f5&W99HjBamit 1?$5 'ii 't;' 5 ...-."! T js? ;j,i ,. aWSF.TWr :1V i-JT-l t lV 1 . , . l. Hi j jtv. :1 ?1riJ A - WAISPAMAKER'S Store (Opens at 10 WANAMAKER' Stere Closes it 4M if-" WANAMAKEITS w riN ' i' .,,.- v -, " r 'w .-- it' an ic'" .-v .! - i- 'v jiva fc'm A 'V7Y T' bC A' WfcHttftttoa Chime at Boon ..u . 'it. s-f ?;' 7e C7rma Safe Is Very Strong in the Two Main Tht Today When You Unlock the Door of Your City Home 'to make ready to bring the family home and get the children outfitted for school, please be free to call upon ''us for any service you need and we will do our best to be prompt, quick, careful and useful to you. Wishing you a happy, new September. Signed September S, 1918. The New Sports Millinery Is , Unusually Attractive This Autumn ' And you will think so, too, when you see the hats. A new velvet hat in deep blue, tor instance, with a novel braiding of gold colored chenille and a great tassel of chenille hanging from the topof the crown. Or a furry beaver hat with velvet brim in two rich brown shades. Or one of the new felts, in an unusual color and a new shape. These are just a few there are moufflon hats and hats of velvet, hats of all-chenille and hats of the lus trous hatters' plush: Shapes and colors.are both becoming and the hats most comfortable for outing and sports wear. Prices begin at $12. (Second floor. Chestnut) ' New Fall Suits Are Ready for Women ! Passing Through Fresh wool velours and silvertone burella cloths in ex tremely good browns, navies and purplish mixed tones, and all very simple and very practical. For those who would like to know the details we mention that Coats are apt to be knee-length; some are loose and ' belted and some closely fitted in the body ; one model even has rippled sides. Yoke backs are frequent; so are pleats. Trimmings range from the severest buttons to fur col lars and cuffs or even broken fur borders. Prices are $37.50 to $67.50. (First Floor, Central) Women's War-Work Uniforms . Made to Order Orders will be taken in the Little Gray Salon, where the School and College Girls' Biireau also has its headquarters, on the First Floor, Central. Here Are the New Blue Serge ' Dresses for Girls With blue ,serge and the new fashions' for inspiration, the designer'ahave sent us Jresses for girls ol eight to tourteen years, simple, practical lone-piece dresses for school wear and still' better ones for lafternoon and better wear. Some of,' the dresses are embroidered, some are ins straight line effect, some have wide belts, some have b.75 to $23.75. i Foe junior girls, who wear 15 and rge dresses, some in plain colors, i and'others are braided. $18.50 ' 4 (Second Floor, f S , i ; Exquisite Baby Dresses Just two models but as dear as they can be ! Of soft ite material. One has an embroidered, and scalloped bo t- and there is beautiful work , Both long and short. " lmmK some of the most attractive side kilts and all are, attractive. i 17 year sizes, there are other new others in plaids; some are embrold- to $32.60. k Chestnut) on the yokes of both. ' Sterling Silver Is a Gift de Luxe With autumn comes a gay galaxy of, brides and has not silver ever been the wedding gift? It's a very short time until Christmas, too. Tea sets 5 pieces $235 to $1200. Coffee sets 3 picccs-80 to ?ID Water pitchers $52 to $190. Salad bowls $58 to $110. (Main floor, With Hundreds of New Waists All Specially Priced to Choose From the woman who needs a new supply of shirtwaists will find something to please her purse and her taste in this collec tion At $1.50 Novelty voile waists, with colored stripes and collars of white pique or madras; some in slip-over style. At $3.85 and $5 Crepe de chine and Georgette waists in white br flesh color; tailored and fancy styles. (Est nml Writ Allien) Women's Silk and Chamois Lisle Gloves Easy to Clean There are still several months during which one can wear these light-weight gloves. Almost everybody knows them already; women who don't, need only try them to dis cover their merits. In silk, 2 clasp, double finger tipped, in black and white. $1 and.$1.25. In chamois finished lisle, white, 2 clasp. .85c. In black, white, natural, mode, gray and brown. $1. Natural color, strap wrist. $1.25. Natural color, 12-button length. $1.50. (Mnln Floor, Central) Women's New Umbrellas of Unusual Attractiveness A man who bought three of these at a clip said : "I hear there's going to be a tax on all these things that will make them pretty expensive, so I will take mine now; they will make stunning Christmas presents!" The silk is very fine and durable. The colors seem to be endless in variety. The handles are all .novel and new, mostly of bakelite and silver, beautiful imitations of jade and ivory. Prices $5 to $12. (Main Fhior, Market) Lovely, tyew Silks in Autumn Stripes and Plaids occupy a whole counter in the Silk Salon. There are many designs and a great many colors and the color combinations are most attractive. Not only that, but-the silks are of unusual quality, the weave firm and .all silk, and the finish lustrous. One yard wide $2 yard and useful for separate