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Great Organ Plays at
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Peterborough Chlm at Noon
WANAMAKER'S
Store Opens at 10
WANAMAKER'S
Store Closes at 4.30
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' "He Is a Kind of a Sage Bush
of a Man"
came out in the conversation about a man, and in ex
planation of what he meant, the speaker said that no
body could tell what such a man was made for.
Whoever has traveled to California through the
desolate, gritty, sanded sage bush regions will under
stand the descriptions of the sage bush, so often appear
ing in Zane Grey's books, "Rainbow Trail," "Heritage
of the Desert" and "Riders of the Purple Sage."
Applied to a man the opposite of Joseph H. Choate,
Morris K. Jessup, Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart, a
"sage bush" man is a man that does not fit in anywhere;
a man that there's nothing to be got out of because
there is nothing in him. He never learned anything and
does not want to be bothered to learn anything. He lies
around as perfectly satisfied with himself as an un
flowering cactus, giving no value for the room he
occupies.
The pity of it is it is the outcome of laziness, first
and last, self-neglect and indifference, to be an unwanted
man, and nobody to blame but himself.
Would anybody choose a rotten rope to go down
a well?
Signed
August SI, 1918.
Practical Autumn Dresses
For Afternoon, $15 to $25
When you say practical you have as good as said that their colors are navy
'blue, black and taupe for there realty isn't anything else that can be worn day
In and day out with so much satisfaction. Also these dresses are given to dark
instead of the white and flesh-colored fronts we have seen so long.
There are three hundred of them brand new and made of crepe de chine,
soft satin and taffeta, alone or combined with Georgette ciepe. Also a few of the
scarce and much-wanted serge.
Lots of styles.
(Flrt Floor, Central)
:; Every Summer Tub
Frock for Young
;Vomen Is Reduced
. Now $6.50 to $12.75
This includes every wash dress
now on the racks and in our
stocks. J .
v There are cool voiles and clear,
pretty chambrays, as well as nov
elty cottons and plaid ginghams.
And in addition to plenty of col
ors there are also some white
dresses.
Plenty of good styles and
dresses useful for morning and
afternoon wear.
And their present prices are
usually a half and sometimes a
third of the first markings.
14 to 20 year sizes.
(Second Floor, Chestnut)
White Corduroy Coats
and ,Hats for the
Littlest Ones
The main attraction of these
garments is the fact that they
wash so beautifully!
The coats are unlined, but can
' easily be worn over an underlin
v ing when cooler days come. $3.75
and $7.50.
The hats are in all the- new
shapes among them some mush
room and Scotch models. They
are trimmed with rosettes and
bands of white gros-grain ribbon.
Some made with an eye for
colder days have ear bobs. $2.25
and $2.75.
(Third Floor, Chestnut) .
Some New Autumn
Gloves Are Here!
We are interested in your ap
pearance ! So we offer these very
smart gloves to complete the
charm of your costume.
They are chamois-finished lisle
thread; two clasp; in gray, drab,
tan, mode and brown, witl self
stitching; or in gray and mode
with heavy black embroidery.
Price $1 a pair.
(Main Floor, Central)
, , There Is Satisfaction in the L. R.
I Corset Which Laces in the Front
? Women realize more and more every day that it is impossible to
' have a Rood figure without a good corset and impossible to .have a be-
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These are a few of the models which we offer as an aid to comlort
It, and beauty.
A 'topless model of flesh-colored ba .
thte, ventilated back, elastic band
around the top. $3.
A topless model of pink-striped ma-
la1 fnr sletirier firnrns. elastic insert
1' at waist, three hooks below clasp, elas-
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bust, elastic Insert and heavy hip bon
rt'Another of coutil, heavily boned and
with medium bust The hips have
clastic gores, and there are three pairs
af.kose supporters. $6.50.
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All-Silk Black Taffetas
Extra Good at $1.50
a Yard
Bought at the old low price and
selling at a very favorable one
that should appeal to the many
women desiring a good, popular
fabric.
The width 35 inches.
(First l'lonr. Chestnut)
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The New Sports Millinery
Is Most Interesting
No matter how many hats she
possesses, the average woman finds
it practically impossible to get along
without one or more sports hats.
For tramping in the country, for
motoring, for golf, for wear with
the simple costumes that she uses
for war work, for business, for shop
ping, the sports hat is always suit
able. '
The new sports hats are of soft
velours in dark tones, of velour and
velvet.
