUFACTURE A FINE LINE OF STAPLE CHAIRS AND ROCKERS, DINING, OFFICE, MISSION FURNITURE, FIBRE.RuSH MALACCA THE FORD & JOHNSON Co. NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO CINCINNATI ATLANTA Something DiffERENT •In Couches No. 155 $4.00 Net WOVEN WIRE COUCH We have made for some time, Couches and Davenports with woven wire tops. Our latest essay in this line is DIFFERENT. Made and shipped K. D. Easily set up. A trial order will convince. SMIT" &. DAVIS MfG. CO.,St. Louis. 5 6 ·"~MJ9HIG7JN FAULTS OF THE PERIOD ROOM. Styles That Are Not Suited to Modern Ways of Living, Shall it be the period room for the llew house, or shalt :t be the modern compromise for this strictly artistic styk? For !-icvera! sea:,ons the period room remained most popular with deco~<ltors. The Dumber of men and women \vho have gone into decoration during the last few years has greatly in-crea5cd. They have from preference devoted themselves to the period room, as they offer the decorator the best oppor-tunity for the display of his skill. The result has been a great number of rooms reproducing as exactly as slavish imitation can the room of the eighteenth and even the seventeenth century, whether these happened to be English in the style of Chippendale, Sheraton or Adam, or French in the manner of Louis XVI of XV, or of the Em-pire. Most of the Empire rooms were planned more than a decade ago, when there ,vas a great revival in taste for this rather debased style of decoration. Adam is still an English craze which came in wit:t the pres(~nt taste for everything that is Georgian, and as in do-mesti. c architc.c.tuH'.as well as i.n intexior decoration Robert Adam is the eSsence of Georgian art, he is the favorite model of the day. The classic French designs of the Louis XIV and XV decorators have never been out of vogue. Decor-ators have always kept them in view, although at different times they have been more in demand than at others. "The objection to period rooms," said a decorator who ha~, not contlncd himself to this class of work, "is that one must for the sake of correctness surrender most of the progress that the world has made during several generations ill com-fort. The heavy, roomy chairs of velvet or leather turned out by the best of our manufacturers today are superior to anything that ever was inventecl so far as t11ey are able to contribute to the natural joy of living. One can sink into them witb a sense of comfort as well as with the security that comes frotH knowing that they are not going to ereak or eraek or {lo any or the disconcerting things that happen to antiques or reproductions of antiques. 'Take for instance furniture of the Adam or the Louis pcriods. Bc it built ever so strongly, there is no propriety in such furniture unless it be decorated in light shades of silk, satin or tapestry. That style was all very well in a century of gallantry when men never worked and \vomen lived an artificial life entirely different from their exist-enceS today. Imagine the impropriety of a man who calls on a rainy afternoon and has to sit on a chaise longue cov-ored with Aubusson tapestry in a design of flesh colored cupids against a background of yellow roses. Naturally fUr-niture of such apartments fits them only for the most formal use. The period room in its most perfect form is suited only to the house that has several apartments, and the Adam or t1.e French room is intended only for the most formal use. "Or take an Empire room. The use of Empire furniture was never very well understood in this country by the women who could afford to buy most of it. I have seen rooms so crowded with tables, chairs, desks <lndcabinets that one couid scarcely move around in them. Now, of course, the Empire rOOl11sin the Trianon, as well as those at Versailles, have vcry £e-w pieces of furniture in them. They have the empty look that is just now so modish in Kew York. vVhen the Empire eraze was at its height, however, women soon realized that its formal, eheerless look was not what they wanted. Rooms that looked like that were no proper reflection of the full lives of today. "It was impossible to find anything else that would ap-propriately go with Empire furniture. To the most unculti-vated taste in decoration it was evident that Empire could not be mixed with modern pieces. The only way in which the depressing influence of the Empire could be overcome was through filling up the rooms with ,pieces of the same kind. That may not have made them much more cheer-ful, but it at least lJrevented them from looking so empty, which was exactly the way they should have looked to be characteristic. Then the right sort of silk for Empire furni-ture should be in light tints, and that made it unsuited to the needs of this year of grace. It is impossible to make any period rooms reflect the life of its occupants today. "Just as unsuited to our time is the Adam room. The chairs are so frail that a man weighing over 160 hates to get into one of them. The sofas with their \'veblike straw ,seats are as alarming to any but the light and airy, a1tl~ot1gh the:: No. 2704. Made by Mueller & Slack Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. straw is ·very much strengthened. The pale green, pale pink and pale mauve satin hrocade is a dangerous baekground for any man who has been sitting in a trolley car. The large Chippelldale and Sheraton chairs are not unsomfortable, ht1t the smaller ones totter 011 tiny spind1elegs. "What possible comfort can any but a very slight person derive from sitting on a small Louis XVI chair with a gilded straw bottom? For a young girl in evening d~ess such a support is very suitable, and it would not be unsuitable for a man with a flowered velvet coat over his satin short clothes. But for a fat man even in evening dress such a perch is comic for spectators and·agony for him. "The large upholstered chairs now used so much never ex-isted in the time of the other furniture, but they are an en-tirely appropriate rebellion against the tyranny of the strict period style. They are morc comfortable than <lll the ber-geres or chaises longue in· the world, yet they were never dreamed of in the days of Louis XV. A strict adherence to the styles of the period would have made them impossible. This is the superiority of the latitude wh·ich the decorator has when he gets out of the strict period. "Of course to make Adam furniture and cover it with leath-er, velvet, dark brocade or other appropriate stuffs would be to violate the absolute rules of that period. Such furniture was never meant for regular and heavy use. Equally inap- 7 NE.W UDE.LL SAMPLES LIBRARY BOOKCASES MUSIC CABINETS "The Line LADIES' DESKS That Gets the Orders" Shown only GRAND RAPIDS i'l Furniture Exhibition Buil~jng FOllr/h /t'loor Janllary, 1908 Rush Oriers lor Chris'mas Given Special Attention. ~FI'ilf /01' VA. FA }J!(} with j!l'it;l~' {I(ld 8fock shut. No. 331 SOLlD MAHOGANY LIBRARY BOOKCASE. :.\fo. 1224 SOLID MAHOGAL\;Y COLONIAL DESK. THE UDELL WORKS, propriatc \Y(lu1d be FrcilclJ furniture of the two middle LOllis decorated in dark shades or ill katbcr. Periods must be properly <ll1cl strictly carried ont or they sl:onld not he at-tempted." The decorator who is as eclectic as he ,,,,hose vinv:> \\'crc just quoted may of COl1r:.;(' put into a room any-thing tililt ac-cords ''I-'itb good taste. I\]ost of them have gOlle il: for tilt' !O\·V C(lI11fortahlc chairs of upholstery manufactured ill ;;ij,~ coulltr:y and in FngJand. and with these they often combine cluirs (llHI tables of English n,ake, maybe of the Cl~ippeIl(ble or Sheraton p,\tten1. In a drawing room there ma.y he a I.ouis XV berg-ere, or pCThap:~8.11 Empire chaif, \vit!lout too n:llch of the ormulu. Colonial, or American En:pire, which was manufactured in this country contemporaneollsly with the Empire furniture in France, is usually free from the metal onlarnentatiol1 and therefore hlcncls well with furniture of any period. The up-bolstered chairs arc u.sually done in a flO'wcrecl or sohl col-ored velvet that follows the color scheme of the rOrHll. In the llse of Ad;\m or the French furniture of the schools men-tioned, it is as inqwssible to have a room dark in color scheme as it is to decorate the furniture in that way. This partic-ular 1110rcthan anything else makes these periods so limited in their usefulness for modern decoration. "Jlldiciously cornhined with the patterns of the day," said the eClectic decorator, "the classic types of fUflliture have great value and are in fClet almost indispensable. rreneh, English or Italian renaissance may be used to add variety.to a schcme of decoration, and in that ,\'ay lhey are absolutely suited to our present conditions, e?pecially as this is 811 age ill which we are horrowing from the art of all times and na-tions to enhance the inventions of (~L1rown. Tlms a com-posite room is a 111uchlllore tl"utl:.ful rellection of our taste today than a strictly period room call evcr be." L Indiana polis, Ind. The decorator who goes in for the period reg-ards himself (IS much more artistic than the decorator who merely seeks to make attractive looking living roun~s Stlited to our civili-za tiOll today. "Of COllrS{;, no {leco;:"tDi \\'ouhl ever (lesign a Louis XV or IAHlis XVI salon," he said, "for a housc in which there were nol to be formal apartments, nor would he be any more likely to SUllpl:r \"... ith an Adam drawing- room one that did not have the lcss elaborate apartments for the use of the family. Tile more elaborate rooms are intended for formal use, and these periods are alone adapted to the decoration of slrch rooms. The man who builds a ball room in his hOllse \"..i.ll prcsumably have all the other r00111She needs. lIe call j-ind no more beautiful school of decoration for such an apart-ment than that invented by the Frellchmen. T::·ose desig'ns were the outcome of the spirit of the time, which was a time of gayety, heauty and luxlIrY. Such elements arc better ~~l1it('dto a ball ]"()0111 than ally that might hc invcnted by the conditions of the day. "i\ 111;\11 \·vith a ronHl tb;\t represents exactly s~me period of decorative. ;\l"t \'a3 more than a mere i1partn,ent in 1:1;; h011se. He bas something' as arlistic as a beautiful picture or a porcelain. Of course, the owner of a small house would be foolish to have his only livillg room done in the style of a Louis XV salon. He would be ridiculolls. In the same way are the Adam rooms unsuited to small or even the mod-est home. They belong to the class of rooms which should be little used. On the other hand, there is 110 more beautiful model ior every American home than our -Colonial rooms, when either they be living room, dining ro:)m or hallway. And Colonial bedrooms are more appropriate to our way of life than any other. They are also something more than a mere room. They are artistic little museums, forming very interesting- reminders of our national life."-Sun. 8 ~r;.I9HIG7J-N DEATH AND BURIAL IN MANILA. Some Customs the Americans Have Reformed. Death makes quick 1;vork of babies out in Manila. It is said that only half the little Filipinos succeed in weathering a single year of existence there. Their pathetic little funerals are one of the common street sights of the walled ~ity. A writer in the Manila Times tells of one which seemed to be a strictly family affair. The mother carried 011 her head the little pasteboard coffin covered with bits of red, white and blue cotton batting. She was smoking a cigar, and be-hind her trudged four or five children, supposedly surviving brothers and sisters of the little life whi(',h had failed to make good. They were chattering unconcernedly, alld save that the mothers' head was topped by a coffin instead of a basket the Roman Chair Mooe by the Ford & Johnson Co., Chicago, Ill. affair might have been a trip to market. The Filipinos are said to love their children, but with a death ratc of from fifteen to thirty babies a day perhaps custom does somewhat stalc their grief. This little procession was rather out of the ordinary, for as a general thing the coffin-of pastboard-is placed on a board tied to two eross sticks and is carried by two, or per-haps four, small boys. A rich man's funeral is a very differ-ent sort of function. First comes the band, that item being considered indis-pensable to funereal grandeur. It is stated that, in spite of our receiving the story with evident suspicion, it is never-theless a fact that "There'll be a Hot Time" is a favorite tunc upon .t.hese occ<l-sions. "Dixie" is said to be another and "Hiawatha" had a lon,g and intense popularity. Following the band is a four-horse hearse with black fLg-ures at the corners, each labelled with a large placard to pre-vent mistakes in identity. The hearse is attended b~ func-tionaries in hemp wigs, fur trimmed coats, knickerbockers and shovel hats. If the family is not rich enough to afford a hearse, the heavy biers are carried by relays ofpaltbearers. As for the Manila cemeteries, they are not what they were before the American occupation. It was Governor Taft him-self who described the wall vaults as the place where the dead are "pigeon-holed for future reference." These wall vaults are like some of those in the New Orleans cemeteries and were rendered necessary by the same cause, the swampi-ncss of the ground in the old city. The principal cemetery used to be that of Paco. It 'Vas round and was ornamented with a terrace and balustrade above the vaults. The wall containing the"pigeon-holes" was about eight feet thick. . The place was quartered by two alleys crossing in the 71,RTI.sZJeI...l'\I ~~. centre and there was also a chapel where the governors-gen-eral and high prelates were buried. Children were buried. if one may use so inaccurate a term for the process, by them-selves, in what was called the "angelarium." This cemetery was built ill 1810 and uriti] the typhoon of September 26, 1905, was as attractive as such a place could be. The face of tl~,e walls was ornamented with a" great many columns and the inner alleys and circle were beautified with fine old trees. Many