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In the centre of Manhattan Island, from Madison Square to
Central Park, have been concentrated the nation's greatest
shops. Fifth Avenue — not the ribbon of asphalt that bears
the name, but the section itself—Fifth Avenue, Main Street,
U. S. A.—is a national institution.
Over the breadth of this country and over the continent the
name of Fifth Avenue is carried from lip to lip as a synonym
for all that is most desirable in fashion and luxury. You can
•walk the length of it in half an hour — but no one ever does.
Somewhere along this thoroughfare, or the turnings that edge
it in, one may buy the -work of any old master, precious stones
as exquisite as the crown jewels of any monarch, rarest of
laces, most intricate of tapestries. Here are collections of old
silver, of first editions, of marvellous glassware and delicate
china, of furniture wrought by our ancestors.
Mingled with the greatest of the past is the best of the present.
To this supreme market-place the peoples of the earth are
sending their choicest wares, day after day, year after year.
The creators of women's adornment send the work of their
imaginations. Here the man and woman of refinement
may buy anything which will satisfy a
most discriminating taste.
In a day gone by Fifth Avenue was the place
above all others to live. Today it is the place
above all others to buy.
Scribner's takes pride, therefore, in making this
Fifth Avenue Section a feature of its advertising
pages.
In shopping, kindly mention SCRIBNER'S 32-1