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Show When Payne Wrote "Home, Sweet Home" By J. R. HAMILTON Former Advertising Manaaer of Wanamaker', Philadelphia It is said when John Howard Payne wrote "Home, Sweet Home," he himself was a homeless wanderer in the streets. It took a man who had no home to make the spirit of.home immortal. The reason why we of todny do not appreciate a home more in that it is too easy to have one. The place that our grandfathers called home was little more than a shelter. They knew no com-foris com-foris such as we have. They had few luxuries, hut the thing that they called home had been fought for, and so it was dear to them. Today anyone can have a home almost for the asking. He can fill it with big, comfortable furniture that will give him as much comfort as used to belong only to royalty. He can have beautiful draperies in his windows and fine pictures on his walls. He can have a piano or a talking machine. He can have rugs that arc copies of the patterns in palaces. And he can do all this on the most moderate, the most ordinary of salaries or wages. Day by day this paper is filled with advertising that offers every facility for the furnishing of the home. Not only can the man with ready cash furnish his home on a moderate basis, but even the man without cash can have all the comforts and luxuries luxu-ries he desires through a system of credit on home furnishings which has now become almost national in its scope. This is the season when new homes are springing up on every hand and the season when old homes are being remodeled and refurnished for another year. Therefore it is the season for home furnishing .opportunities which every live advertising merchant is offering at this time. Do not hold these home-making opportunities too lightly. Give these advertisers a hearing. What they arc saying is real, and what they are doing is making history. There has never been a time in the history of the world when comfort and luxury were as widespread amongst the people as they are today. Look over this advertising today. See if you cannot add the comfort of a home to the pleasure of your life, or see if you cannot put more luxury and more material happiness into the home you have. Think of what you need most about your home and then look for the advertising of those things in this paper today. (CoDyrUbted.) |