Evening star., 1901-12-14

| Is SO permanent as furnlture-when IT
is the right kind. And it is doubt
full if anything gives so much pleas
ure. 1t gives the pleasure of its
beauty and adds its beauty to the at
fractions of the home.
1t brings comfort, and there is not
much that is more enjoyable than
comfort.
For Tired Business Men.
We picture the tired business man
at the height of his enjoyment when
he has sunk back into the repose of
the easy chair at the domestic fire
side; and we do not blame him if he
seeks the easy chair at the club FIRE
side if there is no easy chair at his
own freside. We are glad when the
tired mother is taking her rest in the
rocking chair, and, if it is the ideal
rocking chair, she can do her sewing
in it, and rock the baby to sleep. /
know it is not the thing nowadays to
rock babies to sleep. They are sup
| posed to be put away like stick of
wood in cradle and left to hunt up
Morpheus by themselves. But 1 no
tice that babies still love to climb UP
into mammals lap when she is sitting
in the rocking chair.
Mamma in the rocking chair
grandma in the rocking chair. What
picture of home life is complete with
out them! And yet there is many a
home in Washington that hasn't a
rocking chair that mamma or grand
ma likes to sit in. No matter how
| poor a home is there is always one
chair everybody likes to sit in. There
are many such in this store. They
have the old-fashioned lines of COM
fort, and they have the cushions that
! our grandmothers loved. They are
good, old-fashioned rocking chairs,
for there is nothing better, and there
never can be anything better You
can get them as ornate, as artistic, as
you want them-we have them run
ming up almost into three figures.
But home comfort is their funda-
mental principle-all of them.
Christmas giving is high senti-
ment and a noble one when it begins
at home-our home, the home of
the old folks, the homes of rela-
tives, the homes of friends. To add
something -somethingthat increases
their comfort and attractiveness-is
placing the highest Interpretation
upon the Christmas opportunity.
There is no possibility of making a
mistake; there is no member of any
family, from baby to grandmother,
but what loves to receive something
in furniture for Christmas, and there
is no home, no matter how humble
or how sumptuous, where something
in furniture, or tapestries, or rugs,
will not fit in.
There are people who do not real
ize that when the daughter is grow
ing up she loves to have in her room
furniture of her own, daintier, and
prettier, and sweeter than the fur
niture that is in mammals room or in
the guest chamber or down in
the parlor. The daughter of the fam
lily ought to come in at Christmas
time for little furniture thought |;
and Our store is full of suggestions.
OF course, the whole house puts
up its appeal for furniture and tapes
tries and rugs, and the people who
make furniture have learned to send
us great quantity of beautiful
things they call Christmas furniture.
They are things that are not large,
and are not expensive, but in
their design, the purposes for which
they are made, they are ideally
Christmas gifts. The list is long,
and cold black type cannot tell the
beauty of them.
Another important thought about
furniture as gift is the fact that it is
always in sight, always in use, always
gives pleasure and is not easily worn
out. Most presents are most of the
time out of sight, out of mind, easily
worn out. We give them with an in
ward protest, with an apology for
their fleeting and fimsy nature. He
that gives in the right spirit seeks
present as permanent and real as the
sentiment behind it.