Michigan Artisan; 1908-05-25

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and MAY 25. 1908 Semi-Monthl)" The ROYAL is the Original Push Button Morris Chair Chieago Salearoom: Geo. D. Williams Co .. 1323 Michigan Avenue. First Floor. ChiCago. lll, " ., THE OYAL PUSI1 BUTTON MORRIS CtfAJR EigLt lean of Te&tHave Established Its Suprema(lY ALL OTHERS ARE IMITATIONS 1 -----=-==-:-1 MORRIS CHAIRS FROM I L i6.25 to ~30I CATALOG U~N APPUCATION. I Royal Chair Co. STURGIS, MICHIGAN tl---·-------·---------------------J I "THE BEST" One Motion,All Steel Go..Cart II I,!, , I 1•• IIj • 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 200 Lb •. Over Rough Pavements The Onl v Perfect Cart With a Large P';rfect Quick Action Hood. FOLDED CATALOGUE UPON APPLICATION. STURGIS STEEL GO-CART COMPANY, Sturgis, Mich. CHICAGO SALESROOM: Geo. P. Williams Co., 1323 Michigan Ave., First Floor, Chicago, Ill. .',( i f • ,j I III 1 •I 153 Varieties of PRINCESS DRESSERS I I No. 874 No. d73 A little over a year"ago we advertised 57 varieties of Princess Dressers as part of our enormous selection'of-bed.fuom,dining ..room and kitchen furniture. Since then we have added 96 differentstyles--all for your pleasant choice, so you can suit any taste, no matter what your trade requires. We give you plain Princess Dressersof good workmanship at very low prices. Many of our additions have been of the higher grade-beautiful designs of the Colonial pattern, with well-nigh perfect workmanship-dressers that will compete with others selling- at double what we charge. Can you afford to pass the Northern Selection by? Is it treating your customers right to fail to consider this splendid showing at moderate prices? Our Princess Dressers are but a sample of our vast stock of regular Dressers, Wood Beds, Chiffoniers, Washstands, Somnoes, and other bedroom pieces all made to match; and our Library, Dining-room, and' Kitchen furniture- All shown in our mammoth new catalogue, now ready for distribution-indeed already mailed to all of our old customers. If you have been missed, drop us a postal card and we will send you our complete Catalogue showing thousands of pieces-and glad to do it. We have a warm spot for all newcomers, and whether you are big or little, we will treat you just as you would like t,obe treated, a uniform courtesy to all. II t II NORT"ERN fURNITURE COMPANY SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN Il_ ["1319-The-Big Buildi~g"Agai~' I .• ! The Zenith of Furniture Exhibition Enterprise I The World's Largest and Best Furniture Show Over 200 Live Wires Already "Connected Up" with Live Buyers-and We Get the Buyers. Doubt It? Then Come and Let Us Show You. 10,000 RETAIL DEALERS CAME· LAST YEAR and proved the absolute supremacy of "1319-The Big Building" as the one place to select trade-pulling lines. You' make a money-getting line; show it to these 10,000 progressive dealers in the World's Greatest Furniture Market-Chicago Ask us about space and how to bring the buyers. • Manufacturers' Exhibition Building Co. 1319 M_i_c_higan.__Aven._u__e_,__ Chicago . . 1I I --_._.- -- • 2 ~ JUST A HINT FROM I "THE LINE OF READY ·SELLERS" Imperial Reclining Chairs Mission Suites and Small Mission Pieces Morris Chairs Roman Chairs and Rockers Our Desilln. are Right Our Mater-ials are Rig!.t Our Can- &tru&ioD is Right Our Price. ar? Right A S~mple Order will Convince You-May We Not Have Yours! Wrile for a copy of our March Supplemenl. Regular catalog ready June 151h. I! I I NQ. 112 Chase Leather Marokene Leather No. I M. B. Leather No. 109 Blue Back Imt. Leather Chase Leather . Marokene Leather . $6.50 7.25 8.50 $10.50 11.75 21.00 Do Yau Like Prompt Shipmen.ts ? We Make Them. No. 73·19 Blue Back Iml. Leather Chase Leather . Marokene Leather . K. D. flat and compact. No. 1002 Imperial Reclining Chair (Palen! applied for) No. I M. B. Leather $20.00 $4.50 5.00 5.50 TRAVERSECITY CHAIR CO., Traverse City, Mich• • "'--'- - - -- -~------------------------- i: ,iI. '-' j~. "~ 'J 28th Year-No. 22. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., MAY 25, 1908. $1.00 per Year. The Retail Stock. Only the dealer in the small tm~"n can e,~cape tbe resl11t of a mongrel stock, He bas g-enerally the refuge of burying as '\vell as house furnishing the population, This ~tory is rathe,t for the benefit of the dealer in the medium town or the slllall, to medium city, He should visit the, furniture market at least once a year. He will soon know ..v..hich market and how often. His expenses can be 11;:,railroad fare, plus what he choose to pay for ,a week's board. SbOllhl he not spc:nd a dollar in purchases he will at least know what his competitor is likely to offer and what bait will be cast to his customers by the mail order hOl1ses, Furniture educatul dealer::. lose little to such concerns, who prey rather on the people who are over the heads of their local stores. He cannot sell unassisted what he docs l10t buy, ana the smaller his town the les" chance has lte to sdl what he does Hot s})o"v. Xext to over-stocking in the way of negative results comes unde1-stock.i:lg, and it is a close second. Buy in small quantities and large varieties. \Vatch carefulty \vhat sells and quickly replace it, increasing the, (llwntity according to the spe~d in selling. Eventually this will develop some dead stock, since tlh:~ hest buyer that Jives buys badly at timcs. As soon as you recog-nize it as such, mark it down, and in doing so make a com-motion. \Vhen a mule dies nothing is wOlsted. The mean-est thing in him will at least fertilize land. Dead stock is often a good advertiser. The de,ader it seems to you, the deeper you are willing to cut it. The meanest article in your store may be .a thing of beauty to onc who sees it for the hr:::;t time. That, added to a low price, will often win a ctl"tOll1Cr. It is not Sll .. cicnt to instruct yotlr:..elf and your salesmen that an article which cost $20 and s}lOuld brillg $00 or over, may be sold for $19, should anyone clHlllirc. Thnt\; only theory. Herc is practice. Have a printer strike off some cards. Don't let someonc, dauh them 'with tlle shipper's brush. You have rcac!1c,d the point when: yon want to sell something and care is needed. The card should he ahollt 6 x 8 inches, white, with plain, readable lettering. * * * "" * * * " * " * " " * '< * :~ * * Vlortb .. , * ""' as . ,', * Elsewhere. , " * OR , :)< OR , , ,Today. , ,, Now. " " Here. * * * * " * " * * , * " * , , * * ,I< Fill in the prices 'with a rubber stamving outfit, if you have one; if you have Hot, buy ant'. It gelS results to collect these mark-dmvns in some window. If the pr1ce don't .sell them after a reclsonab!e time, cut them lower. "'\Ve are a nation of bargain hunters and as a ntle recognize our game. The trouble with lots of cut prices is that dIe cut don't (]ra\v blood. Shish an artery occasionally and make the $18 couch which has been with y011 a ycar or so, $9, or less, if you have nerve. There is some pri.ce at which anything will sell. Find it and make it stay sold. A live; quarter is better than a dead dollar. If you have been in the furnitUl"c .busi-ness some years, you \vill have noticed this: You at'e deal-ing with \vomen thc:.;e days. You used to sell to meu with their wives along. Before that you used to se.ll to men. There "\-vereno department stOiCS in those days. ,""hen men did the buying. A man 'wilt not cross the, street to be store tempted. If he is on your side he nTay look in and tell his ",,:ifeabout it. You 111uc.;Lprovide something to tell. Change your bait. "!'.'lakeit exciting to shop. If you w.ant to, hut don't CJuite know how, we will try and enumerate a fev,; methods when we give you our ideas of ad-vertising and diw1ay. There arc thic~ things that most weU-balanced womell dislike monon tony, cobwcb:.s and dirt. Some furnitu!"o;-stores contain the three. Do you keep your furni-ture dusted and polished:" It is bad business to ask a lady, out shopping with her good clothes on, to sit in your' dusty rocker. It is also bad busine!'is when she calls atte.ntion to a defect or scratch, to say, "Oh, it will polish out." Perhaps it won't. If she buys it and gets the scrOltch, you will be pretty sure to find her look over your competitor's stock later. Havc:::your mirrors dean. If you soap the price on them, do it neatly, without flourish, in a lower corner, and hang them at angles that \vill reflect customers. Don't let the salesman with dirty hands and 1illE',1lwait on anything in silk or a patent leather shoe. Somehow or other the word and judgment of the man with the (',lean shave goes farthest. Don't pooh pooh this; we.'vr: been there, with and without the sha've, a.nd we know. Ask your wife; she is some one else's clIstomer. Assist your stock as far as possible with catalogues. Hal'C a regular place for them, where they can be quickly reac'hed, and, to acquainL your salesmen with their contents, have them rnark under each cut its cost. Then you can lose your price, lists which excite the curiosity of customers. If you have a sideboard from a factory making a table and chilla closet to match, get pictures of them and, after pasting on cardbo,trd, hang them up o\'('.r, or on, the sideboard and you may sell three, pieces instead of one. This will apply to most better grade ehamber and library furniture, Some dealers shy at every new thing in style or tinish. A great many looked askance at mission furniture on its introduction, althoug'h it ..vas generally known Flemish was a mark-down. The smoky oak of our forefathe,rs .in time became Flemish oak to their descendants and since they could not spare the centuries to smoke more, they staincd it. There is a strain in some of us, which we are pleased to call our artistic sense, that calls for things sombre, and an-tique. \Ve want dark green carpets or rugs, old blue crock-ery. red walls and sombre furniture. Oue wants it in a din-ing room, another in a den. To serve people of that class who were thing of golden, mission ' ...a.s substituted, in the numberless fair and foul weathered oak and Antwerp. How are you sen'ing thc!)e artistic sensed customers if you have 1101Ie. of it~ You never hear of a department store turning a deaf ear to new fabrics and fads. Kot much. They are born tempters. Tcmpt a little :vouf5elf,-Reprinted by Re- (IUest. V '.;.l 4 ·~~MIP.HI~7JN 0 Mrs. Simpkins' Grand Rapids Empire Furniture. "De" odder afternoon," says l\Iirandy, "de Daughters of Zion met at my house, an' after we had done settled de world an' de flesh an' de devil, as Br'er Jenkins says,we sort of got to prognosticatinJ 'bout ourselves, as women win when dey wants to discourse 'bout some thin' dat has got real heart throbs in hit. "Pretty soon somebody threw a bombshell illto de camp by axill', '\Vhut does a woman need mos' to make her happy?' "Humph,' says Sally Sue, "hit don't take nobody ciat was hawn in a cal\l an' has got de gift of prophecy to answer dat question. Hit's money. Jest gimme a money puss dat ain't got no bottom to bit, an' head me toward de department sto's, an' you'll hcah me singin' hallelujah all de way. 'Vas, Lawd, an' I'd eat chiken salad an' ice cream for breakfast, an' I'd wear flower bonnets an' yaller shoes, an' bead chains, an' a longery shut '''<list wid seemo' effects in hit, an' dat's all dat I'd ask to make me puffectly happy. For whut does de hymn book say, "Dth hath nO sorrers dat green-backs cannot heal:" "Hit sho'ly would be grand,' 'spons I, 'not to have to WOr-ry 'bout de rent, an' to be able to git a whole outfit at one time so dat yo' hat wouldn't be shabby by de time you wuk round to gittin' a ncw pair of shoes, an' yo' shoes wonldn't be wo' out so dat you'd have to set sort 0' bench legged to hide yo' feet under yo' skirts befo' you got enough to git a new hat; but still, for all dat, bit's kind of proned in on me dat dere is jest One thing in de world <tat money won't buy for a woman, an' dat's happiness. "'De mo' you gits, de mo' you wants, an' when you quits worrying' 'bout de rent youse got to start to worryin' 'boltt yo' husband spendin' money all somc lady dat ain't edzactly of the hefty build dat you is; so whilst I wouldn't decline a fortune if ole man Luck was passin' 'em around, still I"se got my suspicions dat maybe I wouldn't be no mo' care free dan I is now, when! ain't got nothin' mo' dan de price of pork chops on my mind! "'Dat's de true wod,' spoke up Sis Hannah Jane. 'Dcre's Sis ..\finery, whut was a moughty light hearted gal whut could shake her foot wid de bet;" of 'em when she didn't have but one muslin to her name, an' she had to wash ·dat out cv'ry time befo' she cOllld go to de Saturday night ball, but dat is de mas' mout"ufulest lady dat you can meet up wid now dat's she's married to Bill Hoskins, whut is de foreman at de plan-in' mills an' is got money in de bank. ", "You sho' is a happy woman, Sis 1Iil1ervy," says I de oder day when I drapped in to see her, "wid a husband dat 1s so beforehanded." "'Far from it, Sis Hannah }anc/' says she, "for ..\Jr. Tomlinson is twict as well off as my husband is, an' de drives two horses, whilst we can't have but one." '" "Rut,'.' says I, "look at all yo' finc furniture an' chainy." '" "Mrs. Simpkins has got genuine Grand Rapids Empire furniture," 'spons she wid a sigh, "an' hand-painted chainy;" '" HBut yo' !lho'ly is got grand clothes," says I. L .7IR..T IoS'JU"1 ; . $ e· ", "Mrs. Jones gets hers fron~ Sixth avenuc," 'spans she, "while de bes' I can do is Eighth." "'An' dat was de 'way hit went, an' I couldn't find nothing dat Sis Minervy took any real pleasure in except dat she had de money to always be a doetorin"; an' she warn't evcn satis-fied wid dat becauze she knowed a woman dat had a cancer, while the mas' she. could git up was de rheumaticks.' "'Nawm, I ain"t a-disputin' 'bout money makin' a woman happy, for God knows T done see so little of hit I don't knqw whut its effect on my system would be; but I jes states dat 1 ain't never seed a rich woman yit dat ain't forgot how to laugh.' "'As for me,' says Gladys Geraldine, ,,,,hut is young an' romanti.c an' has got whut some folks call soulful eyes, dough dey looks to me lak de eyes of a dyin' caH when she rolls them up, 'dey ain't nothin' necessary for my happiness but jest love. Jest gimme de devotion of one who loves me for myself alone an' I'll he puffcctly happy. Oh,' says she, 'whut can any woman wa'nt mo' dan to see de Jove light humin' in her husband's eyes, to listen to his words of affection, an' to feel hi5 kisses on her lips?' "'Humph,' 'spons Sis Elviry, '1 s'pecks dat is moughty nice, an' fer a husband to act dat way sho' is rare enough to mak: it moughty entertainin' fer de woman dat has drawed dat kind of a curiosity in de marriage lottery, but I'se done took notice dat you can't run a house on love, an' hit ain't long befo' you'd lak to pass up de kisses for some fried steak and on-lons.' "'Dat's so,' 'says Sis ~1arthy, 'derc's Sis Rebecca, whut sho'ly lS got de lovingest husband dat ever was. He love her so good dat he can't bear to go away an' lcave her for a whole day whilst he's at work, so he don't do tlothin' but set at home whar he can' feast his eyes on Sis Rebecca at de washtub, whar she's got to make de livin' for de fambly. "'An' ev'ry now an' den he walks o.ver an' gives Rebecca a kiss, an' calls her his· "darlin'" an' his "angel" and his "pre-cious dove," but hit don't look lak Sis Rebecca thrjIJed none under dem caresses, for she say to me dat she sho'ly was tired of havin' a man unger foot, an' dat too much love talk kind of heaved her stomach, an' dat she was thinkin' 'bout !eavin' her husband an' tyin' Up wid a man dat would show his affection by wukin' for her instid of passin' out soft talk.' "'\VeIl, says I,'molley's moughty good, an' love's mough~ ty good, but to my mind de thing dat makcs a woman happi-est is to have somebody dat onderstands her. ; 'I'se nlOughty fond of Ike when he brings me home his pay euvelope of a Saturday night, an' I sho'ly does have a • Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Ave., Orand Rapids, Mich. We a:re now putHng on the best Caster Cups with cork b~ses ever offered to the trade. These are finished in Golden qak and White Maple in a light finish. These goods ate admirable for polished floors and furn· iture rests. They will not sweat or mar. PRICES: 5ize2f{ incbes...... $4.00 per hundred Size2;l4inches'·'''· 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Orrin'. F. o. B. Grand Rapids_ • • flutterin' of de heart ..v..hcn he tells me dat he thinks dat a feather bed figger lak mine is a Jot 1110' gracefu!ler clan clem straight front yaller gals is. "'But de time when f cks fairly lays down an' ~',-()rships him an' thanks Gord tor his mercy in senelin' me such a jevI,-el of a husband is when I gib mad an' spanks de baby an' kicks de cat, an' he; calls hit nerves; or when a dressmaker sends home my new frock an' hit hikes up in de front an' down in de back, all' \VOll't meet, an' I sets down an' cries, an' instid of lellin' me dat a ""'-0111all of my age ought tn act wid a little sense and not be a fool, Jkc doubles up his fist an' he cusses dat dressmaker up hill and down dale ;Ill' tells whut he's gain' to say to her, untel he makes me so sorry for her dat I say maybe de dress can b(; altered, after all. "'Yes, L<\wd, c1at kind of sympathy is whut l1l.'lkes ~\ Made 'bY Buchanan Cabinet Co.! Buchana.n. Mich. woman happy, an'ef she gits <lat hit don't make no difference whcdder she gits anythin~ else or !lat.' "'Bless Gord for de true word.' says Sis Sairy. 