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e | TRADE AND TRUST. Helpiny the Average Man to Help Himself, WHAT CREDIT CAN DO With Lasy Terms. THE USEFUL AND BEAUTIFUL | the people, and it continues to presorve {five to for ‘th How Fair Prices Arc Possible |, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY( NOVEMBER ¢, of Omaha and says to them, 1 will help yon to help yourself.” That is his se cret The House People’s Mammoth installment | is one that has the confidenco of | it by adhering to the eardinal points of | vod goods, honest prices, tair dealing | and easy torms.” A child can be sent with an order and bo ns honestly dealt | with as the most experienced adult pur chaser, and people wih have tried vari ous astablishmoents and eredit houses say that they can purchase at from twenty- § per cent cheaper from the | People’s Mammoth Installm Houso y they ean « Everybody the working- k, as well welcome , the mechanic and th as the prosperous houscholder, 1t is, in- deed, 1) olitin credit house of the day. There can be no doubt | that the wonderful success of the firm as evidenced in thisgreat improvement, is due to the open and straightforward upon which the business is con- ducted. There are no concenlments, no misre entations, but everything is open and above board great cosme basis A Gigantic Es'ablishmont Where yihing f.om Kitzhen Utens 13 to a Pa lor Suit, or frem a Cook Furnish'ng of Hai O nv.nimtly 8tove to the a House, Muy B at Moderate Fre s, Under its admirable and in every way satisfuctory system of eredit and insta ment payment the PPeople’s Mammoth Installment Iouse, 13151 IFarnam steeet, has enjoyed a continuously sue- cessful career for yen-s Probal no charact transacted is fully those who have tried i 4 efit from it, just as there is none s grossly isundevstood by thoso who ven 1t no investigation, but take impressions huphuzard. old ns commoveq, out it the whole fabric of trade would full to picces. What the People’s Mamn- moth Installment House doos is nothing more or less than to extend the methods i »in the great business world at large to private and domestic life, | Yolitical economists arve still far from o in aecord as to what ave the lim tations of the power of ereditand remain mueh at sea as to A compreliension of the methods by which it accomplishes its wonders, bt there can be very littlo doubt that the system, as applied to the furnishing of homes, has b attended with the most ifying results and has arried happiness and comfort to thous ands when they otherwise would hive heen dented or deferred, In tho natural history of exchange barter ciume first and then sile without money as a medium d then ticus have been established on still condneted through it heen prosecuted by it: fow public ente @ be ed out without i , it may be said tinlly into the conduet of s werld's everyday alfuivs, The furmer whose grain is ripening ov the merchant whose consignment is on the sea or vail would be in a bad way it he was invari oblized to wait until the prodv ctually entered into othier hands vefore he could consider it as a part of his possessions. ‘The natio ol banks are conducted on redit sys. tem, and why should not the princi be extended 1o the purchuse of the age man ov family in establishin adorning their home? Credit multiplies both the producing and consuming ve erof soviety, for by facilitating exch it aceclerates and increases it word answers for the thing it i It supposcs contidence. Confi inthe good will and honor and inteliigence of the purchaser, the seller has, ns a last resort, the law to protect his rights. For years the People’s Mammoth In- stallment House have neen the pionee:s in the eredit business in Omaha, and in- deed in this countr, he prineip! have heen car flem, with such Limy il in required. Just of husiness appreciated by and derived bon- 1 withe rs ng e by tl as the of patronag: as Rosenthal, the he general manager, has tions for pecutine adapta- the business in which he is so suceessfil. Customers always see him. Every move and every detail in his great establishment is thoroughly familine with, He knows the sales that are made. the payments, and within and without, Irom cellar to roof, that personal attention to all ons which is 0 necessury in th conduet of sueh extensive operation Ifor the hieads of his different de ments ho seleets only men of expericnee, Several of them have alveady aceioved suceoss 1n other large establishiments No firm is move liberal in its treatment of its employes than the People’s Mam- moth Installment House, most of their men huving boen with them sinee they h e [ ditfieulty. The s of the purc is not lim- ited. It the purchaser can be trusted o little they can trusted more, The terms arc always made to suit, €o thatit is 1 for any honest-minded and in- tentioned purchaser to go to the Peo- i ple’s Mammoth Instaliment Houso and get what they need—and there are few things that cannot be found under that wondarful roof. Deserving customers e always treated leniently and consid- und us to the purchasers them- isfaction is always guaranteed. Lvery article is marked in plain figures 86 bo | with'its pr and comparing qualit {angd price, the goods offered in every dc- partiment y us low as the same in any cush house, and lower than ean bo uined inother installment establish- ments. 