The Washington times., 1919-11-18
HAVE YOU AUTTLE
FURNITURE 'AGER?"
Every Household Should Have
One If You Want to Keep
Up to the Minute.
BY MARGARET ROHE.

NEW 1ORh, NOV. 1S.-ThlS Is a NOV
ing tale! Not the narrowing or
cinema variety, but simply an echo
of October /. Goodness knows the
CT ash of my shattered furniture and
mirrors was enough to leave an echo.
II was the old cabinet maker whom
called in to give first aid to the
wreckage who gave me the facts.
Apropos of my battered household
treasures with vivid and minute de-
tail, he described the ageing rooms
in the antique furniture factories that
every well regulated metropolis chep-
ishes in its bosom. 1t seems that the
tortures inflicted on perfectly new
square fourposters, solid substantial
secretaries and stately highboys in
these fell chambers are equal almost
to the horrors of the Inquisition.
Burly workmen maui and buffet them.
Huge iron chains are dragged across
their immaculate surfaces. and last
ard crowning injury they are shot
full OF worn holes" with bird shot.
Just think of hiring men for such
Job when the movers revel in doing
it for the mere Joy of the thing!
When these professional wreckers U
am referring now TO the antique fac
tory hands, not the movers) get
through with a brand-new shiny piece
OF perfectly good Grand Rapids furni-
ture even an expert would swear c.
Washington slept in It at least one
night at one of his fifty-seven varie-
ties of headquarters
Prize Household Hint.
Now just think of the possibilities
open to you. Women's magazines and
Sunday papers tell you how TO make
dressing tables out Of packing boxes,
work tables out OF cheese boxes, and
pOrtieres out of old tin cans. But
here's a prize household hint exposing
to you how you may age your own
antique furniture right in the family
fat
Almost every well-regulated Ameri-
can FAMILY has two or three willing
little workers right at the home and
freside. OF course. you NAV have in
tended to make a premiere danseuse
out OF little Dorothea and a second
Mischa Elman out OF ParcivaI Harold
still II were much better to let them
follow their true and natural instincts.
and develop into star perforners IN
the ageing room OF some antioue fur.
niture factory, and in their embryo
stage let them prepare for their VOC,
tional future by turning them Loose
dolng pleceWork on the family stufY
You will be amazed what satisfac-
tory results will be obtained in q
remarkably short time. Visiting
friends viewing the battle. sea 80
fronts of what a short space sgona
was 1919 suite from McBeerv.s AZ
partment store will murnur ecst.tic
ally. Wherever did you picl, IN .,,..
wonderful old pieces. my DEAR, ~,
sure II it wasn't for the chiId-Iabor
laws antique furniture makers would
hire nothing but ordinary boys amonp
their highboys and their lowboys in
the ageing rooms.
Auction Sale
Just outside of New York the otber
day was an auction sale of n defupc,
maiden aunt whose attics disrorgod
wonderful old hand-woven liz.
sheets, krilts, rare china PaisIa,
shawls. spinning wheels. four-nostnrs
fddle-backed chairs. and all tho wor
derful antiques that make n modorr
matrOn's mouth water. Folks NocLaa
for miles around to the sale, and Great
were the returns therefrom.
Alas. sales like this are pettira
rGrer nd rarer! Real antidue niecas
are becoming fewer and fewer Stin
the demand increases in direct rotio
with the diminishing supply. Uonoo
the antique factories are BOOMING ord
their prices with them II Won ara
wise you will act Immediately unnn
the timely little household hint bava
given you.
The only main essential is .IIav.
YOU n little furniture ager in vour
hOme?"