'As long as my husband pities me ior havin' to wear al1 ole dress, I don't caie wheddcr hit's ole or not. Hit is his not carin' all' his not :;cein' dat a lady of my jJtlSSoll<lbJelless ought to have fine clothes dat makes me sore.' ;( 'Dat's so,' says Sis Elviry. 'An' Jat we women need to make us happy is to have de right word saiel to tis, an' COll-siderin' how cheap words is, an' how much money hit would save men, hit's a \'v·olHler dat husbands is so economical .v..id 'eul.' ;, '11cn is fools; says Sis l\Jinervy. "'\Vhut would \ve do ef de)' warn't~' axes l."-Dorothy Dix .in Chicago American, i, 5 MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD LUMBER & VENEERS SPECIALTIES: ~'t\\{Wl'5QUARO.AK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. Main St., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA ~_._-------- !ISTOW fJ DAVIS FURNITURB CO_, ~i~~pido. Write for Cataloaue, Get llaIIIPleaof BANQUET TABLE TOP. .I'------------'.-_---_--.- • UNIONFURNITo~~~,I£~· I China Closets Buffets I Bookcases II I •II We Manufacture the Largest Line of FoWino6hair~ in the U ailed States, suitable for Sunday Schools, HaHs, Steamers and aU public resorts, We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cots and Cribs in a large variety. S~ndjar Ca(alrJg"'~ ""d Prien to I'----_._--------------- K/\UffM./\N M.f G. GO. ASHLAND, OHIO • We lead in Style, Conftrueuon and Finish. See our Catalogue. Our line onpetmanenf; es.hibi~ lion 7th Floor, New Manufactw DIers' Building, 'Grand Rapids. 1• II i 106.110.112 nort~Division 51. I=:;:::~!~~.~ aran~Rapi~s 106, 110.112 nort~Diyision 51. Orand Rapids I OUR BUILDING P RI NT E R S B IN o ERS EN G R A V ER S EN G R A V ER S P R INT E RS B IN oE RS :I.~an Engraving Company :: While Printing Company Michigan Artisan Company . ._------- . ... Erected by White Printing Company, Grand Rapids, 1907. _.- -- ------------------ 7 • -------------------_._--_. • ... METAL FURNITURE We make a specialty of All-Steel Tables, Chairs and Stools. "Vood and Cane Seats; Wood, Marble and Glass Opalite Tops; All Finishes. Artistic, Sanitary, Indestructible. I" No. 74 No. 110 No. 70· New Hne of Brass Costumers. We call particular attention to our "WONDER" COSTUMER.. All steel, indestructible, no screw$.. In lots of one doz. or more, finished in Antique Copper, $18 doz.; finished in Dead Black, S 15 doz. Adjustable Tables, Shaving and Bath Mirrors, Chevals, Triplicates. ~~!~;rand DETROIT RACI\ CO., Detroit, Mich. ~---------- 8 [ • Here is a Chance to Make Some Money! f]I Qur No. 897 Carriage is the GREATEST BARGAIN ever put on the market. It is as wen made as ouf highelll priced e.uri~. Full Size, without Rod, Parasol (:If Upholstering .. . ...•...... Each $4.50 o Sateen Parasol. with one rufll:eand rod, extra _. . . .75 A Mf;rcemed Parasol. wilh one fuffleand rod. extra......... 1.10 The above with % in Rubber Tire Wheels. Ccars enameled green. Nutless axles with rubber hub caps. ~ As we can't run our whole faCtory making this earn •• you bad better send your orders in quick in order to make: sure of, having them lilted. Tbi~ is just a tickler-order quick if you want to be tickled. h ---... Pioneer Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. Conditions in the furniture trade in Detroit are about tlle same as everywhere. All the factories are running, but all could do more. Preparations for July are going all, and the usual large number of new patterns for the fall trade will be on exhibition in Grand Rapids, Chicago and New York. The retail dealers are havi.ng light };at~s as a rule, yet here or there will come a bri·ef spell of brisk business. One of the hopeful Sigl1S, howcve'l", is the large amount of building in progress, especially residences. The year 1907 was the ban-ner year for building in the history of Detroit. over $14,000,- (JOO having been spent, and from present appearances this year will not fall far behind that of last. 'Vhen all the new re:d-dences are fUfllished the retail furniture dealers win have fat bank balances. The Palmer Manufacturing Company is sending out all illustrated circular of parlor tables, twelve for $29. This is a special inducement, and so great is it that everyone who receives a circular is bound to sit up and take notice, and a good bunch of orders have been received in consequence. J. C. \Vldman & Co. havebecn putting in some new can'- ing machines and will bril1g out a line of dining and hal! fur-niture much finer than that of any previous year. They arf now furnishing dining room suites complete-table, side_ table, buffets, chilla closet and chairs to match. This will enable the dealers to purchase from this company full suites for the diniltg-room where the hnlsh.and design are right as well as constructlon. The prices are always right. PALMER MFG. CO. 115 to 135 PaJ.mer Ave., DETROIT, MICH. Manufaclurers of FANCY TABLES PEDESTALS TABQURETTES for the PAIILOR AND LIBRARY Pedestal No. 412 • Our fanwusROOKWOOD FINiSH II'roWI in p(lpularilY every day. Notbjpll like il. Write fof Picture. andPrice •• • The Posselius Brothers Furniture Manufacturing Company ""villadd a large number of new patterns of dining tables for fall trade, which will be on exhibition at 1319 l\iIichigan ave-nue, Chicago, as usual. The Pioneer Manufacturing Company is showing some new things in reed and rattan furniture and baby carriages. Take a look elt their ad in this i-sst1eand make some money. The Detroit Rack Company is turning' out a line of metal furniture, chairs, table'.s, costumers, 11mbrella racks, etc., that are right from every stal1dpo-int, and about the best goods in this line on the market. The Murphy Chair Company will soon issue their 19(18 catalogue. For several years their catalogues have attracted attention because of the original covers. Th-is year's cata-logue will be no exception to the rule; in factJ the cover de-sign is equal to any of the others, and wilt no doubt be ad-mi'l" ed by some as the finest. "Good Stuff" for the Money." The Manistee (Mich.) Manufaduring Company has the knack of making sideboards, btlffetsJ chiffoniers, bachelors' wardrobes and odd dressers that just catch the fancy of a whole bunch of furniture merchants all over the middle west. It's easy to sell these goods, because they are \""ell made, sty-lish and well finished) and the prices arc very moderate_ Deinzer to Issue a Catalogue. The Deinzer Furniture Company of Monroe, l\Jich., has for fourteen years been making parlor frames and now are going to add a line of library and ofhce furniture, filing de- VIces, etc, The first catalogue of these goods will soon be ready for mailing. • Murphy Chair Co. MANUFACTURERS DETROIT, MICH. COMPLE.TE LINE. -------~------------------------ 9 • ----_._------ • • Luce-Redmond Chair Co., Ltd. BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs, Dining Chairs, Desk and Dresser Chairs, Odd Rockers and Chairs, Slipper Chairs, Colonial Parlor Suites Dark and Tuna Mahogany. Birdseye Maple, Birch and Greassian Walnut. FurnitU1"e buyer. visiti.ng Grand Rapids between seasons wiH find our full line on tbe 2nd floor (Ionia. St. front) of the Manufacturers' Building, where they ca.n inspect and make their purehue$ at any time. GEO. SPRATT & CO. --_._---_ .. III SHEBOYGAN, WIS. Manufacturers of Chairs and Rockel'S. A complete line of Oak Diners with quuter -aawed veneer b:lcks and seats. A large line of :Elm Diners, medium priced. A ~dect line of Ladies' Rockers. Bent and high. arm Rocken with sDlid seats, veneer ro)} seats, cob~ bJerseats and up~ holsterdluther complete. High Chairs and Children's Rocken. rou will gef in on fm ground floor wAen you buy!r(J1t/ 11£. No. 542 Oak, Solid Seat. Price, sln:~. No. 540% Same as No. 542 o I) I Y Quartered Oak Veneer Seat, Sl8 &:~. ...-._-------N-o. 542 I"----_._--_.._----_._-_. • § Ha.ve you received our New Catalogce? If not, write for it at once. Therets money in it fot" YOU. fi Buffets, China Closet~. Dining Room Suit~s, Music Cab~ inets, Pianola Roll Cabinets, Phonograph Record Cabinets, Disc Cabinets, etc. Permanent salesroo11l), /319 MicM~ gan A ve"l Chicago, Jtl. I'"---- MECHANICS FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD. ILLINOIS • 10 The Delivery of Goods. The delivery of 3. great many furniture businesses is con-ducted in a most unstudied, get-it~over-with fashion. Ii there is a husky roustabout available, who is pos~;essed of farm muscle and hob-llail boots, he is elevated to the deliv-ery wagon. He is strong and ,...i.lling, and that is generally the only requirement. His clothes may smelt to the hsting point of T. D.'s 311d Jdyrtlc Navy, his shaves may be as tln~ certain as the barbering of the llOhos, hut if he wlll work for farm wages l1e is detailed to carry dainty varlor chairs o...e.r the' velvet carpet or thunder upstairs with mattresses ::lnd beds, leaving an occasional gash in the wall paper. It js MB.de by Ma.nistee Mfg. Co" Manistee. Mich. (See Ad on Page 19,) said cleanliness is next to godlincs,'i, The. desire for a pure heart atHl a clean face go hand in hand. So, good delivery is next to good snlesmansbip, and there cannot be the proper standard of the latter unless the former goes along, too. The good salesman \',0'110:"p1ro"mises 3rc. not kept, whose sales are banged up en route, or at the terminal, and who in con-sequence has to fix it with the Cltstomer, ceases in time to be a good salesman. The dealer \\'110, after advertising to get her attention and guaranteeing satisfaction, sells a customer furniture, which he sends to her on a third-rate wagon, driven by a "whoa, tberc 1 damn yon t" teamster, accompanied by an in-experienced furniture handler, who musses up her carpets or blazes his trail upstairs on her wallpaper, is taking long chances with her futt1te trade. The delivery man should be promoted to the wagon irom the store, where for a time he may be under supervision, and tauglJt the proper handling of furniture. ·In a great many stores the reverse is the polley. The good man on the team becomes experienced, even expeTt; he leaves behind very few complaints, brings hints of whcre sales may be made, and, perhaps TI1akes a sale occasionaHy himself; he is valuable. If a man 1S doing a certain work better than anY011e else in your employ can do -it, and promotion becomes necessary. promote the salary rather than the man. He may not be an expert on the next nmg and in tha, case you are a double loser. A good deliverer is sometimes more valuable than a salesman, since ill carrying out a transaction he it is who last represents the firm and who has the opportunity of leaving a good or bad impression, which mayor may not .augur future trade. It is a peculiarity of a great many people whose furniture has been poorly delivered that, instead of complaining to the firm of the fact, tlley will complain to their friends, of the finn, to its great detriment. To prevent the loss of trade this may occasion, there should be a complaint department in the larger stores, and, in the smaller, personal attention by the manager. This con...plaint departrr:ent should come in touch with a.Il cases of dis:;atisfactiotl among patrons;, should keep a record of every complaint, and follo,," it to a final ad-justment. Every important delivery should be followed up, whether br not complained of, to the point even of getting an expression from the customer. !\othing will show the d~- sire to do right by a custom;:-r mOTe than this, ar.d 110 r.Jver-tising can go further in duplicating business, The proper delivery of goods begins with the s:llesman. He may promise things the shipper cannot perform, such as delivcring hlflJitnre which needs retouching in an unreason-ably ShOTt time, Under such a handicap the firm loses caste by lack of prompt delivery, or poor condition if prompt. The S:l.Jesman "l,.vho continually offends in this particular is a neg-ative advertiser and his vatue to the firm is doubtful. There is such d thing ;;,s a hig sale with a good profit wbich, in the long rtm, it were better had ncv~r been made. Every sale:m1al1, before being turned loose on promiscu-ous customers, should be thoroughly posted on certain mat-ters. It is as much a matter of good business to know the capabilities of your employes <u to rate the honesty of the clerk who carries. your deposit to the bank. The latter may abscond. in which case you raise a 11OWI,notify the po-lice, lose some sleep perhaps, and become suspicious of your other employes, Your los5 is visible, and perhaps could not be insured. Your salesman fails to interest a customer, loses his pa-tience, doe5 not properly combat her insinuations of the su-periority of some other store, and misses a trade the profit on which may exceed the lost deposit. This los~ is invisible. Your delivery carries goods to,f.irs. A., bumps the chan-delier with the spring, scratches '-her door jam with the din~ ing table from Wllich the casters should have been removed previous to the attempt to introduce a thirty~one inch table height througlJ a thirty-inch door, and dissatifies her general-ly. If slle complains, you may promise to fiX the scratch and straighten the chandelier, and then forget it. She may not complain at all, but remain dissatisfied. She tells her neigh-hors of your failings, and between them you lose. trade you might, by prompt attention, have had. This loss also is invisible, but you don't worry, you don!t lose sleep, you just keep on trying to catch that lost deposit. Put soml.'. energy into prevention. Have your salesmen co-operate with your delivery. Require them to know: How long it takes varnish to dry in various weathers, preparatory to polishiug; how long it takes to shellac a dent or scratch, and polish over; how long it takes freight to reach your town from Grand Rapids, Chicago, !