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CERTAIN words automatically pull the Urine tliat
brings up certain agreeable mental associations, and
np other words and no other ideas behind them will
work the same charm.
Especially is this true of names of various articles and
commodities, which not for mere years or periods of years,
but for long centuries, have been connected by well-deserved
fame with ancient marts of the world.
When it comes to even thinking of them (let alone own
ing them), nothing seems quite so 'precious as Persian rugs,
Chinese porcelain, Toledo steel, Russian sables, Indian
pearls or Venetian glass.
"Yes, 'tis beautiful," says Mrs. Average Person. "I've
always wanted some for the dining room, but it's only for
the rich."
Usually, perhaps. But this Venetian glass happens to
be offered at exactly half price in the September Sale of
Glass and China.
We count ourselves especially fortunate to be in
possession of a collection of exceptionally fine and valu
able pieces of Venetian ware, which, through a train of
unexpected circumstances, we are enabled to offer at
prices which, under existing conditions, are something
phenomenal.
And in good season to include them in this greatest
of our Great Sales of Glass and all table ware.
This isthe very time of the year when the exquisite
beauty' of Venetian glass, sparkling on the side
board or china closet or cabinet or mantelpiece, is most
welcome, because one is settling in the new home or
stirring up the old one after the Surrimer absence, and
one wants to set out one's best and finest.
Above all, it makes a lovely and uncommonplace
gift to a bride and one which time is likely to make
more and more rare and valuable
For just now they've many other things to think of
in northern Italy than blowing the wonder-bubbles that
make these charming bits of rainbow.
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People who appreciate beautiful things are buying
them eagerly at these 50 per cent reductions from usual
prices.
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Therefore, it will not do to delay your visit to the
Glass Sale on the Fourth Floor (Chestnut) if you wish to
acquire any of these treasures, for of some there are
only one or two of a kind.
Colors run the usual range: glowing amber, clear
glass, of milky or opalescent hue; pale, cool green; blue
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It's All Hands Out
for the Water Pitcher
the minute the average family sits down to the table.
There aren't many to agree with the candid lady who said of water that she
didn't see why so many folks raved over it to her it was
"Such simple tasting stuff just tasted wet!"
The special offerings of attractive water pitchers in the September Sale
include
A covered water pitcher of clear glass, tankard shape, rim and lid decorated
with encrusted gold, $6.50. '
Cut glass pitchers, $4 to $20. One in the Stately "Adam" period pattern, dis
playing the fretwork panels and the urn, is $9.
The $20 style is heavy cut, an exquisite example of the Lynhurst design, in a
design of large cut leaves and cut blossoms, all of which scintillate as though
covered with dew drops.
Light cut glass pitchers in floral designs, in various attractive shapes, start
at $2i25 and go up to $3.60.
Simple Colonial-style pitcher,-$2.25.
Globe shape, 2 quarts, with wide mouths adapted to receive great comforting
chunks of ice, commence ati $9.
A plain, clear glass tankard is 76c. Needle-etched, $1.20; tumblers to match,
$2 a dozen. "
(Fourth Floor, Cheatnut)
of the larkspur and blue of the aquamarine; rich red
and still richer mulberry, and white that suggests coun
try curds or cream.
All sparkling in the light, and wrought in graceful,
unusual shapes, with deft, exquisite, unexpected touches
of ornamentation, these hand-made glass pieces create
a beauty spot in our already beautiful China and Glass
Store. There is no single piece but will enhance the
charm of anjr living room or dining room, however
lovely it was before, and the prices bring it within most
people's reach.
Venetian glass is essentially a ware for the dining
room, and, like the youngest daughter in a fairy tale, is
as useful as it is beautiful.
If we were to select that single piece for you, it would
be well, let us see:
Maybe that superb round platter, 18 inches in diam
eter, of opalescent glass, with rim of clear glass. It is
partly covered with a unique design in latticed or dia
monded effect, studded with large, raised, oval-shaped
blue dots that look like turquoises.
As an ornament alone this piece of splendor would
pay for its keep at only $15; but it may be nut to work
for its living at watermelon time, or may be heaped with
sandwiches, small cakes or fruit, while as a "float" for
water lilies or other flat floral decorations it would be
loveliness "itself.
