Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17

The cement furniture takes the highest
sort of a polish, and is vanished ana
polished and sandpapered and pollshed
some more. just like wooden furniture:
you can get the satinwOod or rosewood
or mahogany or ebony, or bird s-eye
maple effect OF any other old or new Ell
feet that's wanted.
And the cement furniture is indestructi
bic. as imperishable as time itself. You
can't break it, YOU can't burn it, you can
chip or nick it, you can't do any ola
thing of destroying character with IL
You've got to throw it on the dump II
you want to get rid of it, and or course
you won't want to do that.
And SO cheap. You'll be able to get
the gorgeousest kind of a library chair
for example, for $s-only three metallic
bucks, where now, any kind of wooden
library chair sets you back anywhere
from umpty-eight seeds to oofty-nine OF
the same Hardly a piece of this new
cement Misunderstanding, of course,
the stuff wondrously gotten up in lmita-
ton of magnificent woods. and even SUCH
pieces will only cost about one-hfth the
price of the woods themselves &c
priced at more than 81. MI Edlson l'ISt
builds you a house bungalow OF &C.
ment for a few hundred dollars-yes! an
mighty pretty houses and bungalows; big,
handsome, beautifully designed ones; We
seen models of them-and then ne pu's
the cement furniture in 1t Tor d rev IN
consequent bones more. 1t Is the love-
lest idea that has been pulled TINS gen.
GRAFTON, and it is going to have one ter
rifle swing Just soon as 1t gets gong.
The furniture folk back Grand Rapids
WAY and elsewhere are said to be per-
spring whole heap over the cement
furniture idea already: and they unQues
tionably will be considerable more ex-
udatory at the pores when the cement
stuff actually appears on the market;
and a lot of it is going to be ready for
the spring trade, so l hear; ready for a
lot of June weddings. in particular.
The Nuweds will have a wonderful snap
with this cement furniture on the ma:
ket. The head of the sketch no longer
will have to take every nickel Of his
s2I9 63 down to the place OF the WOOD II
furniture installment man and ask him:
Say, can you rig me up dump with
this and throw i'll a coal scuttle for
luck?" Nothing whatever! He'll be able
to pick about $40 out of the boarded
marrying bundle and go to the cement
furniture dealer and tell him to take the
next day the van will back up with
enough cement gear. all in the niftiest
effects to make the fiat almost impossible
for even the cat to get around in.
X/ESTERDA1 i met manager OF Il Dig
New York department store, who re-
marked that ii seemed to him that New
York shoppers have adopted the motto in
this form:
DO Your Christmas Shopping Surly.'
II never saw SO much peeyishneSs
among holiday buyers, the early ones, as
there is this year in New York." was his
observation. IF it keeps up We'll have tt
have board Of arbitration as a regular
feature of the conduct of the shop. The
early shoppers for Christmas who are not
waited upon instantly by the already
sharply busy salespeople are excessively
difficult to please and extremely hard to
pacify. They have a favOrite word to
toss at the salespeople under these Cir
cumstances.
Here we're doing our Christmas shop
ping early, all account of you sales
people, they say to the already harassed
salesfolk, and now We can't get waited
on We might just we'll come on the
very last day for Christmas shopping.
They are exceedingly aware, it seems
that they are. or are supposed to be, do
ing the clerks a great favor by shopping
III the earlier days of the rush; and for
that reason they are remarkably ex-
. pectant Of good deal swffter service
than 1t is possible to give them. They
take it that. since they've listened to the
DO Your Christmas Shopping Early ad.
DURATION, they're entitled to a good dea
more service and attention than the
salespeople have the time. or indeed the
4 right. to bestow upon them; and they art
disposed to hold their extreme kindness