16 you doubt it, make the com- parison and see for yaurself. All in all, | though known as a credit hot nd giving such liberal torms, the People’s Mammoth Tnstallment House has placed itself on a par with uny cash house in Omaha, Tt isout of the question to imagine any economic movement independent of th odit When <10 aim merely at the sati linte wantsof two con- . eredit becomes indis- wmer'’s son inherits a wnd that, if cleared, wili afford suppo. L3 aelork pos- ty, clligence and dee of husines h wounld make s essful merchant, wishes to open a store; ame it skeilled in his il red of dy sale for his diwork, wishes to start a shop. It is clear that if the farmer’s son must po for the fculturat imple- mentsand sceds he needs, the elerk fc the merehaudise he is to sell, and the mec the 1 material he is to s s of cach to v It is credit alonc ' Lo overcome the | Factac teactin tha 10 his wo o will b impos 1t enables ha what an institution tem 1 that of the 1 Installment [House does fc man, the clerk, the mun or woman who labor in s for those nc All lahoring peop ve to wait a wook for their it is no uncommon thing for ional and other men wait a month, hs. for th ¢ Often there are thiy ngs th and AMammoth working and tl capue- ssed of ) sys- ple’s th mee e ny arn- gs they need bsolutely ¢ tial to 1d welfare, and « system that cnables thewm to procure what the, ire, and pay for it according to their | convenience, rot only contributes to the individual nappincss of themselves, but is an cleniont wself4n sustaining the ac- vity of trade It is to eredit alone, it has bheen well said by one of the most cizinent authori- tios, that wo indebted for that inter- mediate agent which plays so important apurtin the transaction of business; without credit this o-hetw impossible. Themiller,whoso whole for- tune con of two wheels,which griud his greain fall of the water which geinds his grain, the fall of the w wh.ch covers them, would not be with the best in pay the farmer fo ich he is to mitke into flour himsell has sold his flour and received puy therefor from the baker, who had delivered it as bread to his customers. The merchant who 10 deliver to his customers eloth ov linen made in some remote manufae tory canuot give the manufucturer its equivalent until he himself has sold the merchandise: that is, unless, us o often happens with the Mummoth Instaliment Iouse, who have the capital nnd cun do so and take advantage of the discount T pr ings, the People’s © e cases whore necessity he movement of soc nducted like the credit is a su- in the econo- *ly, everything is linics of . chuin. The farmer who cannot get the pay for Lis grain until threo months after ho has delivered it, cannot buy for cash the cattle he needs meantim ne wise, Cuixawane axp Lave Deranrvgss, begun bhusiness. The same generous disposition is ex- tended Lo their customers, There is no cast-iron vulo, hut the terms of sale are rogulated 1o the circumstancos of each individual case, Fvervbody is not re quired 1o pay one-third cash down, noy wro glit ivitics or high-toned releren J upon, Mr. Itosanthsl is s man who has the utinost and most abounding vonfiden ce o the lotegral hoaor of his tallow n :nu ## 80 iten happens in such e s the good fortune to be scldom im- A4 pon He holds out the hand of ‘:lum.hlp. friendship und brotherly love 10 the worklngmen and workingwomen The cloth manufasturer who teusts the tailor would remain idle if he had to wait until the tailor got hjs bills col- leeted. One and all “are bound up to- gether in business affairs in the credit ystew, and why should it not be ex- tended to the workingman and the house- holder and the mother of the family. If the credit system is liberal then it will often run woro smoothly in the larger and more complicated channe!s. Thus credit gives birth to both indus- try and trade which could not exist without it, and at times it prevents their stoppage or getting sluggish. Bank