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PUBLIC LEDGE-PHlLADELPHfA, THURSDAY, AUGUST
15, 1918
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Great Organ Plays at
10 and 4.25 N
Peterborough Chimes at Noon
WANAMAKER'S
Store Opens at 10
WANAMAKER'S
Store Closes at 4.30
WANAMAKER'S
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A Customer Stopped the ,
Writer on the Floor of the
Store and Said:
1 "I like to come into this placfe. Somehow it
freshens me up, instructs me, and in a strange way
enlarges me, and I go away and something inside of
me says, 'If I ever keep a store, I shall try to keep
it as much like your store as I can.' "
The kindly person referred to above was not
the same person who said, "This is the only cool
place in town these days."
We will be ready at 10 o'clock for you, and, if
you will dismiss us, the bugle will sound exactly
at 4.30.
Now Is the TimeWhen the Full Scope and Greatness of the August
Furniture Sale
Begin to Stand
Out
Signed
'August 15, 1918.
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Smart New Serge Dresses
For Young Women
There is always need of a good-looking navy blue serge dress,
and soon such a garment will be indispensable to every girl.
Here are some new styles in great variety. Some of all serge,
others combined with silk and crepe Georgette. Plain and fancy
tailored in long, loose lines, high-waisted and jacket effects. With
tunics, accordion pleats and overskirts and having all the new touches
" on collars, sleeves and girdles. Draidcd, embroidery and button
trimmed.
Sizes 14 to 20 years.
Prices $30 to $55.
(Second Hoor, Chestnut)
Lower Prices on Some of the
Better Dresses for Women
The women who, wait till the end of the season to pick up a
fine frock for a little money are now taking advantage of our
reductions.
We have lowered prices on a little group of our better
dresses, some of them to half price. They are not all quite fresh,
but a little pressing or a stitch here and there will make them
like new.
Materials are crepe, handkerchief linen beautifully lace
trimmed, and organdie daintily beruffled. Some of these dresses
are heavily embroidered, while others are embellished with hem
stitching. They are in all the colors of the flowers.
New prices are $10 to $55.
(r'lmt Floor, Central)
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And she said to me,
"I've not a piece of white goods in
the house.
The Unkind Remark
was once made about a somewhat
determined lady that "She'd fight a
rattlesnake and give it the first two
bites."
THE GREAT WANilAKER
SEE OF PIAiOS
STARnNG
MEXT IGNDAY
Whiteness by the Yard for
Flying Needles
"And she said to me 'I've not a piece of white goods in the
house.'
"I knew by that she was shiftless. Oh, nothing ever sounds
to me so shiftless as to say you haven't white goods ready to
hand in the house."
That scrap of conversation overheard ' on the porch must
express a great many women's viewpoint.
And a great many more of them must be fond of doing
their, own sowing, even in summertime
Or else the freshness and attractiveness of the great stocks
in the White Goods Store and the fairness of Wanamaker prices
must especially attract them
For we are selling white goods so briskly you'd scarcely
think it was August.
Waistings and skirtings in particular it would seem that we
can't measure off quick enough.
Popular white waistings are striped voile, 30 in., 28c to $1;
plain voile, 30 in. to 42 in., 25c to $1.35; Fluxon in plaids or
stripes, 32 in., 35c to 50c; batiste, 45 in., 38c to $1.25.
Materials for white skirts may be had for 38c to $1 and
include fancy-striped gabardines, pique and poplins, 30 inches
wide.
(Flret Floor. Chestnut)
Her Gloves Are
White Whatever Her
Gown Is
as a rule, in summertime; above
ell in this Summer.
White chamois - finish lisle
gloves wash so easily, you see.
'Most as little trouble as a hand
kerchief. Prices 75c, 85c and $1.
White Milanese silk gloves,
double tipped, $1 and $1.25 for
short length; $1.75 and $2 for
the long.
(Main Floor, Central)
The Famous Letitia Corsets in
. Cool Batiste for Summer Wear
At $3.50 A pretty pink or
white batibte -model for young
girls or slender women.
