r EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA', THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 191P T Great Organ at 9, 11 and 4:50 Familiar Melodies and Chimes at Noon i- WANAMAKER'S Store Opens 9 A. M. WANAMAKER'S L WANAMAKER'S WEATHER Fair V y V Store Closes 5 P. M. & I Iv Mr K llA 1? ft 11 to I Itei Si.-1- I tj ; Tomorrow the A Small1 Boy Entered a Grocery Store and Asked For ten cents' worth of canary seed. The Shopkeeper (who knew the boy) : "Is it for your mother?" Small Boy (half mad) : "No! It is for the bird." Good for the boy! Served'the shopkeeper richt! Storekeepers and their clerks arc often too bumptious. Some of them are uppish, and many of them talkee, talkee overmuch. The Master Storekeeper invites people to his place of business by advertisement. He con siders it a favor as well as an honor when his invitation is accepted by a call at the store. ' The customer is entitled to a cheerful wel come from every employe whenever he appears. It is not the business of the clerk to talk upon the weather or the war uninvited. It is the duty of the store attendant to in stantly listen and quickly show articles asked for, and to save the time and patience of the prospective buyer, and not to meddle in the private concerns of the would-be-patron. Attend to your own business and let others attend to their own business in their own way. Signed Feb. SO, 19 IS. Women's Warm, Weather-Proof Motor Coats $35 to $50 These are the coats a woman finds useful 'most all the year round coate to slip on over a suit or a warm dress coats to keep out the damp and the cold and the wind. They are of fine wool tweeds, usually in dark gray, oxford and green mixtures, and made with patch pockets, some with raglan sleeves, most all with belts, and finished with sleeves that are made with straps and buckle to keep out the wind and,wcathcr. . ; $35, $40 and $50 each. (Vlrt Floor1, Central) Exclusive Parisienne Corsets A now model of strong coutil, made with low bust and long skirt, has a good many bones; and eyelets and lacing below the front steel. Price $10.50. Another of fancy pink coutil, with low, full bust, heavy boning, long skirt and double elastic hose supporters, $17. A fancy pink batiste, topless, is: lightly boned and designed for average people. $18. A model for tall women. This has medium bust, is long over the hips and has tricot elastic gores below the waist. $18. (Third Floor, Chestnut) Lovely New Crepes Over the Seas From Japan Their soft sheen comes from the fact that they are part silk, and their moderate price from the fact that the' other part is cotton. They are new as can be, and are in charming brocade, polka dot and plain effects. Thero is one style with a tiny crinkle and another with a wider crinkle. Pearl gray, violet shades, reseda green, canaryp white, rc-so and overseas blue are some of the colors you'll admire when you see them, and they will make delightful little dresses. Si. $1.25 and $1.50 a yard 27 inches wide. (First Floor, Fine Voile Waists With Handwork One of the new styles is hand embroidered and hand drawn, with a little narrow lace. $10.50. Another has insertion and the same sort of handwork. $10.75. The third has real filet set in each side of the collar closing besides tho embroidery and costs $15. Third Floor, Central) Pretty New Shirtwaists in the 1 Children's Store . where a special corner is devoted r to their showing. They are in . small sizes' 32, 34 and 36 inch bu$t measure, and in styles best suited to girls and young women ;t who wear these .sixes. ine new couon diouscs uro bu attractive some of lawn and somo ' of voile, and made in quiet, good taste, with tiny tucks,, pleats arid lattice veining. Some have the aew round, frilly collars, too. $3.50 to $5. Dress blouses of wash sathi (and there is an exquisite blouse in peach color, with tiny frills), of - crepe ieorgcue in uurit ua cu us light colors, and of crepe de chine are in whlteor flesh color, and in fvir 'm y W My- T to- hu4r Cheitnnt) The Warm, Rich Brown of the Topaz is jeflected in these pretty new ornaments all imitation topaz, to be sure, but very effective none the less. There are charming necklaces in ever so, many designs, with topaz of varying shapes and sizes, joined with French-gray links and ornaments to complete them. $1.25 to $11 each. Bar pins, set with imitation topaz, in tho French-gray finish metal, are 50c each. (Jewelry More, chestnut and Thirteenth) More French Kid Gloves for Women Special at $2 a Pair They are real kldskin, and as any discerning woman knows, genuino kidskins at this price are unusual indeed. They are of soft, pliable skin, in black and white, with self or combination embroidery. They have 2 clasps and are overseam sewn. And at $2 a pair a woman saves just half the amount she pays! (Weit Able) Good Serge at $2 a Yard It comes in a good, deep blue, is 50 inches wide and will be useful for dresses and skirts, as1 well as it February Furniture Six Days With a Wonderful Backing of Goods Some events move forward by interior exterior