In that same fascinating turquoise-studded glass
come several large candy jars and a vase or two. One
jar $10) is of the opalescent glass, with clear glass for
the base and rim, while another, also costing $10, is of &
faintly tinted -green.
rpHE long daylight evenings that we have so enjoyed are visibly
shortening and soon it will be
'Here Comes a Light
to Light You to Bed"
The China and Glass Sale contains endless varieties of pretty candlesticks to
hold the bedroom candles, or any other candle, or to simply stand up somewhere
and look pretty. But we will mention
Just Two
One is ajtall, slender, "double-twist" candlestick, of mulberry-colored Vene
tian glass, which is as beautiful with the daylight shining on it as with the night
light shining on it. $10 a pair.
Another is an even taller, and quite imposing piece of Italian dull-glaze pot
tery, also in the "twist" foim, pale blue or canary yellow. An odd mediaeval touch
of decoration is imparted by the two grotesque heads, with long curling homs,
which adorn the base. Piicc $1.50 to $6 each, according to height
(Fourth Floor, Chfhlnut)
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The candy jar is decidedly the vogue now, you know,
and there are many different styles, at different prices,
to be found in the Glass and China Store, but none more
attractive than those in this Venetian collection. ,
One in milky glass, approaching iridescent effect,
is a thing of art. In shape it rises in a succession of
spiral swells', like the movement of sand waves in a wind
storm, to the top, which is crowned by a pear of yellow
glass, which forms the stopper. Only $6.
'Other examples of the moderateness of the prices
are vases $2 to $12, candlesticks ($10 pair), plaques and
sandwich ,trays ($4 to $20), finger-bowls, including
platjes, $12 a dozen.
The jam jars seem to attract most people (even
without the jam). They are cunning globular little jars,
containing just about enough jam to supply any family
that respects Hoover, and they may be had in both amber
and clear glass, with lids and stoppers ornamented
artistically with tiny, cunningly wrought glass pears or
clusters of other fruit in the natural colors.
Among the novelties to be found in this Venetian
collection are the large, gracefully shaped and decorated
glass jars which can be used either as aquariums, or, if
the fish insist on dying or the owner's fancy tires of
watching their vivid figures darting hither and yon, for
flower holders.
One of these aquarium vases is an exquisite Italian
fantasy. It is of the faintest milk-white tint, with globe
shaped body, and the lid, too, is a half globe, with the
glass wrought in an open fretwork pattern, to give the
fish air.
Its chiefest beauty, however, is given by the much
smaller inner container of clear glass, on the outside of
which are delicately fashioned figures, in relief, of glass
fish in charming pastel shades pink, blue, lavender.
$15.
Another very beautiful aquarium or flower bowl
is a large globe with pretty flare rim of glass, light cut in
a charming daisy cluster design. $15.
Yet another at $15 is of plain, clear glass, in a
graceful jar shape, with pretty glass handles at sides.
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Simpler designs in smaller sizes come at only $5
and $6.
Evidently aquariums need no longer depend for all
their attraction on the fish!
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How Many Families
Do You Know
to whom a sudden influx of flowers means a sudden outflux of the families' mem
bers in order to borrow vases from the neighbors ?
More than one, we'll warrant.
Yet in the September Sale of Glassware it's possiblo to buy
Very Pretty Light-Cut Vases Floral
Patterns, 20c to $2.50
The 20c size is good enough for anybody's table, desk or bureau, simple and
fine, if it does cost less than a plate of ice cream, and when you have it you need
never again profane a rose or a cluster of sweet peas by putting them in the tooth
brush holder. It is 6 inches high, with gener6us mouth and flat bottom.
Many households are well supplied with handsome vases, with tight necks
and funnel-shaped bases that are nothing less than flower murderers.
Watch the Florist ,
and you'll see that he places and displays his treasures in flower containers with
flat bottom, wide stem and flare lip that supports stem and head of the flower.
In the Venetian glass collection are a few ideally shaped containers, which
are lovely, whether filled or empty. Shaped like a large inverted morning-glory,
some come in blue, some in green, some white. Some are decorated with fine
spirals winding tendril-like about the broad stem. Ten inches high, with 10
inch flare, and 12 inches high with 10-inch flare, $8 each.
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