\Jew York, Rockford or James-town; how long it takes to flnish an article in the whibil in various fmishes; how many teams your firm opemtes. and at what times the}' cover certain routes. . Furniture delivery wagons should be .covered. You are then safe from direct sun rays which ruin mirrors; from dust and coal smoke, which deface a delica.te upholstery; from rain or snow which come out of a fair sky. Your team, from ·~MI9rIG?J.1".J pole to tail board. with all its appointments, should be in advance of your sfore. .Ko one cafes to have an old mud bedecked paint famished outfit, with unkepmt attendants and plow horses amble up to one's house and unload before the neighhors. Some inst<lll-ment hOUSC~i even go so far as to leave their nam.cs 0[1 their teams, to cater to that dass of people who do not want the world to know they buy on time. "Kext to having six ser-vants and an 3ntoll;obile yourself, comes the glory of having a relative who has, and who occasionally gasolines up to your curb stone. and make:o the neighbors think you pay cash. Every delivery should be receipted for by the customer, who should have an opportunity thereon to complain of any dis-satisfaction. In cases where shipments are made to outside points there should accon~pany the bill of lading a print~d slip ~imilar to the follo\ving: *************** * \Ve want your trade and inter:u to * treat you right, therefore notify us if anything is not right. Previous tQ re-ceipting for your goods from trans-portation company, examine pack~~ges, and note any breakages, othenvise damages m transit may be hard to prove. Search for scre"..s.. in crates and use scrnvdriver before hammer. Throwaway nothing until you locate all kcys and casters. ************* * * * * * ** * * * * ** ** * * * * See to it that your shipping department attends to the: fol-lowing before delivery: Polish woodwork. clean mirrors and brush upholstery; fit tillers in extension table:~; 6t be.d-ding and rails into beds; level all chairs and tables on their legs; fit all locks with keys and legs with casters where need-ed. Fifty per cent 01 all complaints refer to oversight in the above matters. a·cd the shipper who does not attend to them all the tin:e is. holding the wrong job. As soon as sold e.very article ill stock should be inspected and put into shipping condition, otherwise when shipping dn.y comes, a~, it 'may sometimes unexpectedly, trivial damages n:.ean repairs, repairs mean delay, daley means dissatisfaction, and dissatisfaction leads to notes in the bank. In these hair-splitting days increased business follows, rather than precedes increased expense. Those who go after, rather than those who wait for bnsi-ne. ss get it. Going after husine% meaIlS not only advertis-ing more elaborately, stocking up more thoroughly. adding some frills here and there, but also includes painting a ' ...a..gon occasion,tl1y, swapping the nigh horse for a better match, put-ting a uniform on your delivery men, and dispensing \vith the dirty burlaps. Ko lady wants her parlor chair to arri\'e in what looh to her like a last year's potato bag. Provide some clean ticking pads of various sizes for all such purposes, and see that they are kept in boulevard condition, even if your customer lives in the alley. v\Then your men deliver article .instruct them to place it in that particular spot in tile room in which it is to go. If it is a bed, set it up, if a carpet, lay it down and let the sale include it. Have them posted somewha.t ~s to the range of prices, supply them with copies of your advertisements, so they can intelligently answer que.s-tions as; to bargains and advertised articles. They are often asked. Have OIl your team at. least one man who repre-sents you, rather than a brawny tobacco chewer who should be hoeing potatoes. It vI,ill pay you, and that is reason enough for anybody. There are busin15ses in which the aim is to sell each customer only once, consequently the merit II of the article, or the method of its delivery is secondary, but the furniture business is on the other list. vVhere the furniture all goes to no one can say, but un-doubte. dly a great deal of its goes over the same streets, into the same houses, to the same people, y;;-ar after year, as they wear it out, give it away, send it to rumri1age sales, recom-mend it to their successors, or collect the insurance and buy more. The point is, however, that you should marry your cus-tomers, connect them indissolubly v.;ith you by the best treat-ment and the third finger, your delivery finger, wears the ring. vVhen it is off you and your business may be di-vorced.- Reprinted by Rt'quest. A Florentine Mcsaic Table. .Mark Twain in his book «The Innocents Abroad," de-scribes the beautiful ·work done by the Florentine artists in mosaics: "Florentine mosaics are the choicest in all the world. Flor-ence loves to have that said. Florence is proud of it. Flor-ence would foster this s'pecialty of hers. She is grateful to the artists that bring to her: this high credit and fill her coffers with foreign mOlley, and so she encourages them with pen-sions. She knows that people who piece together the beau-tiful trifles die early, because the \vork is so confining and so exhaustillg to hand and brain, and ~o has decreed that all these people ....h..o.. re,.;lch the age of sixty shall h~ve a pension after that! I have not heard that any of them have c.alled for their dividends yet. One man did flght along till he was sixty, and started after his p2nsion, but it appeared that there had been a mistake of a year in his family record, and so he gave up and died. These artists will take particles of stone or glass no larger than a mustard seed, and piece them together on a sleeve button or a shirt 'stud so smoothly and \vith such nice adjustment of the delicate shades of color the pieces bear. as to form a pigmy rOse with stem, thorn, leaves, petals complete, and all softly and as truth(ul1y tinted as though nature had builded it herself. They will counterfeit a fly, or a high-toned bug, within the cramped cir'ete of a breast piTl, and do it so neatly that any man might think a master painted it. ';J t saw a little table in the great mosaic school in Florence -a little trifle of a center table-whose top was made of some S01't of precious stone, and in the stont' was inlaid the figure of a flute, with bell-mouth and a mazy complication of keys. 1\0 painting in the world could have been softer or richer; no shading out of OIle tint into another could have been more perfect. I do not think one could have seen where two par-ticles joined each other with eyes of ordinary shrewdness. Thi" table top cost the labor of one man for ten long years, and it was for sale for $35,000." SIDEBOARDS BUFFETS HALL RACKS In Quartered Oak, Golden and Early English Finish. No.128. Price $12. ~.o.tr&) days/... o. b. Biq Rapuis. '------- 12 Mr. Dooley on th~ End of Life. "That was th' fine fun'ral Doheny th' fireman had," said Mr. Hennessey. "An' he desarved it. To think what that yOUllg fellow' did." "He was entitled to a first-class £11I/ra1,"said Mr. Dooley, "But T wudden-'t resthrict li.rst-class fun'rals to heroes. Ko, SIT. A11l1Y wau that has th' nerv~ to go on livin' considhren ""'hat ivrybody knows about life is entitled to all th' honors as well as him that dies bcfure his time. I'd go a little further an' let people have their fun'ra1s while they were well an' sthroI1g an' cud injye thi;n. As it is now, th' cause iv th' ob-sekies is about tlt' on'y person in th' procession that gets 110 injyment out iv it. It's money in tll' pockets iv tb' under-taker an' th' j,hack dhriver an' it's a day off with a pleasant excursion into th' counthry f'r most iv th' mourners an' evcn f'r th' few it'\', a little excitement between th' first pain an' th' long sorrow. I've seen mann)' a widow eon::;oled f'r tIt' day be th' length iv th' fun'ral procession, an' manny a man thinkin' hO\v sthrollg an' self-possessed he looked in his be-reavement. "\ll/hin 1 was a little boy, I classed ftlll'rals among th' greatest iv me adventures. They give n:.e a ride in a hack There may be wan or two people, or f'r a very popylar man three or four that are hurt, but they were hurt worse yester-dab, an' th' details iv th' day's wurruk has taken their mind off th' sorrow. F'r a day playin' a part they are saved f-r'm th 'long grief that will dhrench thim f'r iIumths an' years. Thin there are a few more tbat arc almost as sorry about th' departure iv their frind as they wud be if they cut their chin shaving. There arc a large number that feel they can best express their agony by puttin' on a stove-pipe bat. An' after thim comes a crowd iv men that while he was alive wud've gladly been th' cause iv his death, if possible, an' women that go to fun'rals f'T a free cry. An' there ye are. But what fun does th' poor man get out lV it? Th' hlnificiary iy a fun'ral, as Hogan says, is niver thO fellow that really got it up, A ftin'ral is f'r th' amuse-n: ent iv th' mourners an' th' popylace an' 'tis a jovyal pro-ccedin.' Why shud anny wan have th' privilege iv usin' ih' decease iv an aId frind to parade th' sthreets in his regalia an' hold up th' sthreet-car lines without askin' th' consint iv th' polis? "Vhy shud a man go th' very considerable expinse. of dyin' in orelher to please strangers? Manny a man will cheerfully go to ye'er fun'ral that wudden't vote for ye. He'll dhress up in black an' hear some good music an' have a cheerfUl ride out into th' rural scenery an' make himself hap-py with th' thought that he is th' ideel ligure iv respectful grief an' take notc i\' ann~rthing at tl( fun'ral that'll make conversation later on, an' talk sadly on th' way out to th' dun:;p about th' fallin' off in th' price iv suburban real estate, an' stop at a road house on his way back an' assuage his grief, as Hogan says, with a milk punch an' bite off th' end h' a big black cigar an' settle down comfortble in a corner iv th' carredge an' say, '\-Vell, it's awful to think how a man loses his frind'i at our time of life. He was a good fellow in spite i.v all his faults. It'$ a great con8olation to me that on')' a lew days befure he died, he come to me f'r a loan iv two doUars, which I didn't have. There· were certai'~ vicious traits about him. Thef~ were certain things 1 niver cud UIl-dherstand. F'r instance-but why sJleak ill iv th' dead? Let's dhrop off here at th' corner an' dhrink his health whereivcr he is. An' wha d'y say to c, little game aftherwards?' "'Tis a quare thing about lifc anyhow that death don't blanket it all th' time. If ye knew ye were gain' to be evicted fr'm ye'er l10use ta-marrah an' weren't sure where ye w(;rc goin' to ye wudden't sleep nights. Ye'd be over here weepiu' on me shouldher. Rut as long I've known ye I've niver heerd ye talk about the final evietii.)n as if ye had anny gnat amount iv interest in it. Ye talk about it, iv coarse, but 'tis as though ye were talkin' about a neighbor that'd been sarved with a notice to quit. 'Poor Casey, he was a good felluw, 'Tis a pity he cudden't go Oll an' pay th' rent.' Expeeryence tells ye that ye can be put out on a minyit's notice all' th' small, two-story frame palace that ye've decorated with th' thillgS ye like an' thried to make as comfortable as pos~lble, . can be demolished f'river an' a more modhren sthructun put up in its place. But in yc'er heart ye feel that ye In Ie a perpetchool leaseho!d_ 'Tis th' on'y wan in th' neigl. hOl-hood, an' ye've got it. Th' truth -is there are billyons i" th' same kind, If th' life- insurance comp'nies made up their mortality tables fr'm th' feelings iv people, they'd be broke befure the boord iv directors cud get to th' cash drawer, Made by the Lentz Table Company, Nashville, Mich, through parts iv to\VIl th~:t I'd l:(vcr seen befure an' out into th' counthry where I niver wint except I ,-vas invited to a fun'ral, an' I had joyval company, an' something to eat differ-ent fr'lll what I g-ot at home. Lookin' back on how I felt whin 1 ,vas a kid, I can't remember that anl1y distant rela-tion made himsilf unpopular \\'ith us by dyin', Even if I wasn't let go to a fun'ral there '..;.1.3 something exciting about it. It stirred up th' neighborhood. There was something to talk about. Ivrybody asked, ;Did he leave anllything?' as if th' poor man \-vas a burglar or a lire. People got out their good clothes an' dusted off their high hats. On th' day iv th.' fun'ral all th' childher iv th' neighborhood gathered around th' house an 'envied their little playmates that had th' luck to lose a fond parent. "There's vcry little rale grief at .a fun'ral. I've often pictured me own wind-up in me mind, an' thought iv thous-ands iv people bein' so prostrated be me demise that they cud not attind to th' jooties iv life f'r a year. An' iv coarse I see it all. In me dhreams iv th' universal melancholy over me death, I've always ben an aujcence f'r th' mourning. I've looked on an' felt vcry pleased at th' way I had stoppd th' progress i\' th' wurruld be gain' out iv it. But I know it ain't so. I've obsarvcd nawthin' iv th' kind at hm'rals. Ivr)' ,van feels he is immortal, both th' way rather Kelly thinks, an' th' way ye think as ye see ye'crsilf dhroppin' in here a millyon years or so fr'm now an' takin' a glass iv beer. an' talkin' politicks. 'Th' truth is,' says Father Kdly, 'life don't raaly (,omprehend death. It can't. Ye thry to think iv Death an' ye niver think of ye\'r own. Oh, yc have an idee iv seein' the popylace comin' an' weepin' over ye, but ye're ah",-ays seein' jt an' injyin' it. But ye're not dead. Ye are a lively critic iv what\; gain' 011 around ye. "'Even whin ye thit1k iv th' future life yc see ye'ct'sili as yc dre now an' dhrcssed up in ye'cr best clothes. I 'Nondhef,' says he, 'if it isn't ,',ran iv our gr~reatest blessings that the human mind can't raa!y 1ll1dhcrstand death. \Vc'd be scared to tleath if we cud. 'Tis wondherful whin ,ve come to think iv 1t that though it is, takin' it all an' all, th' thing 'we lastc want to happen to us, we don't seem to fear it. Ye can get a millyoll la-ads to go out an' have thimsilves shot at f'r a principal, or f'r th' Chinese tllfade., or f'r reltijon, or f'r thir~ teen dollars a month, or f'r the futl iv th' thing. Ye can get thim to wurruk in a dillnYl11ite facthory or E'.nlist in a man iv waf which on'y needs a light wurrtld fr'm thO illil1ly to foun-der, or hoist thimsilves up on a slUalt boord and paint th' roof iv a l-ifty-story bulldin.' "'Th' n~ost perlous iv human occypatiolls arc, jf yc obsanTe, usually thO lowest paid. An' why is this so? Is it because we. 're not afraid iv death? Faith, no. but because we don't know annything about it. Vi/e don'"t appreciate it. If out simple minds cud grasp tll' subjick th' bravest man in th' wUfrulct 'wu<1be found undhct' th' bed sobbing.' says he. It's there, but it isn't there. It happens to iv'rybody but ye can't see it happen to ye'ersilf. Ye walk bri.';kly up to it or maybe ye even run. Ye ,never see it till it's too late an' thin it's too late to recognize it. ''Iii; no good rUl1Jlll1' away fr'm it. 11a11ny a man dodgin' a throlley car has been run over be an autymobilJ. Ye hide fr'm th' lightning and a miekrake gits ye. Ye ayoid railroad trains all' boats an' .so:::ratchye'er thumb Witll a carpet tack an' 'tis all over. Ye expect it fr'om wan side iv the sthreet an 'it comes h'm th' otbCf. Ye thiJlk that it mu&t be in th' bloc,k ahead an' ye make up ye'er milld to \valk slow whin it sleps up behind ye, 13 slavs ye on th' back an' says; "Ve're wanted at headquarters. Ye'd betther come along peaceable." To which, having no 111thrcst ye make no reply. 