f J- '.11. 'i i EVENING PUBLiU LEDUEK J'HILADKLl'HIA, THURSDAY, REBKUAKY (i, 15)10 ,u. Grand Organ, 9, 11 and 4:50 Chlmra at Hlroke ef ,Noon WANAMAKER'S Store Opens 9 A. M. WANAMAKER'S Store Closes 5 P. M. WANAMAKER'S WEATHER Fair Jfo ia. Tomorrow a Great Winter Sale of Men's Suits KL . "SI 'j Vj ( l 15 J K M- Il ls V y 0 "I'll Put a Girdle Around the Earth in Forty Minutes" said Samuel F. B. Morse, a son of a preacher, who certainly did come to something. After he had graduated from Yale College he went to London and became a pupil of Benjamin West, the painter. In 1824 he painted a full-length portrait of Marquis Lafayette. Through his efforts the Congress of the United States in 1843 appropriated $30,000 to construct the first experimental telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore. It was successful, and in 1844 announced from the Baltimore Democratic Convention the nomina tion of James K. Polk for President. In 1843 he suggested, in a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, the project of a telegraphic communication between America and Europe, and he lived to see his invention spread over nearly all of the civilized world. Verily, some of the dreamers have been the world's best benefactors. Sig, Feb. 6, 1919. hmaK Here Are the Fresh: Novelty Suits for Women HUNDREDS of them! The perfectly straight jacket which Paris has been talking about is particu larly in evidence among them. One navy suit of P&iret twill has button holes bound with tan and the front edges of thrf" coat set closely with brass ball buttons. A tan waibtcoat is held in closely. The straight box coat is seen again in another dark blue suit. Buttons outline the front edges of this, too, and borders of braid set on in a lattice work design appear on both skirt and jacket. The charming straight coat io on a tan cloth with braid binding. This has a gathered waistcoat of horizontally striped silk in tan and brown; and btill another such jacket has its entife back and front enriched with lattice work. Other coats show the novel - hip treatment characteristic of this Spring; another still has n long back, and its embroid ered front turns back like a postilion's jacket. Pricesi of these individual suit3 run fiom $50 to $140. (Klrt l'loor, Ontral) The furs which women buy nowadays are almost always neckpieces to wear after leaving off their fur coats and with their new Spring suits in March. We have plenty of "the most desired brown and taupe fox scarfs in the Fur Salon, all specially priced at $30 lo $60. (Srrond l'loor, Clitslimt) Trimmings to Make Special Sale of Embroidered Organdie Robes $9.75, $11.75 and $13.75 each arc the prices and thero is a saving of several dollars on practically every one. The robes arc of sheer organdie, daintily embroidered in white or colors. They are all new and immaculate, and will make chaiming summer frocks. Theie is all-white, white embroidered with colors, and solid-colored organdies cm-1 broidercd with white. They arc made with thiee flounces, and there is sufficient material for the skirt, edging for trimming and plain ma terial for the waist. (Went AIMr) New Guimpes for Spring All Hand Embroidered Some are of sheerest white organdie and others are of white or creamy net. Quite a few have the "modesty front" that is so pretty; others have new shape collars. , Hand hemstitching as well as hand embroidery isy used homc times, and occasionally there is leal filet lace by way of addi tional charm. They are $3 to $11 each. (Main Floor, Cenlrul) f . To Veil the Hats of Fashion there are smart new veilings of chenille dotted hexagon or hair line meshes, or -pretty scroll and dotted effects. They are new and becoming and in taupe, blue pr brown, in ' mAMiaa'ria Mark. , $&. Evening Gowns More Lovely They aie French, all of them, and new. And they are beaded and spangled in most fascinating ways. There are many band tiim mings net bands with pearl and crystal and iridescent beads and wnmiflcs in artistic desiens. And there are festoon effects and, chain effects for the new draper ies. Many are all white, some have opalescent gleams, others aie in rose shades or pastel culots. (Main Floor, Central) French Blouses The French Room is showing a few of the plainer hand-made kinds white blouses of sheer batiste or linen, with hemstitch ing or fagoting or tiny pleatiugs. Prices are $16.50 upward. (Third Floor, Chmtnot) A Waist That Is a Marvel of embroidery was cut here by American measurements, but the lovely sprays of handvork on collar and cuffs and front, not to mention the fine, firm scallops, weie done in the Philippines. The price seems very small for bo much prettiness. $10.G0. Also new is a very finely tucked, batiste with a flat round collar, edged with imitation filet. $7.75. .The third is a hemstitched and tucked white voile at $3. (Third Floor, Central) Women's Silk Stockings "Seconds," at $1.25 1296 pair of black, white and colored, full-fashioned thread sillc stockings, all very de sirable. If these , were first-grade goods they would cost you 50c .tolljmore.apalr.' , -' Some Fine NewGopds Join the Already Large Assortment in the Silk Sale . TT ISIiot the prices alpne which are the remark able thing about this Silk Sale, but the quality of the silks themselves for these are beautiful weaves, of most desired