of these were destroyed· by the typhoon. There were "pigeonholes" for 1,782 bodies, so that evident-ly rotation in office must be followed if the cemetery was to serve a perennial Use. This rotation was secured by a sys-tem of renting the niches instead of selling them outright. The fees varied from 12 shillings for a child to £4 for an adult, the rent to be paid in advance every live years. These rentals provided the funds which supported the chaplain, who dwelt across the way, at{d also paid other expenses of the place. If at the end of any :five year period another £4 was not forthq)ming, the old tenant was promptly evicted to make room for a more profitable occupant. Before the Americans came these dispossessed parcels of bones were taken to the back of the outer walt and thrown into a sort of fosse between two walls. This fosse was caJJed the deposito, but was promptly designated "the bone pile" by the American soldiers. Every visitor to Manila secures a picture of "the bone plle" as it was when the Americans took charge. Soon after that eyent it was ordered that the bones be covered with earth and that bad paying tenants be provided with some less shocking final resting place. Before the change was made there were many Americans who used rather to enjoy taking new arrivals to the cemetery and giving them a shock by suddenly placing them where a good close view of the bone pile was unavoidable. An Amer-ican woman who had done this a number of times went out one time to repeat the experience with a lately arrived friend. Upon climbing the wall which overlooks th.e deposito, how~ ever, she caught sight of the rec:ently evicted r~mains of a woman whose long hair was blown about by the wind. It was her last visit. The sight cured her of further curiosity or mischief in that direction. Out at LaLoma there are real burying grounds, the dead being interred in the higher ground of that locality. It is a favorite burying place with the Chinese, who like a sloping hillside and who cover their graves with well laid thicknesscs of cement. STAR CASTER CUP CO. NORTH UNION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (PATENT APPLIED FOR) We have adopted celluloid as a base for our Caster Cups, making the best cur on the market. Celluloid is a great improvement over bases made 0 other material. When it is necessary to move a piece supported by cups with celluloid bases it can be done WIth ease, as the bases are per-fectly smooth. Celluloid does not sweat. and by the use of these cups tables are nevcor marred. Tbese cups are finished in Goldf!n Oak and WlJite Maple.. finished light. If you wm t1"g a sample order of the8e goodIJyou wi,t de8irdo handle tkffll. in guantitieq. PRICES: Size 2N inches $5.50 per hundred. Size 2}i inches." 4.50 per hundred. f. o. b. Grand Rapidlt. TRY..A 8AMPLE ORDER. 9 HAND CIRCULAR R[P SAW GEESE Do Not Grow BETTER FEATHERS OR DOWN THAN THE.SE. PILLOWS ARE. FILLED WITH. WRITE THE'. SCHULTZ f5 HIRSCH COMPANY 260.262 S. DBSfLAINBS ST., CHICAGO, 10' ,h. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE and PRICE LIST 01 &dcling Goods. That will tell you all about it. We would like to have you say that you saw this in the Michi~an Artisan. MORTISER COMBINED MACHINE No. J, SAW (ready for cross.cutting) Complete Oulfit of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER He can save a manufacturer's profit as well IlS II. dealer's profit. He can make more money with less capital invested. He call hold a better al1dtnore satisfactory trade wtth his customers. He can manllfacture in as good style and finish, and at as low cost 85the factories. The local cabinet maker has b""en iQrc:ed intn only the dealer's traoe and profit, because of mae:hine manufactured goods of factori~. An outfit of Barnes Patent Foot and Hand·power Machinery, reinstates the cabinet maker witl1sdvsntages equal to his competitors. If desired, these machines will he sold on trial. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in hi!' owt"Jshop and <)11 the work he wishes them to do,J)fl!cripti1J8 cata~()gueand price lwtfrt;e. W. f. Ii. JOnN BARNES CO.,654 Ruby St., Rockford, III. HAND TENONER No.3 WOOD LATHE No. i SAW (ready for ripping) FORMER OR MOULDER No.7 SCROLL SAW WHITE PRINTING CO. I I HIGH GRADE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CATALOGS COMPLETE 10 WOODARD FURNITURE COMPANY owosso, MICH. Ma~ers of the most pa.puJar medium priced bedroom furniture. All the fancy WQOOs and finishes. Especially strong in CIRCASSIANWAlNUT and COLONIAL DESIGNS. Send for catalog. In January OUI" beautiful line of 450 pieces will be .hown all usual in GtaJld Rapid •. No, lOlH DRESSER 1\"0.81 BED MONEY IN FEATHER BEDS. An Income From Old Maine Tokens of Gentility, ;'Did you ever know· of a woman who made a comiortable incorne at buying and selling old feather beds?" asked Stt~;an Merrill, the middle~aged widmv of a former Universalist clergyman. "That's what I have been doillg fOT more than ten years, and I havesnpported myself and c.;entmy two boys. through college. "The feather bel industry was sometl~.j!lgnew in the line of employment for women wren r took it up, but I was pOOr and desperate and had three children to support, and hunger and pride and poverty will quicken one's wits if anything can. "Few people rtalize how many genuine old feather beds have accumulated in the acient farmhouses, having come down in continuous s:H::cessiol1from mother to daughter since the days before the Revolutionary \-Var. In those old days the feather bed -was the sure token of gentility in the New England. home, a family's place in society being measured by the number of featber beds it owned. When I was a girl some of tbe women who lived in this neighborhood and were daughters of Colo1lial wars and the American Revolution and the War of 1812 and the Aroostook ·\Var and the Mexican War owned as many as a dozen great featllcr beds, making their ·social standing unquestioned. ;'Andt'hose ancient feather beds were, genuine, everyone of them. There was not a feather from a boarding house chicken or a Thanksgiving turkey in the lot. "Every fluffy and downy partklc in the great ticks was plucked by hand from the breast of a living goose and then washed in ammonia and soapsuds and dried in muslin bags on clotheslines in the sunlight, and finally stowed away ounce by ounce in tight ticking until cnoughh,ad accumulated to make a feather bed. It was. a long and tedious job too. "Ill those primitive days it was a rule that no girl was /-it to marry until she had spun and woven her !'iix linen s.heets, her three linen bedspreads, and her two dozen linen towels [rom flax grown on the home place, and then had saved up live geese feathers enough to till one bedtiek. And a bed-tick nIled' with feathers of live geese represented several years of saving. ;'Last year 1 bought a feather bed that weighed more than fourteen pound::; by the family steelyard, and when you stop to think how mat~y feathers 'it takes to make a pound, you can understand. something of the task which a girl set for herself before she could claim a husband. "In the ancient cen~eteries along the Penobscot river banks arc aged slate tombstones which mark the last resting places of many dear old women whQ lived and died with the prefix of 'Miss" to their names, Hl1d I lnve always thought the rea-son they never married was that they had failed to collect enough live geese feathers for the, wedding bed until they were so aged and homely that no proud man would accept them for wives on <lliy terms. If my conjecture, is right, those pesky feather beds are responsible for much race sui-cied in New England. ;;"Vhen the spiral spring and the hair and the felt mattress came into fashion the reign of the feather bed was over. A very few of the oldest and most fussy families still used thel~l above the straw or husk fined tick on the corded bed, but nearly everybody bought a new bedstead and became modern. "Tt so happened that my need for money arrived just about the time the feather bed was making room for the mattress. I argued that as people had no further use for feather be.d I could buy them cheap and by taking ~hem home and buying new ticking and dividing the heavy feather beds into pillows 11 ;i j './ i, I ST. LOUiS, MO. KANSAS CITY, MO. PEORIA, ILL UNCOLN, ILL. CHAS. A. FISHER & CO., 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. WRITE FOR BOOKLET AND PROPOSITION iII! Warehouses: MINNEAPOUS, MINN. CHICAGO, ILL. I could market my pillows at a pfoht. for there was ahv<lYs a dcmand for pillows filled with live geese feath(';·:~, nn n~atter what form of springy lll<lterial was used to sleep upon. "Dy working h<lrcl and driving close bargains T have man-aged to cleM from $1,000 to $1,500 a year for the last six years, and there aTe still ancient and unused fcather beds .,i I~ "If the fcatl:-ers are clean and free frO:l1 l::l:S:yS:T:.clls T C:lL1 afford to pay $1 a pound for them. 'iVhen a family has from_ three to tell old feather bed" lying unused in some dry attic, alld when every bed weighs from tcn to fifteen pounds, the salc <\lHOunts to considerable good n:;oney-enollgh to buy_ a new parlor set or a new top clrriagc or a new parlor o:;-gan. MADE BY WOODARD FURNITURE co., OWOSSO, M1CH. enough left in the country towns to keep an active -...voman busy for a century to come. 1 make it a point never to buy anything but absolutely true to name live geese feathers. "They are easy to distinguish from the feathers picked from the bodies of dead geese because the live geese feathers will hop up and expand like corn in a popper the moment the tick is opened, while all other feathers lie dead and flat. ...1. take the feather beds home, turn them all out in a big room, pick them over, bag them again, and dust them on the clothesline, and finally put them up in square' and attractive pillow ticks, and sell my new pillows as fast as 1 can turn them out ior $5 a pair. At times 1 have made as much as $40 or $50 a week by converting antique feather beds into modern pillows. "-Sun. 12 ·:tt~MIPfIIG?lN Fortunes in General Stores. If .there is onc ]ine of business -in which there is "big money" and about which the average city man knows less than any other it is the general store business as conducted in country towns. Everyone who spent his boyhood days ill the country can remember the country store, or at least the cross roads store where we used to go for the mail, took the horse to he shod, bought needles and thread, spent our sayings for sweetmeats -where, in fact, w.e could buy anything under the sun, This is as near as most of us ever came to being actually in con-tact with a general store, yet there are in thi:. country alone 120,OCDof them and the commercial agencies tate this' number at $l,CCO or upward. !\otwithstandirtgfhe fact that there exists so 'large a num-ber, yetthere are rnor,eo(Hmings today' for good live rr:en to go into thjsbusiness than there ever were before, and there are vast sections of the west,just waiting for some progres-sive young:m<l.-rt-to go mand reap the golden harvest of piles of'dollars for ,.honest effort and a desire to please. The greatest number ,of these general stores naturally exist in the west, and a visit to one of them is extremely in-teresting. The old idea, the one we recall of our boyhood days, is past. No longer are these general stores places ~here loafers congregate and sample crackers and dried apples while they settle the destinies of the nation, elect pres-idents, and dispose of international wars. Today everyone of the general stores of the country presents the appearance of a department store on a small scale. In fact, the great stores of New York and Chicago are the outgrowth of the country idea, which .'1,rasborn in the United States. In the modern general store everything under the sun may be bought. If the proprietor happens to be out of just what you want he v..'ill get it for you. This is the result of evolu-tion of the ,rural districts and the demand of the American farmer for up-to-the-minute ideas. 