In shape they are inclined to be
small but there are many in the
comfortable and becoming medium
size.
A new velour in helmet shape has
a stitched velvet brim and is in an
effective two-color combination.
And there is a new diamond
shaped crown which marks another
velour and velvet combination.
There are new small velours with
gros-grain ribbon bands in new
styles.
Wool crowns with velvet brims
are still another combination these
in attractive colors.
"Poke" backs, stitched brims, rib
bon trimmings these are other fea
tures you will notice.
$7.50 to $15.
(Second Floor,
The New Dark Tan
Russia Pumps
which women are going to wear
with the fashionable frocks of
navy-colored soft satins may be
seen in the Exclusive Little Boot
Shop. With high French heels,
price $11 a pair.
Bronze buckles to put on them,
$3.50 up.
(Flrit Floor. Market)
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A model with low bust, broad elastic
insert in back and elastic gore in front
Material is coutil. $5.50.
Pink broche, with medium bust, long
over hips and abdomen and heavily
boned. $C.
A model of pink batiste, topless, with
elastic insert and elastic gore in back.
$6.
A fine pink broche model, low bust,
elastic hip gores. $8.50,
A beautiful pink broche, with low
top and silk lacers. $10.75.
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ON THE AISLE
400 Traveling Bags for Men and Women
at $2.75 Each
Of black, long-grain imitation leather.
Sizes 18 and 16 inch.
Handles made of leather.
(West Aisle, Main Floor)
There Is Still Opportunity for You
in the Piano Sale
If you want a new uptight piano
If you want a new grand piano
If you want a new player-piano ' -
Or
If you want a good, used piano
You can get it at a really amazingly low price now during the Wanamaker
August Sale of Pianos.
You can get a better piano than you can get elsewhere in Philadelphia.
You can get more for your money than you can get elsewhere in Philadelphia.
You can get a piano with a famous name at as low a price as you would pay
for a doubtful instrument elsewhere.
If you have a piano that doesn't fulfill your need, we will take it in part pay
ment and you can pay the rest In convenient installments.
It takes only a small sum at the time of purchase to cause your piano to be
sent home at once.
(Errptlon Hall, Second Floor, Market)
New War Books
And Others
"The Principles of War," by General
Foch, is for people who desire to under
stand the theories by which the present
war is governed. $2.50.
"Back From Belgium," by Father
deVille, Cardinal Mercier's personal
delegate to America. $1.50.
"The Emma Gees," by Capt. Herbert
W. McBride, a Hoosier machine gunner
in Flanders and France. $1.50.
"The Little Girl Who Couldn't-Get-Over-It,"
by Alfred Scott Barry, is a
bit of romance. $1.50.
"The Three
Stanley Riggs.
Armies,"
$1.50.
by Arthur
"A. Itoynl Prisoner," by Pierre Sou
vestre and Marcel Allain, is a new
Fantomas detective tale. $1.40.
"Beaumarchais and the War of
American Independence," by Elizabeth
S. Kite, 2 vols. $5.
(Main Floor, Central)
Cheitnut)
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Of High-Grade Rugs at Special Prices
The Choice Is Just Fine
For anybody needing a rug of known and acknowledged quality this is an
opportunity to buy it at a saving that is legitimate and above board.
The selection is varied and should appeal to homekeepers with Autumn floor
covering problems to attend to.
Let them bear in mind that buying now means a real saving.
Beautiful Hartford Saxony rugs special
9x12 ft., $87.50.
8.3x10.6 ft., $82.50.
This is the newest group of rugs on
the floor and one of the finest groups
to be found anywhere. The prices are
remarkable, too, for goods of such su
perior quality. ,
Besides these we present three other
attractive lots at special prices.
(Herenth Floor,
A Few More of the Wanamaker
Famous Wardrobe Trunks
at Reduced Prices
Steamer Size, $25; Travel Size, $32.50
$25 each for steamer-size wardrobe trunks, holding 10 gowns or 5
suits. Bureau section has a large drawer suitable foremen's or women's
use, and 2 lower 'drawers. '
$32.50 each for wardrobe trunks, holding 18gowns or 10 suits. Bureau
section has 6 drawers. ,
(Fourth Floor, Central)
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Notes of the Day
It was too hot en to think about a hair
cut last week, If one may Judge by the way
mothers are rushing their babies Into the
Little Halr-cuttliiB Salon now that It's
cool. (Thlul rionr. Chestnut)
Nurwry hcreens and chests for the Wee
One's clothes arc coered with cretonne
which has quaint little bonneted ladles and
chickens and rabbits scattered all over It.