Also another model for average
figures, pink batiste, extremely
low bust, long hips.
At $4 A pink batiste .for tall,
slender figures, low bust and long
skirt.
At $4.50 A medium length
with low bust for short, full fig
yures. At $5 Medium high bust, well
boned, long skirt model for tall
fitrures.
(Third Floor,
At $5.50 A pretty pink-figured
batiste, very low bust, elastic in
serts at bottom of steel, long hips.
At $6.50 A dainty figured pink
topless model for slender figures,
elastic band at bust, cleared hips.
At $7.50 A beautiful figured
batiste in pink, extremely low
bust, long hips. Daintily trimmed
with pink satin ribbon and lace.
At $8.50 A dainty dotted pink
batiste model, medium bust,
cleared hips, designed for aver
age figures.
Chestnut)
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Some Lovely
New September
Waists
One, brand new in fashion, is
of batiste with rather low sailor
collar and vertical tucks and
beading. The turned-back cuff is
fastened with a smart black bow.
It is $5.50.
Another new waist is $3.85. It
is a voile, with yoke and beading,
and made with very pretty ver
tical tucks.
'Also -at $3.85 is a waist of
batiste with wide gypsy collar,
made with pin tucks and finished
with beading. Turned-back cuffs
with black bow.
Very pretty at $3.50 is a plain
batiste waist with collar and cuffs
trimmed with beading- and with
knife-pleated ruffles.
'At $2.85 are new voile and
batiste waists, with deep round
collars and just enough trimming
to keep them from being severely
plain.
(Third Floor, Central)
100 Pieces of
Nainsook, Special
at $2.25
I These are 10-yard pieces, of 36
inch nainsook, regularly sold. at
60c more the piece.
A good quality, suitable for
i imdermuslins and children's
ci esses
i- (First Floor. Chestnut)
Women's Woolen
Sweaters, $3.50
Average Less Than Half
(FlmtFloor, Market)
Advance
Fall Styles in Suede
Handbags
Soft, velvety suede in beauti
ful tan and gray shades makes
some delightful new handbags.
They are in a generous size, with
harmonizing moire silk lining,
purse and mirror and tassel.
At $3.50 these bags are very
unusual.
(Main Floor, Chestnut)
Women's Tub
Dresses Reduced
$1.85 to $6.50
These dresses are from our
own stocks, but in broken sizes.
We have marked them $1.85 to
$6.50, which means a straight re
duction of about one-third from
their former prices.
Mostly ginghams and voiles, in
several styles, but not all sizes in
all styles.
They are a little bit mussed,
but fi little pressing will make
them spick-and-span.
(Third Floor. Central)
Men's
Handkerchiefs
Said to Be the Best
in America
At $5.50 a Dozen
We believe any unbiased person
of good judgment will recognize
that theso are as good a lot of all
linen handkerchiefs as have been
offered at $5.50 a dozen in years.
They are one of the groups of
merchandise which, owing to
timely buying, have escaped sev
eral advances in prices since the
war. In 'fact, they are as low
priced as they were in peace
time. Perfect goods, of pure Irish
linen, full sizes and with quarter
and half inch hems.
(Het .Mule)
is perhaps too serious and dignified an
affair to be treated in the same adver
tisement with persiflage of that sort;
but, anyway, the comparison is there
in a way.
This Piano Sale
will challenge and meet any other
piano sale in the world, and give it the
first two weeks and will win out.
For the simple reason that the
Wanamaker Piano Sale brings the best
for your money.
Starting next Monday, with a
large number of new pianos and
player-pianos reduced, as well as a
good collection of taken-in-exchange
pianos that will be marked at prices
most remarkably low.
ON THE AISLE
TOMORROW
Men's silk half hose, special at 50c
4200 pair of first-grade goods reduced from stock.
Black, white, Palm Bench, green, purple. Burgundy, gray
and suede.
(Hnt Alule)
Special Vacation Sale of
Toilet Goods
Hundreds of people want just these things to put
into the trunk. And here they are at lowered prices,
including some
Honfleur Specials
Toilet water, violet and
rose, '45c and 85c.
