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Show Oid-Tlme Advertiser. Besides his skill and taste as a cabinet-maker, and his fortunate judgment judg-ment in adopting varied and sundry styles to the needs and wishes of hia British patrons, Chippendale was a good business man, and thoroughly understood the art of advertising aa then practiced, the art, at least, ol making himself liked, and attracting a large and fashionable clientele and a habitual clientele, at that to his shop In St. Martin's Lane. Tha belles and beaux, as well as the greal lords and haughty, swelling dowagers, were wont to gather there of a morning, morn-ing, and were sure of getting what they sought, no matter whether it waa furniture or gossip. Chippendale &i ways made his patrons thoroughly welcome and comfortable, arO hla shop became to all intents, a kind ol club where all the court chit-chat and scandal of the metropolis were retailed re-tailed amid the engaging settings ol chair "In the Gothick taste." "Chinese "Chi-nese Sophas," Louis Qulnze secretaries secreta-ries and the like. Suburban Life. |