'Tis thin f'r th' first time ye'd have an undherstandin' an' a fear i\' death~if y~ were alive. But ye are dead.' "'/\.n' what arc \-ve goill' to dn abotlt it?' says 1. 'There's ccl\vthin' to do,' says he, 'but tIny not to thiEk about it. In- rST ~o!.!.!?!I.~r~".~!t.'!t!•'•CO. • : I {PATENT APPLU>O FOR) We ba ...e. adopted -eelluloid as a base for our CasterCups, making the best c:up on the market. Celluloid is a great irnptoN~mellt over ba5ea made of other material. When it is necessary to move a piece supported by cups with cellu}6jd ba~s it un be done with ease, as the bas~s art per-fectly smDoth_ Celluloid does n6t sweat and by the use of these cups I tables are never marred. These cups are fini!;bed in Golden Oak and White Maple, finished light. If YQU wiU t-rv a gamp~(! ortt8r oj tli-eB-tJ I goods you will desire to ha·rulle them in quantities. PRICES: Size'2%' inches., .... $5.50 per hundred. Si:!:e3U' inches.".,. 4.50 per hundred. j. o. b. Gran(l Rapids. l'RY A SAMPLE ORDER. . "' jye this life, indudin' other people's funerals, which a.fe part iv it, get ye'er ticket fr'm th' right shop, an' be sure ye pay enough f'r it be llOt doin' all the ,'",rong ail' foolish things yc want to do. so it will be IlviJc out to a pleasant distyna-tion,' says he." "vVell," said lI.fr. Hennessey, "'tis a tine thing to feel that ye have a good conscience." "'Tis a conceited thing," said idr. Dooley.-Amcrican \lagazine. Made: by Fred J, Zimmer, Grand Rapids, Mich. L t4 ~STAaUSHED 1880 ~UBLlStfI!:Q C1Y MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THe: lO'nt AND Z5TM OF EA.CH MONTH OFP'tcE-10e,110, 112 NORTH DIVISIQN ST., GRA.NO RAPIDS, MICH. '"TERrO .1.3 MATTEIIOF THI aECO,.1) ClAII. The single line dealer in furniture has a decided advan-tage over the department store in the use of show windows, in that he can make frequent changes in his exhibits and thereby create a neyer-ceasing' interest. The department store manager exhibits linens one week, following with wall paper, carpets, footwear, clothing, furnishing goods, gowns, cloak:; and other artides carried in stock. Whlle the single line dealer may concentrate upOn one thing, the department store manager must diverge from olle thing to another. The single line shop permits the harmonious grouping of articles; the general fitment, both within and without, tending to assist in the making of sales. nto CtO Out5ide of the office-holding pOliticians, it matters not to the people at large who may be elected president. The make-up of congress cannot he changed for many )'ears and the existing laws, in most instances, wiH remain in force, The trusts will not be abolished, free trade will not be estab-lished, the Philippines will not be turned over to the Japanese and the negroes will not be exterminated in Africa. Then why should the people bother themselves with polities? \\T auld not more profit and pleasure be derived through an ef~ fort to set the wheels of industry and commerce i.n motion? The people can open the factories at once if they will 50 to do. CtO etc "The furniture of old-fashioned yesterday, in the very essence of its simple character, reveal" that touch of culture and rd1nement so often lacking in the furniture of to~day," reads an advertisement of the Grand Rapids Furniture Com-pany of New York. "Old-fashioned fmnitme of yesterday (for instance, a bed supported with rope and provided with a straw tick) would not be tolerat~d by any well-tn-do family. Old-fashioned furniture, modernized, is in a different and a better class. It is not of the kind that grandfather made. °to °to The national cabinet maker, to be chosen on November 3, will enforce the laws enacted by a republican cOllgress. Therefore, it matters not whethe-r the man chosen be. a re·- publican, a democrat, a socialist or a prohibitiolJi~t, Repub-lican policies, "\vhether wise or otherwise, wW prevail during the coming four y('.ars. A change in the political complexion of the house would not affect republican dominanc)'. '='tC °tC The June weddings will create a demand {or millions of dollars worth of house hunishing goods. It pays to culti-vate the good will of fiancees and brides. The period of their entry into" the holy estate affords the opportunity f6r es~ tablishing friendly relations that endure, through life. atO °tt> One thousand manufacfuren; will place lines on exhibition for the mid-summer sale. Ne.arly one-half of that number will be on sale in Grand Rapids and as many lTlore in Chi-cago. :!\tIakea note of this fact and then carefully consider the advantage~., of buying in a live market. CtO 0y "Art lies as much in execution as in design, The latter is nothing without the former," remarks the "ad" writer of the Tobey Furniture Company. Workmen who are able to express the art of the designer in their work should rank with artists. l\'1any single line dealers find profit in mailing personal lettexs to customers and pro3pective customers, calling at-tention to articles they have in stock. The cost 1S much less than full page adverb sing in the daily newspapers, Many retailers arc mailing catalogues broadcast and mod~ estly (?) calling themselves "monarchs of the mails," "from factory to 110me distribtHor3," "much money s:1vers," "kings of the sample order trade," and like self laudations. eto "'to George C. Flint & Co. of New York are "going some." In their advertisements they say: "Our competent artists and salesmen are always available by appointment to attend patrons at their homes." 't' '.' I Retailers, by attending the furniture expositions next month, will be better prepared to join in the movement to re-e3tablish prosperity in trade than those remaining at home. atc "'tV Why not make an effort· to re-establish a normal condition in trade immediately? Tbe presidential question can be settled afterward. The wise merchant is preparing to attend the furniture expositions next month. 't' 't' Advantages are gained by buyer never hears of. the market buyer that the office 't' There will be no lack of attractions at the midsummer fur-niture expositions. If your store is unclean without, the chances are it is unclean \vithin. Just a reminder: "'tC °to The market buyer is the best buyer. "to "to ~-0 pupils graduate from the school of experience. °to °t'" Down with politics; Up with business. Tosti Composes and Upholsters. Paoli Tosti, the composer, has an odd hobby-that of up-holstering. The writer of "Good-bye" is teaching when not composing, and when he is not teaching he is upholstering. Every chair in his wife's drawing room was upholstered. by Tosti himself. He is continually all the lookout for fine old chair frames. All he finds he nuys and upholsters, keeping the finished product for himself or se,nding it as a gift to some friend. 15 ~-.-------_._-_._,.--._---------- • II .. • 16 ·~MlprIG7fN RockfO'rd was the biggest lO'Nl1 in Illinois to go dry 111 the recent spring election, atld the result W;!s largely due to the active interest of marlY of the furniture mal1l\fae.turers on the dry side of the question. Unless the supreme court of Illinois knocks out the local option law it will mean no saloons in Rockford for eighteen months. The fear that no city under such conditions can prosper will be either verified or exploded. As to the furniture business at this writing, the most that can he said for it is that the outlook is better than it was, and that tbe factories arc in much better shape to weather the storm than during the depression of 1893. Everybody is checrful and hopeful and making preparations for the fall trade. The Rockford Chair & Furniture Company wit! have the usu~l number of fresh fall patterns of china closets, buffets, book cases, mnsic cabilH'.ts, ladles' desks, etc., Oll exhibition at their permanent show rooms on the third floor of the Blod-gett block, Gr8.nd Rapids, in charge. ~f Eugene C. Goodrich Made by Horn Bros. Mfg, Co • Qblcago. Ill. and the usual buneh of salesmen "vba represcnt thcm in all sections of the counfry. The Rockford Frame & Fixture Company arc offering to the trade this season one of the best lines of fancy cabinct-ware ever placed on the market, consistillg of parlor and music cabinets, buffets, china closets, hall furniture, ladies' desks, clleval mirrors, shaving stands, gents' chiffoniers, framed mirrors, dressing tables and chairs, lamp stands and bridal chests. Furniture dealers find many pieces in the line that 6t in and brighten the store anQ for show window pieces I I F'OR SALE: I I FURNITURE AND PIANO BUSINESS Profits last year $18,701.06. Capital nec-essary to handle this business $27000. Reasons for selling, proprietor wants larger opportunities. Address XYZ, Care of Michigan Artisan. • • attract much attention. The line will be shown in Grand Rapids, Chicago and New York in July. \Vhen one wants to find a line of dining room and parlor furniture (music and parlor cabinets in oak and mahogany) made hy mechanics who know their business hom the lumber yard to the car door, it is well to consider the 1'1echanics Fur-niture Company. Dealers seldom have anything to kick about when receiving the goods. The Standan], Central, .National, Cooperative, Forest City, Royal .Mantel, Rockford Desk, Rockford Cabinet, Union, Skandia and Palace will show many new things for the fall trade. Furnishings of the Friars' Home. The new home of the Friars on Forty-sixth street, New Yark, near Sixth avenue, is a four story building with a brownstone front. It's the building that has benevolent looking m:ollks on the stained glass windows. The first floor contains the cafe and pool room (not the Penal Code kind), The furniture and decorations of th~se roolUS, as well as of the other rooms in the house, are of the fifteenth century style, and such as one might have found in a well regulated monastery in those days. The furniture is of chestnut a.nd stained black. The furniture is held together by cleves, The steillS that .the members carried to the club on opening day are ranged along the wall. On the walls are many pic-tures of mOnks and friars,. many of them the work of Vibert and Rinaldi, master painters of those subjects. The pool room 13 the gift of At Hayman. On the secamt flam is the lounging room and in the rear an assembly t<lom which is to be tlsed also as a dining salon. It is strictly Louis XVI. The halt walls of the third floor are adorned with old prints of steel and wood of actresses and actors of bygone days, presented to the club by Friar Simon Nahm. On this floor in the front is the library, the gift of the Friar governor and treasurer, John 'A/. Rumsey. Adjoining it is the press room and in the back a roof garden. The board of goverllors' room, card rooms and secretary's office take up the top floor.-:N"ew York SUll. Luce-Redmond Chairs. The line of the Luce-Redmond Chair Compauy of Big Rapids, Mich., comprises se"eral hundred patterns of high grade rockers, diness, slipp'er chairs, parlor suites, hotd chairs, chairs for the bedroom, the parlor (and every room in the house except the kitchen) in Il1.ahogal1y, tuna mahogany, bird's-eye maple, birch, quartered oak, in fact in all the pop-ular woods. Their displays at the semi-annual expositions in Grand Rapids are the center of attraction for those who know the best lines and where to find them. Their line is on permanent exhibit in the ,Manufacturers' building in the "Furniture City." i IL- _ •i WE ADVERTISE FIBER-RUSH FURNITURE in all leading magazines with such adver~ tisements as this shown, which IS one of a series of advertisements being read by millions. As we sell through dealers only, you will be benefited in as much as it will help you move your stock of Fiber-Rush Furniture Every furniture dealer In America should have a display on his floorto meet the demand we are creating, announcing in his newspaper advertisement that he sells Fiber-Rush Furniture We supply attractive advertising matter to dealers free. Write today to the address nearest you. ,---------------1 I I : II 1 I I I Write for Free Book on Summer Furniture Ford & JohnsoD's Fiber· RUM FUttliture III made of an exceedingly tough, tenacious fiber treated by our own e:x:dusive pfOCeS$. Thefibeds rendered m oisture- Droof- hea.t ~proof-cold -proof -capable of resisting the influence of a.nyclimate. Furniture made of Ford & Johnson Fiber-Rush is as strong and lasting as wooden furniture, and is far more artistic. It wlll tlOt injure the most deli' cate fabric and will not sliver, break nor crumble, It is not only the furniture for the summeriIome-the lawn-the Dorclt...,.yacllts and boats-but the furniture for the home a.ll the ;Year. Our book tells you how. at moderate cost, to make yout' home tnost inviiing and attractive. It illustrates by photograph!;, art/sUe arrangements of Living,Dining and Bed Room s, Reception Halls, Dens and Porches. all furnished in Fiber-Rush Furniture, This lie-ht, durable material lends itself to 80 many graceful designs that it is preferred to heavy wooden pieces. The soU green shade whuh is a part of the hber £tself and which it retains as long as the furniture is used, harmonizes with any color scllcme, and always gives the jmpressJon of refine-ment and elegance. It is so easlly moved that it takes nlOst of the labor out of sweeping, dusting and housc-cleanill!:r. We tliakeChairs. Rockers, CO!lversationChalrs, Roman Seats, Dining Tables, Library Tables, Desks, Sett~s. Lawn Swings, Couches and Stools. Every piece is wid under our Guarantee of satls-fa. ctlon ot money refWlded. 1\.1 ost leadmg dealers sell Fiber-Rush Furniture or they can getit fOr you from us. If you can not buy it {n the stores write us and we win sead you the name of.a dealer wbo wm supply you. Address our nearest office. Ask for Book The Ford & Johnson Co. Chitago New York BQl.t~n Cincinnati. 0, Atlanta, ell. Largest Maker!!of Chairs and Pine Fu.r.ttJture -------------- THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. Chicago Cincinnati Atlanta New York Boston New Haven 17 • 18 Dr. Henry S. Pritchett on Industrial Education. NothiuR has excited mo,e interest in the schaol world than tne propositiun recently made in Chicago at the meeting of the National Sodety for the Promotion of Il1dustrial Edu-cation by the president of Harvard University, Dr. Eliot. He said: "We have come upon a new function for the teach-ers in our elementary schools, and in OJy judgment they have. no function more important. The tcachers of the ele-mentary schools ought to sort the pupils, anti sort them by their evident, or probable, destinies.!' The question thus raised by Dr. Eliot has since been act-ively debated in various teachers' associations where a general discussion is now going on regarding industrial educa1.1011. The :..rat10nal Society for the Promotion of Industrial Educa-tion, of which the first president was Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, was organhed to stimulate this very interest. When quest10ned 111 regard to the function of this society, -J It is equally to the interest of the workingman, of the manu-facturer, of the teacher, of the citizen, that the boys and girls may find an open door to opportunity hy which they may fit themselves to be effective men and women in the industrial life of our nation. "During the first year of our work. our attel1tion has been focused on the first of the two 'Pllfposes named, that of call-ing the attention of the public to the. conditions which exist today in our own country. Vl e have been largely occupied in trying to emphasize the fact that these conditions must be dealt with, 1n trying to make it clear to those who are inter-ested that here confronting us, are problems which must be solved; and that the interests of allcitizells of our country are to be served by dealing with them <IS directly, as efficient~ ly, and as quickly <'Is possible. "A second part of our work during the year has been that which has dealt with the publication of information concern-ing the work of education in industrial lil;,es in foreign C{)\ln~ ~- ~~~ ~~~-=, -. • Sketched by Edward Wuenn of Miohlgan City, Ind. Dr. Pritchett said: "The underlying purpose which gave birth to the Kational Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education is the tbonght that we are no longer fitting our youths for their opportunities in the way in which they must be fitted. In this day, every nation must make of each cit-izen ~\l] effective, economic unit, and then mttst bring tlH.