1\ a matter where the store is located, the general me,chant is the biggest n-.erchant in town. He and tl~e editor of the local paper are the two men of the town, and they, with the banker, represent a power that rules the destinies of the lo-cality wherein they live. It used ,to be-that all a man had to do in a prosperous sec-tion was to ,open up a store with an assortment of goods and wait for the trade. Today things are changed. Today the proprietor is a veritable dynamo of energy and effort. The .'Ieneral stores have built up a mighty power in the local newspapers, for today life to them can only be sustained by liberal and constant injections of good advertising. The country general store does today exactly what the big department stores of the cities do. This is a fact that but few people are familiar with. Pick up a copy of any Morton House ( American Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pantlind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Panllind for 50c is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTUND. Prop. country newspaper today and you will find full page adver-tisements of Jones & Co.'s g~neral store in yvhich are quoted prices and bargains on up~to-date merchandise which in the days of the old time stote of our boyhood would never have been thought of. There are still large openings in the west for young men with nerve and a little money. A good example of what can be done and what is done every day is to be seen in a man who owns one of thes.e progressive general stores out in Min-nesota. Tim Sammons owns a store in Monteray, l\Iinn" doing n business of over a q.uarter of a million a year, and he started but a few years ago with a capital of less than $1,000, and tnis success has been built up in the face of tl~.emost stren-liOUS competition. I was talking to Sammons the other day writes Wesley A. Stanger in the Chicago 'Tribune and he gave me his prescrip-tion for starting a general store, and followed with a lot of good advice on how it should be run. A good store can be started on an initial capital of $2.000; and this is the way Sammons advised buyin'g: Groceries, cigars and tobacco, $450; shoes (well assorted), $400; staple dry goods, $650; house goods, $50; fixtures, $200; cash in bank, to discount bills, $250. In telling me of his success he gave me a number of val-uable epigrams which any merchant can well apply to his business anywhere, and which should bc a good guide for any young man desirous of starting in this line of profitable busi-ness: "One must advertise all of the time. "Change your advertisement every issue. "Keep something ncw before the farmers all of the time. "\Vhen th.e ladies come in have a place for them to rest and care for their babies. "In warm weather have a tank of ice water handy. "Sell for as near cash as you can. Don't be afraid to push a man for money. "Do not cater to the loafing element-there is no money in them. "Learn to say 'no' "Do not overbuy. often. "Keep your floors and windows clean. "Keep your shelves full. "Cut out the booze, and you will never fail." In this list of rules Tim Sammons, known all ovcr the middle west, sums up the secret of 'success in the general -store business. When he started in his wife was his olllyassistant, at,d he says she is the most valuable asset he ever had. There is no business today in which there are any bi.:;ger or surer returns than in the general store business, but a man must have nerve, ambition, ginger and a determination to SllC-ceed. This is a business which is not overcrowded and one where fortune holds golden rewards for men with prog:essive ideas. with Buy a smile. in small quantities for cash, and Withdraws from the Exposition. The E. M. Hulse Company of Columbus, 0., did not renew their lease for space at 1319 Michigan avenue, Chicago, and will not show their line in any market in January, but the boys who carry their photos will be out carly. Since aoding library and parlor tables to the line their business has greatly increased. There seems to be such a demand for this class of goods that it would not surprise the writer if it does not b.ecome "the dog" instead of the tail, and not only do the wagging, but the barking as well. Of course, as long as the E. M. Hulse Company make couches, davenports and leather chairs such as they have been making they will find plenty, of dealers who will be anxious to carry them. 13 From the Line of the Ford & Johnson Company, Indiana and Sixteenth Streets, Chics,go, Illinois. 14 I!STABLISHEC 18BO I"VBL.'SHI!D .v MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EAC .... MONTH OF'FICE-2-20 LYON ST.• GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. ENTERED .liB M-.TUR OF THE 8EC0l\10 CLASS Merchants, especially those whose trade is principally with women, are "getting wise" to the value of rest rooms, 'where comfort and conveniences are provided. These rooms have 'come to be consider.ed an essential in the make-up of the small, as well as large, stores, and merchants are setting aside valuable selling space to provide this apartrr:cnt. The f(st room is a drawing card, equal to the most elabor:itcly stocked department in the hOllse. \Vomcn are drawn there by its lr.anifest hospitality, and it is well UIHlcrstood that where _WO~ men can be induced to go in allY considerabk nurnbe~s, trade results as a matter of course, Women, when they lOtart out shopping, are intent upon buying fin:;t or last and the problem of making the store the prettiest and neatest is further solved by making it al~o the most comfortable and attractive by rea-son of its rest room and toilet arrangements, The matter of bringing people to the store is the first step in all profit making. °to °to Now that the tirr:e for planning I::oltday decorations is at hand, storekeepers should bear it\ mind the fact that the underwriters consider such decorations extra hazardous. Elec-tric displays, in which the currents are shunted or broken on different circuits should be avoided. In many cities the use of such appliances is prohibited. The salesman who knows how to "hutt in" without glVmg offense seldom fails of success. If he can not act the part repeatedly he will be compelled to give way to his more dis-creet and persistent rival. °to °to Understanding is fully as important as seeing a thing. Suc-cessful salesmen try to teach customers to understand as well as to admire, (which comes with understanding) the things they sell. 'to 't' It is easier to sell $10,000 worth of goods in a community of 50,000 people than $10 worth of goods among 1,000 people. As the field narrows, the merchant should increase his ,efforts. °to °to \Vise merchants give personal attention to their salesmen as well as to customers. A little kindness now and then is appreciated by the men who sell and the men who buy. A good store front draws trade, but it takes well-ordered departments and well posted salespeople to bring it back, season after season. Reform having triumphed in the elections in San Francis-co, merchants are lookillg for a long and prosperous season of trade. °to °to .When a merchant's mind becomes dosed to new ideas it is time for the banker to notify him to take up his notes. Nothing serves so well to rob merchandising of its drudg-ery as the opening and selling of new styles and finishes. "to °tO Value cannot be measured by price alone; the lasting qual-ity always ente~s into the consideration of consumers. Inattention on the part of salesmen drives many customers from the store, many of " ..horn will not return. "1-1an know thyself," commercially paraphrased, should read, Merchant, know thy goods. °to °to Get what you can out of what you have, and ,preserve a margin. That is comfort. 'to Depending upon others for a self-rcspecting person. 't' what he w'ants, will not satisfy 't' A cost clerk hired bankruptcy court. in time has saved many a trip t?, the ;/·!:.A,' -~'M'"iJ- ~\' "",:i COI1Si~'~~;lc:pa,n{cellin~~,l 't' 'to Providing for the future does not orders for stock. °to °to Energy and activity are the equal of genius in thc practical affairs of life. °to °to Intelligence and energy make a great combination for sell-ing goods. "to °to The wise salesman knows, among other things, when not to speak. °to °to Make up your mind to be a market buyer. It will pay you. °to °t" Be thankful just the same, whether trade is good or bad 'to To overcome dull times hustle for business. How Could' He? "\Vhen women," said President Conway of the Retail Clerks' Union, "do the same work as men they should get the sarr:e wages. .Anyone who argues that this is impossible seems to me at once as ungallant and illogical as the famous husband of Paint Rock. "This husband was retuming horr.e. The wife was bur-dened with a carpet sweeper, her husband's overcoat, a suit case, and a broom-dear knows what all. "Coming to a steep hill, the wife paused and said reproach-fully: " 'Jack, if you were a real man, you'd help me carry some of these parcels.' "Jack glared at ner in disgust, and scorn. "'Aw, how can I?' he growled. 'Ain't I got both hands in my pockets?'" Another in Hoopeston. The Home Furniture, Stove & Carpet Company have op-ened a stock of goods in Hoopeston, Ind. I - THE LEXINGTON Michipn Blvd. & 22d St CHICAGO, ILL. Refumlshed and re-fitted throughout. New Management. The furniture dealers' hes.d-quarters. Most con-veniently situated to the fumiturc display houses. Inler-Stale Hotel Go. OWNER &: PROPRIETOR E, K. CrUey. PreS.; T. M. eritey, V. Pres,; L. H. Fire-y. See- TI~jl", Chicago, Kovemher 23.- The merchants of Chicago, in anticipatioll of a heavy holiday trade, have purchased great stocks of goods, and tbe big stores were never more inviting than "t this tin~e. To go through. any ooe or all of the big stores and watch the crowds, oue would llever think that money was scarce. J\farshall Field & Co. (the largest nJe~- chants in the world) have advcrti~H:d in the papers for ex-perienced salesmen and saleswomen. One of the leading furniture commission men in the ),lanufacturers' Exhibition building, 1319 l'vfichigan avenue, said that on Thursday, No-vember 21, he sold the second largest bill of furniture he had taken this year. That helps the optimist to see the doughnut while the pessimist sees nothing but the hole. Nobody can get anything out of a hole. The Lathrop Company, one of the leading furniture com-mission hou,~es in Chicago, have leased space in the Furni-ture Exposition building (it 1411 :Michigan avenue. They have been located on the first floor of 1319 Michigan avenue for several years and make the change in order to have a larger number and better lines to shmv. C. G. "White \vill represent the l\luskegon Valley Furniture Compally {rolll T ndianapolis west to Denver next year, and '...i.ll be on the floor with his new l:ousc in the Manufacturers' building, Grand Rapids. in J alluary. ]\:fr. McCarthy ,..i..ll look after the lines of the White-1IcCartry Furt"!.iture Company shown in Chicago. The George D. \Villiams Company have renewed their tease of 1323 1Jichigan avenue and will make their usual fine showing. Among the best of their lines is t1:e Royal Chair Company of Sturgis, Mich. This is the celebrated push-button ~Iorris chair. which is known from one end of the country to the other. Joseph S. Meyer, manager of the ?danufacturers' Exhibi-tion building Company, 1319 Michigan avenue, says that all the space in the big building has been leased, and the big show promises to be bigger and Gner than ever. Pressley :YL Herron, president of the Sanitary Feather company, is spending a few weeks iu Europe, sightseeing and in recreation. He is expected home in time to eat his Chirst-mas turkey in Chicago. J~ The Horn Brothers Manufacturing Company, makers of fine bedroom furniture, have a tine that is worthy of the at-tention of discriminating buyers. They have built up in the last thirty-hvo years a trade that extends all over the west. The Horn is a good house to do business with. Frank 1'. Plimpton & Co. have had the largest business in their history. Up to November 1 their sales exceeded all of last year, and they have sold some very large bills this month. Muskegon Valley Furniture Co. Muskegou. Mic~•• Odd Dressers Chiffonier. Wardrobe. Ladies Toilet. Dressing Table. Mahogany Inlaid Good. Ladie' De.k. Music Cabinel$ The Sargent Mfg. Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. Bachelors' Cabinets Ladies' Desks Extra Large Chiffoniers ______ Also Manufacturers and Exporters (l( _ ROLLING CHAIRS Chairs adapted to aUkinds of invalidism. both for house and slreet use. OVER FORTY DESIGNS TO SELECT FROM 16 7IR.. T I~ J'{.l'i1 e ; ze- FORCED TO CONTINUE THE CHALLENGE SALE By a <:OlIlbin<L!.ioo of remukable circumstance. there come. the gnatest cram in pri" ever beard of, fouina UI to continue the Challenge Sale lomonow.-:- The great m""ufad;urer of Fashion and Al't_Slyle Furnittl was allDcllit compell"dln d~l! hi, doora. J... t al the mODlent of llie reeent financial crilli. the big factory wal throaten .." with a strike, bee ...u" tbe management could not ll:I&ke up the pal'rolb with cash. We imntediately took advantage of the .itllalia. and made them a sweepillg eash ()ffff for their entire 41UPW •• tock, which they were foreed tDo ",,~pt. $28,.000 worth of the Jlooo. were received to-day and will be ""hllornorrow. Saturday, for lell money than actual cost t<:I make. Replenished by tbouoan<b of new articles C>f ftlagDifi<:ent Art St,.le IUld F"o.hiOll FumilbiJl.(flI aDd the dt-livery of large Stove ordeo'. placed molllblago. our ItOCk- will pre.eDt thll! granileat anal' of splendid goods over shown in DetroiL PRICES CUT IN HALF The ruthleu ctlttiDgGf P~' with utter diN'ellatd f.or actual val"e will make 0.... name . !mown thn;.ughout Detroit .. the ,yDOllyJD of low pncq and Qrea.I: vallie. and emphadze the already eMabli.hed fad tbat our gr-t eltabJi"hraenl i" headquarters for h..- provider:a and the plaee where OIle doUar will do th work of ".0. D<>a't nUu tamanu ..... "''1I.w.. The ..... t Cl'OW'l.af -.... buyen that thronpd tha great Eaay_Way-tool"ay .tore I.... p... t "'''''k, duru.. th......ry time «bar ttIeI"Cbe.Mt _re ~ Df a ....liceable fallinll' off in b....m-a. La remarkable and atl""t Ihe ""noatwn",1 "up;" prie"" th.t ha. ..eP......"'iIed. WE ACCEPT Pay Checks Personal Checks .or Bank Booklt To accommodate OW" ""wto",e.. Ilnd d"DlOP,Ir",le to ::::iit~~~~:'=lof.~.ct;:o.c:'· ;::J':~tth~'el"l,,,:;:t 1:1<)0011in0 .P"y",...r .,.,.J'pur'd.",""" rEAVE YOUR MONEY IN THE BANK. It it not .....,,,.... ., I<> dTaw aoy of it out in ....der to lAke advanlalle of lhe peat ........ offering. bere tomorrow. It'. Ea5y-to-Pay-the People's Way. We trwt "....ry!>ody. We gi"" you aU tbe time you ,.".t to pay for what you buy, E......,.thl~ redw:ed. 10 half p""- tomon ....... ill be.old. 'In our Il.UIOI"'rm. of ea.)' .,....\it" Be oure 10<:ome_. CHALLENGE SALE PRICE F"rComplete M 95 Arl-Iron Bed Outfit "':7~ ART..5TYLE SIDEbOARDS BELOW COST lii~t $13.85 ....".-....~......:::::=T.:=~_.:::~::;;:::~:.:::..T:=-~=-:-::--:--~=---1 ."", ' ... "" ... " &l .. 11." ,. """h ,,.<,,, '''Jo"''','m~''I",··,"""",,',;m"'","."'"'.'''h''h h"''''"''''''''"''''''''''''-A''-~'''''' _ ''''''' hi,,', ~'"., """" ""d ""S",Lo', ,"DlI.". """ "'I' " ••. TOI. I'"""."'~'M "',."'" :,':::),"1~, It-: ~';:~:~~;;,.~;;:'::;:.·.~i~"t,·..,~O,"'-: ,1:"'I..',,~",1:~".~",'"~,"\,.0;':"~;~.'.;:.,t.;.:,',",';~:-,\:::'l':i~'o~~''i'!,::'~: ",""""'."-"",:""". $13· .25 THE F,l.MOUS .JEWEL ~ $W1NG MACHINE AT LESS THAN COST TO MAKE. .A SAMPLE OF GOOD ADVERTISING. ' 17 OUR OAK AND MAHOGANY DINING EXTENSION TABLES ARE BEST MADE BEST FINISHED VALUES All Made frotTiThoroughly Seasoned Stock. LENTZ TABLE CO. NASHVILLE, MICH. NEW STYLES FOR FALL SEASON MOON DESK CO. MUSKEGON, MIC". OffiCE DESKS No. 533. We Manufacture the Largest Line of F010inu <>Uairs in the United States, suitable for Sunday Schools, Halls, Steamers and all public resorts. We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cots and Cribs in a large variety. Send for Catalogue and Pricer to Kf\UFfMf\N MfG. GO. ASHLAND, OHIO The New Banquet Table Top as wellall OFFICE, DINING and DIRECTORS' TABLES are OU1' specialty. