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Cor. Walnut and 13 th Sts. THE IDEAL HOTEL 
Philadelphia, Pa. of Philadelphia 
ew, Modern, Luxurious 
Convenient to railroad stations, shopping centers, and points of general inter¬ 
est. Sanitary conditions throughout. Fire-proof construction. All linen 
sterilized daily. Elegant appointments. 
Rooms without bath, $2.00 per day. Rooms with bath. 
$ 2.50 per d».y and upwards. 
Wire for accommodations at our expense, 
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beneath the foundation. Laborers are 
constructing a new foundation at a depth 
of seventy feet beneath the level of the 
river, and the entire pier, weighing about 
2,000,000 pounds, will he moved bodily 
from the old to the new foundation. 
The bridge will be supported by tem¬ 
porary trestlework while the operation 
of moving the pier is in progress, and the 
work of removal will, it is said, be ac¬ 
complished in a few minutes, without 
any material delay ol traffic.— Boston 
Herald, ten years ago. 
MORAL FURNITURE 
There is morality in furniture as there is moral¬ 
ity in anything that has real worth. Some of the 
qualities that make furniture moral, it the term 
can be accepted, are purity and correctness of 
design, honest and thorough workmanship, mak¬ 
ing furniture of character. 
The responsibility of furnishing a house is more 
than individual. The home-maker, in selecting 
furniture for her library, her dining-room or her 
hall, wields a far greater power for good or ill 
than she imagines. Sham woods, sham carving, 
and sham gold are accepted as real by the child, 
and there is danger that he will accept shams as a 
matter of course—in furniture and in other things 
also. 
BEAUTY IN THE HOME 
The world is full of beautiful objects with 
which to adorn our homes, yet few really beautiful 
homes exist. There are 
several reasons for this, 
but two are preeminent. 
First,taste in this coun¬ 
try has not kept pace 
with progress in other 
lines. Second, an erro¬ 
neous ideaprevails that 
good is always costly. 
On the contrary, the 
good is less costly than 
the monstrosities in 
furniture. 
Good design is a re¬ 
quisite, but not the only 
one; good material is 
a necessity, but good 
material alone does 
not make good furniture. The best material, 
skilled labor, time, honest construction, and cor¬ 
rect design are five necessary factors. 
The correct reproductions of Period and Co¬ 
lonial Furniture come under this class. This kind 
of furniture was honestly built, and on lines which 
the designers of the present have not surpassed. 
It is furniture of character, bespeaking honesty in 
every line, made of the best material, correct in 
design, admirable in construction. Moral furni¬ 
ture, for its influence is never degrading. 
Furniture may be in the Colonial style, repro¬ 
ductions from the best specimens of the Eighteenth 
Century’s type; it may represent the highest type 
of Period furniture or it may set forth the best 
thought in modern design. Whatever it is, it must 
also stand for honest materials and honest con- 
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