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We fully appreciated the situation, and knew that only ROCK BOTTOM
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SIXTY SALES Rf?DE LAST WEEK
Shows conclusively that we are giving piano values that cannot be obtained j li
elsewhere. Competitors stand aghast at this great reduction sale. The people
are interested and aroused, as is evidenced by the great number of sales made
in a single week.
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MONTHLY TERMS !
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PIANOS"AH3 Wim
$650 Upright Pianos.$550....$10 per month
$550 Upright Pianos.,.;..,.';....;..$500...,.$10 per month
$450 Upright Pianos....-.$375........................... $8 per month
$400 Upright Pianos.....$325........................... $8 per month
$375 Upright Pianos..$290..... $7 per month
$350 Upright Pianos.....$269._. $6 per month
$300 Upright Pianos...$250......... $6 per month
$250 Upright Pianos...................$200.......... $6 per month
$225 Upright Pianos.....$179...!.... $6 per month
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CAB?IS ?_MX> CONOYER PIANOS
One $400 Ivers & Pond Piano for..... $1(59
One $800 Hardman Grand Piano for.. $350
One $300 Fisher Upright Piano for...?. $?50
Quite a number of other standard makes in slightly used Pianos at one-half
values.
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CLOSING OUT STOCK OF SM.
INSTRUMENTS AT PRIME COST.
Fine Guitars from $350 up_*
A large stock of Mandolins from $250 up.
Banjos ranging., in price from $4.00 up.
Good Violins from $5.00 up.
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213 E. BROAD ST.
His Road to Success, Like
That of All Others, Had
Many Rough and
Stony Places In It.
lr cor.t .butions fo "he fn
'.'? ?kiy contains a very in*
? oil the famous young ar
wlib copyright drawings
Times r.<;_- made arrange
. -t the drawings, and a
:ost interesting ees ay on
: ?- irtlcular Interest to
'.: : -.-. :- na the fact that
bride in Richmond,
Ch -.rles Dana Gibson
cot escaped
the usual course in the School of Hard
Knocks which falls to most men who are
worth their sait in the artistic profes?
sion. The important facts in his career
may be briefly stated.
The first of American draughtsmen tras
born near Boston, at Roxbury. "Mass., in
1_?*7. His family is or' good American
stock, the ma.e members having gener
a.iy combined physical strength with
marked intellectual traits. Gibson him?
self, standing over six feet, and of pow?
erful frame, is a typical specimen of his
race. "I often fee) " he said with a
smile, "that it is absurd for a big feliow
like mc to pl?y at work with a little
pencil."
Mr. Gibson's father settled at Flushing.
Long Island, when the future artist was
but three weeks old. and so he grew up
to all intents and purposes a Xew York
boy. Mr. Gibson whimsically denies that
he was ever what is caiied a "youuiful ?
prodigy."' or that at an early age he
displayed a remarkable precocity for art.
??At any rate." he >a;d to the present
writer, "I have no.-er seen any barn
M*?
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f3 ?V 0 -___35- ____*? ___S*!
doors decorated with my colored crayons,
and If I made sketches in those days,
my parents probably destroyed them out ]
of regard for my feelings in years to
come. But I did begin to make pictures,
or attempt at pictures. w..en I was stii!
a boy. and when I was seventeen I join?
ed the classes of the Art Students'
League. Soch is the confidence of youth,
that by the time I was nineteen I
thought I "knew it all*?perhaps a litt'.e
more?and so I took a studio here in ,
New York, and began to turn out draw- j
tngs." I
Art Is proverbially a stern mistress. j
Many a man has ?served a harder ap- !
premioeship than r*id Gibson, but his pro- !?
bation was sufflcientiy trying, as has j.
been hinted already, and he proved by
frequent rorerses the o!d. old truth that i
there is no royal road to success. Two !
years of siu<"*y w'th the New York Stu- j
denes' Leagrue. and a bnef course later j
at Julien's atelier In Paris?that was the
sum of Gibson's artistic education so far
as it was picked up in the professional
schools.
LEARNED "LITTLE IN SCHOOL.
""When I got out of the art school.'" he '
says. "I could draw no better, to al! ap?
pearances, than when I went in?at any
rate, my work wasn't a bit more salab'e.
