A Beautiful Oil Painting lends an Air of Refinement to any Surroundings.

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Original Oil Paintings by American and Foreign Artists at a Great Sacrifice. HE rich man's panic that swept over the country before Christmas paralyzed the sale of fine Oil Paintings-paintings that sell, under favorable conditions, at high prices on 5th Avenue and other great Art Centres-but the artists must have money, and by buying up all their unsold paintings we are enabled to offer these works of art at remarkable bargain prices and on terms that place them within the reach of almost every one.

We Have Cut the Price to $24 Each, Handsomely Framed

and in order to meet the times this little price can be paid after receiving the Painting at the rate of only

$3.00 a Month.

This price is enough to tell you that they are not chromos or copies. Each painting is the artist's original, and has no duplicate in the world. All are handsomely framed in rich gilt frames, latest Florentine Design, LIKE SHOWN IN THE CUT ABOVE, with highly burnished ornaments, and surrounded with an ebony-finished shadow box, such as only used on expensive paintings. The average size, including frames, is 2 feet 4 inches by 1 foot 10 inches. and 32 Inches deep. We have agreed not to advestise the artists' names, as our cut prices and terms would injure their sales at regular prices. Any style of subject, including the frame, will be

SENT FREE ON APPROVAL.

For convenience in supplying the different tastes in art, we have arranged the various subjects under three heads: SEA includes coast scenes, or fisher folk with boats, or scenes in Holland or Venice; WOODLAND includes scenes in or about the woods at different seasons of the year; PASTORAL includes landscapes in general, scenes about brooks and meadows, or scenes with sheep or cattle, snow scenes, moonlights, sunsets, etc. Tell us what style of painting pleases your fanWe will make a careful selection and send it to you, express prepaid,

cy.

on five days' approval.

WE TAKE ALL RISKS. If it pleases you, send us $300, and $300 a month thereafter for seven months. If it does not suit you, return it to us, express collect. We have had great success in pleasing people in this way throughout the United States. We take the risk.

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FINE ART SOCIETY, 150 Nassau St., New York City. I am interested in

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your offer of original Paintings You may send one framed as described, express prepaid.

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-You want the sweetest toned

-You want that sweet tone to last

-You dislike to spend any more

about Pianos!

money than necessary:-But every adviser, and so-called expert, recommends a different make. You are like a man lost in the woods. You don't know which way to turn. This surely describes your position.

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THE REMEDY:-Educate yourself on the subject! Study-read

Read more Study more. Then listen in the quietness of your

own parlor to the tone of the highest grade piano you can
get, but without agreeing to purchase it. Call in all

those musical friends who you know

are not under past obligations to any piano

dealers or friends of dealers. Resolve you will study attentively piano tone and will be deaf,

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while studying, to the magnetic talk and persuasiveness of sales-
men. This is the intelligent way. It's the way you planned your new
home. You made a long study of it calmly, thoroughly, and you became
quite an expert. You can be just as expert about pianos.

We are willing to send you free two books:

One officially entitled "The Book of Complete Information about Pianos."

YOU NEED THIS BOOK of 156 Pages handsomely bound, if you ever intend to buy a piano, no matter what make.

It tells how to test a piano and how to tell good from bad: what causes pianos to get out of order. It makes the selection of a piano easy. read carefully it will make you an expert judge of piano tone, of action, workmanship and of durability.

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It tells everything that any one can possibly want to know about pianos; gives a description of every part of the piano, how put together and all the processes of manufacture. Gives description of the new invention for aiding learners to play called THE NOTEACCORD (endorsed by Paderewski and other great pianists). It explains Agents' and Dealers' Methods and Devices.

It tells about the very first piano,

the qualities of labor, the felt,
ivories and woods used in every
high-grade piano, and compares high
qualities with the cheaper kind (used
in inferior pianos). Describes what
constitutes a musical-piano-tone, and
in fact is a complete encyclopedia.

You need and should have THIS
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ABOUT PIANOS.

Its scores of illustrations (all de-
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You will certainly learn a great
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for it is absolutely the only book of
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The other book is also copy-
righted but is a short story named
JOHN HONEYWELL'S
REASONS." The story of an

We Have Supplied Over 40,000 American Homes With
WING PIANOS

We refer to Banks, Governors of many States, and Judges; to Merchants, Conservatories of Music, Singers and Professors of Music. We have been students of vibration and of musical tone and strength of materials during all these 39 years. The first patent issued to our Mr. Wing, Senior, for improvement on pianos was in 1876, and other improvements have been invented since at the average rate of more than one yearly. These facts prove our skill and long experience, but would not be mentioned if we did not wish to show you that we know the piano subject as few others have had the opportunity; for 39 years is a long-long time for a business house to "live and learn" and constantly prosper.

WING & SON

59-386 West 18th St., N. Y.

You may send me "The
Book of Complete Infor-
mation" and the "Story
Book," but without
any cost to me or
obligation on
my part.

average American family which was
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SO FAR not one word about ourselves. We are and have been the manufacturers of THE FAMOUS WING PIANO for the past 39 years!

Write for the books at once or fill in the coupon. Take it out and mail to us now while you think of it (and while you have the coupon). You will be under no obligations whatever.

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