fashions, and in just the right colors. And when it is possible to get all these, and -at surprisingly small prices in the bargain, you will understand why wom en have been buying as freely as they have. Just arrived arc new col ored and black batins, ot unusual quality, .'50 inches wide, and $2 a yard. This is a dollar a ya,rd less than we ourselves have sold such satins for. Foulards (and they arc one of the most fashion able Spring silks) are $1.65 a yard for French and American weaves. Crepes do chine are $1.55 a yard. Crepe meteor, $2 a yard. Colored .. crepes Geor gette, $1.65 and $2 a yard. And there are many more silks, in fashionable colors and designs and weaves at the same inter esting prices. (Meat Al.lr and I'lr.t Floor, chrotnut) 1'525 Fine Suits Worth $67,100 Just Reduced to $45,775 This is the great reduction sale of Wanamaker fine Winter suits for men, and it includes all the fancy mixed suits and blue suits. THEY ARE THE FINEST THINGS OF THE SEASON THEY ARE THE FINEST 'IN THE CITY Right straight along while clothing store after clothing store beat the drum and rang the bell about sale and sale and sale, we went right along selling bur fine Winter suits at regular bedrock prices, and sensible men kept coming right along to buy them. Our fine suits, when all was said and done, were better value at their regular prices than were offered elsewhere at any sort of sale or reduction price. We Said That This Firiitare Sale WooU Be Something of a RevehtioD pd the People Ire Finding It Just S Shortly before this Furniture Sale began we said it would be something of a revela tion in the beauty and the diversity and the scope and helpfulness of it. In the meantime, the people have been able to form their own opinion and the result, so far, is that the sale has also proven a revelation in the volume of business. There Has Never Been Anything to Equal It We have an unprecedented stock; such a stock as has never hitherto been seen in Philadelphia; a stock with which no other stock in this vicinity even begins to compare.in size, in variety, .in beauty; a stock in which provision has been made for the requirements of every homeNvorthy of the name; a stock in which it is next to impossible for any homekeeper looking for good furniture not to find it. Some of the Fine Dining Room Suits , $191.'J5 for a 10-piece dining room suit, fumed birch, William and Mary design, chuirs uphol stered in tapestry. $204 for n 10-piece dining room suit, mahogany, Georgian design, chairs upholstered in blue lpather. Ij.303 for a 10-piece (lining room suit, brown oak, William and Mary design, chairs uphol stered in tapestry. $327 for a 10-piece dining room suit, figured walnut, Queen Anne design, chairs up holstered in hair cloth. $435 for a 10-piece dining room suit, figured walnut, Geor gian design, chairs upholstered in blue leather. .4(50 for a 10-piece dining loom suit, figuted mahogany, French Chippendale design, chairs upholsteicd in blue hair clolh. $549 for a 10-piece dining room suit, figuied walnut, Sher aton design, chairs with uphol stered scats and backs. $503 for a 10-piece dining room suit, figured mahogany, Louis XIV design, chairs up holstered in brown leather. $607 for it 10-piece dining room suit, figured mahogany and inlaid, Sheraton design, chairs upholstered in blue hair cloth. $670 for a 10-piece dining room suit, mahogany, Queen Anne design, chairs upholstered in blue hair cloth. $750 for a 10-piece dining room suit, figured mahogany, Georgian design, chairs uphol stered in blue hair cloth. '$840 for a 10-piece dining room suit, figured mahogany, Heppelwhite design, chairs up holstered in steel blue hair cloth. $1010 for a 10-piece dining room suit, figured walnut, Louis XV design, chairs upholstered in led morocco leather. $1025 for a 10-piece dining room suit, inlaid mahogany, Sheraton design, chairs uphol htered in blue hair cloth. $1240 for a 10-piece dining room suit, walnut, French Chip pendale design, chairs uphol stered in tapestry. $1495 for a 10-picce dining room suit, figured and inlaid mahogany, William and Mary design, chairs upholstered in tapestry. (Sixth Jloor) r- Vii i -J 1 Now at the Last These Suits Come Down in a Sale That Is a Genuine Sale The suits are splendid; look for yourself. Feel' the heft and the strength and the solidity of these 100 per cent all-wool fabrics. Look all over the making of them. Pass the edges between your fingers and feel the consistent regularity and closeness and excellence and the hand-turning and felling. Rumple the gracefully corded collars and lapels out of shape and see how easily and naturally they resume their true position. That's hand-work bench work that does that. These clothes are tailored, not merely hot-ironed. And closely inspect the fashion. A pair 'of trousers is a pair of trousers intended for the grace ful fitting of a man s legs and not a couple of meal sacks sewed together. A coat well, a gentleman's coat is the hardest piece of clothing in the world to make. A good coat is a work of art. It's a joy. It fits and it hangs. But if it fits too much, or if it hangs too much, it isn't a coat, it's an abomination. So there you are. The kind of suit of clothes you get in a Wana maker'Sale is a reafcsuit of clothes. And the saving is real big and fine and real. In this Sale tomorrow