'wwwm EVENING BtJBLIO LEDGERPHIL'iPEEpkES;" BATUKDAY, " rAUGTUST 17, 19ig .:TJnffi P''X' ' "- , ' i ' H B.-t: tr. f Store Closed All Day Today ' WAN AM AKER'S WANAMAKER'S WANAMAKfeR'S WANAMAKER'S WEATHER Fair Ready Monday Morning With Our August Sale of u What Is a Bird Good For?" some people ask. If you could have v heard yesterday morning's pre-sunrise Musical of the Birds around the white -porch, where they flocked at about 6 A. M. for weakf ast, you would say you never heard such singing in all your lifetime from any human beings trained in Italy or else- where. There they were, a happy family, robins, bluebirds, blackbirds, threshers,, meadow larks, sparrows, bobolinks, not all singers, but trying to practice their scales and some of them only half fiz zling a note or whistle, as if they were .only dreaming in their sleep. High up in the top of a tree some v where an owl hooted, just as some people may do, possibly, at this early morning chant of thanksgiving for the something within us to think of and love the birds in their quiet nooks and dozing nests or flitting over the lawns , and gardens. "The birds are entitled to our great respect," as Audubon used to say, for their perseverance in following the fur rows and cleaning the bark of trees of millions of insects, bugs and creeping things that swing up where the farmer's plow turns the furrow, upon the dead wood in the forests and groves where they find cover. This Store takes lessons from the birds and books and daily intercourse with its customers to be useful to the people. Signed August 17, 1018. hmiJ Fall Fashion Features That Women's New Dresses Show Thi new merchandise that we are unpacking in the Fashion Salons is like a news letter from the Fashion Front without being censored. Among the unusual things we find are ' The combination of two materials, such as gabardine and satin. The use of tricolette, heavily embroidered. Serge with colored embroidery. Hnga satin girdles finished with fringe. All-over lace collars and cuffs. Midnight blue charmeuse heavily embroidered in satin. The use of Hedato work. And there are also dresses of plain serge, Georgette crepe, taf feta and satin. Prices $23.50 to $125. (First Floor. Central) ON THE AISLE MONDAY 300 Sample Shirtwaists Special at $1.75 These are good, cotton waists, chiefly voile, many kinds, and in all good summer styles. Some at. half price because they have served as samples. (West Aisle) . All of Our Beautiful Wash Silk Skirts In a Clearaway at $10.75 There are less than 100 of these fine skirts, many of which have beeminore than twice this new, low price. They are mostly white and flesh color and there are all sizes in the lot. ' There are crepes de chine, satins and silk broadcloths. Some are slightly soiled or mussed with handling. Also, there are a few washable flannel skirts at the same price. (First Floor, Central) Beautiful New Tricolette At Its Old Price We have just unboxed a shipment of tricolette in white, flesh and khaki. In spite of the fact that the price for this material will be much higher in the coming season, we have marked this lot at the old price $5.60 a 'yard. The width is 86 inches. Pianos and Player-Pianos Consisting Mostly of Fine New Instruments Out of Our Own Stocks Especially Reduced in Price THIS Wanamaker August Sale of Pianos is un usually and particularly advantageous in a number of respects. Other sales of pianos have been principally for the purpose of clearing away old instruments taken in exchange for new. While we have, in this sale, a number of good used instruments that we have taken in exchange, the biggest advantage in the sale is found in the unusual reduction of 77 pianos and player-pianos directly out of our own stock, witK savings of from $25 to $325. These new instruments, as well as the used in struments, are all set down here so that the lists may be examined by the family at home tonight and two or three tentative selections made, so that you may know just what you want to ask for when you come into the Store on Monday. If there is a piano in the list that seems partic ularly suitable to your needs or your purse, we sug gest' that you be on hand on Monday morning at 10 A. M., the opening hour of the sale. No "pianos will be reserved in advance of the sale, and every instrument in the sale will be on the floor so that every one will have an equal chance. If, in your family you have a child who ought to have a musical education as every child surely ought it may be advisable for you to buy one of the low-priced, used instruments a good, sound piano that will stand a considerable amount of usage at the hands of the learner. Y.ou will see from the list that you can purchase one of these instruments at $75 to $475. Every one of these instruments has been put in good playing condition in our Schomacker piano factory. Much better values, of course, are the new pianos that are reduced in price, and such instru ments as Schomacker, Chickering and Knabe have their regular selling prices reduced very unusually, since these instruments are never sale pianos in any sense, and are here offered at less than theii; regular year-round prices. In spite of the low prices quoted, pianos are all for sale on convenient terms and extended pay ments. ' New Upright Pianos Reduced in Price Originally Now Marshall & Wen dell (4) $300 $255 Lindeman $300 $275 Marshall & Wen dell $325 $275 Marshall & Wen dell (3) $325 $280 Haines Bros. (4) $340 $290 Haines Bros $375 $295 Haines Bros. (2) $365 $315 Schomacker (2) $475 $415 Schomacker ....$475 $415 Schomacker $525 $440 Schomacker ....$525 $440 Schomacker (3) $575 $475 Chickering (2) .$625 $525 Chickering (4) .$675 $550 New Grand Pianos Reduced in Price Emerson $700 $635 Schomacker (3) $685 Schomacker (3) $800 $715 Chickering (2) $875 $775 Chickering ....