The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-20
AN
Al XMAS GIF I
EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY
MAY BE MADE HAPPY WITH A
WELL CHOSEN HOLIDAY GIFT
OF SOME ATTRACTIVE PIECE
OF FURNITURE.

Pensacola people are awakening TO
the fact that, after all, there are no
holiday gifts more suitable. more ac-
cepUable and infinitely more fitting
than attractive pieces OF furniture.
For all that you may know, your
gift OF some article of attractive wood
work may be treasured for years in
the family of your fair one as price
less heirloom, and the memories OF
you and your little kindness go down
as a part of the rose tinted history
of Christmases past, and that partic-
ular Christmas when you gave the
quaint little spindle legged table, per-
haps, to the lady of your dreams.
Furniture adds a touch of undisput-i
ed charm fwlen it is new and Well
chosen and possesses the distinction
o. being either very much il style
and up-to-date, or on the other hand.
a. Anticipated and passe as your own
grandmother's wedding finers.
A household, the members OF which
have not received one % these new
holiday touches, has missed one of the
best elementSfof sane, well planned
holiday tide, and the short coming
may be so very easily remedied,
Grandfather would be delighted
with a leather padded. comfortable
footstool. He may possibly have been
gay old fellow in his time, with a
good aristocratic case of the govt
or, in fact, rheumatism may have at,
tackled him in all the r-uthlessness Of
old age; in either care. he will well
come the attractive footrest with all
due enthusiasm.
Try it and see.
Grandmother Will welcome a work.
ing table, with an attractive little
sewing basket attached.
Father will revel in a great easy
Morris chair, and you may delight
mother in a hundred different ways.
She will revel in a set of new parlor
furniture; the dining room may just
possibly need an overhauling in the
furniture line, and then there are
scores of dainty trifies which delight
the heart of the eternal feminine.
Get piano for the charming daugh-
ter of the household.
II she already possesses an instru-
ment, one of the new stools. or per-
haps a music rack will be just the
thing. An entire dainty new suit for
her bed room will evoke floods of
enthusiasm which will be appreciated
indeed.
And the boy.
Get him pocket edition of the
really grown up Morris chair that
you gave his father F'urlishfit with
an array of brightly hued pillows, and
you will be surprised how he will
curl up in his own particular and pri-
yate domain. on the chilly nights, and
spend his time with his favorite book.
After ali, when it * all over, when
Christmas time is a thing of the past
and a Joy forever, anu when father
and mother put their heads together,
perhaps, to count the profit and loss
of the thing in its entirety, the one
sane and only conclusion TO be made
is that the MOST valuable, the least
perishable, and the entirely satfsfac-
tory gifts have been those which have
been purchased at the furniture store.
There have been no fears that these
good-sense gifts have been smashed
before arriving at their destinations,
and there is a decided feeling on the
part of those who have made the
gifts tllat the recipients have been
entirely pleased.
No one can afford to let another
Christmas go by without trying the
furniture scheme of attending to your
gift list.
You have no idea how easy it is to
dispose of this knotty list Of names
if you will walk into some reliable
furniture store, tell your wants to
salesman whom you can trust, and
order the things sent round on Christ.
mas day.
There you have il.
No packing, no unnecessary con-
fusion, and feeling that, after all,
you have done correct and credit
able thing.
The practice of giving furniture for
Christmas gifts. in fact. is one which
is increasing in favor among a large
percentage of the people, and partic-
ularly among those who have al
ready tried it. If you allow the Christ
mas of 1908 to slip by without having
made the experiment, you will stand
in your own debt.