notes, discounts, even the bill of exchange itsell, are not necessarily constituent clements of the credit sys- | tem, During the Middle Ages oredit tranenciions of great importance and long time were made without the inter- vention of any of these menns or the slightest trice of wiiting, and oven | today the Russian producers and mer chants contract credit obligations for twelve month’s time without giving the Jeastevidence of the debt, for the neces- which the truly good housekeeper de- lighte In tubs, clothes wringers and baskots and clothes boilers there in also ns much improvemont ng in anything, and | it is indeed wonderful to see how inven- | tion has kept pace with the age even in | these important details of the noner household. 3 1892-SIXTEEN PAGE . Hail lamps abound in all the conven font urrangments, white and tinted, at from $1.75, whila there is nlso a fine array of ornamental tall piano lamps, with fancy umbrella shades. such as nre now o fashionable. They practieally make a parlor, so far as style is con- cerned. Somo in nickel and some in wrought iron, ana they come from $6.50 SEEIER> 5 500 MOTH INSTA —a Ll e PLES <ci»- LLMENT HOUSE. ary reason that asa rule they ean neither I vead nor write. | he seryice thus rendered to the | cconomy of a nation by credit is great enough to warrant the gratitude of| modern society in which it has acquired | adevelopment hithorto unknown. 1t is | the only th known that keeps up per- | petual motion. Ths economic machin- vy of society scems to stand still, to | slacken its motion or to its speed in proportion as eredit disappe or grows feenle or revives. The activity of production and consumption of w in nn Ly is greater, more 10! fl, just as creait is more ov less developed. Few things render move serviee to the material #nd intellectual, it might almost be said the Il progress of & community than the liberal, generous credit-giving of such an establishment as the People’s Mam- moth Installment House, enabling thou- sands to get what th could aot in any other way. A great” deal is heard in thie day of Bellamy and his doctrine, but with n more general credit system and 1 wides opportunity for the ordin- ary wage-carner Lo be'trusted ns a man | on his merits as well as the merchant or bunicer, ull that is involved in Bellamy- ism would fall to the ground. Al tha N:ce3sities of the K tchen and Tableware in Pro‘us on. | Tn no part of the great establisliment | of the People’s Mammoth Installment House is there so much to interest the housekee 1s the basement, which is given ove tirely to the conveniences nd nceesories of the kitchen and the varicties of enina and table ware belong- ing to the dinner tuble. In that foundation of domestic econ- omy—the stove--all the best and most convenient mukes arve found: notably the **Pc the *Jewel” and the ent sizes and furnished with ali the latest appli- ances and conveniences. Sowme of them have whatis known as the “patent ek’ fo opening and shutting the front and bake oven doors with the foot. Others have gauze doors, which give ventila- tion in baking and have an advantage of which eareful housekeepers ave well awa Some of these stoves have | taken first prizes for making the finest crust on hread baked in them. The| “Model Peninsular” is the best and is all that its name imolies. With these go boilers, copper and tin- | lined boiling pots, with inner granite s fac conl hods that will not break aund | various agate-line utensils, all designed t fucilitale in cooking aud aid in that cleanliness which un eminent autherity declared was next to godliness, aud in Quite important ace ime of year sre the gasoline stoves, ng from one burner up to tive: also Quick Meal” stoves, evaporating commonly called the New Process. The improved are guiranteed non-ex- Plosive. and are as great in institution as any house can possibly have on hand for the hot summer weather, when a continuous hot coal fire in not only try- ing to comfort. but v MavyMOTH JNSTALLME One entire side of the basament is taicen up with china and table ware and et sets. The > china dinn 3 s at this | 10 $60, much, of course, depending upon the shade. They have center draft- burners and adjustaile springs. Table lamps, with duplex burners and a be- wildering diversity of shades, come any- where from $1.25 to $10 or $12. Although not all included in partiment, any mention of the wealth of the houschold accessories found in the People’s Mammoth Installment Housc would he incomplete without a mention of the b it includes statuary. groups like Faust and Marguerite, Ro- meo and Julict, the Fisher Boy and sher Hat, and bisque, china and var- ious