But I made up a portfolio of ail sorts of
things I had done in the school?awfully ;
had no doubt the greater part of th^m '
were?and star'ed out to se? whit 1 cou'd
do. I visited every publishing house,
rl.iv.o-engraving establishment and 1 Uio
?rinph?r in the city of New York. They
were all very polite: they even became
pleasantly, familiar with me. and some
of them really wished to help me. but
none of then? wanted my work. I would
take a bundle of drawings to a publish?
ing house?not skipping the biggest places '
?and g've them to the hoy without my
name and address, saying I would cail
In a day or two. Sometime, t -.-ovlfl e-o
back for them?often I left the drawings :
.altogether. In a ?Verterate hone, -f -im?
pose, that th*?y micht be used If I ceased -
worrying about them." I
Tb? first success came when "Life" ac- J
cepted a drawing, and the art editor In- '
vited young Gibson to submit other speci?
mens of his work. There were rebuffs
and disappointments stiii to be encount?
ered, but the worst was past and a mar?
ket had been opened for him by that first
picture in "Life." Within a year his
pen-and-ink sketches we:e in general de?
mand "Scribner's*" gave him a commis?
sion to illustrate "The Luck of the
I.ogar.s." a story by Sarah Orme Jewett;
a:ic! a'most immediately his d s .motive "
style began to make itseif felt. Next the
'C-.Miury" recognized the young a tu*,
and then "Harper's" took him up. very
soon afterward making a contract wi h
liini by which he was to draw for no
other monthly publication during a year. ;
T'.'_ hard time of probation was over
for Gibson. His feet were at last planted
in the paths of success. Publishers were j
now competing for his work. And he I
had not yet reached his thirty-fifth year, j
ZANGWILL'S OPINION.
Once upon a time, in the early heyday
of the Cibson Gir'.'s popularity, that keen
critic. Mr. Israel Zangwill. wrote: "Mr.
Gibson merits the pride with which Ms
countrymen speak of him. He has creat?
ed the 'American Girl' and a o--.a-r>->ing
Centure she is. though modelled on an
Iri^h girl, they will tell you in the Latin
Quarter." j
The Gibson Girl Includes these seven'
distinct types: The Beauty; the Boy- ?
Girl; the Flirt; the Sentimental; the Con- ;
vinced; the Ambitious, and the Well-Bal?
anced. The last named Is the artist's fa- .
vorite, for it 's sna vrn0 Comes nearest :
to the ideal of y<nmg American woman- i
hood.' The-Wen-Balanced Girl Is all har?
mony, she is loved by many men. sho
fafuses". many offers of marriage and still
retains the friendship of the men. She is :,
a happy combination of the six other j
t\pcs of the Gibson Girl?beginning with ,
the professional Beauty, who is tall, well- :
built, knows how to dress. Is always on |
parade in full uniform, age eighteen or
twenty. The next type, the Boy-Girl, ?s '.
a "good fellow" sort, wears tailor-made "*
frocks, smokes cigarettes, plays billiards, '-';
will help you out of a scrape as well as
into one, talks with disconcerting audac?
ity about anything she chooses, is a bit
of a "sport" and enjoys more the excite?
ment of nearly losing her life on a run?
away horse than the attentions of a love?
sick man. Gibson's Sentimental Girl Is
extremely romantic, fancies she loves a
certain man until she meets another who.
perhaps, wears better boots, makes each
man think she adores him until he takes
her in earnest, when she suidenly discov?
ers she loves him not. The Convinced
Gibson Girl sets herself a certain course
to pursue and follows it up without tak?
ing a single side step. The Ambitious
type has a well defined object in life and
is constantly at work trying to attain it
hy making her entire life subservient to
it.
THE GIBSON GIRL.
It Is an ill-kept secret among Mr. Gib?
son's friends that he is somewhat inclined
to resent the predominance which the
critics accord to the Gibson Girl In any
consideration of his work. And yet. look
in., back over the artist's busy and bril
iian career?he has not passed his thirty
fifth year?it must be recorded that his
cieation of this charming type, now unl
\ersally identified as the Gibson Girl, was
th. chief factor in his first Important suc?
cess. The Gibson Girl became the rage
upon the publication In New York, in the
fall of 1S!>4. of the first collection of tho
artist's drawings. The book was received
vit h unexampled favor by the public, and
tht critics acknowledged It to be of
marked significance In the history of
American art. The vogue of the Gibson
Girl has continued to the present hour,
when her creator Is. to say the truth, i
a little tired of it and would like to be
considered for another kind of artistic
ptrformauce.