Extracts, violet, rose and
l'Empire, 35c and 60c.
Talcum powder, violet and
rose, 10c.
Skin cream, 35c.
Youth and Beauty cream,
35c.
Cleansing cream, 35c.
Bay Rum, 50c and 75c.
Hair tonic, $1.
Suzanne toilet water, 25c.
(West Aisle)
Other Toilet
Goods' Special
Witch hazel, 35c a pint; 65c
a quart.
Violet ammonia, 20c a pint;
35c a quart.
Hair tonic, 50c.
Tooth powder, 10c.
Cold cream, 15c.
Eye lotion, 25c.
Liquid soap, 50c.
Lilac vegetal, 65c.
Wistaria vegetal, 65c.
Peroxide cucalyptol bath
soap, $1.25.
Toilet soap, violet, rose, lilac
or heliotrope, $1 a dozen.
Peroxide, 18c and 32c.
"A Daughter of the
Land," a New
Gene Stratton-
Porter Book, Ready
Tomorrow $1.40
This time the authoi of "The
Harvestci" has written a graphic
tale of American country life.
Perhaps the finest thing she has
done. Her many admirers will
want the new book at once.
(nook Store, Main Door)
New Linoleum
Surely Brightens a
Room
Be it kitchen, pantry or bath
room, thiscrisp, clean floor cov
ering works a wonderful change
in appearance. Specially pi iced
in the August Sale are
Imported and domestic inlaid
linoleum, $1.25, $1.50 to $2.85 a
square yard.
Printed linoleum, 85c, 95c, $1
and $1.35 a square yard.
(hetenth lloor. Cli"fttnut)
The Summer Shoe Sale Was
Never So Important
It is true that the ratio of savings is no greater than it has been before,
but there are other things to consider. No one knows how much higher
shoe prices will go and no one knows when it will be possible to get some
of the shoes we are selling at any price, after they are gone.
Men's low shoes, $4.90, $5.90
and $6.90.
Men's high shoes, $4.65 and
$5.90.
Women's low shoes, $3.90, $4.90
and $5.90.
Women's high shoes, $2.50,
$2.90, $4.40 and $8.75. At $2.90
are high white canvas lace shoes
with Louis heels, and at $8.75
are high white glazed kidskin lace
shoes with Louis heels.
Children's high and low shoes,
$2.
(Men's Shoes, Main Floor, Market)
(Wamtu'i and Children'! Shots, First Floor, Market)
Fluffy Lacy New Petticoats So
Dear to Young Girls
A new lot that we have been looking out rather anxiously for, and
that we, are unusually glad to get.
They are exquisitely dainty things to wear under thin dresses
petticoats mostly with deep trimmings of lace flounces and Swiss inser
tions. They are of fine, sheer nainsook and exquisitely made.
Lengths are 32 to 36 fnches, and prices are $6 to $11.
(lair Floor. Chsstaat)
Names and
Intials to Sew on
Clothing
Single-line names are 85c for
three dozen to $3.50 for 24 dozen.
Double-line names range from
$1.75 for six dozen to $6.50 for a
gross, and are on two widths of
tape.
Initials from two to five are
30c for six dozen to $2 for -a
gross.
(Malm Floor, Central)
Young Women's
Light Weight Suits Reduced
Weil tailored suits in light and dark colors. Just what so many
girls need for going away.
Being only one of a kind we have lowered prices" a third to a half.
Sizes 14 to 20 years.
Prices $12.75 to $18.75.
(Second Floor, Chestnut)
The Strong Point of the Mattress
Sale Is Quality
Mattresses of quality are the
only matti esses on which a sav
ing is worth the name. This is
not original, but it is true. Most
people know it, but some forget
it. Our mattress and bedding
stocks aie confined exclusively to
goods of clean, reliable quality
and so is our sale. All our mat
tresses, pillows, bolsters and sev
eral makes of bedsprings are be
ing offeied at reduced prices.
We make all the hair mat
tresses we sell. You can take
your choice of ten different
grades, have yours made in one
or two parts and covered in tick
ing of your own selection.
