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Show ISHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY ' SAVE ON FURNITURE BELIEVE It or not, but furniture has gone down In price. Not everything, of course, but certain lines beginning to come into your tores from the big manufacturers will cost you less, and be things of beauty and a Joy forever. This Is the good news from a consensus con-sensus of furniture authorities fresh from the Home Shows in the big cities all over the country. The good word from them is r: ,v "1 that retail prices in many lines will be WtJ downefrom 5 to 10 STREET This dip does not rriTliM necessarily mean an It.."1 arbitrary cut in prices by manufacturers manufac-turers or your retailers, but rather the setting of a new price level. How come? Because of the use of new techniques and the substitution of alternate materials. Thus the dollars dol-lars you spend on furniture will go farther than they used to. And your new furniture will go farther, too, for It will serve not Just one purpose, pur-pose, but at least two; and it will be easier to care for thus saving you both time and money. Manufacturers, wise in the ways of the homemaker-buyer, have come down to earth, to fill your practical needs. A great Influx of small scale, functional and dual-purpose pieces into your own stores, is the result. Many firms that used to put out only the more expensive, formal period pieces, have shifted to the practical modern, to keep pace with the times and the demands of you buyers. Even the period furniture issued today serves more than the one show-purpose. So ask that furniture furni-ture dealer of yours to keep an eye out for you, for the very minute those new things arrive. Maybe you need a new book-case? You'll be able to find one that turns into a dining-table two for the price of one. Or your dressing-table is ready for the Junk-heap? Look around for a vanity which becomes a desk, too. You'll even find what appears to be a beautiful period chest of drawers, that opens up into a handsome desk, with the mere drawing of a fake drawer at its toD. And your couch-by-day-bed-by-night is an old story now, but even there are modern improvements. Some of the newer combinations unfold into either double or twin beds, to suit the individual sleeping-preference. The pillow rest supports bolsters during the day, in a perfect disguise dis-guise of a sofa or davenport. LAMP MAGIC Lamps, too, are catching up with the modern, dual-purpose trend. Don't think for a minute that the good old floor-lamp is passe, exiled by the recently more popular table lamp. Far from it in fact, it's coming com-ing into its own again, in modern guise. Of course, the main purpose of a lamp is for good lighting, but if it can also be decorative, and set off a furniture grouping, ar much the better. Thus we have the floorlamp floor-lamp with adjustable arms, to throw the light where most desired, over the book, the sewing, or the piano. Even in lamps, the modern trend of dual personality is served. There are combination lamp and magazine racks, lamp coffee-table combines, even lamps built right into the table top. And with the three speeds of the reflector bulbs none of us would be without these days, the light can be suited to close work, to ordinary reading-vision, and to the subdued lesser light for television-viewing, j |