But the public knows-what It wants,
and, like a woman, it will not be denied.
The- comedian who believes that ho was
out out for a sock and buskin of tragedy,
the tragedian who feels his Innate fitness
for comedy, have orten had chastenl?$ .
o.perience of this truth. Mr., Olbson Is"
likewise in the hands of his public, and.
b-ipj. a prudent as well as gifted young
: - - . - ?'-..- '-??'-:' ?"/ ' '?'.-?'?
man. he does not run counter to the pub?
lic expectation.
The latest volume of Mr. Gibson's draw?
ings, which he has labelled "The Social
ladder." happily demonstrates this. The
Gibson Girl is here in evidence again,
not so numerously and aggressively so
as In previous collections*;'but she ts here,
nevertheless, and one can imagine her
making a charming moue at the jealous
artist for not yielding to her the center
of the stage and the whole of the book.
as in the earlier years of her reign.
HAS A FUTURE.
The critics who have heretofore refused
to consider Mr. Gibson as an artist of
serious possibility and power should give
q litt'e study to the picture entitled "The
Troubles of the Rich." the only one of
the mordftntly satirical series whicu r
need particulariize. Better than tpords
-t-?ld tel! it is the story told by the flraw
?n? tt?e'f. yet one miy be pardoned f'->r
going lamely behind the artist in an ef?
fort to suggest what he his done so well.
The grand dining-room, with all its ap?
purtenances of luxury, the flunkies im?
posing and sp'enclid. the master of _..e
house decrepit and huddled pitifully in
his chair, the sumptuous table laden with
c>st:y service of gold and silver, the
dieery magnificence of the banouet with
the guests so few and wide'y separated?
' Sfvr-il have sent their ragr^ts at t*-?e
last r/omenf? all make up a picture elo?
quent in its every detail, s-arine: in it?
sstiric truth, terrible in the voiceless
moral It preaohe.s. And yet the f.-i.rn.-jjr
of pathos Is not lackins:: it speaks In the
bioken figure or" the senile ma=rer of the
hcuse. with his poor old rD*-T??f-*<"t' head
and half-shut &yes: it is powerfully sug
gi-sted by every detail of that funeral
feast, and It is even legible on the oride
worn face of the most conspicuous
woman in the scene.
Many persons will believe that tno
artist has saved his best and most stn...
lng picture for the last leaf in his book.
Certainly there is a beauty of concep
? Work
Still a Young Man, He Has
a Future Before Him.
Different Types of the
Gibson Girl?Great
Popu arity.
I tion, a sense of imaginative power, la
j the composition entitled "'When a Man's
i ir. Love," which place it with cha very
j rarest performance of Mr. Gibson. Neve?
has the quest of the "eterna! feminine'**
| been more subtly, yet powerfully Indica.?
j ed by pencil or brush. And how grandly?
I simpie it is?as true art ever is! Th?
lover exiled to the desert sees the faca
of his beloved in the rushing clouds ar_i
on the sculptured rocks. It Is indeed tha
universal theme, touched with this reveal?
Ing tight of genius.
I have ventured to suggest Mr. Gib?
son's ciaim to consideration as a seriou?
artist, though to a majority of his coun?
trymen he seems perhaps no mor* than
an exceedingly clever cartoonist, a grace?
ful draughtsman. But such work as ha
has given us m "The Social Ladder*
i cannot fail of Us due recognition. Tha
artist is still a young man. and. viewing
the sum of his performance to date,
knowing also the resources of his unsat
isaed ambition, his vigorous personality?
one may well indulge the hlgnest hopes.
of his "future. The "noble ;. discontent"
that makes for art has never yet in hUS
been lulled to sleep by self-complacency.
He is as eager now as when fame first
came to him. He has worked hard foif
j the success already won?he will wor_t
? harder yet. And perhaps If this War,
I silent young man would give utterance
j to his "deepest self, the cry of his soul
i would be: ??Time and I i_*ala-t ____*
-cher two!'"