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO., ~~ Write for Catalogue. Get sampb of BANQUET TABLE TOP. I J 18 Suggested a Story. While discussing the sudden and unnecessary cancellat-tion of orders following the recent monetary storm in Wall street, a traveling salesman who spent his last year's vacation in Ireland, remarkel, "The natural beauty of Ireland is be-yond description. The magic spell of its lakes and mountain scenery one can never forget. While the people are very poor, their prou-d spjrit will never admit their poverty. To judge from their conduct, they are the most happy, content-ed and prosperous people in all the world. No matter how great is their distr-ess, they are courageous, hopeful and uIlcomplaining. \Vhite traveling through the lake region on a jaunting car I called the attention of the driver to a pedestrian on the highway who seemed to he very poor and expressed sympathy for him. The jarvie assured me that my sympathy was misplaced-that the man by his industry they are as ncrvous as the ticklish Irishman. If they could control themselves long enough to order the goods that will be needed for the holiday and spring season of trade, substi-tuting new suites for the poor stuff they so desperately cling to, and then go to work with a will to sell the same, the alarm under which they are sufferirig would quickly pass away." Repor:s of Shipments. Commission salesmen have good grouru:1 for' complaint on account of the individuals, firms and corporations failing, and in most instances, refusing to furnish a daily list of the shipments made. A salesman visiting Omaha, for an in-stance, in October, and learning that no part of an order taken by him in July from a certain dealer had been filled, would be certain to uttcr words that would not be deemed A WELL SEATED LIBRARY. and the practi~e of economy, bad saved .£5 ($25) (Lml placed it in the bank. The jal"vie considered him n~ry well off. Allother pedestrinn. whose appearance indicated extreme poverty, was met later, and the jarvie, who knew everyone in the region, stated that the man was fortunate in having acquired a stock of peat, hig only possession. \varth £ 1-$5. Still another ragged, balf-starved vagabond was passed later in the day. 'That man must be very poor. His clothing is soiled and in tatters. His condition mt1st be a very unfortu:- nate one,' I felt botl11d to remark. 'By no means, sir,' re~ marked the jarvie. 'He is quite well off, sir. His clothes are ragged, but the reason he does not wear better is that" he is 50 ticklish he cannot stand still to be measured for an-other.' It seems to me that many of the retaile:.-s of furni-ture might take a lesson from the poor people of Ireland. They are not as poor as they imagine themselves to be-that either polite or refined. If he had been informed that no goods hnd been shipped the salesman would hnve been saved much time and expense spent in making the second trip to Omaha. Commission and salaried salesmen well com-plain bitterly of the treatment they receive at the hands of the men in the office. Letters asking for information are but seldom answered. The receipt of orders is seldom ac-knowledged and requests for remittances arc unheeded when it is not convenient to respond. In an address to the manu-facturers of Grand Rapids a year or two ago Hon. George P. Hummer declared that as a rule the men engaged in the business of manufacturing furniture are competent, but in the equally important branch of marketing their products they are rank failures. It might be added that there is much that should be learned in the conduct of correspondence and the considerate treatment of traveling salesmen. I 19 SLIGH'S SUPERIOR STYLES SELL IN ALL SEASONS DULL TRADE IS UNKNOWN BY DEALERS HANDUNG THE SUGH UNES. Correct Styles, Good Materials and Honest Workmanship, strong features in the Sligh Lines. SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY, BuchananSt. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GED. SPRATT &, CO. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. Manufacturers of Chairs and· Rockers. A complete line of Oak Diners with quarter sawed veneer backs and seats, A large line of Elm Diners, medium priced. A select line of Ladies' Rockers. Bent and high arm Rockers with solid seats, veneer roll seats, cob-bler seats and up-holstered leather complete. High Chairs and Children's Rockers. You 'Will glt In on th~ jfyou,Td floor when you huy from us, No. 642 Oak, Solid Seat. Price, $17&::. No. 540;.6 Same as No. 542 on I y Quartered Oak, Veneer Seal. $18&:;. No. 542 Robbins Tabl6 60. OWO~~O. Mi6hl!Jan No. 318. AMERICAN OAK. 44x48 IN. TOP, AMERICAN BASE. 7 IN. PILLAR. 20 ·!"~MlfjIIG7fN $ FOR THE FLAT DWELLER. Sarcastic Merchant Describes to Drummer the Sort of Furni-ture Needed. Old Giles, the furniture dealer, sat at his desk pulling away at a cigar an inch and a half long. It had never been a good cigar, and it was, by means of an execrable ecloT, getting even witb the sIr.okcr for having terminated its lease of life- , if a cigar rr:ay be said to have a lease of life. There were no customers in the store. 1\0 one even stopped to look in at the window display, though the place was on a busy street in a large city. Giles was looking ove~- his sales account, and the figures roiled him. To him, in this mood, came the furniture salesman, seeking to interest him in new. winter styles. "Here you are," quoth the salesman, getting out his photo-graphs. "We've got furniture now that will pack your store like a ward caucus. What did you say? Chairs? Well! \Ve've got chairs that will keep people awake nights, sitting in them just for the sakc of being in polite society. Here you have 'em. Chippendale, ribbon-backs and carved backs; Heppelwhite, shield-shaped backs, with wheat-ears and ,honey-suckle flower ornaments; Sheraton, with straight, square back-rail. \Ve've got a line of ebairs that will make people sit up and take notice. How's your stock-" I Giles pitched ,his cigar into the middle of the floor and leaned back in his chair, thumbs in vest armholes, feet straight out. The salesman sat down and began to s'huffie his photo-graphs like he was playing poker. "Look l1ere," said Giles; presently, ~'have you got any fur-niture made on cave-men lines?" "Nothing in stock," laughed the salesman. "We can make some for you. Imitation bear skin bed, ~h? There are no more real bears; you know, since Teddy went out hunting 'em. 'Chairs out of stone, and kitchen cabinets dtt in a rock, eh? You bet, we can fill the order." "Those cave-men," said Giles, "lived in mighty smal1 rootTs. They didn't have a sweep of seventy-five feet from the pador bay wicdow to the library porch at the back of the h011se. They had to double up, like three in a bed and two in the middle. I've been wondering if you couldn't trake some furniture that would fit into a hole in a cliff, or a st:ccession of pigeon-holes in a fifteen story tenement." "You bet we can," replied the sa1esn~an. "We can make a ccdrcom suite that wilt occupy no more space than the con-science of a rr::ail order rr.an, and that is about the smallest thing I can think of. What is the color of the bug that is working in your belfry today, old man?" "1:Iy trade is a city trade," explained Giles, "and the city trade is largely a flat-dweller trade. See? I furnish four rooms complete for $47.19. Can you make a folding bed that can be packed away under the sink?" The salesman passed over a cigar. lit one himself, and settled back to hear what was coming. When Giles gets '>taded, the salesmen just listen. "\-Vhen I furnish four rooms for $47.19," he continued, "I can't afford to throw in much lumber. I have to be long on convenience and short on material. Space amounts to more than artistic combinations. How·:-would it answer to make a dining table with kitchen cabinet attachment?" "I don't quite catch on." "Just tip up a leaf and reveal an array of drawers and pig-eon holes. Perhaps you might touch a sp,iog somewhere ::Iud make a washtub of it, too." "Don't you think you need a compress on your wide brow or a cocktail, or something of that sort-just. as a bracer, you know?" Giles didn't stop to consider the proposition. "This flat-dweller proposition," he said, "is a serious one. I They have to take the paper off the walls in some of the flats I furnish in order to get the stuff in. If a piano could also be set up like a wardrobe, that would help some. Could you make a sideboard th·at could be turned around in the eve-ning so as to look like a bookcase?" "Oh, yes," laughed the salesman, "and we can make an ot-toman that can be turned into a keg of beer. How large are these flats you are talking about?" "About nine by seven, except the kitchen, and that is five by four and a half. You can grin if you want,to, but the fur-niture trade has got to meet this new condition. Could you make a davenport that could be swung open and do business as a gas range?" Before the salesman could find a suitable reply, a lady entered the store and stood waiting by the merchant's desk. "I want to get a chiffonier," she said, "and pay one dollar a week. Do you think I can find one here that will fit my sleeping room?" She drew her finger along to a knot in the string. Giles looked at the salesman and winked. The chiffonier indicated Maker of Fred J. Zimmer 39 E. Brid2e St., G.RAND RAPIDS. MICH. HIGH GRADE UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE Write/or Cuts and Prices. Every Piece Guaranteed PERFECT. by the measurerr:ent of the customer would be about four feet long and eight inches deep. "There,"· she explainEd, "that is just the length of the space reserved for the chiffonie:.-. It can't be any longer than tl:.:I.t,alld it must be that narrow." "We are just out of that size," said Giles, and the lady went out. The merchant knew that the salesman hOldboth ~een and heard, so r:e did not refer to the incident. "Yes, sir," he said, "this flat-dweller condition will revo-lutionize the furniture trade. I think SOffit;' "'imes that it will also revolutionize the marriage market. I had a clerk work-ing for me who is a victim of the small flat system. He fell in love with a little, slender, violet-eyed creature and married her. They lived in one of these top flats, where any extra compallY causes the hosts to sleep on the fire escape, and they had lots of company, too. Poor things! ""\-VeIl,this slender young creature began to get fat, and she got so stout that they had to move most of the furniture up to the roof so she could turn around in her own house. Finally, she got so fat that she couldn't get through the win-dow to the fire escape when they had company, ami Edwin g-ot a divorce. He said he had to get a wife who could live in those rooms or move, and it cost less to get a divorce than to move. Could you make a flat refrigerator that could be packed away up on the transom?" "Of course," replied the salesman. "I was just figuring on making an easy c.hair that could be turned into a crock of butter. Say, if you will look at these photos I'll get out of town. I begin to feel like going up in the air a few." "This is no josh-talk about small furniture," insisted the merchant. "And the size is not all. If these flat-dwellers keep on they'll be wanting dishes that they can tie into bed-quilts at night. What sort of dreams would a man have if he went to sleep l1m]cr a quilt made of soup plates? I guess he'd have a nig.htmare, all right. Could you make an up-holstered sofa that would flatten out against the wall and look like a pen-and-ink drawing of the Battle of Bull Run?" The salesman lit anothcr cigar and began buttoning up his coat. "Oh, don't be in a rush," said Giles, "There is nothing doing here, and you may as well be getting the flat-dweller feature of the furniture business. You've got to come to it. If this thing keeps on, most of the stuff will have to be built with just a little lumber and a lot of hinges. If the folding bed could be made to knock down so it could go under tbe kitchen sink in the day time, and the davenport coald do daty as a picture of some great battle or as a gas range, or as a bath tub, or somcthing like that, the rooms I)f the flat-dwellers might bc made e\'ell smaller. Could these Chippendale chairs be made to lock together so they could serve as a hammock? There is a place on the roof for a hammock, you know." "Look here," said the salesman, '\vhen you send in another order, you just mention these little matters to the firm. If you want a Turkish rug that can be worn as an overcoat, just mention it. You send the order in, and we'll furnish a man with all ax who will mOlke the furniture fit the rooms." "Oh, you needn't get spunky about it," said Giles. "I mOlY have exaggerated a little, but I'm telling you right now that the modern flat will cause a revolution in the furniture business, and that before many years. There'll be a big de- 1r~al1d for hinges when your designers wake tip. Do you think you could get up a woman's workbox that could be twisted into a pickle jar?" Then the salesman shot out of the store, leaving Giles choking with laughter in his chair. As the salesman tUrIled the corner he bumped into a lady pushing a go-cart which could be changed into a shawl strap. Bllt whell he got home and began to consider seriously the question of Giles' sanity, he sa" .