will be " 1525 fine suits in all regular sizes and with ample selection for short, long and stout men. 415 suits reduced to $25 225 suits reduced to $30 275 suits reduced to, $35 610 suits reduced lo $40 Savings ranging from $5 to $20 on each suit. Be in good time for good choosing. i k- (Ihlril I loor, Mnrkel) More New Mahal Carpets m. the Oriental Rug Sale utility, TfcKACTICAI, utility, com tr parative inexpensiveness and good looks commne in Mahal carpets. They are cer tainly combined in these Ma hals which we will show newly tomorrojv In this Oriental Hug Sale. ' They are rugs of firm tex ture in attractive colorings tans, blues and reds. The de signs include both medallion and all-over effects. Sizes range from 9.2x7.1 feet up to 13.3x9.4 feet, and the prices from $150 to $250, which are really very low markings for such good, re liable pieces. The 'Sale also includes a beautiful choice of other rugs in carpet and smaller sizesat special prices, such as Persian Saruks, carpet sizes, from $335 to $2885. Small Saruks, 3x5 feet to 4.6xG feet, $85 to $165. Persian Herez and Serapi rnrnpls frnm 1RK tn S11S7. CMnll 0 ! 4 fiC fi naf ' H $125. Carpet-size Chinese rugs, 10x7.4 feet to 12x10 feet are now priced at $197 to $395. Small ChineFe pieces from mats 1.6x2.6 feet to 3x3 feet, approximately, aro now $22.50 to $27.50. (NeTnlh Floor, OMral) Embroidered Nightgowns Which Button They open a little way down in front and the edges of the open ing are scalloped; also the sleeves are set in two features which mean'a good deal to women who don't care for the more familiar slip-on kimono sleeve style. Also their hand embroidery is noth ing short of exquisite. Prices are $4.85 and $5. The same consignment brought us some of the Blip-on sort,' how ever, in new designs and quite as lovely as the two styles first men t!?ed. $4.85t'7.- i Mercerized Cotton Foulard It looks as much liko silk foul ard as one pea looks like another, until you examine it. It is lus trous, it has exactly the same designs some neat and small, after the foulard tradition, some very striking and it is very light in weight. But it is pure cotton. A great many women are buy ing it for betwecn-season dresses. Also it is excellent for dresses to be worn motoring when warmer weather comes. Navy grounds chiefly, with de sipns in other colors. Width 31 Inches. :3NW- "Valentines! Sweet Valentines! Who'll Buy?" Here they are in heaps cards, "uprights," folders, with sweet and dainty sentiments and people are as thick aiouml themall day long as bees around their hive. Lots of them are going to soldier boys. . Prices 5c to $1. (Main l'loor. Thlrtrrntli) It's Been a Long Time Since We Had Chocolate Straws! But they will be here tomorrow, fresh and perfectly delicious crisp, straws with creamy, choco late fillings. 60c a pound. Butteicups, another much-liked sweet, arc also GOc a pound. And assorted curls and shav ings are not only good to eat, but pretty to look at 00c a pound. Fresh strawberry caramels are just as luscious as they sound 80c pound. (Dawn 8tnlr More, Chrilnut) Imitation Crochet Laces . Women like. them for under muslins, for brassieres, for chil dren's clothes, for bed jinens and for curtains. They come in varying widths, frowi1 to Wi inches, and thero ;m and insertions to match. The London Shop Is Clearing Out Its Men's British Overcoats This means that 140 distinctive coats from Kenneth Durward, London, go on sale at a fourth less than their regular prices. , Among them are single and double breasted overcoats in styles ranging from the big, warm great-coats to coats suitable for Spring wear because of their liglrt weight and jaunty shape. Cheviots, fleeces, coverts and tweeds are the fabrics, and they are in beautiful colors, including many rich overplaids. New prices range from $27.50 to $62.50, and any man who is a judge of overcoats' will do himself a favor if he looks these over. (The flill-rj, Chtatnul) Men's Remarkable Shoes for $7.50 a Pair This is less than we could , huy such shoes for today, -and it was a good day when we picked this lot up from '. one of the best makers in the land. Dark mahogany calfskin - is the leather used and all, have heavy soles. One atyl4 is Buuiyiii laff, uimie on h Amarf. Inst, nnrl tliA nilmr is . Blucher lace, with a some-! what wider toe. Splendid street shoes for any man, Men's New Silk House Robes of a Different Sort Made of fine Rajah silk in plain colors brown,' green and two shades of blue. Collars, cuffs, girdles and linings are of white polka dotted silk, and the contrast is uncommonly effective. In fact, they are as handsome house robes- as we have shown for some time. All in the Spring weight which men want now. Price, $85. .(Main l'loor, !taHl . Men's Fine Soft Hats of a Distinctly New Style They are what is known as mixed - color hats, in brown - green and green brown effects, and being all pleasing shapes they are a mighty handsome lot. The felt in these hats was dyed before the hats were made a difficult process, which was prohibited by tlie War Trades Board. $5 is a decidedly little price for such headwear. " . iS 41 iK , !' iM a" 3 .. . v i 4 .y Vii -oPi .V.1 ,t.J 4i vnwimii,.:.vium ::fc 'WrlS yard. h, , WIKSf . WmSa H r-1 ., EjhUbki S1 iim&1 iiv'ularfar anMn n e&Jr-!Ud
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