Third Floor, Chestnut)
"Snbrlna fair" when she has finished
"sitting under the glassy, cool, translucent
ae" finds that her locks are In serious
need of a shampoo to take the salt out.
If she Is wise she has a scalp treatment or
m after the shampoo In the Salon de
Be.iute (Third rioor. Chestnut)
Women lucky enough to possebs fine sable
furs nre h.ulng them made Into the newest
tpu of two-skin boa. Now that the fur
fashions are settled we can attend to any
number of repairs and alterations. (Third
Floor, Central)
A woman passing one of our Chestnut
Street windows suw the charming little
mules of painted leather which we are
getting from Japan, and Instantly tele
phoned for a pair The price Is $14. In
the Exclusive I.lttle Boot Shop. (First
Flout, Market)
A new sweater model Is of artificial
knitting silk with leather belt and a vest
of faille silk. Made to order the price Is
$30. (First Flair, Market)
Those Hand
Embroidered Kimonos
From Japan
We simply can't get enough of
them the colors of the cotton
crepe are so good and the hand
embroidered flowers and birds so
delightful in a simple fashion.
Prices $2.85, $3.85 and $4.50.
Other crepe kimonos with tiny
flower patterns are in rose, navy
and pink and boast thin silk lin
ings. $8.50.
(Third Floor, Central)
Specially Priced Toilet
Articles
Fortunate indeed is the person
who "happens in" on this sale!
The prices are remarkably low,
the variety good and the values
received a miracle for these times.
Hair brushes, 35c to $1.75.
Peroxide soap, lie; $1.25 a dozen.
Romanza soap, 10c; $1 a dozen.
Castile soap, 10c.
Liquid soap, 50c.
Utility cases, 75c.
Wash cloth and case, 10c.
Tooth brushes, 15c and 25c.
Nail brushes, 18c and 25c.
Mirrors with wooden frames, 15c.
Compressed rouge, 20c.
Chalk and orris, 25c.
Peroxide, 18c and 32c.
(West Aisle)
High-Grade Wilton Rugs,
9x12 ft.,
$68.50 and $78.50.
Standard Wilton Rugs, 9x12 ft,
$47.50.
8.3x10.6 ft, $45.60.
Axminster Rugs, 9x12 ft, $34.50 and
$37.50.
8.3x10.6 ft, $32.50.
Cheatnut)
the Furniture You Want
In the Sale That Brings Most of It
But the Days Are Passing and You Had
Better Choose at Once
A glance at the top of this newspaper page will tell anybody what date of the month this is.
Everybody can tell how many days of August there are left also how many days there
are left of the August Furniture Sale.
Now, as surely as the time for buying good furniture in this sale at reduced prices is run
ning short, so surely are supplies of good furniture in the market running short also, because
all things rightly give way before the needs of the Government, and many shops are now doing
Government work.
You can understand what a curtailment of out
put nearly always means. Invariably it means a
further advance in prices.
Apart altogether from any further curtailment
of output, productive costs are rising and rising.
This, then, is a time when a store must be very
frank and make things as clear as possible. We
tell you frankly that if you tire likely to need any
article of furniture for many months to come, you
would be wise in buying it now in this sale which
still holds a stock of furniture equal to any three or
even four ordinarily large stocks put together.
You will be wise in buying now, because once
this sale is over there is no telling when you will
again have such a vast assortment to select from
at the same good reductions. These are facts which
there is no denying. They are true not because we
have such a splendid lot of furniture to sell at less
"Redleaf" Hosiery and
Underwear
A Little Shipment
Please remember that word
"little" Redleaf hosiery is pre
cious these days!
Children's merino stockings in
white, starting at $1 for the small
sizes and going to $1.20 for the
larger.
Boys' and girls' woolen golf
hose, sizes IV-i to 9ij, $3.50 a
pair.
(First rioor, Markrt)
Men's India gauze cotton shirts
and dra'wers are $1.75 for the
shirts and $2 for the drawers,
with an additional charge of 25c
for shirts above size 46 and
drawers above 44.