·.. that there was something in the idea that furniture makers must soon begin to figure "1 tl'C pet,t-up flat proposition, in order that all the pieces due in a ten-room house might be gathered in a four-room flat 011 the fifteenth floor, the rooms each being seven by ten feet in-size. ALFRED B. TOZER. Knobs and Pulls. That come off am} mar thc furniture are a nuisance and dear at any price. The Tower Patent fastener, known as thc "No-Kum-Loose," is the only practical device that holds pullo, and knobs so that there is no possibility of thclr coming ot!. The vcry fact that so n:.any imitations ·have bcen put Qll the market is the hest posslbte proof of lhe merits of lhe "No-Kum-Loose" fasteners, which arc made exclusively by the Grand Rapids Brass Company, and furnished with all pul1s and knobs without cost to the manufacturers. The sale of the "No-KnIll-Loose" fastener has grown to enor-mous proportions, and their populaC"ty is increasing· all the time. --------- Lockless Metal Folding Beds -Manufactured by the- SAFF.TV FOLDING BED COMPANY (Ltd.) DETROIT, MICH. It has long pasMd the experimental -point, and is now r('c-ognb: ed as perfection in bed manufacturing. It has been in prlldieal use in thousands of bomes for the pad !!ix J'ears and each year it!! poplllarity bas increased. It is an estab)il:ihed fact that METAl. Beds are the most Sanitary, and that Folding llet-al Beds llre the most de!!!irahle for many reasons. It has been our aim to produce a Fulding l\letal Bed that combines all the qualities 01 the ordi-nary sta.tionary bed, and in addition have the folding feature simple and safe. It is a,s impossible for a "Safety" bed to d08e up when occu-pied as it would be for the ordinary bed•.. In fact, the more weight is in it, the more rigid It Is. Tlu,'re aTe no weights OT ('om.plicated mechantsill about the "Safety"; it is simplicity Ib.elf. It Deeds only to be tried 'to be appreciated. A whole bed 'when yon want it. One-third of a. bed when you dOll't. 'Vhen closed it can be mOl'ed about as easily as a baby carriage. The lJedding Is not disturbed and when covered bed stands back against the wall, leav-ing the Illmr space for other uses. The improvements during the past year cover nearly every point in mechanism., construction and ma-t erial. There bas been ab80lutely noth-ing left undone that could add to the de-sirability of the "Safe-ty." A point tlutt we wish to call your at-tention to, and one which every house-keeper will appreciate is this: There is no trouble In handling the mattre&s, covel'8, or pillon-s, Ill!; they are at all times securely fastened to the bed. The "Safety" dO(,;8 not monopolize a whole room when in use. It folds up to one-third its size wben open, occupying a space H x 82 inches. 'Vith this bed a parlor or sitting room may be used as a sleeping apartment without the slighte(!ltjnconven_ ience or discomfort. ,,"'hen it'l.'i open it looks like a bed, not the gpent cumber-some, unwieldY, UD-sightly thing of the J'fl8t that used to be called a folding bed. S tee 1, Malleable Iron an(l High Car-hon Angle are use(l throughuut, thus as-l.' il1l'inga !!irong-, dur~ lIhle hed tlInt will last a lifetime. F.Alch bed, regard-les!'! elf design, prioo ()r size, haB the "ame "Easy I,ift" mechan-ism, hall hcaring Cll;;- tel's, tubular spring frame with ela"tic fabric, whi(~h not only insures comfort but extrelue ease in operatil.l:n. No lock" or weights (If any kInd are used on'the bed. None are needed. ~- Standard 8,1 z e 8 of "pring frame are made in the 'followlng width: . 4- feet 6 lnche!!!. 4 feet, 3, feet 6 incbeB and 3 feet, all 6 feet 3 inches lung unJe!!!s other-wise ordered. Mat-treSl.' ie8 of staDdard length aod width can be used 011 oor bed!!!. We do, not rec()mmend any partieular style or thickness. Write for DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS AND PRICE LIST. 21 22 Reliable and Substantial Furniture SUCH AS WE MAKE IS EVER THE SOURCE OF PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO THE RETAILER AND THE PURCHASER BlodB'ett Block, GRAND RAPIDS. in January ROCKFORD CHAIR AND FURNITURE CO., Rockford,Ill. Evansville Lines in Chicago. Evansville will make a good exhibit of furniture in Chi-cago. Space has been leased on the first :floor of the Manu-facturers' Exchange, corner of Wabash avenue and Four-teenth street, where the following lines will be on sale through the coming year: Karges Furn:ture Company, chamber suites and ward-robes. Globe Furniture Company, chamber suites and sideboards. B~ckstege Furniture Company, extension, dining, library and parlor tables. Bosse Furniture Company, kitchen cabinets and ward-robes. Evansville Metal Bed Company, metal beds. \\Todd Furniture Company, folding beds. The joint exhibit will contain several thousand pieces. Will Not Open Until July. On: account of the inability of the owners to obtain the steel necessary in the completion of the Furniture Exchange in Grand Rapdis, the opening of the same will be postponed until July next. Work on the structure will 'Continue through the winter. The soap clubs, and similar clubs formed for the purpose of appeal;ng to social, as well as other tendencies of womell, particularly appeal to them by means of skillfully wonkd. schemes for raising money for churches. Merchants who arc bothered by such schemes and clubs should make it a point to take a firm stand on the matter. If church support is to be gained by injuring home merchants then home merchanr.~ should give their church support elsewhere, hut only after the matter is explained fully to those who direct the fund gather-ing for the institution.-Exchange. A Store Telephone System. Two hundred telephones installed in the store of R. H. White & Co. of Boston, enable customers to communicate with every department of the establishment free, and with individuals outside of the establishment for a nickel. Colors That Did Not Match. The Stenographer-Nellie, where's that tall beau you used to have? The Bookkee.per-I set him adrift. He had no taste in dress. His blue necktie did not harmonize with the green upholstery of the divan upon which we used to sit. Why Not Order? Say a dozen or more Montgomery IronDlspla)l Couch Truckssenlyou on ap.ptoval ~ If not .satisfactory they can be returned at DO expense to you whatever. while the price lIllked is but II frille. com. pared to the convenience they afford aDd the economy they repreaent in the aaving of floor space. Thirty-two couches mounted on the Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks occupy the same floor space: as twelve dis. played in the Wlual manner. Write for catalogue giving fun descrip. tion and price in the different finishes. to. gether with iIlustralions demonstrating the use of the Giant Short Rail B~ F asIener for Iron Beds. Manufactured by H. J. MONTGOMERY PATENTBE Silver Cree~ New York, U. S. A. Dennie Wire and Iron Co.• Cataadian Manu-facturen. Londoa, Onl. 23 FROM THE CATALOG OF THE NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE CO•• GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The "ELI" fOLDING BEDS mfrr"~,':..m No Stock complete without the Eli Beds in Mantt:ll and Upright. EL I 0. MILLER & Co.WErvitae .ofo"r '"cuets.laanddlapric.e.s No. 257. PrIOe$18.50. Has 48ltlch Top, 5 Legs and is Highly Polished. It's One of the "SUPE,RIOR" There are many more, all Peaches, Pie and Pudding. Send for Catalogue and get a taste. EV4NSVILLE IND. THE BOCKSTEGE fURNITURE CO. Globe Side-boards Am me 80S1 on I the mone lor the MOney GET OUR CATALOGUE Mention the MICHI-GAN ARTiSAN when writiIlfl. Globe Furniture Company EVANSVILLE. l ~ Cupboards Kitchen Cabinets and K.D. Wardrobes. Is all we mo.k e but . we make Iota of them. Get Catalogue and Prices. The Bosse Furniture CO EVAN SVIU.E.IND • Kar~es War~ro~es are Good Wardrobes GOOD Style Construction Finish PRICES RIGHT WTjtef~r, Catalogue Karges Furniture Company, EVANSVILI.E, IND. 26 FOREST MADE FURNITURE. Adirondack Guides Who Are Also Wood Workers. When an Adirondack guide is really master of his craft he is also a great deal morc. In particular he is a skilled, quick and ingenious carpenter and joiner, with an expert knowledge of local woods and a deftness in making articlc,s of furniture from cedar and pine in the round that few urban craftsmen can equal. Such men can furnish a camp throughout with articles of these materials made to the rustic fashion, and there is no more appropriate furnishing for a camp that is really such and not a mere palace in the wilderness. For the bedrooms they make bedsteads, usually of pine in the round with the bark removed for the sake of greater cleanliness, sometimes of planed planks. The washstand is made of tongued and grooved wood and shaped to go into a corner of a room or tent. It is usually provided with ample shelves for storage. Every bedroom or tent has its two wood boxes, one of large size to hold the billets of hardwood which are to keep the hearth fire or the tent stove going, another of small size to hold the light, dry pine used for kindling. These boxes are made in several forms and are always charming and ap-propriate. Sometimes the larger box is a crib of carefully chosen cedar sticks in the round firmly joined and provided with a tight bottom. The small~r box is often of pine boards cov· ered with birch bark carefully chosen for color -and marking, andbol.lnd with narrow strips of birch or some other native wood with the bark all. Sometimes the kindling box is completely covered with small strips of some wood that tenaciously retains its bark. In such case the coloring of the bark is carefully considered, and the box with its hinged lid is beautiful. Structurally also, it is excellent, for it is nicely joined in every part. It is the pride of the carpenter-guide to make use of simple materials ready to hand, y.nd accordingly t.he hinges of such a box arc often' contrived of wrought nails cleverly twisted and turned so that t!tey serve their purpose to perfection, and give a permanent and easy working hinge. Chairs for the bedroom, porch and living room are made in a great variety of shapes from cedar with the bark on. All the parts are fitted together so that the chair is at once strong, comfortable, neat in appearance and stable on its legs. Great arm chairs are made thus with seats of cedar in the round like a miniature corduroy road.- The braces of the back are made with decorative intent, but structural qualities are rarely sacrificed for decoration. In some parts of these big chairs the cedar is bent, with the result of decoration and structural excellence. Smaller chairs are made on the same plan, and some are of simpler design. Tables are made of all sizes and for many purposes, A dining table seating a dozen persons and made of cedar in the, round, with planed pine top, has becn used in one Adirondack camp for fifteen years. It is in every way admirably suited' to its purpose, and the bark remains on the cedar just as when the table was made. Smaller tables on the same plan are used for many pur-poses. More decorative tables are made of cedar, some in hexagonal form, others round, with three legs, very tippy, but not impracticable. Still others are made of wood in the round with the bark on. The face of the table in such case is made of small pieces wrought into a pattern or rayed from the centre. It is in ambitious efforts like these that the carpenter guide is apt to be betrayed into bad taste. As often as not, though .his aesthetic mistakes come from his efforts to coin~ ply with the tastes of his employers. Benches, settees, sewing tables, sofas and even sideboard'S are made of such rustic materials and UpOtI simple lines. Plant baskets are covered with birch bark, and': serviceable cnps and pitchers are made of that material. Excellent linen chests arc made entirely of cedar in the round save for an interior lining of pine. Indeed it would be hard to name any article of household furniture which can be made of wood t.hat the guide will not undertake to make from the native material: Cedar is the favorite wood with the carpenter guides be-cause it is aoraole and easily worked. Every camp should have some seasoned cedar in the round stored against need. \Vild cherry with the bark on is used for small decorativ~ articles, and with good effect. ,"Vhite and yellow birch arc also used, and less often beech. Alder is also 'Used for small articles. The beautifully cylindrical form of the cedar rccommel1ds it for large articles. Nails are commonly used rather than wooden pegs for sC'~ curing joints. For the more delicate work long slender brad.:; are used. The carpenter guides would rather 1.1Secopp::r fastenings, but these make articles of furniture r3therexpel1~ sive. For articles not to be exposed to weather iron nails serve very well. Such furniture, when not too decorative in design, is :c~ markably durable. The chair Seats of cedar in the round are apt to break down before any other part of the chair, but these are easily replaced. l\hny articles will last with ordinary usag~ for twenty sea-sons or more. The bedsteads and the heavy chairs and tables indeed will last indefinitely. Some of these articles after more than fifteen years' service show beautifully tight joints and betray not the slightest weakness. The makers of this rustic camp furniture take an artist's pride in their work and the best of them are never content without the finest result of their skill. They ;h.ave a quick eye for a piece of wood with the right turn or curve for a particular place, and they match parts in shape, color and texture with unerring certainty. Rustic furniture sold in the shops is clumsy, tasteless and flimsy compared with the best work of the guide carpenters. They do their work commonly in camp with their own kit of tools and with few of the appliances required by the car~ penter and joiner who works in a shop. The handiwork of the carpenter guides is not cheap, at least in first cost. Factory made chairs, tables and bed-steads can be had for less money, and few _camps are without a good deal of rather disfiguring furniture that pretends to be rustic. The work of the guides, made by hand in every part of carefuly selected timber by a high priced mechanic, who re~ fuses to be, hurried into slighting even the smallest detail, can never be as cheap as furniture produced wholesale by ma~ ehinery. Its yirtuc lies in its durability and its fitness for the place it 1S to fill. Bound to Stop Then. In a suit lately tried in a Maryland court the plaintiff had testified that his fmancial counsel took him in hand for cross-examination and undertook to break down his testimony upon this point. "Have yOUever been bankrupt?" asked the counsel. "I have not." "Now, be careful," admonished the lawyer, with raised finger. "Did you ever stop payment?' "Yes." the truth," observed the "When did this suspen~ «Ah, I thought we should get at counsel, with an unpleasant smile. sion of payment occur?" "When I had paid all I owed/' was the naive reply of the plaintiff. FOURTEENTH SEASON THE BIG BUILDING JANUARY 2 TO FEBRUARY 1, 1908 T-R -I-R-T -E-E- N -N - I -N - E· T ·E-E-N There are availa hIe now a few choice spaces. :: Immediate application is necessary to secure them MANUF ACTURERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING COMPANY:: 1319MICHIGAN AVE., CHICAGO 27 28 ~r;.IfflIG7!N ? GRAINGER'S FOOL MANAGER. He Showed Himself to be Just Loony Enough to Unravel a Bad Tangle. Grainger, the new vice president of the Kennett Furniture Company, entered the office one morning with a glare in his eyes. Grainger was not an old furniture maker. He had acquired a bundle of money in Ligh.t and Traction and Dewar Brewery stock, and had dumped it into the Kennett company, receiving a place on the board of directors and a job as vice president. His duties as vice president were to nose around the factory and watch the experts grind out dividends for him. For this strenuous work he was on the payroll for $5,000 a year. Grainger was not only angry that morning. He was mad -mad clear through. His positive orders had been disregard-cd 1 He bounced into a chair at his desk-it was,the largest and fmest desk in the establishment-and touched an elec-tric button for the manager to appear before him. Brinton, who had long filled that position, and was erect of figure and keen of eye, came in presently and stood waiting. It was plain to see that there was no love lost between the new vice president and the old manager. Grainger looked up with a scowl. Brinton did not appear to shrink any. He kept his size under the wrathy gaze of the vice president. 