figures and figurantes, as well vases that do 0 much togive an inte a cheerful and refinea aiv when ciously disposed. Through ous parts of the building are seattered pas- tels, oil and water col engravin and'a most interesting collaction of pic tures, suitable for the walls of parlors and drawing rooms, all selected with tasto and care and liko everything clse, wble to any purchaser on the eas- iest possible terms, e LEGANT UPHOLSTERY. this de 1S ior judi- Artist’c Accossories for ths Draw- ing Room and B"udoi; The only thing that ean limit the splendor of o dvawing room or parior in these duys is the length of one’s purse. But it is possible for anyone, through the inducements offered by the People Mammoth Installment House, to have a of 125 pieces and china sets n white and £ilt of 120 pi ch in graceful shapes and tasteful decoration. Such is ENTRANCE TO 11 the ariety of dinner sets that they range from 6,50 to $40 a set in price, The collection also includes many heautiful salad and other large dishes in Louis XV, designs and pretty and dainty after dinner coffee sets in o var iety of shapes and colors at the most modern prices, ‘There are sets of really | good looking and serviceable Amer foan | granito ware, full sets of 112 p1 that come as low as #9, and others run as high us $25, Seperate tea sets vary from 3 for 56 pleces up to #15, all handsomely de- corated and highly ornamented. In toilet ware there 1s an assortent that | almost makes choice diticult, The English sets of twelve pieces handsomely | decorated in floral designs run from $6.50 to #23 a set. Many of them have fluted und tho handles and shapes are the lutest, often copled of ancient and elegant wodels, J parlor sufliczently elegant and attractive for all ordinary demands, No parlor i3 complets or can have 1e BLey.ToR. any inviting character without se that are decp and_comfortable, no mu ter what may be their wookworlk, whi ofus, lounges und ottomans always in- crease the air of luxuvy. The center table may be round. or oblong, i cording tothe tasto or preferencd for the various fashions, Cabiug 100, are essential, and hanging brackots, withi the little trifles to put on them, do muach to break the menotony of the walls, All these and many” more uccessories of the parlor ure to be seen at the Peo- ple’s Mammoth Installment House in the greatest diversity and profusion, so that there is no character of purse or variety of tustes that cannot be suited, The parior suits runge in price from $20 up, and generally contain six pieces. Tubles vary in size and price ulmost as much as in form. and according to the prevailing teudency, chairs are seldom | alike. Somo of the sofas are beautiful | form, and the lounges are models of snsn land ‘upholstored with the beautiful stufls that in tho design and appsarance often resomble tapestry, As for the chaire, no matter for what | apartmont intonded, they are hewilder- ing. Tmmediatoly upon’ entering thero are double rows of fancy rockers, some with plush seats and backs, others bound and ornnmented with burnished mota's, extending the lensth of the storo Then at the back, at tho left, flanked by sofas and divans, are the fine uphois sl air and spring chairs, some of vihich are triumphs of the upholstoror 1 An article that often intro- duced into pa though mo o ally seen in the libiary, is the ov writing dosk, and of th seen in the forms that a production & of the I S now itoire many are c¢h court period REM:MB In the ety RING THE BABI:S y of the in Omahn, O nd upho'stered in @ licia parasol with sille 3 tin p held™ careia Whorate. in price from $1 to %25, Something entirc be termed - *‘baby body is entively of | tho whee rho springs and runnin gear ave nickel. It is upholstored in sill and hasan adjustable parasol, It would seem us 1f the climax of combinod d clogance in the form of a © had beon reached in this, arious othor styles are each e in their v I'h is o re 1y baby should be wit A inge to bHo wheo'ed ont 1 air and sunshine, when a good one can be had anywhere from $1 up on erodit, and paid conveniently a little at a timoe, A little investment sucl that may possibly save a treasured life. of collections nd baby wary is cane hodied Kk with reod body and a lag known N an phols Wh u S0 rang 1sh ro is I'he new is what mig buckboard iglish oals, as are son v ATTRACTIVE FURNITURE, Auvcin’ and Bl ‘g it Forms Adap'- c€dto Modern Coavenio ico a d Comfort, wions fact that furnituroe ha mo with the politieal indepe material prosperity of the ven archit 10t and dowr the objec W daily life ana dom 0 popular Tt is the hi ntenp o aver of mankind so t ident 50 common 1 one