skirts, blouses and children's dresses. (Flrat Floor, Chestnut) New Unbaling of Oriental Rugs More new 'Beluchistans, more new Kermanshahs. The Beluchistans just came in time to replenish the spe cial lot shown in the recent Oriental rug sale. They are pieces of much interest and charm in their deep, rich, red shades, some with backgrounds of old tan characteristic of the best old-time weaves. Sizes 3x5 to 3x6.6 ft. at'$35 to $50. New Kermanshahs are in size 3x5 ft. and have the delicate charm characteristic of their tribe. In dainty pink, blue and ecru colorings, with life-trie, palm and other Persian emblems. Prices $37.50 to $55. (Rerenth Floor, Cheitnnt) Fashion Never Tires of Blue Serges Here Are New Ones There is every good weave and every fashionable weave, for we have a remarkable collection of this eyer-fashionable fabric all wool. There are many shades of blue, and there are the right weights for suits, dresses, coats and chil dren's garments in the assort ment. Prices start at $2 and go on up to $5 yard. (Flrnt Floor, Cheitnnt) J Ware That Wears The consignment of gray enamel-ware cooking uten sils offered in, this Sale is' here because we believe at to represent the maximum ' of wear at the minimum of price. r It represents also the maximum of purity in the quality of the enamel. Your food could come' in contact with nothing cleaner, smoother, saferl ' Thousands' of pots, ket ;tles, pans and other utensils, :all' priced-' reasonably. Ex amples are a 6-quart tea kettle, $1.15; a four-quart saucepan, with, cover, 60c. A 3-quart double boiler is $1.35: Bread trays $16.50 to $105. Vegetable dishes $100 "to $220. Meat platters $105 to $440. , Candlesticks $22 to $125 a pair. Sandwich trays $25to $90. Cheetnut) Some of the Daintiest Gold Mesh Bags arc in the much-liked green gold (gold, plated) and in most attrac tive shapes. The meshes are very fine and the bags are square, oblong and otherwise shaped, with frames which are sometimes inset with imitation colored stones and sometimes hand-painted designs. Mesh bags, $17.60 to $43. Purses, $6 to $12.75. (Jewelry store, Chestnnt and ISth) Housewares Sale Suggestions For Busy Home Dresssmakers "Make-overs" in clothes, like other economies, are fashionable this year. Dress Forms, $10 are a special feature of the home-furnishing sale. These forms are of a famous make, and usually sell for a much higher price. They come in 12 sections, each section adjustable, and in two sizes. Size No. 1 is adaptable to 32 to 43 bust measure, size No. 2 to 35 to 48 bust measure. Surely a boon in a family where there are several women. The Wanamaker Standard Rotary Sewing Machine also is priced especially for the sale. This machine, you know, makes both lock and chain stitch, and has the central needle, with treadle at left, which eliminates the tiresome sidewise. twist, of the spine. Oak cases and four drawers. Complete with all attachments, in two styles; automatic lift, $40; hand lift, $37,50. Easy arrangements may be made for purchase, More than two hundred different styles of dinner services French, English, Japanese and American are in the sale at reduced prices. Approximately 3000 pieces of fine cut glass are offered at 25 to 50 per cent less than the regular rates. There has never been a larger choice either of dinner sets or of cut glass at such large savings in any sale. French dinner sets begin at $25 and go up to $175. The savings are $15 to $40. English dinner sets at $28 to $40 offer savings of $10 to $15. English djnner sets of a finer kind, in delightf ully quaint shapes, some reproductions of old museum sets, are $50 to $75, the savings being $10 to $25. American dinner sets are in wonderfully large choice at $13.50 to $40, a saving of $5 to $10 a set. Japanese dinner sets are an interesting feature of the sale at $20 to $50, which means $7.50 to $25 less than regular. Several patterns of standard English dinnerware are being closed out at half price both sets and separate pieces. Twenty patterns of the French sets and seventeen of the English are "open stock," which means that they are readily matchable at any time. There is a good choice of cut glass at half price, but the number of pieces of a . kind is limited. The choice at 25 to 33 1-3 per cent less than regular is practically unlimited, and anybody .likely to need cut glass 2000 Yards of Linen Tea Toweling 22c, 28c and 30c a Yard Of heavy Scotch pure linen, mostly with colored borders. Some all white. So far as we know there is no all-linen crash tow eling as low priced as 22c a yard in the market to day. These goods are part of a purchase made one year ago, consequent ly the prices are much less than they would be if we had to buy them now. All are 17 inches wide. (Flrnt Floor, Cheitnut) i The Sale of Lamp Shades and Lamps Goes Merrily On with hundreds of fine silk shades at half price $4 to $28. Sizes are 12 to 26 inches, and the styles run all the way from dainty French-looking shades to large ones of Oriental rich ness. Kopeck cloth shades at $25 each are for floor lamps and very splendid in appearance. Also