| There is probably no home in which the comfort, | | | | designers set the standard for the world for all times. |
| convenience or artistic appearance could not be | | | | Such furniture is worth while, and is an everlasting |
| improved by the addition or replacing of some pieces | | | | inspiration to the home-maker and worker. |
| of furniture. The reason is simple. They are furnished | | | | One style, variously known as "Arts and Crafts," |
| with store furniture, and store furniture is made to | | | | "Mission" "Craftsman," etc., is especially adapted to |
| sell; the designs limited by the capabilities of the | | | | hand work, and while differing from the rich old oak |
| machines which make it; made of the cheapest | | | | and mahogany of our fathers' in form and finish, is |
| materials; put together in the quickest, rather than | | | | like them in all the qualities of beauty and durability |
| the best way, and then finished up with the crudest | | | | and is far more comfortable. A home furnished in this |
| varnish and stain to make a fine appearance. It is a | | | | style not only expresses the artistic taste of its |
| depressing sight to see this furniture on moving day | | | | inmates but also exerts an influence of sturdy |
| piled on the sidewalk, scratched, broken, dingy, all its | | | | honesty of purpose, simplicity and absence of all |
| fine pretense of beauty gone forever. | | | | gaudy pretense, which both its frank, straight lines |
| On the other hand, the chairs, tables, sideboards and | | | | and freedom from anything to hide or mar the |
| other pieces that have come down to us through | | | | natural beauty of the wood so forcibly express. It is |
| generations are all made by hand, put together by | | | | a style of which we can never tire and of which no |
| hand and finished by hand in the days when there | | | | other can take the place. It will last for generations, |
| was no machinery and the workman was an artist. | | | | for every part is as strong as the wood of which it |
| The result is that instead of finding its way to the | | | | is made. You can make it and make it better than |
| scrap heap this old furniture is as good today as | | | | you can buy in any store, for it is made in the most |
| ever, after two or three hundred years of wear and | | | | natural way, after the most natural design, of the |
| tear and removal from place to place half round the | | | | most natural material. |
| world. Hampered by no limitations of machinery these | | | | |