~ units into efficient organization. \Ve in America are today not doing this. "\Fe arc behind, aud as the old Methodist be-lief which holds that the first step to improveme11t is a C011- "iction of sin, so the first -purpose of thi.s society is to make it clear to the American people that tlle facts show that we arc behind; that we are not preparing our men ,wd onr W()- men as they must be prcpared to be effective, economic units. "The second purpose which led to the iil<iuguration of the society '\>\'asto bring together the various persolls in our citi-zen body, who are most directly il1tcre:;;ted in this problem; first, those who have to do directly with industrial calillgs, next the great manufacturers who depend on skill in these trades, and the schoolmasters who arc to train the boys and the girls, and lastly the great American public itself, which aft';-T all, in all such questions is as directly concerned as any other party, but which is the 011C the most often left un consulted. "This society believes that this prohkn-i, vital as it is, is to be worked 011t by co-operation; that it is to be: dealt with in a spirit of industrial peac~, not in a spirit of industrial war. tries. particularly in the work which is being done in France, in certain placf;'s in Eng:\and, and above all in Germany. In the environs of Bc.rlin there lS <"(11institution, covering many acres, known as the National Testing Laboratory. It is au institution to which any engineer, fHly manufacturing firm, an)' commercial lirm or anyone in industry or industrial life, may go with a difJicult problem. The expcrts in that estab-lishment will take up this problem and study it. A paper manufacturer told me in this connection the following story: 'Some months ago,' said he, 'we began to buy our wood from a new region, but the formula by which we had made our wood pulp 110 longer worked. The process we had used proved a failure and our business seemed to be about to go to the wall. \Ve took our problem to the testing laboratory. Two of our own men were set to work un. 1t a11d two men from the laboratory, In 5ix months they changed our business from a losing one into the most profitable one we ever had.' It does not take. a very great llltelligence to see that you cau set that kind of an institutioll down outside of Ncw York or Chicago without any modification, and have it do a lot of good. "And now a word as to tlle future \vork of this society. It is not cnough to say that we are going to co-operate. It is 110t enough merely to point out what foreign nations are doing. There must be also constructive work. We must have definite, practical trade schools; schools that are going to train these hoys and these girls into definite skilled 'vork-ers. ]ttst which of the various types of schools this society will be abh', to recommel~d we hope may be made clear 'within the next ycar or two. This society by a committee of its men most familiar 'with the subject, will be able to recommend to a muni<:ipality or to a city a model type of trade school; the kind of school that it, in its judgment, believes would be equal to the industry which that particular city or tha.t par-ticular community may well promote. It hopes to be able Made by The KaJ-ges Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. to sho'A·· henv to deal directly, practically, specitically, with the problelr.s of a given region, of a given city, and of a given state. "Secol1dly, it is the e,xpcctatiotl that within the next year there may be brought out of this society a committee similar to that famQus committee of ten, of which President Eliot was a member, which some years ago dealt in 50 successful a way with c:.erta.in standards oLcollege and secondary educa-tion. This committee, it is hoped, \\'il1 tell us how these contilu1atiol1 school, these school,., for industrial training Bhould articulate themselves with the great public school sys~ lent of our country and oC our various states, bec.ause ,dtet· all, this study by 'which a boy or girl is to be started into a trade, in which skiU shitll be one of tbe grt'at agents for the moral and intellectual uplifting, must in some way be intelli-gently, practically and eHidently articulated with our public school system." Engineer License Bill Rejected. The legislature of the state of New York refused to pass a bill forbidding persons to operate any engine, irres-spective of motive power, without J"t certificate of qualification. Under its terms all persons, except licensed steam engil,eers and their assistants, mechanical engineers and machinists were excluded from operating an engine. IThe ford &JOh~~On I Company The line indudes a. very complete assortment of Chairs, Rockers and Settees of all grades, Dining Room Furniture, Mission Furniture. Fibre~Rush Furniture, Reed and Rattan Furniture, Go~Carts and Baby Carriages. C«IC4GO No 805 C2 Our complete I1m~of samples are displayed In The ford So Johnson Co. hulldlng. 1333-37 Wabash Ave•• Including a special display of "utel Furniture. II• AU Fut'ni"ure J)ealer~are c07diaUy in~!lted to 1Jisit 0'1)1'building, .' MANISTEE MFG. Co. MANISTEE. MICH. Buffet No. 184, $15.50 QUll.r1ered White OaK. Golden Finish_ Rubbed. IlIId Polidted. Frend1 fteveleo Minot. 1Z:dZ. Size of top. 20:1.42. Heiiht 56 inebes. One drawer lined. Wnb! tOJ new Catalogue. 19 • • 20 GROWTH OF NISS STORE. Floor Space Increased to Fifty-six Times Greater than When Store Was Founded. The growth of C. Niss & Sons, who have been celebratil1l?= the formal opening of their magnificent fireproof building, is indeed remarkable. Tbe progress of this firm can be likened tei that of an acorn. The husine:ss was established in 1867 by C. Niss, in a small one-story store buitding. Thcn there was about 1250 feet of floor space, now today there is an area of 70,000 S(jU'lfe feet, just fifty-six times larger than tlle begitming. Following the erection of the two-story fran:e bllildirog on Immense show windows and modern prism lights throw a flood of pure day~ight into every nook and corlier, which is of the greatest possibl-e adval1tage to the customer, In the basemel1t of the new store one will fmd hundreds of children's carriages, go-carts, office desks, office chairs, children's cribs. chairs, rockers. snmmer furnitnre, refriger-ators, etl:. The exterior is hui,,{led in copp~r with cupper lanterns swinging above the entrance. The vestibule is finished in soft silver gray, Above the imme'lse show windows are the modern prism lights studded witb gold leaf and sky-blue lights, the entire front making a very' unique appearance. In fact, it is one of the show places of the city, and worth while going a far way to see, Since the death of the father, C. Niss, three years ago, the INTER-lOR OF NEW STORE OF U"NISS & SONS, MIL\\TAlJKEE. "VIS" tile: "ite Iii till' 1'l"igtt1,d ';11\;\11 .~\i)rl'" (',\111(' 111c 1'!"l'dIUll ,'1 ;[ briel, bni1dillg (11- three "'-'t'Jrie.; all(l 1)'I ..;('])[ellt, ilJlll1('di;\t ..,.~y ,\11- joining: ('11 tile south Tlwn 10\11)\\'t'(l <l llJrcc-,;(ol"y and b;l,-,cmCll\ sulid brid; building. with additicJIl:' ill the rcar. ;,n([ last the Il1;~gl1iticcl1tnew (ir'~j)roor hllildil1g, ,,\"11icl1 has jl1st been opened to the puhlic. The fircpr'oof building is of stcd "llperstructure witl] rein-forced concrete fluors «IH1 stairs. lTlct,d windoll' [,"ames with fireproof "vire glass" The main Hoar has ,)11 eighteen-foot ceiling with a horseshoe b;L1cony surrounding, resplendent in a brass railing and verdi green irouwork. This arrangement is somoething entirely new in this part of the country. " The elevators are of the plunger system, which makes' riding in them easy_ The elevator ironwork and enclosures are also in verdi green, which makes a very pretty contrast to the balance of the store, which is finished in a. snowy white. hll~il1c."'~ ()f (" \.i~", & S,llb h;\:~ b('\'\1 cl,nductcd })Ji the t\\"n ~011'.~C,harks awl \\"jlii:l1ll C, Siss. bolh of \\"I]()lll\\"('l"(~ !ong-idel1tified nith their hIller" Prog-re"s ;l.11dcllterprise is the w,ltt1!\\"()1"(1 of this progressive firm, \Vhilc opening- up thee He,,\, stort, C. :\iS5 & S011S have at tllt Silrne time added to their imlllense furniture stock a very large and complete line of CDflV::ts, rtlg;S, lace curtains! dl-npery matc.rial by the yard, liuoleum, rnattings, etc. This line llas been given ground Roor space ill some of the stores. A feature of the display of the new line, of goods is the rug rack on which hundreds of rugs are shown, displaying the full pattern of the rug, which is of the greatdst possible va.lue to the patrons ill making a selection. The old way of dis-playing" l'llgS on the floor, only admitting one-half, and when it gets to the bottom of the pile only one-third of the rug being displayed, Still another feature of this new dc- 21 .., RICHMOND CHAIR CO., Richmond, Ind. DOUBLE CANE LINE See Our NewPallerns Catalogues to the trade. ~-----------_._-----_._--_._-_. partmcnt is the large space devoted to the display of lace en\"- tajns and draperies, 'which are arranged in panorarnie vie.\'. This is <\150 of gre3t advantage to the patron, as goods that way can be t'<l:;jJy compared. There are <thout 250 different styles of lace cllrtains ShOWll. Prices range from the cheap-est to the hest. A large space is also 'g-ivell ov"cr to the pictmc department. Thousand':; of pictures arc here shov..,tl, ranging ill price from the Che,lp(:st tn title oj! paintings.-\Viscollsin. Making the Home Beautiful. "A dining room is, the joy of the decorator's heart," said a well known furnisher, ;;because it can be done jll so nWllY novel ways. People arc in their dining rooms a very small part of the time, so they don't get tired of the decorations. "Another reason is that p~·adieal1y only one point of vie\\" ha~ to be considered. Vy'e are usnally sitting aron,~d the table, and therdore the \vall and its decoration ",hould be con-sidered from a distance. The c.,olors that would t,·y us in a living room arc delightful for dining roon's. \i\'hat could be more cheerful than bright yell 0\'.. · walls ~i1~dlight 'vooa work, with touches of blue in the rug to bring ant the purity of the yel]o\.v: Brown rug, hrol,vn hangings and yellow waiL are agrec<lb1c ior either summer or winter trentn-:ellt. The same colored walls with bright grecll cnrtains <Il~dgr(:en rug arE'.just as attractit"e and have sometJling Ires}) and spring""; like about them,. "People nevcr seem to tire of delft dining rooms. They are so homelike. A beautiful delft blue. not too cold '<1. shade. is charming, with \".·hite painted or black stained wood, !illd such be~Hltiftl1, inexpensive domestic rugs can be bought in bltle and gety that it is not a difficult color schem~ to carry out. It is quite inexpensive, too, because we can get suetl beauLiflll delft blue in denim for curtains and such inexpen-sive fabric rugs. And Japanese blue and \vhite china are ex-tremely decorative when it is \\'e11 arranged on the wide plate shelf." Among this se<lson's recd and v,'icker furniture may be found chiffoniers and dressing tables in 11105t any color. Al-though some do not favor green for a bedroom, several very attractive pieces "vere seen in one of the shops. Undertakers' License Law Unconstitutional. A divisioJl of the supreme court of Xew York has decided that the act of tbe legishltme of 1905 requiring undertaken. to take out licenses is unconstitutional. The question was "--------_. -- - - raised by \Villiarn A. Ringe, who had been arrested for vio-lating this chapter in that he had failed to serve as an assis-tant to a licensed undertaker for a period of three years before starting in business for himself. The court of special ses- Made by Mechanics Furniture 0o,. Rockford, Ill. sions fOllnd Ri,lge guilty and 'suspended sent~n(:e. His law-yer took :111 appeal. The appellate court in revoking the decision of the lower C011rt holds that the chapter of the lav,.· is UJ1constitutional because it places a restraint on a lawful occupation. Medhlrn Priced Sideboards. Hall Racks and Buffets. The manufacture of <t medium priced lille of sideboards, lmffets and hall racks, in quartered oak, finished golden and early English, is carried on extensively by the Big Rapids (:\lich.) 1Janufaeturing Company. Their No. 128 hall stand, nicely r.arved, with large mirror, four "double bra~s hooks, umbrella ~tand and shoe box and' seat for $12 is certainly a hargain. See the picture of it on another page of this issue. :z:z THE ARTISTIC ANTIQUE. Is Bought at Auction- by the Newly Married and Enthusiasm Hides Its Defects. "There's 1lO question about it," said lHrs. Honeymooner when her husband came home that night. "The Smiths have a most artistic flat, and the,)" paid very little for the titting of it. "All the furniture is genuine antique. Came frol11 old South Carolina plantation;.; and those other places down south. "You know those old families send their things up here to he sold. Southerners are so proud that they don't like to sell 'eAn where they live.~' :Mr. Honeymooner listened while the waitress brought the dinner provided by the apartment hotel. He was glad to hear ,about the cheapness of this style of furniture because their own llest was being made ready. "So I'm going to buy everything at auction," 11rs. Honey-mooncr went 011, scarcely noticing in her enthusiasm that she had taken canned corn for three nights in succession, "and you'll see what artistic foams we'll have." So she haunted the auctions and a varied lot of chairs that creaked ominously whenever they were, sat on, bookcases that refused to~hut after they had hee\) submitted to a very mod-erate allowance of the ~team heat in the flat, chests of draw-ers with a most perverse desire to stay shut-these familiar antiques were soon placed about the Honeymooners' new flat. Then there were tables that would wabbIe, however the carpenter might work to adjust their legs to a common length. They were more or less nccurate reproductions of old modelsnud made a tasteful show in the little rooms of the apartn"'.ent. To the captions the veneer might seem a little too brilliant, and the brass knobs and handles certainly shone with a bronze glow that did not sugg('.st antiquity. The visual appeal of the rooms, however, was a success, whatever . IT.ight be thought of the comfort. "Ridiculous," replied the happy Mrs. Honeymooner, when the less artistic half, of the family grumbled (Jut the desire to sit down just once in a chair that did not creak menacingly. "Real antiques cannot he as strong as a kitchen chair. You must realize that," So the Honeymooners continued to dwell .IS comfortably as :possible mnong the antiques which the superior wealth of the North had grasped from the :proud families of the South who needed the mouey. It would have hecn heartless to dis-abuse the mind of :'1rs. Honeymooner as to their origin. 