'Td like to know what this means!" Grainger exploded. Brinton stoqd waiting. He was a man of few words. Grainger :had to do his own explaining. HI met Norman out here, " he said, "and he tells me that you have discharged him." Brinton nodded. "Didn't I leave positive orders to keep him along indefi-nitely?" Again Brinton nodded. "Then why did you discharge him," thundered Grainger, thumping his desk with a hairy fist. "Why do you disregard all my wishes? Tell me why you discharged Mr. l\orman!" "Because he was not earning the money the company paid him." The manager did not appear to be very much interested it: the subject. "That's the company's affair," roared Grainger, "and not yours. You put him back in the factory. You'll find him waiting outside the employes' entrance." HTheteare several others," said Brinton, leaning over t11~ top of Grainger's fine desk, "who have been kept on the pay-roll through your influence. I was thinking of letting some of them out today." Grainger sprang to his feet, his eye tiger-fierce, his breath coming in short gasps. Grainger was altogether too fat to permit of much rage. "You Jet them out at your peril!" he gasped. "I'll carry the matter to the board of di~ectors. I'll find out who runs this shop 1" Brinton made no reply to this. He stood looking into the inflamed face of the vice president with a 'smile on his lips. His contract with the company was for five years, an-d he knew, besides, that the directors would sustain him. Pres-ently he said: "Have you time to take a look through the factory, Mr. Grainger?" , "I give my orders here, and not in the factory," grunted Mr. Grainger. "But there are several things concerning which 1 would like to. have your advice," said Brinton; and that produced a change in the aspect of the; angry man. The manager did not often ask his advice about anything. "All right," he said, wobbling out of the chair. "I have a little time to give you this morning:' 7'lR.T 1.5'JI1"'I e 7. • Brinton led the way to the big shop on the first floor of the factory building, It was full of machinery, and dust, and lumber and noise. This was where the first c,utting was made. "Now that I have yoU here," said Grainge~, as the men stood on a little platform raised above t.h.e floor level, "I'd like to call your attention to the fact that the mechanical part of this plant is in a tangle. We don't get our orders out on time. Sometimes there is fault found with the goods. You have got to change all this, or I'll know the reason why." The new vice president, under the conciliatory manner of the manager, was getting just a little chesty. He thought he had Brinton down and out, mentally, and was resolved to press his advantage. "This room," said Brinton, not replying to the other ,"is in charge of one qf your men. I think he was in a saw mill before he came here. Just look Over the place, if you please." "And Granger looked over the place and frowned. The floor was piled high, here and there, with lumber, around which workmen were winding their way, losing hours of time because the room was not orderly. One of the large belts Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. We are now putting on the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever olferoo to the trade. These are finished in Golden Oak and White Maple in a light finish. These goods are admirable forpolished floors and furn-iturerests. Theywill not sweat or mar. PRICES; Size 2X inches .•.•.. $4.00 per hundred .Size-2* inches ...... 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Order, F. O.B. fl1'and Rapid8. running from the main shaft was off the pulley and a machin-ist sat on a stool mending it. A knife had "Proken in one of the planers and the machine was idle. Three men sat on the edge of one of the lumber piles waiting for stock. As the vice president and manager looked down upon them they moved away, and two men who had been talking together at a bench resurr::ed operations. Only about half the men on the floor seemed to be employed, and th~se were working per-functorily. liAs I was saying," continud Grainger, <'things have got to change here. We're not going to lose our good money because of a fool manager." . He glanced at Brinton as he used the word, but Brinton only sn~iled. "I have discharged the man who runs this floor," he said, "to take effect Saturday night. This is the first knot in the tangle. The felow has no executive ability. He can't keep his men at work." "You'll put him back again!" roared the vice president. "I have told him many times," said Brinton, not noticing the other's remark, "to have his machines and· belting inspect-ed daily and to have all repairs made at night, also to keep the flooT dear, so that rr,.en won't have to walk half a mile to get across the shop." "1 think he is a competent man," growled Grainger. "When stock runs slow in this room," continued Brinton, ,II I "it blocks everything. The boys can't handle the stock if they don't get it. Until this man of yours came in here there was no trouble. Now, if you are ready, we will go up to the <:.abinet Toom." Grainger snorted. He could see plainly enough that the room wasn't being Tun just right,_ that time ".·.a. s wasted, and that there was no governing hand, hut he did not want to give in just then. "This," said Brinton, pausing at the entrance to another large room on the floor above, "is where the cases arc put together. Some of the Te-sawing is being done here. You see that pile of stock by the last saw? 'VVell,that was cut as the order came, and cut too small. Some of the men had to wait until material was supplied. The man who did the job 29 smoothly ·again in a week. Some of the old men will have to go, for your new men have put fool ideas iutq their heads, but I'll get along without them. "It's a fine thing to have capitalists put their money into any business, but it will not do to have them setting their friends over the men whose work has made the business a success. Send your men in here one at a time and let them work their way up. It takes skilled men to make good fur-nitme, and I'm going to have my way about selecting them as long as I remain here. The money for the company is made or lost right in this factory and it depends on me wheth-er it is made or lost. I've got your tangle untied now, and you may take the matter to -the board if you want to." But Grainger d-id not take the matter to the boar~. He NOTE THE VARIETY OF STYLES, is a new man, fresh from the plow, I take it. His name is Norman." "I don't believe you gave Norman half a chance," roared Grainger. You put him back and give him a fair trial." "This furniture factory," continued Brinton, "is no eighth grade tTaining school. You said there was a tangle here. There is. The tangle was caused by the men who got into the shops by the front doOT, and not by those ".·.h. o have been pushed up to their present positions after thorough trial. Now, if you have time, wc'Jl visit the finishing department." Grainger panted ashe climbed the stairs. \Vhen he got to the finishing department he saw that several men were standing about, hands in pockets, doing nothing. "These men are waiting for stock," explained Brinton. "The man in the re-sawing room spoiled a lot of stock yes-terday, and these fellows have to wait for mOTe to be gotten out." "Now you know where the tangle is. It comes from having too ma!ly men running this manufacturing department. I have found the key to it a'nd wilt have things running had begun to ull(lcrstand that jobs in a furniturc factory are no sinecures, to be fi·lled by' men who don't know the business, over the heads of men who :have spent their lives in the dust of the factory. And NQrman didn't get his job baek. ALFRED B. TOZER. "opkln .... d n.rrld St.. Clncinn.tl. 0, "enry Schmit &. Co. UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE LODGE AND PULPIT. PARLOR LIBRARY, HOTEL AND CLUB ROOM 30 How to Face the Mail Order Bogie. One of the "live" questions of the day, both in the retail and the wholesale world is the retail mail order problem. Any salesman who travels about the country will tell you. that many dealers complain bitterly of the mail order competition. Other merchants assert that since the retailers have taken steps to meet it, this competition is hardly felt by them. A few big mail order houses have made a phenomenal success in selling; they have ;had a number of imitators who have not been so succcs:,ful. These leading houses put forth very large claims; they have created the impression that they are of much public benefit in selling goods much cheaper than they can he sold hy retailers. Are their c1aiIT_s exaggerated and do they really s~~l on the average (')heaper than the country merchant: It seems necessary to get at the truth a1'out these matters before ascertaining how the who1csalercan help the dealer to combat this competition. In the first place to clear the ground it may be stated that the mail order house is 'after all nothing but a retail concern. Instead of selling across the counter, it simply takes orders through the mails and forwards the shipment by mail, ex-press or freight as instructed. It is a fact that the big mail order house does buy on the average about five per cent more cheaply than the retailer. But against this is to be set a much greater selling expense. The catalogue and advertising expense of the mail order concern is enormous. The mail order house has all the other usual expenses of a big business house in addition-ex-cept the cost of salesmen. The selling expense is well over 20 per cent of the sales. Many articles the mail order merchant sells at from 50 to 100 per cent profit. He often sells single articles at cost, or even below cost, but always with a purpose. He charges higher prkes on other articles he eannot sell a whit cheaper than the ordinary retail dealer. The truth is that the mail orde'r man is simply a bettcr salesman than the retailer in many instances. iTe usually is a better advertiser, a better "suggestor." He does not real-ly sell more cheaply, but he bas the ability to make people believe that he does. Further, the total volume of mail order business done in the cQuntry is not nearly so large as it is supposed to be. One of the two biggest houses in the country, which has been doing business more than thirty years, sells about half a mil-lion dollars' worth of merchandise per week. The third larg-est mail order house does a business of but five millions per year. Altogether, taking the large and small mail order con-cerns, the total volume of business done by them within a year amounts to little more than a dollar for each inhabitant of the United States, say at the outside $100,000,000. Against this is to be set the fact that the three hundred thousand re-tailers of the country do three billion dollars' worth of busi~ nness within twelve months. In other words, retailers do thirty times as much as mail order men, It is the concenstls of opinion among the biggest whole-salers that the mail order problem is very much exaggerated by tlwusands of retaHers. 