One of the particularly good
grades of hair mattresses in the
sale can be had in either the best
sateen or the best old-fashioned
blue-and-white ticking at these
prices.
Double-bed size, 54x76 inches,
$34.
Throe-quarter bed size, 48x76
inches, $29.75.
Large single-bed size, 42x76
inches, $25.50.
Medium single-bed size, 39x76
inches, $23.25.
Regular single-bed size, 36x76
inches, $21.25.
Cot size, 30x76 inches, $17.
' Crib size, $12.76.
(Sixth Floor, Chestnut)
Now When an Ordinary Sale
Begins To Weaken
By this time most people of intelligence espe
cially those who go around and see things for them
selves know that this is no ordinary sale, that it
is not to be confused with furniture sales in general,
because in the extent of it, in the resources of it, in
the beauties of it, in the reliabilities of it, it is the
only event of its kind.
Surely that is no secret, for everybody with
eyes to see can come in here any day until the end
of the sale, and see a stock of furniture unap
proached in extent and fineness and desirableness
at the prices.
That is a simple matter of fact.
It is a fact, also, that we have this unapproached
stock" of furniture to sell in the airiest, cool
est, safest and most comfortable furniture store in
this vicinity, at any rate.
The finest stock to choose from, the most com
fortable place to choose one of these statements is
as true as the other, and we don't think either can
be successfully challenged.
We have the right goods as surely as we have
the greatest comforts, and that is surely enough.
Some Exceptionally Good Things
in the Living-Room Furniture
$67.75 for a 3-piece living-room set, upholstered
in tapestry. The backs, sides and bottom bracings
are all of mahogany. If sold separately, the settee,
which is 5 feet long, is $39.75, the high-back arm
rocker $15 and the low-back arm rocker $13.
$73 for a 3-piece mahogany and cane set. The
seats are upholstered in black and gold damask and '
are built on the boxed and steel construction. If
sold separately, the settee is $37, the high-back arm
chair $18 and the arm rocker $18.
$81 for a 3-piece tapestry and cane living-room
suit. The seats are boxed with steel construction.
The style shows William and Mary influence. The
wood work is finished in soft brown English tones.
If sold separately, the settee, which is 6 feet long,
is $43, the high-back arm rocker is $20 and the arm
chair $18.
$140 for a 3-piece mahogany suit, upholstered
in blue and gold damask. The ends and backs are
cane. One of the chairs has a high back, with wings.
The style is Queen Anne.
$97 for a 3-piece set upholstered in striped blue,
black and gold velour. The backs are of close-woven
brown cane and the influence is of Louis XVI period.
$20.50 for a chaise longue. The seated portion
is of cane and the back rest is of cane, with a beauti
fully shaped medallion in the center.
$27 for a mahogany chaise longue, typical exam
ple of Queen Anne style, with a shell medallion in the
center of the cane back.
$38 for an all-upholstered chaise longue in cre
tonne, with double-coiled tempered springs in seat
and back, heavy upholstered arms with square ta
pered Colonial legs.
$50 for a chaise longue with upholstered cre
tonne seat and separate sunburst pillow. The back
is gracefully curved and has one short and one long
arm or side rest, which has an insert of closely
woven brown cane. This one shows Louis XVI in
fluence. $84 for an all-upholstered, very luxurious chaise
longue. This longue was made in our own factory
and contains the best of filling, and is of the highest
type of workmanship. It is an exact reproduction
of a London-made piece which even years ago sold
by us for about double.
$17.50 for an all-upholstered wing bedroom
chair in cretonne.
$25 for a high-back fireside chair with heavy
rolled arms, square tapered mahogany legs.
$27 for an English fireside chair with a heavy
ball and claw foot, upholstered in cretonne.
$26.50 for a low-back wing rocker in cretonne,
made up especially for bedrooms.
$45 for a high-back living-room or lounging
chair with side headrests and heavy rolled arms,
separate down-filled cushions, spring edge construc
tion with a Chippendale front.
(Fifth Floor)
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