1"\one but a brute could have turned around the chests of drawers and showed her the new wood in the back or called attention to the very obviou:, newness of the metal work. She was in the tirst happy stage of the antique, fever. Theil all mahogany is old, all brasses are the original ornaments and there is no guile in thc v~ndcr of artistic objects. In the face ()f such faith, who could have led 11er hy the hand over to Fourth avenue and called her attention to what her eyes refused to see? Many times had she passed by the little shops in the side streets and failed to see the piles of genuine c1awfeet, turned out by machinery until hundreds awaited the arri,,-ai of the searcher for this or that <:l;ntiquepiece. Perhaps the dealer did not have it, but he knew somebody who did. So any-thing in the c1a\'vfoot line was certain to be ready by the next day. The supply of antique brass drawer handles, knobs, or or-naments as large as several factories always at work can make them, is another disillusioning detail to which the seek-er after antiques seems equally blind. Mrs, Honeymooner was as lucky as the rest of her kind in escaping interruption tb her blissful dream of beautiful antiques, genuine and at a price within the means of a young couple just starting on th~ir way in life. "There is no question about it," said Mrs. Honeymooner, when her husband came home on the night she. put the fin-ishing touch to their apartment. 1'\\,C have jtlst as artistic a flat as the Smiths did and we paid very little for it. All our furniture is genuine antique-came from old South Caro-lina plantations." During the time intervening between the marriage of the l-loneymooners and their acquisition of their own home the Smiths prospered. Smith got an interest in a magazine and the amount of advertising he secured for it made his holding much more proflta.ble than he had e..1..er suspected it would be. The Smiths consequently acquired a house and a runabout. Then they had a small motor car of the same description. Smith of course used to run it' himself, but it was not long bdore he plunged about in a French touring car with, a be-furred chaffeur at the wheel. It was not consistent to combine such means oftrallspor-tation with life in a flat, although Smith got the rigs cheaper through his adverti5ing interests, $0 he bought a house. They had just moved in when the Honeymooners decided they 'l.\'ere ready to entertain, and kept their promise to them-selves that the Smiths should be their first guests. "Perhaps it's her money that's made her different," sighed Mrs. Honeymooner after the entertainment was over as she prepared to carry the whiskey and soda glasses au; to the pantry, whence issued already the snores of the exhausted maid. "There are mighty few that can stand it." ';Bosh!" answered her husband, who was dropping the contents of the ash trays out of the window that the sitting room might not smell of stale smoke in the morning. "I thought she seemed very different. She scarcely said a word about our beautiful furniture. Merely looked around and said, yes it was pretty. I remember ho\v I raved over hers. It was pretty, too; but no prettier than ours." "Thought you were a copy-cat pl!obably," _answered her husband, who had finished his ehotes by closing up the bridge table and pushing it behind the sofa. "Couldn!t help feeling sore because you'd made the place look so nice." :Mrs. Honeymooner was well down the shoqting galler)' hall when she heard this. H\Vell, we'll see how her new place looks next week," she r.:\lled back to the faithfui Honeymooner, who had just blown O\.\tthe lamp at the risk of losing an eyebrow. "What-ever she has I'm going to be just as snippy about it." The night of the dinner at the Smiths' found their friends On time. Mrs. Honeymooner swept the haH and drawing room at a glance as the maid took her c1oa~. They were a minute alone in the drawing room and Mrs. Honeymooner had the time to make her observation thorough. "Did you ever see anything like it?"phe whispered dramat- [cally to her husband. "There isn't a stick of old furniture :ll,ywhere in the room." Even the eye of a man to \,d10111 SL!ch matters offered little interest could not fail to mark the brand new appeara.nce at the furniture. There were in the 1'00111 upholstered chairs firtn as a mountain, but soft as a feather mattress to tbc tired man. Tbet·c \""-ere leather chair~; that did not totter under the "veight of the heaviest guest. At UiIlIlC!" they sat on chairs of \vood and leather which "'lab.bled no more than the 11r111 table, on which one inJiHerent to the i-inest points of tahle etiquette might lean lllS elbows without danger of sllaking the glasses. "Your house is lovely," J\1rs. Honeymooner said when the two women were together, forgctting her unfriendly decision under the warmth of her friend's hospitality. "But what did yon do with all your beautiful old furniture?" "Don't mention it," said ::'lITo;.Smitb. "Vie t:Ollnt that <IS a part of OUI" earliest strugglcs. John and 1 used ahvays to 5:1y that we would get comfortable furniture whene ...e.r we \vere rich enough Of coursc, it didn't l11(~ali to be \..-cry rich, but it mean a good deal for us. He never ceased to quarrel about the rickety stuff, although it all seemed beautiful enough to me. It didn't miud if it did creak and totter. I loved it." ;'£ut yotlgave 1t all up?" "\Vhat there was leit of it at the end of four years," the host(~5S went 011. "Of course, it dido't Weill' "\ViOl us as It had fCH- the ceutury or two it spent on the Southern plal1t:i-tio\ 1.'" ),1rs. Honeyl11coner was as fond of [ler antiques that lligltt as she had ever been, and refused to join her husband in his enthusiastic praise of Smith's comfortable chairs. She thought her anti(lUeS were much l1lore ~Htistic. It happclJed that the HoneYJ11oollCl"S prospered., "too, alld another JlOmc W[l.S the natura) result, There. had to he nnv (l1reitHJ"~, as well. T1H? nlltiques had followed, the ·way of .\Irs. Smith's and lost the youthful strength of theil' apocry-pbal days on the Southern plClntatioll. Mrs. Honeymooner bought the furniture again. The new followed in its general fashion that of the second Smith period. "For it's more comfortable, really," she .explained, '\vlH:ll OUR OAK AND MAHOGANY DINING EXTENSION TABLES ARE BEST MADE BEST FINISHED VALUES AU Made from Thoroughly Seasoned Stock. LENTZ TABLE CO. NASHVILLE .. MICH. 23 you're young. No'.v we're old enough to be comfortable, and we can afford it." ")' es," assented her husband. "And we don't have to be so da1"1Jcd artistic."--Kew York SUll. What Samples Do. .\ party of travelers touring the mountain country of the west "vere discussing the sample question over their aftcr-dinner cigars, when one of the number related the following experience: "The maker of ::--Jevermore mattresses fonvarded a sample to my house a 1"ey,>y,ears sjnce. 1 had never thought of try-ing thilt wHttress as an E,'crlllore se~med good enough for me, out when 1 ha.d slept on it for a Ie.\, nights I decided that if 011e mattress could give me enjoyment, another would add to my comfort. I ordered a "Nevermore by mail, \vhich came to my domicile in the course of time. \Vith two mattresses On my bed, great waves of comfort rolled over me when I "lnid n~e down to sleep," and when I arose in the morning I was fully, determined that three ~evermorc:s would furnish !nore comfort than one could ex.perience aboard the Lusitania wh~n "rocked in the cradle' of the deep." The mattress-buy-ing habit took po%ession of me, and I reciolved to dispense ",jth the bed springs and lay the foundation for my "flo ..v.ery hed of en.'ie"UpOll tlle floor. Before my demands for com~ fort were satiated I had pl1rcbased six Kevcrmores and l1sed them on Olle bed-my bcd, of course. So you see to what an extcnt mattresses have become household Jlt'cessities. A good many lcssons might be dr'a wn from my experience, sl1ch ,IS the danger of sre;:ping tOQ much; the denial of comforts to the members of onc·s family the head had provided for him-sclf: the evil of 5e1f\shnes:s, 'but it is my purpose to treat it in a c1ifft,tent light. It illustrates admirably the power of ~all1ples,whether the. same be June's catarrh remedy, Brown\; unneeded biscuits, Smith's soap bubbles or Clark's freckle lotion. The habit of using more than one N ever-more mattress for each sleeper has bten introdUi:ed in the household. People have gotten along Without, or with, a single ma.ttress all their lives, but when they learn that abso-tutely solid comfort can be obtClined only by the use of SIX :\cvermore mattresses to a bcd. prosperity will enStle in the n:attress industry." i No. 556 - - -- - ------ -- -- -- -- -- ------------- EVANSVILLE LINES MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE EXCHANGE Corner Wabash Avenue and Fourteenth Street THE BOCKSTEGE NEW SUPERIOR LINE --------- EVANSVILLE ------ Full tine of samples (}Jl. ExkibilifJ1l' throughout Ute year on the fir8t floor of the New Manufac(urer8' Furniture FJ,,;c!tauge,Wabash Ave. ana 14th St., Chv:ago. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO., E"a"""UI., Ind' The Metal Furniture Co. EVANSVILLE, IND. MANUFACTURERS OF Metal Bedsteads F ulliine 01 Samples on exhibition during the entire year, on fim floor of the Manufacturers F utnilure Exchange, corner Wabash Ave. and 14th St., Chicago, THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. (Member of Big Six Car Loading ASSOciation) EVANSVILLE INDIANA ManufactuY"era of Folding Beds (Mantel and Upright), Buffets, Han T:tees, China Closets. Combination and library Bookcases. Full line of samples on exhibition during the entire yea .., 011 first 1100" of the Manufa.cturers Furniture Ex.c.hanp, cornet Wabasb Ave. and 14th St., Chicago. -Globe Side Boards and Hall Racks Are the best for the money. Get our Cata-logue. Menlion the Michigan Artisan when writing. FuUline 01 samples on exhibition during the en-tire year, on the firSt floor 01 the Manulactuters Furniture Exchange, Cor. W.bash Ave., and 14tb St., Chicago. Globe Fumiture Company EVANSVILLE, IND. ON SALE IN CHICAGO Wardrobes. MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE EXCHANGE Corner Wabash Avenue and Fourteenth Strut JORDAN CRESCENT. Start 1908right by buying an Up-to-date Line. T"E CRESCENT LINE is what you want-IT SELLS ITSELF. Crescent jStove W orhs Eva.nsville. Indiana. Cupboards Kitcheh Cabinets and K. D. Is aU we make hut we make lots of them. Get Catalogue and Price~ The Bosse Furniture Co. EVANSVILLE, IND, IFnllline of 8(wtples on exhibition dUl'ing Ihe entire year on fl'ral floor oj the iJIanujacWreFil' Fu.rnil'itre Exchall,g€, corner Wabash ,1ve. and 14tk St., Ohicago. The Karges Furniture CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Mall.ufactur",n Cbamber Suites Dressers Wardrobes .nd CbiHoniers in PLA1N OAK QUARTERED OAK AND IMJTATIQN QUARTERED OAK Fun line of samples on exhibiti'ln du.inll lhe en-lite yellr, on nISI floor of the MallUfadulers' FUTni" tUTe Ex~hanile,C<,lrnetWa~ bash Ave. and 14th SI., Chi<:ago. 26 Dainty Bedroom Furnishings. In the drawing shown of a guest room a paper with a half garland of dainty pink blossoms, green leaves and a bit of Hoating blue ribbon in the design is applied to the cei.ling, extending to the picture rail. A similar desi.gn is shown on the material used at the windows as over curtains and in the coveting of the wil1ged chair. The side walls are tinted green in a soft pastel shade. 'The central rug of Wilton carpet shows tones of mossy green. The standing wood- 'vork of tlle room is of ivory white enamel, and the built-in bookcases are treated as part of the standing woodwork. The small table and several chairs, as well as the screen frame, have also been enameled. The table and chairs were originally designed for kitchcll furnishings. The rug was the most expensive part of the furnishing. This cost $30. ;.rext the glass of the windows are hung creamery madras curtains, which aTe lightly caug-ht on either side. The decorative details of this room were composed and The other room shown is complete in its furnishings, and yet in comparison with the neighboring drawings one feels its incompleteness. This room lacks the individual touches. It would h{'. impossible to determine in looking at this room the characteristics of its occupant. Such a room, however, is as often found in the homes of the well-to-do people who arc fond of beautiful things as in a hote1.-Margaret Green-leaf. The Consumption and Supply of Lumber. A very interesting and enlightening discourse- by Emerson Hough, on "The Slaughter of the Trees," appears in the May Everybody·s. The prophecy is made that in fifty years' time our country will be desolate of trees unless we wake up and buy back the forest lands in addition to treating forest re-serves in states which are not yet stripped of their trees. A great many statistics are gi,,-en shO'wing the billions of trees slaughtered yearly for various purposes, such as railroad ties, evolved by the woman who loved her home and beautified it. The exquisite lamp shade on the small table and the candle screens were the \\'ork of her hands_ There is no single jarring note in the entire color scheme. The various shades of rose and of green tone the one into the other, while the exquisite ivory of woodwork and furniture is repeated in the creamy curtains at the wi.ndows. The room designated in the illustration as "a man's rooml' is especially interesting and characteristic. The bold, sturdy lines of the dark oak furniture include the cottage bed, a McKinley armchair, a candle stand and. last but not least, a hachelor's chiffonier. This furniture is not expem,ive, though it is well built, and as will bc seen by the illustration, simple of line. The chiffonier is arraI1ged for the convenient stow-ing of shirts and trousers, as well as the smaller accessories of the toilet. The wall is simply treated, the upper third being covered with a paper of dead leaf brown, showing a conventional de-sign in old blue at sjlaced intervals. This, with the darker brown of thc woodwork and the two-toned brown stripe paper used for the lower .vall, is relieved by the ecru tone of lhe tiles about thc mantel and the ceiling color, which is re-peated in the plain net drapery at the windows. HJO,COO,GOO ties being the present number demanded. The telegr8ph poles cut two y~ars ago numbered 3.526,875, of which three-fifths were cedar, twenty-eight per cent chest-nut. Hundreds of thousands of smaller poles are cut for other uses. Annually between three and fonr million acres of land are devastated for this pttrpose. Tanneries used 1,- 370,000 cords of bark two years agO. In the same year 11,- 858;260 shingles and 3,812,807 laths were cut. For timbering mines 165,000,000 cubic feet, not board measure, much of it •I Henry S~hmit 8 Co. HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. Cincinnati, 01110 makers of Upholstered Furnitore 1o, LODGE arId PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM I...._------_._-------_._-- ~,-------------_._-- •, I hardwood, were u~ed. Prices for har<hvood used in vehides, manufactured furniture and farm implements have risen from twel1ty-fivt: to sixty-five per cent, since H~99. In seven years the production of hardwood has fallen off fifteen per cent, and those were the six years of its greatest demand. Tight bar-tel cooper3ge is ;l heavy drain on v·,;hite oak. In 1906 ,vc made 267,827,000 barrel staves. California has had to resort to redwood ior wine casks beta use white oak costs too mLlch to ship there. "The highest