'i\There the facts are known by retailers the competition is met squa.rely, without fear, bitterness or exaggeration and by good business mcthod~.;. It then soon becomes a negligible factor. Probably the greatest service the wholesaler can render to the retailer is to make him acquainted with the facts of the case a11ddisseminate information as to how other dealers have overcome such competition. It has welt been said that a man afraid takes a distorted view of his opponent. The merchants who suffer most from mail order competition are the ones who dread it most, who reatly know least about it and. who base their beliefs mainly on what the eatalogue people themselves assert, If the country merchant goes right after trade in a busi-nesslike manner and shows beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is no reason for people to buy away from home, he will surely "win out" against the mail order man. But he must regard m~il order competition in the right light-not using invectives or giving people the impression that he is in any way afraid of the mail order people. One level-headed rr::erchant expressed his views recently in a trade paper along thes~ lines as follows: "A few years ago we heard a terrible howl about the de-partment store. \\There are the leather lunged men made such a howl about the department store? They are gone where the mail order howler will go---into oblivion. "\i\That has the de,partl1:).entstore done for us? It has im-proved methods of merchandising as no other force could have done. It has made us wake up; it has made us im-prove our stores; it has made us advertise and it has made us better business men. If we learn from the mail order house as we have learned from the department store it will do us a great deal of good. It will make us vastly more up to date,'·' -John Olson. A New Factory at Albany, Oregon. . The manufacture of furniture'is an industry that is steadily growing in magnitude in \Vashington and Oregon, At Seat-tle and Portland the industry has gained a strong foothold. A new factory will be put into operation at Albany, Ore., by Gilkison & 1IacNeil1. It will be incorporated under the title of the Albany Furniture ldanufacturing Company. (IESTABLISHED 'B68) BERRY BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishes New York 262 Pearl St. ""'to. 520 Adantic Ave. PhUadelphia 26-28 No. 4th St. Baltimore 29 S. HanDTel' St. BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT CANADIAN FACTORY, WALKERVILLE ONTARIO Cbieago 48·50 lAke St. Cincinnati 420 Maib St. St. Louis 112 So. 4th St. San Francisco 668 Howard St. MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE APPREOIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE FOR INFORMATION, FINISHED WOOD SAMPLES, AND LITERATURE. THIS IS THE CAN AND LABEL. - 71R T 1.5'J'I..l'\I .e 7$ 31 WARNING! No. 50. Imitation Spanish Leather Velour Plain Imitation Leather Embossed Imitation Leather Spring Seat $5.50 5.50 5.50 5.75 6.25 WARNING! We are the owners of the patents and design patents of this line of K. D. Rock-ers. No one has authority to make these Rockers and we will prosecute all infringers and deal-ers who buy of in-fringers. Send your orders direct to us by mail Of give them to our salesmen who are covering the entire Uniled States. WARNING! No. 52. Imitation Spanish Leather Velour Plain Imitation Leather Embossed Imitation Leather Spring Seat 56.50 6.50 6.50 6.75 7.25 STANDARD CHAIR COMPANY, EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. Men With Force of Character Scarce. A. F. Karges, president of the Karges Furniture Company, and a :member of many boards of management of banks, manufacturing corporaticl11s and other business interests of Evansville, Ind., takes a lively, almost paternal, interest in young men and a considerable number occupying important positions are indebted to }Ir. Karges for their advance. Mr. Karges is a very modest man, and when he \vas requested to relate his experiences in .his search for young men to occupy positions of responsibility he declared that well balanced men, mentally, with force of character, are very scarce. The world lacks men who are ready to do the right thing for its own sake; men who clearly and quickly perceive ,the duty they owe to themselves and to their fellow men and with strength of character to act ulHeservedly and for~ibly in the performance of duty. Mr. Karges is highly esteemed by those whom he has aided in the manner shted above, as the faithful, efficient service they have rendered and are still ren-dering proves beyond question. Will Resume the Manufacture of Furniture. Years ago the Stenglein 1\b.nufacturing Company of Sag-itta'v, ::\1ich., manufactured cheap bed room furniture on an extensive scalc. \iVhen the cost of domestic lumber ad-vanced to a point so high as to render the industry unprofit-able the company changed its line to show cases. Recently the manufacture of furniture was resumed, and the company expects to gradually abandon the show case business. vVal-ter Langley sells the furniture line. Dining Rooms for Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving season .;:Ifforded window dressers an opportunity to display their skill and taste in fitting up rooms for displaying the things lJeeded in a dining rOOI11. No. room in a house offers greater opportunities for display than the dining room and in many cities the window dressers furnished evidence of great ability in their art. \\lith a well set table as the main attraction, its surroundings, while subordinate to the center of interest, when used judiciously, complete the ensemble. Corpses Furnished Free of Charge. The enterprising undertaker of Paralytic Stroke, Ariz., an-nounces his business as follows: ****** * ******** * "Everything necessary for a first- * * class funeral constantly on hand. Prices * * reasonable. If the parties reside in * ..,.. this county we furnish the corpse free * * of charge. Give us a call." * ****** * ******** MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD LUMBER & VENEERS SPECIALTIES: ~1";'t'ErJQUAR. OAK VEN EERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. Main SI., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA Cal)inet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in . . . . BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery 1654 Ruby Street. Rochford. Ill. Our New nend Bnd Foot Power Clrnular Saw No.4 The strongest, most powerful, and In C!:f· ery way the best mac:hine of Ita kind ever made for ripping, Send for OUT New Catalogue. cross-cutting, boring and g oving . . F..®. JOHN BARNES CO. The White irectory CONTAINS A CAREFULLY OMPILED LIST OF MANUFACTU!'tERS OF FURNITURE, PIANOS, ORGANS, ANDI~:E~~~~Dt~S~RIES Classified by towns and states, alphabetically arranged. Now Ready. Send in your order. WHITE PRINTING! COMPANY PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS. PUBL SHERS, BINDERS 2-20 LYON ST., GRAND ~APIDS, MICH. i UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD. ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead in Style, ConArudion and Finish. See our Catalogue. Our line on permanent exhibi~ lion 7th Floor, New· Manufad-luers' Building, Cranel R~pid8. P I Mf C DETROIT. a mer g. o. MICH.... MANUFACTURERS OF WOOD AND IRON FRAME Wire· Mattresses SPRINC BEDS•.COTS: AND CRIBS. AL<;O PARLOR AND UBRARY TABLES. Write for lDustr.ted Cin:rcdar. ] WE'VE GOT THE GOODS. [ r- I ~!'1.19fIIG7fN. 7I~Tl'i:~ *"'- I MAGNIFICENT FURNISHINGS. The Mauretania's Accommodations for Passengers. "The new CUl1ardcr ]\1attrelania, now 011 her maiden Lip! across the Atlantic, cc1ip.;;c:.;('ven the Lusitania in the ar:-angc-' n!cnts for the comfort of the 3,500 pers,ms \ylw C[ill he lodged in comfort ()11 a trip aCTOsS the Atlantic. Tbe ship has, ve:y spaciolls quarters, evell in the lhinl c1a~:s apartments.i This large host is accnrnH1o<1atcd in roums each large CllOugh! to allow of from four beds being litted, and all ample supply! of books for clothes and the like. F:\(11 room is also !,tL~'d wiU:wash basins, mirrors ,ll~d toilet requisites. Large acd: well-\'cntil<lted rOO1llS for day lIse are provided for smo;..::ing, reading, aud the like. Tl1(~s(,";He ,Ill panelled out inf)olishe(l hardwood. The dining saloon for the steerage or third clas,,, pa5sell-, g-ers i:~literally a grand saloon, being paneled tllronghoLlt in polished <Ish; the upper part is light or uatltral colored, and: the d,lc1o part dark ('oL!re<l. Tl:e numerots port lights h this saloon arc fitted ~,rith ornamental gbss uceIlS WiOI e1ip---: tical hC<1ds, (11~c1whcn closed, shut out the 1<:st and ollly in' dication of being Oil a r,hip, and thus give the pas:.;engers the imprcssioll of heing entertained ill senne large hall ashore. i\ pi:l11o and other articles of furniture aU combine to give [l! home-like appearance to this rOOIH. The sLirs th:"oLlgho\1t this section of t1:e sl1ip arc all oi poJi,~hed teak. The engineers are acc(J11l1no(\atecl in rooms Ilcar to the machinery lllHler their charge, anti have suites of rooms ui lLcct every 11C('(l, including" haths, drcssi:lg", ~'lllol-:ing, dining; odc., all of which are htted lip in high-class 3tyle in polished mahogany, except t'];'e chief engineer\.; qua ters. whcll ~lj"(j all wains(:otted in Austrian oak. The .'l('col"":d class pa.'lscngcj-s' a::cm:rco<!:ttiol1 i::.; situated in the aft part of the ship, and is htted out in the lllO!.;t up-t~)- date styles-in fact, it is hard to believe that this is the see':' ond c1as,~, t01" it sccms almost imj}os:.;ihlc to conccive anything-more cCJ1r:fortable or imagine greater luney or requlrcment* Oil a trip of less than iivc days' clllf<ttioll, for l:ere we have rooms htted np wit'll every consi-deration for comfort to ac~ commodate one, t"vo, three or fOlll" pcrS01~S _: (':tch room has one or two lavatories, sofa, toilet racks, ',varclrohes, ltlggag~; racks, trays, mirrors, and other necessary fittings. Batll~ and lig-ht rcf1"csh1l1cnt bars arc provided at cOIlVelli,,!lt posiL tiOllS" The public roon:s in this class arc OEe of t11e fe;\tures of the ship; they cOllsist of dining room, smoking room, dra\villg- , Pioneer Manufacturinl! Company DETIl.OIT. MICN. Reed Furniture Baby Carriages Go-Carts full line sLown OD l!Iecond f]OOl', 1 319 Mlcbi~an Ave., Chi. caito, In January. No. M2521 This is an ever popular design. Notice its lines, also the character of its upholstering. The seat cushion is entirely stufted with hair and the back with silk floss. The filling in connection with the shape of the design (especially planned to fit the back) makes everyone pronounce it the most comfortable rocker they ever sat in. Notice particUlarly the sanitary loose cushion seat and back which is an innova-tion in this style of a rocker. This feature alone sells hundreds of them. Springs have been used in a liberal ,quant-ity and are of the best high tempered steel. Without exception this is the biggest dupli-cater we ever bad. Our ambition is to place them in every town, city and village in America, and with that end in view we offer No. M2S21 for $20.00 in Linen Velour $21.50 in Panne Plush $25.00 in strictly No. 1 Leather JANUARY 1st DATING on the bill, the terms of which will be 2 per cent 10 days, net 60 day,.;, F. O. B. Grand Rapids. Mueller & Slack Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 33 ~MI9J-1IG7}N a 7IR.. T 1..57'.r7-U'1 HORN BROS. MFG. CO. 281 t0291 W.SuperiorSt. CHICAGO, - ILL. BEDROOM FURNITURE OUR SPECIALTY Goods displayed at the Manufacturers' Furniture Ex~hange, Wabash and 14th St. and ",ithHall & Knapp, 181 Michigan Ave .• Chicago. III. room and to\.mge. The latter is panelled out in highly fig-ured and exceptionally fine teak, and forms all agreenble rest-ing place for ladies and gentlemen, being fitted with, every-thing necessary fej"rindulgence, luxury, and easc. The smoke-room is furnished with every due considerati:}l1 for comfort. The sides ;FC panelled with Cuban mahogany, having inlaid panels of original design. Settees and chair;:" tables for writing, careL and refreshments are prodded in cozy corners for select parties. Electric belL> and a -]l(;st of other small items all combine to make this room one of the most enticing. The dnlwing room is quite unique, being fitted out in plain maple with figured panels, having gilt mouldings or or-naments of Louis X VI style, ,vit'h suitable furniture. consist-ing of settees,· chairs, tables, and piano, all in perfect har-mony. The \l\lindow3 ill this room, as well as in the smokc-room, are all fitted with ornamental sliding screens, and when closed give the respective rooms an exceptionally cosy and home-like appearance. The dining room accommodates 250 persons, and is fitted out entirely in oak. The port lights are fixed in pairs, and are treated in a most ingenious manner, having arches formed of carved mouldings supported Upon pillars \"v"ithcarved shafts and caps. The cornice is also elaborately carved Ollt of tr.e solid. The pilasters and spandrels formed by the curved heads of the panels arc all ornamented with carving, after Louis XIV style. This room has a large well in the ceiling to admit light and air from the deck above. The main ceil-ing of the saloon is plain, flat, white, without any moulding-, and tends to show np the beautiful fignring of the oak, em-ployed in both furniture and panelling. Tb-e floor is la.id with parquetry of good design, and contains over 64,000 pieccs of oak. The. whole of the hardware in this section is of s:)lid white metal, except the dr;lwing room and saloon, where the fittings are all in ormolu. The framing forming the partitions and bulkheads is of the best yellow pinc, with "Venesta" panels painted four coats and -finished in ivory white enamel. The 550 first class passenp;ers have their roon~s on the main, tipper, .promenade and boat decks, Of, as the owners choose to style them, the A, E, D and E decks. The main deck contains a number of cabins formed of pine framing with moulding formed in the solid. Each cahin on this deck is fitted with mahop;any furniture, consisting of dressing table, wardrobe, wash basin, beel, toiletraeks, and a host of small and useful fittirigs; the cabins on the upper deck are more roomy, and are fitted in various kinds of ·wood and in a large .variety of styles, no two rooms being exactly alike. A few rooms are fitted to accommodate one person, others are ht-ted up for two, others are fitted up as a combination bed and sitting room, having writing table and othcr requisites neces-sary for business gentlemen. Between twenty and thirty Murphy Chair Co. MANUFACTURERS DRESSER No. 629 CoHen Quartered Oak, $18.50; Genuine Mahogany, Veneered, $19.50; Birdseye Maple, $19,50; Genuine Tuna Mahoaany. $19.50. CHIFFONIER No. GO-Golden Oak, $19; Genuine Mahogany Veneered, $20: Bird6- eye Maple, $20; Genuine Tuna Mahogany, $20, DRESSING TABLE No. Is-Colden Oak, $13; Genuine Mahogany, Veneered, $13.50; Bildseye Maple, $13.50; Genuine Tuna Mahogany, $13.50. A COMPLETE DETROIT, MICH, LINE FREE With an order for the following Se-lection of 'SAN1!