The best evidence of the treud of public opinion, expressing favor 

 or disfavor, in which any kind of wood is held in its use in man- 

 ufactured articles is the attitude of the retail trade. Woods como 

 and go with change of times and styles, as certain woods are best 

 used in a certain period of furniture in high-grade lines, while other 

 woods are best adapted to some perioil altogether different. Thus 

 with changes in demand for certain periods the woods change with 

 them, and wlule of course the furniture dealers offer different styles 

 of furniture at all times, they bend their efforts to pushing cer- 

 tain lines which their judgment has told them will be in greatest 

 demand. 



Everyone can without great effort remember the olil-fashioned 

 walnut pieces which, because of unintelligent methods of iinishing 

 and cumbersome design, were relegated to the attic years ago. 

 When the manufacture of furniture as used by the average indi- 

 vidual gradually became a matter of artistic taste, these old pieces 

 were deciiledly in disfavor and inasmuch as the general impression 

 was that they represented the only possibilities in manufacturing 

 walnut, the wood was not much in use for a considerable period of 

 time up to a few \ears ago. 



However, furniture nmnufacturers and dealers conceived three or 

 four years ago that walnut properly finished wouhl make up into 

 bedroom, dining room and other furniture that would have the 

 characteristics of beauty possessed by no other wood, as they 

 would be unique in themselves and give a tone of richness peculiar 

 to walnut. Each wood has its own beauties and walnut advocates 

 can justly claim that the rich brown of the modernly finished stock 

 has a peculiar softness that makes an unusual appeal. 



Some of the far-sighted retailers have ultimately succeeded in get- 

 ting manufacturers to make up lines in walnut, and one of the most 

 ardent advocateS;iu modernly finished walnut furniture is the SchoUe 



Furniture Company of Chicago. The firm handles a high-grade lino 

 in all of its stock and has been energetic in advocating the manu- 

 facture of walnut perioxls for several years past. The result has 

 been that it now has an unusually complete line of walnut bedroom 

 and dining looiii suits, which it has been showing on its floors and 

 which has been given a good deal of prominence during the last few 

 months in its ads and window displays. 



Accompanying are .shown three walnut furniture ilisplays, two of 

 which on opposite pages show window disi)lays on Wabash avenue. 

 The other shows an extensive display of walnut on the third floor 

 of this company 's store, and this represents an es])ecially designed 

 dining room suit that is certainly a beauty. 



That shown on this page is all hand work ami represents an elabo- 

 rate dining room suit worked out in the style of C^ueen Anne. On 

 the opposite page the bedroom suit is also of the Queen Anne jieriod, 

 while the dining room suit is William and Mary. 



All of these pieces are elaborately worked up to show the best in 

 walnut, and are certainly striking evidences that walnut can offer 

 something of exceptional beauty and of quality to ajpiieal to the most 

 fastidious taste. 



Remember that the mainstay of a saw tooth is its corners — keep 

 them well braced up. 



We might argue that the finer the abrasive wheel on the knife- 

 grinder, the better edge can be secured and the less whetting will 

 be required, but sometimes cool grinding is more important than fine- 

 grained work. Also, one can obtain pretty smooth work by light 

 cutting even from a comparatively coarse-grained wheel. 



Sometimes doctoring a hot journal will save hammering a con- 

 trarv saw. 



EL.\CK \V.\r-NLT MINING ItOU.M FfKMTURE 



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