here are lacquered lamps at half $13.50; and little wooden candlesticks complete with paper shades, can dles and holder for 50c. (Fourth Floor, Central) New Books Serious and Otherwise "National Self Government" by Ramsay Muir, Professor of Mod ern History, University of Man chester. A book of deep interest for thoughtful people. $2.75. "Lovers of Louisiana" by George W. Cable. A romance with two old New Orleans fami lies for a background. $1.50. "The War Eagle" by W. it J,. Dawson. A record of the first year of the war, but also a dra matic story. $1.50. "The Money Maker" by Irving R. Allen is the romance of a ruth less man. $1.60. (Main Floor, Dinner Sets and Cut Glass (Fourth Floor, NOTES "Perils of a Private," humor ous sketches of camp life is by Ted Stanley, and has many a laugh between its covers. Find it in the Book Store. (Mnln Floor, Thirteenth) Women returning from their Summer vacations and wishing special care for hair, hands and complexion should save a little time for the Salon de Beautc. (Third Floor, Chmtnut) One of the Chestnut Street windows has in it a very military-looking blouse of gray squir rel with a drum muff; a set of mole and natural squirrel mount ed on royal blue chiffon; and a set of Hudson seal with turban to match. (Cheatnnt Street) The classes in lamp-shade mak ing are filling up again in the Art Needlework Store. (Second Floor, Central) "The Banker at the 'Boarding House" by Montgomery Rollins. $1.50. "On Furlough" by Florence Olmstead. A war story with its love affair in the South. $1.50. "Strayed Revellers" by Allan Updegraff. A Greenwich villager, some members of an artist com munity, a young aviator and oth ers make up the characters. $1.50. "You're Only Young ,Once" by Margaret Widdemer. A book that comes like a sunny day in the gray of war time. $1.50. Thirteenth) Kitchen Cabinets White Enamel Lined and with light pak exteriors "Finished like a piece of furniture," said some one, admiringly. Well, goodness gracious, AREN'T they pieces of fur niture among the most im portant pieces in the house? It's the INTERIOR that makes them important. Equipped with every space conserving, time - saving, labor-reducing device that has been invented, the serv ice they render is almost human. Special sale prices, $47.50 to $54.50. for a long time to come would do well tcbuy it production is diminishing and prices likely to go 1 Every piece imaginable is in this sale, fr dish at 65c to a punch bowl at $50. Cheitnut) The Advance Guard of the Men's Suits Is Here The Fall season is reflected in theircplor ana Drowns, aarit greens ana Dronzy snaaes. & j.ney me t xuu ui siym as any yuuiig.a desire, but the element of style is not overdone! Sports coats are in evidence, but all of beltless. In general, styles follow the lines of$i son, with something of a note of moderation. -i tical or half-moon pocket is seen in many coats,' the plain and sports variety. The fahnca nrp snfr.. nttrnotivo rhovint'l wun care ana tnorougnness. Prices $30 to $38. 11 (Third Floor, Market) Men's Linen Handkerchiefs Really satisfactory and most men are pretty fussy about their handkerchiefs, you know. These are all nice and big, of Irish linen with the attractive tape bor der, in three different pat terns. Price 65c each. (Main Floor, Central) Very Unusual Clothes for Little Folk The minute you see these at tractive little things you will realize that here is something "difFerent," but at the same old prices! They have been made especially for us according to our own ideas. There are two models in cotton crepe for little girls, in lovely shades of yellow, rose, green and blue. One that is smocked has a wide sash of white lawn and the other has a fichu of the lawn with a dainty bit of hand-embroidery on the front. At $5 and $5.50. The little suits for boys are of pique, chambray and cotton crepe there are Russian blouses and French smocks and Copperfield models. $6 to $7.50. And there are creepers for those from 1 to 2 years of white cotton crepe with collars and cuffs in colors. At $3.50 and ; $4.50. (Third Floor, Chmtnut) Cold Facts The White Mountain and the Puritan are two of the best refrigerators that we know of. These two splendid refrig erators are in the Sale at special September prices, considerably below those" for which they sell at ordinary seasons. The Wanamaker Special White Mountain Refrigera tor, made exclusively for the customers of this Store, is & three-door refrigerator, 35 inches wide, 22 inches deep, and 50 inches high, with 125 lbs. ice capacity. White lined throughout. September price, $25. Other style's White- Moun-' tain refrigerators up td$46. r. Puritan refrigerators, $17 ' to $33. " -7-'.r, "pnH tL. A ' It' ICAM - -, ., atii . m iney area ingrain tl and may black, whit w Velvet M( The An be incomi bag, and are the The ml f on velvel The fr signed ma The linil The coll brown, taul The price! xne end ol silk tassel. (Main -X W'l -?4 . i'w hs&i ...,i SV&l a; rJ ;r i j i (Fourth Floor, Market) W?.1 -y -fti .t Vi -v- f, $ymwm ' Hm :3 2 Tvi .V . 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