$1100 $950 Some Figures Worth Studying Over the Week-End New Player-Pianos Reduced in Price Originally Noro Lindeman An- geltis (22) .. $550 $515 Lindeman An gelus (4) ... . $575 Schomacker Player-Piano $800 $650 Knabe Angelus (3) $1000' $800 Chickering An gelus $1000 $875 Chickering Grand Player-Piano $1250 $975 Chickering Grand Player-Piano (2) $1350 $1050 New Reproducing Pianos (Electric Control) Reduced in Price Lindeman Artrio . . . $650 $500 Originally Now White Artrio... $700 $550 Schomacker Electric $950 $675 Lindeman Artrio $850 $725 Knabe Artrio. .$1300 $975 Schomacker Ar trio Grand ..$2050 $1725 Used Upright Pianos Wing $75 Ronish $75 Wheelock '. $75 New England $85 New England $95 New York $95 Swick $110 Kranich & Bach $110 Pease $115 Stuyvesant $120 Webster $120 Emerson $125 (KK.vptlnn Hull Originally Now Newby & Evans $125 Henning $125 Krakauer $135 Bradbury $140 New York $145 Hardman $150 Decker $155 Sterling $160 James M. Starr $160 Williard $160 Capen $160 Glenwood $160 Chickering $160 Stone $160 Kingsbury $165 Mathushek $165 Hallet & Davis $165 Hoppe $170 Behr Bros $175 Martin $175 E. Jules' $175 Emerson ?185 Marcellus '. $185 Nilson $185 Philharmonic '.$185 , Second Floor) Originally Now Schomacker $185 Radle ! $190 Lester $190 Ludwig $195 Howard $195 Farrand d?195 Regal $195 Regent $195 Stuyvesant $195 Wheelock $195 Lester $200 Emerson $215 Howard $215 Lester $225 Emerson $250 Emerson $275 Chickering $285 Knabe $295 Chickering $350 Knabe $425 Chickering $450 Steinway $475 Chickering $475 Used Player-Pianos Originally Now Lindeman Player -Piano $485 $425 Haines Ampico $975 $825 Knabe Angelus Grand $1650 $1200 Used Grand Pianos Lestor $395 Hardman $485 Schomacker . . . $5V5 Chickering . . . $575 Knabe A .... $950 $675 Knabe B $1125. $925 Used Reproducing Pianos (Electric Control) Knabe Ampico. $1350 Chickering Ampico ...$1350 Chickering Ampico ...$1350 Chickering Am pico Grand. $2300 $1050 $1050 $1100 $1900 Opportunity at Flood Tide in the Great August Furniture Sale WHAT are you going to do about it? What are you going to do in the face of the opportunities pre sented in the Wanamaker August Furniture Sale? Timely questions, these, and so they are meant to be, for now comes the stage in the progress qf the sale when time becomes a very important matter. In plainer words, it is high time for you to act if you have not already done sp. It is high time for youjto find out how much this August Furniture Sale means to you. It is high time for you to put well before your mind the fact that there is more furniture now being offered at reduced prices in this Sale than there will be in a long time to come. Unless your home is furnished to the limit, there are things here which "you will want to see in it. But you will either have to buy them pretty soon the sooner the better or wait for months, or may be years, before you will be able to buy them again at the same reduced prices. The one thing that will surprise anybody who comes to this Sale to day is the abundance of the stocks. So far as goods are concerned, it looks more like the beginning of the Sale than the end of it. Now is when the great reserve stocks begin to count, and there are reserve stocks back of this Sale to make it proof against exhaustion. What are you going to do about it? (Fifth and Sixth Floor) Did You Notice the Canes on the Boardwalk? Seems as If every well-dressed man carries a walking stick at the shore these days. Many of them come from here. We have a handsome lot of sticks in malacca, snake wood, rhinoceros, green ebony and other woods. Some 'are plain, others trimmed with gold, silver or ivory. Most nave crook handles. , Prices are $1.50 to $50. ' (Main FlMr, Market)! New Books "A Daughter Land," by Gene by of the Stratton Porter. $1.40. "Virtuous Wives," Owen Johnson, $1.50. "The Inferno," by Bar busse, $1.50. "The Submarine in War and Peace," by Simon Lake, $3. "The Government of the British Empire," by Ed ward Jenks, $2. "We'll Stick to the Fin ish," by Joe Mitchell .Chap pie, $2. (Main Floor, Central) 40 New Dinner Sets Specially Priced at $25 to $35 Of best quality Ameri can porcelain, each set comprising 107 pieces. Good choice of border pat terns. Specially priced' at $25, $27.50, $30 and $35. (Fourth Floor, Chestnnt) A New $17,000 Collection of Oriental Rugs in a Special Sale Monday THE times are somewhat "out of joint" in the Oriental rug market; but, unlike Hamlet, we feel that if we were not "born to set them right," we should at least try. We have tried, and we have succeeded in getting together four very interesting new lots of eastern rugs to sell at less than the prices now prevailing in the wholesale marts in this country. Monday we present them in a special sale. The new collection comprises approximately $17,000 worth of pieces, very desirable and very good. Undoubtedly, the choice is the best that has been seen in Philadelphia in a long time, and as regards the smaller sized pieces this is particularly true. 200 Mosuls at $27.50 to $45 Very remarkable pieces at the prices. The sizes are 3x5 ft. to 3x6.6 ft. Dozarts, $65 to $95 These are Irans in a large size, 4. 6x6.6 feet. The prices are about one-third less than present-day wholesale rates. Beluchistans, $29 to $40 The sizes are 2.6x5 feet. Dark shades of red, blue and green are the prevailing colors. Chinese Carpets, $125 to $485 An exceptionally good selection in typical Chinese colors and designs, especially in blue, ecru and burnt orange shadings. Sizes from 9x7 feet to 13.6x10.1 feet. (Seventh Floor, Chestnut) Money Put in These Shoes Is Money Well Invested We have no hesitancy in advising that you outfit your whole family with all the footwear you care to buy or think you will need for the next year or two. Men's low shoes, $4.90, $5.90 and $6.90. 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