~I!r PILLOWS we will include a SANITARY DISPLAY RACK like cnt, K. D. 3 "rs. 6 lb. Cherry@ 95<: 3 pro. 7 lb. OJive@$135 3pn.blb.Peadl@ I.]'i 3 pR, 71b_ Pea( @ 2.10 3 pm. 61b, Plum @ 2.40 This Rack will in-crease your Pil-low Sales 100% It may be referred to as SELECTION "0", without special-ly naming Grades and Q!antities, SEND US AN ORDER FOR SELECTION" 0" 249.255 So. Canal SL, -:- CHICAGO, lWNOIS 35 Alaska Made in Zinc, White Enamel and Opali te linings. fil~d and have the Best Circulation in use today. catalogues atld prices. Charcoal Ask for Refrigerators THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR EXCLUSIVE REFRIGERATUI< fl1ANUFACTUREI<S MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN rooms arc specially arranged UpOll an entirely ne\'v system, having ;L wash h;lsin and small dressing- chamber curtail:c'd off from the n~aill part of the c;tbin. These H)~)I1lS hav(' bi"a:;s bedsteads ill place of the ordin:try ship berth. The T(V)lTS having accol1nTodatiollS for two perso!':; ar;' 3D ar-ranged that if desired one bed can he folded lip, and thtt::; make the [oom suitable for one person only. The::;(' ronms ,L-e fl1rnisred in ll~allogany, \vallltlt, :;atinw()od, oak, rnalJogany ;\l,d cbony, walnut and box, satin and rosel-Yond, a:1([ the like. The corridors and allc~y-ways ;ue all forll'-ed of pine fram-ing, having carved pilasters <\lld corni>:c 111ol1lclings, \vith teak storm bns and white metal fittings. The promenade <leck contaius some of the most costly rooms Oil this ship, and dOL;htlcss 'will be the lllost popular. The \vhole of the corridors and al1ey-\'vays arc of polished mahog-any, \vith ornan~cntecl panels and carved ornaments. The ceiling- is curved and reces~es are formed thrnugl~out the length to receive numerOLlS electric wires on 011e side, 'whilst the otber side contains the air trunk from the VCilti-lators. The cabins all this deck InlTIe descriptic)l1: they arc fitted up in a most luxurious style. A 1)<lssen&"er can be ae-c() mn~odated \-vitb a rOOlll fitted up in the latest st:rle,with every convenience, or he call engage a suite of r6oms, COlll-prising sitting roonl, hath room, reception raoUl, dining room, bed room:.;, pantry, etc, all fitted np apparently irresp(~ctive of cost. The w'l~ole of these best rooms are fItted with bells, electric fires or heaters. in additiun to the usual lights and telephone connections. i\bout thirty kinds of wood arc used to decorate the r00111S. The boat deck contains rooms similar to those on the promenade deck and fitte(l U]) in a variety of styles ·to lTIeet the requirements of the most exacting On this cleek the captain's rooms are situated; his day-room is i"ittell out ill mahogany, polished natural color, with desks, cupboards, sofa, table, cbairs, secreta ire, ill ~tddition to a host of myster-ious electric fittings. The bedroom j~, panelled Ollt in a beautiful silver grey birch, with mahogany furniture. The ol11cers' rooms are on the bridge <1edc The:.;e are fitted up similar and C(Ll1al t6 the first class room, their din-ing and smoke-rooms being- speo:::ial1y comfortable. The grar~d saloon aEd restaurat'.t arc fitted out in oak. These two rooms \",ill :.;eat 500 persons. The floors are in oak parquetry. The upper room, that is, the restaurant, is pro-vided with a large dome composed of fibi"OliS plaster and or-namented with tile signs of the zodiac in gold, surmounted by a cluster of hidden electric lights, \vhieh give a 1110st pleas-ing effect an<1 soft light, which pac:ses down to tl1e saloon through a 1:J.rge well hole in the intervening deck. The library is executed in silvery grey sycamore, with gilt ornaments. This is doubtless one of those rooms t!~at must be seen to get a true idea of its beauty. CO. The grand lounge or drawing rOom is executed in plum n:ahogany with gilt mouJdiJ1gs and carved caps. The beams :::re supported up~)n trarble pilasters, having solid gilt capitols; this large rOOlTl is lighted by hLrge crystal dectroliers, and contains every conceivable form of comfort~ble scat that can be pressed into the Louis styles. The sn;oke-room is p;llle!1ed out in walnut, having finely inlaid margins to the panels. The room contains a massive fireplace, which is quite a ne\,,; feature in ships. In a brief description of tbis kind it is impossible to give an adequate idea of the magnitude or excellence ·of the ftttings, which doubtless surpass in quality as well as quantity anything ever before attempted ill woodwork, \""hich alone n~l1st have cost over £250,OCO. and add to this £30,000 for uphohtering, and we have a reliable and close estimate of this section of the work. It is easy to remember Hard and hard to fied anything as easy as our J?eds and Bedding, Crib U. Sides 24'1 spindles 37,i inches apart. All cast. ings malleable iron guaranteed for 25 years against breakage. Finished by 3 coats porcelain enamel, each baked on. New 88 Page Catalogue. HARD MFG. CO. BUFFALO. N. Y. 36 Public Demonstration r------.;,-Of theFarnous-------, TDE MONARCU MONARCH PushButton Morris Chair OF-··---- PUSH BUTTON MORRIS CHAIRS Beginnine: Monday mominll we will give a'puhlic demonstration of Ramsey-Alton's Famous MOtlarchPusb Button MorTis Chair, a dfair that is adjusted to any desired' poliition by the OCCUpaflt without 'lettini" out. of the chair. The push button does a~y w.ith thll inconvenience of getting out of the chair. ie., Is Instantl]r Adjusted Any Desired A""'" Easy to Operate MANUFACTURED BY THE n.."". 'h" .. M~ , .."""~~.; ... W< .~m;"~i.: •".d.''''''.' ''''''.,.''.llwh·''·, ..•..·'''1 h")', .. " ",.,".".,,,, .. ,",,,,.,,,,,., ...,v,.,",">,,,, ""' .... ,.... ' .. 'd ...m""'" 'h ""~..'io. ",'w.y,"" "',,...,. .~ ••,._"",';' ",,,., .. ' ,""'"'' 0..;, __,"" w,,, .. , " "".,,~._,,~. moo< """ .. , •• ;, ,-," . 1."".",....,..,,,C,,o, ol"" ." .. , """ i. " .... ,1I<....-40."m;"'_. 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Stebbins. formerly President and General Manager of the Stebbins Manufacturing Co., Sturgis. Mich., a.nd Mr. C. Wilhelm, Superintendent alld member of the firm of Gr;'bhiser & Crosby Furniture Co., of that city, for the past seventeen years, have purchased the stock of the former company and challged the name to the STEBBINS-WILHELM FURNITURE CO. . Mr. Wilhelm is skilled in the manufacture of high grade furniture, producing one of the best lines of tables shown in Grand Rapids the past season. He will have entire charge of the manufacturing end of the business, while Mr. Stebbins will look after the buying, officeand selling end. Our policy will be one 01 constant development, aiming to work gradually into a higher grade embodying all the elements of scielltificconstruction,in designs fully abreast of the times. Our catalogue of Library and Parlor Tables is now ready and will be mailed to dealers on request; . Very respectfully, STEBBINS-WILHELM FURNITURE CO., at\! I STURGIS, MICHI~ 37 Louis Napoleon'a Bed Chamber. Marie Antoinette's Chamber, Palace of Petit Trianon. The Upholstery and Han~lng8 are of Blue and Gold Brocade. 38 Little Call for Second Hand Furniture. Occasionally, or rather semi-occasionally, one comes acro~.;s the second hand furniture sto!'e. Ten or fifteen years ago the streets of the medium and poor resident sections of the city abounded in them.- People going into housekeeping for the first time often bought their entire household equipment, at least as regards furniture, at the store of the second hand dealer. There W-'lS economy in this plan, for tJ,('. furnishlngs secured at such a place averaged considerably less than half of what their cost would have been if bought new. And the furniture, while it had been used by some one, was never so badly marred as to detract seriollsly from its usable value. Besides this, there were always a number of theap assort-ments of household goods wherefrom one might from time to time add to the initial stock. In the districts where" the sec-ond hand furniture stores then aboundcd few people thought of going downtown and paying high priccs for new furniture. 7IRTIS'~~· & Z". ~ deposit and the rest at the rate of $5 a month, no onc is go~ ing to seriously consider the stock of the second hand man when it comes to starting housekeeping, or in adding to tJl~ household equipmcnt. The great Amcriean people, or at least "such part of it as resides in those districts of Chicago whe,e the old furniture dealer was once. found in numbers, has quit using anything but new furniture in the home. Even the most shiny stock of second hand stuff fail!; to attract at-tention. \Vith the installment plan of selling furniture so universally in vogue a flat may be outtlttedwith new furniture at a much smaJler first outlay than was required in the days when many began life with old furnishings. There arc still a few of the old shops left, but they arc usually in some side street and have little patronage. Even in thc neighborhoods "where there is act:ual suffering from poverty and where indigency abounds it is declared that the call for second hand furniture has fallen to almost nothing. "At the second hand" dealer's it might be had for half; and, fur-thermore, if one had something ..v..h'ich had palled and grown old it was possible to "trade it in" for something 'more desir-able. The stores which did this kind of business then were crmvded from front to back with used pieces of furniture, with bric-a-brae, and all that goes to make a furnished house complete, and even on the sidc\\'alk there \oJ/asa. surplus over-flow with prices marked on them that were more than won-derfully low. Oftentimes there two or three clerks within the store busied in buying, selling, and exchanging goods. The people appreciated thc second hand furniture stOre for the convenience it was' and the proprietor thereof prospered ,and grew fat. This was something like a decade ago. Now the furniture dealer who deals in used and second hand furniture is fast growing to be a curiosity. He is_ a back number, out of date, unplaced in modern life as it is in the metropolises. And there is a cause for his passing; and the cause is the easy installment plan of selling furniture which at present is so prevalent. \Vhen it is possible to se-cure complete furnishings for a four-room flat for the low s.u,g1.of$99,93,.which the ridiculousl-y low "sum of $10 as a- first And while there is plenty of it to be bought, it is not possible for the dealer to remain in business if hc cannot sell. Out on the ,vest side, on a side str,cet, half a block away from onc of the main arterics of traffic, is one of the typical old time stores. The proprietor is an old man. He was in the business when profits ",iere liberal, 50 he can afford to re-main in it now. As he conducts a small loan office illCi-dental to the business of buying, selling and exchanging fur-niture, he manages to make something more than a living. "If it were not for the hundreds of easy payment furniture st()res that Ilave come into existence within the last ten years, there would stilt be a legitimatc field in this line," said he. "It might bc better for lots of -poor people if they stuck to the old way of fitting Gut their homes, that of buying slightly used furniture, as \vith the present ease of securing unlimited credit they often buy furniture which is absolutely impossible to them with their incomes. But that is the craze of the day -buy on the installment plan-and among the things this craze has brought about is the practical extermination of the old furniture dealer's chance of doing a satisfactory business. "It must not be thought that the furniture handled in this way is in any way old and musty, or so worn by use that it is J spoiled in appearance. Oil the contrary, most of it is new to all intents and purposes, as no one wi.ll pUH~hase furniture upon \vhich the wear aud tear of lese is apparent. It is im-possiblc to sel1 such stuff, so it is useless lo bu:r it. ;,l\{uch of the Iurniture that. come to us, e·.;pecially the bcds ar;d tables, arc nearly new. Tf the,y (Ire ill any way worn it is casy to repair and hide the effect. A few strokes witIJ a plane will remove ally dents, and a careful coat of varnish or paint readily gives the whole [In entirely new appearance, There are plenty of tricks 11\ the trade. Bllt i.n the Cl1d it does not matter if the paint or varnish hide:.; certain cvidences of use in a piece of furniture; it is just <lS valuable, at least for usage, and the fact that abollt 50 per cent is taken off the price should not be lost sight of. "On some of the furniture that comes to us nol even the slightest evidences of \-vear are apparent. There is the fur- .7IR T I.5'.7l:Z\I ~~. 9 2m* ~ 39 I\. \V. Slack of the 1\ll1eller & Slack COmp<ll1y. said: "The lmp('decti()n~ that were formerly complained of regarding the Harrington spring have been eliminated through the skill and intelligence of the manufacturers USillg tile same. Hence, the sale of the spring has grown steadily and ;l vcry large ?e;- ccnt<tg'e of the rockers sold today are provided with it." Luce-Redmond Company Will Move to the M.anufacturers' Building, The Luce-Redn:ond Chair Company of Big Rapids, manu- IacturC1"3 of high grade chairs, which are sold .for medium prices, will show a large line of chairs, rockers Ior the house-hold, parlor suites and office chairs on the ground floor oi the new ~·.Ianufacture:·s' building, in conjunction with tt,e choice line of medium priced chamber suites brought out by the Holland Furniturc Company. The. company's regular No. 2755. Made by Mueller & Slack Co.. Grand RapidS, Mich. niture that comeS sold for charges. from the Some 01 storage warehouses where it is this is absolutely just as good as new. "Vv'hen we buy t>·is kind of furniture we get it for a price that enahles us to sell it for one-halt of what it would cost new, but evell at that t.here is little sale fOl· it. People don't want anything tl,at is !lot new. ';Therc arc good proiits in tbe; bcsiness, if one could sell enough stuff, for when people are getting rid of their old {U1"- n1ture, they're 110t particular as to what ki.nd of a pr-i'Ce they get. Two hundred per cent is 110

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