"COMFORTS OF HOME are always more appreciated if the furniture is bright and pretty. In our establishment you won't find a single ugly piece, for no matter what the style or cost we INSIST that every article must be artistically designed as well as substantially made before we will handle it. You might as well have pretty things as ugly, especially as they do not cost any more as we sell them." In 1904, this advertisement for furniture on sale at HW Myers Hardware (Tacoma, WA) appeared in the Tacoma Times.