(Main Floor, Market)
500 Cotton Waists
Special at $1.50
Samples and little surplus lots
of organdie, batiste and voile;
all fresh and new, and worth a
good deal more than tomorrow's
price.
(West Alule)
Good Caramels Made
Fresh Every Day
60c Pound
We have to make them that
often to keep up with the demand !
There are many kinds and dif
ferent flavors; some with nuts
and nougat centers, and there are
cream-covered caramels, too.
The 80c chocolates are delicious
have you tried the big chbc
olatina balls or the molasses yel
low jack, with nut centers and
chocolate covering? These are
just two of the many good vari
eties. (Down Stain Store, Chestnut)
Again and Again Wb Say Buy Shoes Now
While the Summer Sale Is On
We will sell better shoes for lower prices right straight along than can be found else
where. We do not know when we can ever sell such good shoes again at so low prices"as they
are in this Summer sale.
Thousands of pair of shoes for women, men and
boys at reductions of at least $2 a pair. This includes
both high and low shoes.
Also shoes for girls and little children at substantial
reductions. . . , .
Buy your whole Winter and next Spring s supply now
if vou would be safe from higher prices.
(Fifth, Sixth and HeTenth Floor)
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The Newspaper Report That Says
That There Will Be "No Wool
for Civilians" This Year
may be too pessimistic. We hope that over and above the full quantity of
supplies needed by the Army, the Navy and the Red Cross there will still
be wool enough to make the necessary clothing for civilians.
So far, our Men's Clothing Store has not found it necessary to recede
from its all-wool standard. Wo still have sufficient supplies to meet all
present demands of men's clothing, all wool and hand tailored.
Now is an excellent time to buy a blue or a black serge suit of good,
genuine, sound, solid all wool for wear until late this Fall and throughout
next Spring.
Pi ices on seige suits $21 to $35.
(Third Floor, Market)
Men's First Fall
Neckties
A small selection that has just
come in to the Men's Furnishing
Store. Fine silks in autumnal
tones, thin neckbands with wide
flowing ends. They are exceed
ingly handsome ties, and prices
are $1.50, $2 and $2.50.
(Main Floor, Market)
Once This Mattress Sale
Comes to an End
the mattresses that can now be bought in it at reduced prices will be marked at
an advance over the old low prices that prevailed before the sale commenced.
Everything that goes to make a good mattress is going up in cost, and there is
no telling how much highor it may go.
Just Now It Is the Height of Wisdom
to choose your mattresses while you may at the lowest prices for which you are
likely to find them offered in a long time. The same applies to feather pillows and
bolsters, and also to various good makes of bed springs, all of which are in this
August Sale at good reductions from the old low prices of some months ago. Ten
grades of felted cotton and felted linter mattresses are now marked $12 to $30
for single-bed size (36x76 inches) and $16.50 to $36 for the double-bed size (54x76
inches). ,
Eleven grades of hair mattresses all of which we make to order are now
offered at $13.75 to $29.35 for the single-bed size (36x76) and $22 to $48.50 for
the double-bed size (54x76 inches).
All Wanamaker bedding is warranted clean and hygienic.
(Sixth Floor, Cheatnut)
uiris- ana
(Uen'i Hhoei, Main rioor, juarKeii
(Women", and Children'. Hboea, Flr.t Floor,
than its true value. They would hold true if we
were out of the furniture business tomorrow. They
are not printed here because we have our selling
record to break and we want to exchange as much
of our furniture for your money within the next
few days as possible.
After all that is not business. We have taken
care of our records. The furniture business we
have done already has been phenomenal. But our
uppermost thought at this moment is not volume
of selling we know so well how that takes care of
itself. We just want to ring out this reminder far
and wide that this sale has one limitation, a limit in
time, that the time is passing, and that all who
want to secure some of the finest furniture in the
country at August reductions must wake up at once
and take advantage of the good things which are
here in the finest abundance.
Young Women's White
Skirts All Now $2
and $3.50 Each
White wash skirts in severaV
good styles and of various good
cotton fabrics.
Yes, they were higher priced I
34 to 38 inch lengths.
(Second Floor, Clieatnnt)
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Men's low shoes, $4.90, $5.90 and $6.90.
Men's high shoes, $4.65 and $5.90.
Women's low shoes, $2.90, $3.90, $4.90 and $5.90.
Women's high shoes, $2.60, $2.90, $4.40 and $8.75. f
cnuaren s mgn ana low onoes, ?z. j-
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