cstimat<:· oi our remaining hardwood is four hundred billion feet. Twenty~:fn'e bi11ion feet aTt: nsltally annually used for lumber, ties, posts, lDal1utactlHcrs, fuel, etc. At that rate it will take us sixteen years to use np all the rest of Ollr hard\vood if we do not burn it and if the demand re-mains the same '" The llew~;papers and magazines use a great quantity of pulp wood. In 19U6it reached 2,327,R44 tOllS. This means that over 4,COO,OOO cords were cut for that pllrpose-sOlne-thing like a million acres a year for pulp. Lead penc.ils. 3IS,CIJO,COOof them, were made laSit year. This required the cutting of 7,300,OCO feet of cedar. .I}lr. Hough make~ the statement that over 100,000 acres of timber arc cut every ..v.orking day in the year, in the whole United States. Commercial timber to the al1lotwt 450,000,000 acres arc still standing. All our standing timber is estimated at some-where between fourteen hundred and two thousand billiol\ feet. H we use forty billions per annum. we can run thirty-five to i1fty years at the pn;sent rate, providing there is no waste. Using one hundred billions per annum, our timber v\,'i!l last fourteen to twenty years on the same basis. If we use one hundred and nity billions per annum our timber will all be gone'in nine to thirteen years. Counting natnral gro\vth under prevailing conditions, we (auld add ten years to these terms; but that n1.eans if there is no waste in any priYate op-erations and we cannot c011trol the operations on private lands under any htws we now have. An Incident. A business man, deeply engrossed in the cal'e:;;,of the day. with a deeply furrowed brow and throbbing temples, bent over his desk and gloomily contemplated the future. The "honk-honk" of the horn on a "\-Vhite steamer caused the man of business to glance out of a near-by windo\'II", when he noticed :) big. jolly and happy friend. s\vinging his arms like ,t Dutch windllljJl, beckoning' the man of business to ap-proach the v('1,ide. Languidly responding to the vigorous invitation, the weary business 11.1anclosed the ofLlcc door and approa.ched t"lC stcan:cr. when the big man whipped off his great ()verc()at and, enclos.ing his friend in its ample folds, urged him to "get in." A pair of amused bystanders oi HORN BROS. MFG. CO. 28100291 W,SupenOISI. CHICAGO, - ILL. BEDROOM FURNITURE OUR SPECIALTY ---- -------- ---- ------~~- -------~--------~---- GQOds displayed at the Manufac:turers' Fumiture Exchange, WabMh l\.nd 14th St. t!l.ndwith Hall & Knapp, 1807Miehigan Ave., Chicago. III. $31; Tuna I .wl Tuna, ! .nd Tuna, I, I• DRESSER No. 330-PI'i~e, Oak, $30; C'linmneMahol(llny. Veneered, Mah.ogany, $31. CHIFFONIER No. 31-Golden Oa1:. $20.50; Mahogany Veneered Ma"hoi"ltnY. $21.50. DRESSING TABLE No. 126-Oak, $21; Mahogany, Vene'lired. Mahogany. $21.50. _________ Write for Catalogue uB" ---~----- the "'ne\rer-say-die" species, witnessing the incident, were sum-moned by the big man to enter the "auto," and a ll1Qment later the party glided over the smooth pavement through the city. The big man cr<tcked his jokes, pointed out ma.ny places of surprising interest that none of the party had no-ticed, led his friends to an auction sale, where he joshed the salesman and bought everything that was ,worth buying, pur-chased skin food a.nd perfumery of a druggist for his lately disconsolate friend, promptly choked off all remarks that con- Made by Luce-RedIllond Chair Co., Ltd. Big Rapids, Mich. tailled the slightest suggestion of business, joked the llolice· men on the crossings, advised boys riding bicycles to "hitch on" to the steamer, .:md so made the business man "forget himself." After an hour ()1" two of fun the exuberantly spir-ited big man returned his friend to the office he had left a rad-ically changed man. The cornlgations no longer marred his brow; the pains in his head had ceased, his weary eyes bright-ened and expressed pleasure and the black future of two hours past took on a radiant hue. The business man was as rested, as happy and as jolly as a healthy chlld upon awakening fro111 a long afternoon's sleep. .!\atllral1y, the reader would like to learn the IlaOlCS of the motorman and his friends, but tho::,purpose of the writer iyill be served if he shall be able, by relating tbis incident, to exhibit tbe kindly dlspositioll .. the forethought and consideration for the wclbre of others ever present in a mall widely knowll, respected and admired by thousands ill the business world-Ralph P. Tietsort, trea~:;urer of the Royal Furniture Company, Grand Rapids. 27 28 Woodworking in the New York City Schools.. Between thirty and thirtY-DVC thousand boys are receiy~ ing weekly instruction in practical ,vooclworking in the pub-lic elementary schools of New York city. To provide for the training of such a targenurnber of pupils tllcre are nearly aile hundr~d workshops. more thml 11alf of which are in the boroughs of 1\'1allhattan and the Brol1x. These shops ac-commodate from 250 to 6COpupils cadl, according to si7e, at1d the 8O~l1li1Hlteclasses are contilltlOlIS, as fast as one class has been disposed of another taking its place. .l\{anual training was lntrodtlced into the .:\e\N York city schOOls in 1887, when the 11Tst worksllOp W2S 0PCllCd to the boys' use. This \Vas followed in s'Llcceedi\\g years by other and larger workshcps, but no real attempt was 111adeto place this important departmellt of the" school curriculum on a 1lrm footing until the appoi.ntment, -in 1896, of Dr. James Parton Haney to the then newly-instituted office of director of art and manual training. Since that tirne its development has heel1 a steady and progressive one, urltil today New York city is the unquesti?ned leader among American cities in the matter of manual training. And the credit for its success must be ace:o:-dcd in great part to two men, Dr. \Vil-liam H. Maxwell, sUllcrintendent of edL\c~\tion, who during his tenure of OOlCCh<'.s\vorkcd energetically and faithfully for an adequate system of tr.anual tratlllng, and Dr. Haney, \',!ho as teacher and director Ius accolll.pl1shed seelTtil1g impossi-bilities in its evolution. The workshops are located in cOlUmodious, ·wel!-lig}ltecl and well-ventilated roon.s, generally on tl:e top floor of the schOOl hnildillg. The majority o.f them a:-e flttecl up with fiftee.n bendl\'s, Dtlt some of tlle larger Oiles llave as many .1.S J-\.fty. The benches in con",mon usc are double olles and are fitted with a (jllick-acting vise. The tools used by the pupils are in no sense play tools, all being of standard size and qual-ity, such as Stanky planes, Disston's saws, Duck Brothers' chlse1s, etc., ,me] tl,e equipment in every resepct is adequate to the needs of all ordiriary earpcl!tery. All teachers arc specially t:·aillcd in the most advanced n:cthods of manual illStructiol1, and are equally as capable in practical 'll1d theoretical work. A certain propellsity for drawing is one of tll(~ cardill,l1 requirements, and every teach-er is supposed (0 know something of the fundamentals of designing. At t]le present tin:e there arc over eighty prac-tic; t\ instructors in the l\ew York city public -,,<?honIs,all graduates of university, normal college or tecllllica! school. "System" is the \vatchword of the department. Every montll a conference is llCld, at wllich, in a heart.-to-heart talk, ide:1s :lr(' exchanged, papers read, and suggestions cove~·it1g ;lll parts of the work made. Specially drafted committees also conduct a great am.Ollllt of research work, especially in the matter of finding new models. In this way all the ill-structors -\-vork together in perfect barmony, each profiting by the other's experiences, and the success of the \vork is ad-vanced to an incalculable degree. Teachers as well as pupils are required to evince individ- \l?-lism, and each instructor ha~ to plan at !ea3t five models during a term, which shall be capable of modification as to (limension and outline, as wen as be susceptible to approp-riate decoration. These lUodels are used in the general class work in the te["111following. An tea.che:-s are given full op-portunity for legitimate experirr:ent, and every effort to im-prove the class work, whether successful or not, has the di-rector'!' i ready sympathy and encouragement The practical l\'oodworkillg course commences in the bt-ter part of the sixth and continues throughout the seventh and eightll years. Every effort is made to induce the boys to regard their work seriously, <lnd to this end all boys are re-quired to keep their tools in perfect cocdition, being early instructed in the art of grinding and whetting them. Each shop is provided with a large grind stone and every bench with an oil stone. Olle of the important subjects taught in connection with the. shop practice is mechanical drawing, the boys being'i11- structed in the proper use of the drawing board, compass and tee-square. Freehand working sketches arc required of all boys, and in the higher gr<l.des careful instrumental ones as well. In the higher grades also the boys are taught how to read plans, many of, the more advanced exerci5es being de-veloped for them. In this way the pupih. early learn the fundamentals of wood working and begin to appreciate. thl;:' important operations underlying all constructive processes. From simple exercises in the making of coat hangers, blot-ters, and other easily constructed devices, the pupils are grad-ually advanced until they are able to bnild articles of furniture of a more or less c.omposit{'. type. These include tables, cbairs, desks, screens, cabinets, etc., and ar~ very often mas-terpieces in their way. Many of the more composite articles are constructed by the joint efforts of a number of boy:>. J n this communal work the idea of leadership is developed, the boy evincing the most ability bei!}g chosen foreman, To him the instructor explains the plans of the model on which these liliputian car-penters are engaged, and he. is held personally responsible for the progress and condition of the work. Many of the forms, such as glove boxes, taboure.ttes, paper holders, etc., being executed in applied designs, this class of work is taught in addition to the practical work of constru~- tiou. These designs, like the working drawings, are executed in the class roOtu, great emphasis being laid on simplicity and structural nature, as well as the c.ardjnal necessity of har-monious color schemes. After the models llave been com-pleted, the designs are applied to them, and the forms are ~tajned or colored to c:onfonn with the patterns already made. In addition to the practical work of construction, the boys' interest is encouraged by local and central exhibitions. The local exhibition is a semi-anollai affair in cvuy ,vorkshop, in which su(~h of the p1.tpils' work a,s is considered especially commendable is placed on the honor stand. The ceilt,al exhibition is held at irregular intervals, and consists of par-ticularly fine models selected from tbe schools at large. In the words of one of the instructors, these exbibition:; serve to arouse an interest in the work al11()l,g pupils and parcnts; to bring the latter into closer touch and sympathy with the work, and to develop pride and enthusiasm on the part of the instructor, "In my opinion the l1wlHwl training school has <.l 'vondcr-ful future in this country;' said Dr. Haney to <l representa-tive of the l\lichigan Arfsan. "The past twenty years have seen its developmellt from a score or 50 of it1-htted ,vork-shops scattered throughout the country to many hundreds, all wdl equipped and capable of meding the demcilHls required of them. And this is as it should be. Any counc of study v.'hich docs not iJlclude the manual arts is one ill-fitted fOI' child training. \Vith the great difference in children also fort,ed upon our attention, it has become plain to us that l~O one coune of study, however, wisely planned, can be satis-factory for allY large group of pupils. As boy:=. arc different, so most be the mQans of training them be different. \Ia11Y boys are more capable of handwork than headwork; that is why so many of the pupils of our elementary schoQls are contimwlly playing truant. Properly taught, the mallual arts are natural llf('.ventivcs of truancy. Pay a 'visit tn one of the "mrkshops ju~t before c1o:;ing tirlle allY day in the week. You lvill not notice the Tt\sh for the exit immediately the closing minute has arrived that is so often apparent in the c\;lSS room. No, the boys like their ,,'"ork, al:d jf pcrmitic<l would be only too ready to remain at tbe bench long aiLer the dosing hour. "Industrial education is tht; great tiue-stioH of the mOmeJ1t. The United States is essentially an industrial nation. Lt;ss than four per cent of the pupils of our elementary schools be-come profcssl01l~:1lmen, and of the remaining nil1ety~six per eent the majority enter the ranks of industry. Thus the in-dustrial school--the conoecting link between the elementary school and the f(lctory~becomes a pre:s5ing necessity. At the present time, 1111JCSS we except the reformatory, absol11tely no provision has been made for the boy whose life Occtlpdtion is to be one or oth('r of the tt-adcs. On the Dtller hand, the gifted boy, that is, the mentally gifted boy, has the classical, scientific and technical school, every opportunity, in fact, to equip himself for the battle of life. The state requires that to secure their v..o..rking papers ,boys must be at least fonrteen years of age and in the SB gr;lde,. 11any boys, under exist-ing conditions, le8.ve school before reacbing the reql1ired ag-e. They do not like the atmosphere of the school room; they '\Taut to be earning their livelihoods in the vI,rorl(\'s great workshops. Industrjal schools will keep malty boys, who otherwise w0111d leave as soon as the reglllations permitted, at school until sixteen or even seventeen years of age. ""'Afew months ago Ii great national movement having for its !>o!c objec:: the eneOt1ragement of industrial schools was organized in the city of Chicago. This movcment is con-ducted by thc, National Society for the Promotion of I ndlls-trial Education, which is now doing practical work in thirty-nine state~ of the Union. Its purpose is not to found schools but to encourage their establishment. either by the state, lTIll-nicipality or private endowment. That the movement has the endorsement of both capital Jnd labor should be a great factor in .its ultimate SUCcess." GARNAULT AGASSIZ. 