that articles of domestic ase in the household had stendy deve ment through the centu 1d e rated from the simplest forms to elak m i Luxur 1ch ror is he thos as are ums. Not ouly is the story of our fur of our ehiirs and tables, the story of vl itself, but it is the of the hu race. 1t has gone up and down, f ting with the yir fortunes an igence of nations and peoples the Tudian and Orieatal rices with their scul d utensils and vieh nd theie divans and vich fabri in fue- niture had alveady iovel- opment when tlf led the world, e had his ar sap- ported on feet carved, sto ‘" intel Skipping colors sof e painted s W rs of turned wood, and vase rs and small articles of con 2o in ttest abundance, The Greeks, living so much in public and holding theiv dwellings and women in small esteem contributed but littie to the development of furniture, but the Romans carvied the art of houschoid decration to & point whe scemed to have reached its limi n It tell all that haa been shed in houschold ¢l nee fell with it, and for centu the industrial avts were dead. Slowly, after the Dark Ages and Char- lemagne the bench became in chair, the armor chest w couch, woma ascendaney began and the comforts and convenience of the houschold began to receive attention. To the thoughtful obse or nou intent on through such al tabhishimentas that of the Peoy moth Instaliment House wit ues of elegant and servi S0 of the home. its congregati chairs, its accumulation of bedst and bedding and an ageregat oni viriety of almosy every knowr fornitu onging o the houschold 15 in the high contempinic the s mentin the way of buu they convey T'hroughout the first lioor but more especinlly 1 the salon on Farnam street front of the second floor, t is to by found at the People’s Mammoth Instali- ment House's great ablishment such a diversity of household furnishing is seldom found under 0ne roof. Every- thing thut belongs to the comfort and convenience of a home, from a stove or the humblest kKitehen utensil to statuary or richly upholstered divans and lac curtains, are to be found here, not ro- steicted for the weaithy alone. but avail- able to ally and the most moderate in come by means of the eredir systom The array of attractive furniture takes in a variety of styles, as well ns diversity of forms, and unyone wishing an exquisitely uphol the equal in styl finest houscs, can plainest and most pi chair, It 15 no unusnal thir g just beginning housekeeping to be fur nished throughout entively from the People’s Mammoth Installment house, s they tind it much more convenient, an make satisfuctory Angements, and can have better ing everything n under the same roof Many a pretty and happy homo ha its boginning in - The IPeopl lishment, and many who have sturtod in this way have continued denling there, getting everyting neeful for the family asthe vears went by Though furniture may not be as ch whether ramble lete o Mam- aven- er, purchase, o > and com 5= its able of ds and 1o of it tions of ac n comfo netical diy cfor young | ime portant as temples or monuments, it has ! View or (Cor est in th produc s full of intense human inter- movements of the world to thiogs. Helics of the crusades und of the Renaissanc Wy e seen 1o the forms of a siogle chair, Great have been the chunges, since in Gothic times in the one great hall used for eve service t was but o s chair, oceupied invariubly by the master of the house, and never surrendered by bim except to some superior. Uncom: these n | man | 1cov- | NG 1 S ortable though it was, and not to be compared with some of tho oasy affairs at “The People’s,” in which one sinks almost at once into a dozo, it was navors {theless the seat of hone Remarkable ,has been the revoluti sinco even the prosperous ate their meals from a cloth spread on the floor whilo partinliy sup- norted by cushions, of which the fauteuil mains a reliz | Not onoe of the acee room is wanting. found in sou lepar 1 ment. Tho numbe bedsteads on tho first 1 speak of the hundreds and bolow, excite: there can bo vidual taste, and dark Some aro It sorios of Lvery the bag- rticle can bo tof tho estabe wnd variety of or alone, not to uvay nbovo 18 to how ity in indis ierry, light finish, ote, show earved sund singlo X ads curiosity ch ava hey ave inc mahogony other onk, vlain, d they are inall lo. The English oak bedst tho style of the XV, « ury, t present to havo the greatost Lapretty picce of furnitiee it is, e ulso hu dressing <and wardrob atest vy I'ho wardrobes ¢ from #6, fino dou es, with being It is, indeed, mderful to see what a suvstantinl and ood looking piece of oak can bo turnod out now in the shape of & waravobe for ¥ or 810, Eatire bedroom suit rom $15 10 $500. T'hi not include the cheval there ure many, some of them largo and exponsive tke the scalskin sack and dinmond earvings, the cheval glass is Jonc of the luxuries that every woman without one vl to, There are tin th Mammoth Installment House than seventy-five difterent patterns of dining room suits, n boasd, no table, 1o group of chajrs Some of the sideboards handsomoe affairs in t | teenth and sixteonth ¢ them with the dp: oxydized handles, rang and aou do in \piear run, I'hore 0 plato n People’s no less styles and ) side- massive, yie of the fif- nu many of plush-lined ana » sidoboards alone \s for din- good one is sold for china closets an oresting featu-e to the house- {holder who visits this dopartment No other el voff in varied construction int d for ha somo broad and el tall and with cateh s, are study in then ves ent all e tic \ 200, \n ) the nd d \ contieman ' from $0.50 up to $100, room t ) The many blos, niture excels interest that hall racks, othe ! in nent is the | room the th who had no i i happened in there on another matter on Tharsday, ile was astonished to notico them un packing some curtains new in material, | sort of knotted che hoand ex- juisite in blue and brow binations, Ihere wero rows of blue silk stripes thove and below atd a narrow chenile { fringe border, They were just the he had been looking f were by no me common, W prejudico ag: instaliment ieniture st housos nt to several large cstablishme: [ing to find the same arvticle, Failing ywhere he back 1n a fow but too late—the curtaing woro U he left fo liko Licking | himself for his proc ation The curtain disple Uiy excellent nd the scicetions show taste and include wmany novelties and entirely new things not to be found clsewhero.” There is o Narge eolloction lace eurtiins, vang- ing from $1.50 1 dair up, and some very atlract- ive portieres as low as 5,00, eve hou one. y is v COMFORT IN THE CARPET. Variet'es of Rugs and Fioor Cover- ings That Wil Woar Well It been said that for a multitude of makes up for whatever clso is missing inaroom. The walls may look bure, thie chairs may bo old, the sofn dingy, and ve may be very little in the room, but if the earpet is good the pla looks comfortable and furnished. \With anew cavpet it only tnkes o fow addip tions to make n room ook clegant, [t | malkes the toilet of a room. and ~ without itall is wanting, just like o lady, other- jwize well dressed, who spoils and “gives it all away” by woaring shabby shoes, I'he color of et should »sen in keeping with the ign of the room, the wall paper, the furniture, dte., and theee is hardly tint and few known designs that be found in the im searpot dey ment of the People’s Mammoth Install- ment House, covering n spree a0x 150, rood sized stove. Everyone aceording 1o taste general the color for a dinin hall should be darker or mor a for a whiic th il poSsible, he either. Whenever the entire floor, it is usunl to have a deop bord thus civing it something of a ractor, though some prefor pattern nd unbroken, Whatovor b rpet determined upon, whether rvich or the lowest in suitable border can be found at I’cople’s™ to necompany iy, and it is well 10 g0 to tho additional o x pense, rule, the earpet is as much enhs its border us is 0 jewel Ly its sctting, All the varieties of carpels manu tured—the Wiltons, the Moguets, various Brussels, and the Ingr (N0t 1o moention druggets, mattings nud o on, are to be found in {the immense and interesting stock aceu- mulated in this, one of the most imports |ant departments in the Peop'e’s Mam- moth Installment Hou I'he ingrain, one of the most serviceable and econom feal carpets anyone can buy, which can | be had here, by the way, anywhere from 5 conts avard, is within the means No one need hnve a bare floor when good, services I s can be had nt such a price, It comes in exceodingly nen 1Zns, {mixed and mossy, mottled and geome: | tricaly according “to taske. I'here is not much danger of getting an agly one, ns some one skilled in taste has had the se- stion of them alrendy. Almost every bpusewifo knows what s charity atones 50 a good eurpet i but in room or olid”? for a b lighter than wepet covors the of anybody tiractivy oy oN Maix Froon the qualitics of Bruseels carpots are. is wade by weaving intoa linen body loops of woolen threads, three to a loop customarily, and as thuy are dyed-ins the wool, the color is lasting, | Here, as elsewhere, the sumne princis ple 15 uvailable, that of gotting the best "goods at cash prices by payinga small suin down and the remainder in installs ments, & most convenient und easy Whg jof furnishing a house,