29 No, 1'9 Oak BUCHANAN KITCHEN CABINETS AND DESKS in OAK. SATIN WALNUT and BIRCH Kitchen Cabinets from $4.00 to $15.50 Desks from $3.50 to 12.50 Every One Good Value A PoStalCard brings Our New Catalogue Buchanan Cabinet Co. BUCHANAN, MICH. 30 CONCERNING HAND TRUCKS. SiIll.ple Thing They Might Seem, but They are Made in Great Variety. • The familiar low wheeled hand truck seems like a simple thing, but as a matter of fact haud trucks are made in very g'l"eat variety and for all sorts of trades and special uses. One ilhtstratcd catalogue of trucks that includes as well carts, cars ::J.ndbarrows, is a book of about 200 pages. This catalogue is filled with descriptions of trucks and kindred vehicles designed for the use of railroads, steamship '-lnd other transportation companies, and for store and side-walk use, and fOT warehouses, factories, foundries, mills, offices, banks, hotels, brickyards and stoneyards. It contains al-together upward of 500 numbers and for each one of these num-bers there is a name in a tete-gnphic cipher code, seemillg like a conside'l"able dignity for a hand truck to attain; hut the code is a great convenience for customers, who in orde'l"ing arc thus enabled to indicate pre~ clse1y the truck wallted down to the minutest detail by the use of a 5lingle word. Among the five hundred and odd numbers there were found almost a hun-dred given to hand trucks of the kind most familiar to the general publi.c, the kind that 011('. s,ccs in use on sidewalks and in stores ;ll1d on wharves and railroad stations handling mer-chandise and freight. There are, for example, various styles of handles and various styles of axles and of wheel guards and of nose irons, the nose iron being the upward projecting attachment at the fOl"\vard end of the truck tllat keeps the box or bale from sliding off. And of course these trucks arc made of various sizes, as they ;tre yariously 1roned and of various "."eights, and with wheels of 'Tarions widths and heights, Some are made with their '~vhee1s set inside the t'l"Uck frame. Hand trucks s1.1itable for various uses can be bought for $5 and less, and from that they run up to $40 and over. There are trucks especially designed for a great variety of uses. Here, for instance, are warehouse trucks (If many sorts, and many sorts of bag trucks, and dry goods trucks and feed trucks, and wheat and grain tnlcks, and stevedore, freight or cargo trucks for ratlway or steam-ship use, and sugar bouse trucks, and cotton t'l"Ucks!and wool trucks, Sketch by Otto Jiranek and stove carriers, and harrel t'l"ucks, and freight trucks, and cheese trucks, :lnd butter trucks, and combined trllCk and sack carriers, and hotel or carpet trucks, aJld trunk carri~rs, and steamship trucks, and trucks for railroads and packing houses, and feed trucks and roll paper trucks. Then among these: trucks there are v~iiations in pattern or construction_ For h1stance, among warehouse trucks there are the New York pattern and the Roston pattern. There are stevedore frelght or cargo trucks of Chicago pat-tern and of Buffalo pattern; cotton trucks of New Orleans pattern and of \·Vestern pattern, freight trucks of Panama railroad pattern, barrel trucks of Baltimore pattern, New York pattern, Boston pattern. These distinctive titles indi~ '( Sketch by Otto Jiranek. cate local preferences or trucks that originated in the lo-calities named. The lightest in weight of these various trucks are some of the warehouse trucks which weigh less than thirty pounds; the heaviest is a massive stean'.ship truck which weighs about 200 pounds. There are bacon or ham trucks, and pO-'k trucks, and bar iron trucks, and brlek trucks, arid canning house trucks, and Sample of Good Advertising. lithograph stone trucks, and plate glass trucks, and cask trucks, and hot metal trucks, and steel rod trud<s, and bot-tlers' trucks, and oil caSe trucks, and grocery trucks! and dry goods trl1cks~ and leather trucks, and fruit trucks, and book trucks, and cracker trucks, and factory trucks, and seed ware-house trucks, and wall paper trucks, and library trucks, and leaf tobacco trucks, and dye house trucks, and pasteboard box trucks-~nd so on; hand trucks with all sorts of running gear, some on rollers-some on three, some on four, some on tive and sonIe on six wheels; and trucks fitted with all sorts of racks and staves and slab;, trucks in fact, specially de-signed for use in almost if not quite all businesses you could tlJink of in which hand trucks could be used.-Exchange. Russian Exposition of Furniture. An exposition of furniture, under the auspices 'of the dowager empress, will be opened in St. Petersburg, Rm~sia, early in the month of August. The promoters are endeav~ oring to induce manufacturers of the United States to contrib-ute samples of their work. Shipments should be made as early as possible. Especial care should be taken in packing the goods. (The German manufacturers use corrugated card-board.) Detailed instructions should be furnished for use in setting up the goods. Every piece used in construction should be nutnbcred in the O'l"derin which they are to be put together, when unpacked. ·~1'1.19.HIG?l-N HER OWN BUNGALOW. Miss Chubb Making Use of Her Manual Arts Training. To build her own bungalow is the_ project which ),liss Eva Irene Chubb, a pupil in the manual arts department at Teachers College, is planning to carry out this summer. 11iss Chubb proposes to be her O"Wll architect and to do :t good part of ih('. building with her own hands as well as to supervise that part 'Wllich she isn't able to do herself, such for instance as the excavation for the cellar. So confident is she that her bungalow wiI be finisbed and ready for occu-pancy by August 1 that she has already issued invitations {m· a housewarming. The bungalow is to be built on her father's farm ot 350 acres] a few miles north of Albany, at ScllllylervilJe. On a knoll about half a mile irom the hOl'~se is the site. It is a beautiful stretch of country and from the broad veranda of the bungalow one will be able to look out 011 a pretty and pic-turesque stream, the Saratoga rivel-, which I·vinds in and out among the hills and valleys thereabouts. On the hank of the river, which is not 1110re than fifty feet from where the bungalmv will stand .. llis,; Chubb will erect a bathollse which is to house a slick little Thousand J 51ands craft which this young W0111auis now in the process of building. Por this addition to the plant she bought plans and cut ber boat accordingly, making no mOfe ado about it. than most women might about a dress or a shirtwai:"t. A·fiss Chubb expects to !cave college ahout ..\Jay 1 and re-turn to her home in order to blut ber project into operation, and much of her time mcan-..vhile is bcillg spcnt in studying the mysteries of building and ~,{l11stTL\ctionand in perfecting her plans so that she can proceed witb :IS little delay as pos-sible. v\Then seen at the college recently she was .at her bench deep in the UlY8t~ries of cabinet making. She wa.s just putting the finishing touches to a table Jrmc in mission style, one of a number of similar pieccs of fttrlli-ture designed for the ne\v bungalow. For everything nol',.- is being dOlle with that end in ,,-ie\</, and up to date there are besides the table, a settee, a wood box, a tahourette and a desk 1:fiss Chubb, who looks like a girl that calJ do things, didn't think that her determination to bl1ild her own bunga-low was a matter of exciting mom~llt. ft just looked to her like a plain e~'cry day sort of operation which ,lilY one might accomplish if her mind llappened to be turned in that direc-tion. But her friends don't think so; they gaze DpOJl her with profound admiration, and after tbey have endeavored to drive nails in their dormitory hedrooms, with th~ deepest re-spect. In explaining her plans :Miss Chuhb pointed out tbat she was aiming more at comfort and a certain picturesqueness of aspect than a solution of any deep problem in building con-structioll. "I simply mean to bave a bungalow \\'bere I can el~tertain my friends," she said. "It will be along the Jines oi a wood camp with nothing of the elaborate detail that characterius some of the bungalows one ::iees pictured in the magazines. "::\'1yp);-I1lS call for a threc-roomd \.,'dli11g on one floor, with a fireplace, broad veranda and a fe\v of the accessories of the sort that go to make up the typical summer camp, though as a matter of fact the building could be used until snow flies jf desired, the. way it will be built. "N othhlg l111usllal will mark the con~truction as to the frame. work. Half logs from which much of the bark has heen removed, will cover the outer walls. These will J,iter-ward be stained v.-.i.th a good creosote stain in green one that will stand the weather and not fade. "The shack \vill have somewbat the appearance of a log 3l cabin and witI be particularly in harmony with the sur-roundings, for it 'will be nestled in the midst of a grove of maples. Fortunately there is plenty of maple and birch on thc. place which arc aV<1ilnble,so that this will, for me, reduce the cost of COll5tructiol1. "The interior finish and trim will consist probahly of the maple and thc sawing can be done at the. mill in tOW1}; An-other product of the farm which will be brought into Use is the field stone, which will be used to build the rlreplace and also for the four stOtlt square pillars which will support the ten foot veranda rUl'1.t1ingacraS5 the front of the house_ "'Resides one large living room covering 16 by 24 feet floor space there lNil1 be a bed chamber ncarly as large except for a No. 155 Dresser. Matle by Northern Furniture Company. Sheboygan, Wis. Sl11a}l kitchenette. Tbe latter opens, as does the bedroom, from the livin-;s·room on one side of the fireplace. "Panels of birch wil sheathe the walls of the rooms, \-vhile the cejling will shmv beams and rafters of maple left in a semi-rough finish. On either side of the fireplace, which wilt he big enough to take in six-font logs. a settle will be built a.nd in the two corners of the room at either side of the front door low divans \~,.-illbe placed, over which book shelves wm be hung Of rather built in." \\Then asked .if she looked for any difficulty in building, l\Iiss Chubh said she didn't cross bridge,s until she got to them, but as far as she could see she didn't think she would bave any troubles; at any rate she wasn't looking for it. By no means the least attractive part of the furnishings of the bungaJuw will be the articles which Miss Chubb has made herself in the manual arts course <It the college. In fact it might be safely predicted that nearly all of the furnish-ings will be in the line of handicrafs.-l\""ew York Sun. To Prevent Theft of Stamps. An order has been issued by Postmaster General l\Jeyer permitting the perforation of postage stamps with initials, signs or numerals, as a means of identification so as to pre-vent theit, hut not for advertising purposes. ~- -- --~-------------- -- -- -- -- - - -- -- -- ------------- 32 7iR-T 1oS' ...7I..l'J 1 ; z,.. .----~----- I ------,------ • MUSKEGON, MICU. Moon D6Sk Go. I,I I OffiCE DESKSJ NEW sTYLES FOR SPRING SEASON Line (Ill sale in New Mal1ufliChlrers' Bulldil1G. Gral1d Raoids. •I ,-:.-------- , -1 HAND CIRCULAR RlP SAW No." SAW (ready for cToss-cuUil1g)~ No.2 SCROLL SAW MORTI$ER COMBINED MACHINE Complele OUIli! Of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER He ~an save a manufacturer's profit as well as a dealer's profit. He can make ln6re money with less capital invested. He can hold a better and more satisfactory trsde with b is customers. He call manufacture in as good t;tyle and finish, and at as low cost as the factories. The local, cabinet maker has been forced lnto only the dealer's trade i!.nd p(l.fit, because of machine manufactured goods of factories. An outfit of Barnes' Patent Foot snd Hand-Powet Machinery, reinstates the cabinet maker wlthadvantages equal to bis competitors. If desired. these machines will be sold on trial. The purchaser can havoeample time to lest them 1n hh: own shop and 011the work he wishes them to do. .n~8cripti1J~catalogue and price tist free. W. F. II. JO"N BARNI'S CO" 654 Ruby St .. Rock1'8rd, III, FORMER OR MOULDER HAND TENONER • No.3 WOOD LATHE No.! SAW {-readyfor rIpping) No.7 SCROLL SAW Husband and Wife Sleep Over Coffins. How lNotl1d you like to sleep over your own coffin every nigJlt? For a husband and wife to have caskets for them-selves wh1ch they keep in their home ready to receive them when the last SllnU1101lS comes seems extraordinary. That they should kcep the coffins under their beds and steel) over them at nig;ht seems almost beyond reason. l{et Charles C. Breuer and his ",vdc, 1.\1rs. Georgia Lee Breuer, residents of Cinicil1T1ati's fashionable suburb, Clifton. and reputed to be ""orth $I,OCO,COO,arc doing all these things aed think nothing' of it. At the nrst mention of the subject \Jrs. Breuer raised 11('1' hand:::, alolt with a cry of hor.ror, but herhushand stood linn in his reS01u-tion, carried it ant, and now she thinks no more of the coffins under the bed than if they were shirt ""aist boxes. 1-1ontl1" ago 11r. Breuer, fearing that death might overtake'. him and his wife without proper preparalions, g:{v<:. the order to an 1111dertak- C1" and hl.d JWlldsome cof-fins made. The c<lsket:.; are of solid mahogany, lined ''lith copper through-out. and especially pre-pared for hermetical seal-ing. Thf two casket,; cost $500 each. The copper lining is ne<lrJy three-quar-ters of an inch thick, so as to stand thc corroding elements ill the earth for thousands of years. ,,'lith proper embalming Breuer is connc\e,nt that the bodies of himself 'lnd wife will remain in their natural state for centuries. Besides having the coffins lTl.ac1e,Bruer has arranged '",ith the undertaker for the emhalming and every detail of the burial, even to depositing the dee<l for the burial lot, letting the contrar.::l fOf the digging" of the graves and the bnilding of a massive mOllmtJent. The btter is now being hewn out of granite. Not only have the arnlIlgcmellts been c:ompleted,but the bills arc already paid and the receipt placed in a s<lfe.deposit box. th. Breuer makes no secret of his funeral arrangements. ;o'\Vhy shouldn't I be prepared? J'rn living ,veIl JlOW amI want to be sure that my wife. and I will be buried right wllen we die. 1 don't care about all the fuss usual at fuueraL". \iVhat T want most is to be housed well under six feet of ('axtl! and not be put away within a flimsy coil-in that returns tu dust within a few months. Sarah Bernharclt used to sleep in her coft1n. Li Hung Chang always tr~vc1ed around the ·world with his coffin, ''\Thile many other celebrities af(~ mak-ing similar prq)arations.," declare,s Breuer. "\,Ve ''''ant to be ready for death at any moment." No. 160 Ladits' Desk. Made by Oliver & Co., Allegan, Mich. Good Values in Kitchen Cabinets. For good medium priced kitchen cabinets and parlor desh, hard to beat, try the line of the Buchanan (f,lich.) Cabinet Company. Their catalogue, recently issued, shows a large line of these goods. . The kitchen c<:lbinets range in price from $4- to $15.50 and the desks from $3.50 to $12.50. They are made in oak, satin -...valnutand birch. The COl1struction and finish arc equal to many lines that are higher priced, and Albert Rich<lrds, the manager. has the experience and judg-ment to knm'lr just .vhat the merchant can sell and makes his prices right. He'>; a success. I IT'S BETTER TO I BUY TlfE BEST Buffets, Combination Buffets, China Closets Combination Bookcases, Library Bookcases I I Rockford II Chair and Furniture Company Rockford, Ill. I Ft.;!!!ine tJ!I exhibition in July, 3d Floor, Blodgett I Block, •Gralli Ropidf. Mhh. I • • 33 • • 34 r The "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ~~~rl\-R~I'l,.~~~ No Stock complete without the Eli Beds in Mantd. and Upright. ELI 0 MILLER &. Co "'.a".vtlle, J"d'.". • • Write for cuts and prices ,,,._..-O_N-S-A_-LE-.-IN_-F-UR--N-I-TUR-E-E-XC-HA-NC-E, -C-HIC-AC-O. • Dining and Office TABLES Large new line ready at the opening of lhe Season. We guarantee the prices put on our goods June 24th through the Fall Seaton. I Stow &Davis Furniture Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MI~IGAN Fotuth Floor BIeJd.til;ettBldg. •,I EVnNSVlLLL Evansville. 1no" M:1Y ZO.~Collditiol1S in tile E\'ans·ville furnir.ure market have not improved to any great extent, a1- tllOUgh the manufacturers are of the Opillioll that business ""ill pick up gradually with the coming of good weather. The floods and unsettled weather of March and April did much to dcmoralize business. Texa:;;, where a great detll of Fv~msville furniture is sold, has been "off" for some time" ow-ing to the fact t],at the planters are holdillg their cotton ;wo mon

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