fuss. You will notice the same difference in people. The everlasting fuss and flurry of some sales and some people is all they amount to. Whatever good is in them seems to be only an incident compared with the noise they make. We like to know that the February Furniture Sale we are holding is going ahead on its own interior force, the .force of right merchandise in unlimited choice at the right prices. "And we draw particular, attention to this special characteristic of the Sale just now for the reason that we are about to enter upon the last week of it. These last six days will illustrate, as no other period could, the difference between a Sale that really possesses internal force and the one that lacks it. In so far as plenty of the right furniture at right prices can make it so, it is going to be a time of big things. China Closets $17.50 for a 37-inch mahogany china closet, Sheraton style. $20 for a 42-inch mahogany china closet, Adam style. $24 for an inlaid Sheraton ma hogany china closet. $26 for a 40-inch mahogany china closet, Adam style. S27 for a 40-inch mahogany china closet, Sheraton stylo. $33 for a 42-inch white enamel china closet, Colonial style. Women Are Buying Spring Suits Right and Left It doesn't matlcr how cold the days .may be everybody knows Spring is right aiound tho corner, and everybody likes to feci that her fresh suit is" safely in the closet ready to put on the first moment it is dcsiicd. We have scores of the moderately priced suits in now meaning between $30 and $65. They aie rather severely tailored sorts, as a rule, of Poiret twill and the lighter weight whipcords, besides gabardines' and serges, in grays, tans, navy and black. Box coats andi sacquo coats arc the rule, with narrow belts or rows' of buttons or crow's feet to relieve the severity. Occasionally there is an odd thing like a flaring hip or curved pockets. All sizes in most of the styles. (First Floor, Chestnut) A Good Little Lot of Women's Overnight Bags Prices start at $1C and $17 for black enamel leather bags, moire silk lined. Next come "somewhat larger dull black leather bags at $20 and $22.50. A fine black calfskin bag, hand sewed and leather lined, is $25. And for $28.50 you get the beauty of the lot a bag of rich, dull black seal, leather lined. (Muiu lloor, Chettnnt) Redleaf Woolen Sports Hose for Women of Fashion ' In view of the vogue for woolen stockings and low shoe3, news of this shipment from England will be welcome. ,Ribbed stockings in heather mixtures, $5 a pair. Fancy boot effects, $G a pair. .An exceptionally fine wool in several delightful shades, $10 a pair. (Flrit Floor, Market) The Mattress and Bedding Sale Ends With February And February days are fast running away. While they last you can select from our entire stock of mattresses, pillows, bol sters and bed springs at reduced prices. You can have 'us make hair mattresses in any desired sire and from your own choice of various grades of clean, sanitary hair. The February price range for hair mattresses goes from $24 up to $90 for double-bed sizes and from $15 Jo $60 for single-bed sizes. N. ' You can choose fiom ten distinct grades of felted cotton mattresses at $18 to $3C for double-bed sizes and $14.40 to $31.50 for single-bed sizes. Also two grades of willowed cotton mattresses at $12.75 to $14 for doublejbed sizes and $9.75 to $12 for single-bed sizes. During February also we are making feather plllbws and bolsters to order at special reductions from our regular rates; and we are offering a good choice of upholstered box springs at reduced prices; The savings all through are fiom 10 to 20 per cent, but tho time for taking advantage of them is running short. (Sixth lloor, Cheitnnt) Women's Colored (Handkerchiefs 50c We had them copied by an Irish maker from much more expensive kinds. They are of sheer linen, in the prettiest colors violets, pinks, rreens, mues ,ana tans, ana me . ("MattflfcatytiftMetiYe as. That People $:4 for a 42-inch mahogany china closet, Adam style. $39 for a 45-inch mahogany china closet, Sheraton style. $43 for a 42-inch enamel and decorated china closet, Colonial style. $44 for a 37-inch mahogany china closet, Georgian style. $45 for a 42-inch mahogany china closet, Queen Anne style. $47 for a 42-inch mahogany china closet, William and Mary style. New Dresses' for Small Girls All of white lawn, and the trimmings for the most part are madaup of hand smocking, sashes, surplice effects, new collars and such things, and the colors which rim them are pink, blue, yellow ur ; erven. . force and others if $48 for a 40-inch mahogany china closet, William and Mary style. $49 for a 34-inch mahogany china closet, William and Mary style. $32 for a 40-inch walnut china closet, William and Mary style, $53 for a 40-inch mahogany china closet, Queen Anne style. $55 for a 48-inch mahogany china closet, Adam style. (Sixth Concerning Chairs Chairs might be divided into two classen those you can sit in with deep content and the feeling that there is d, kindly upholding of every part, such as vou might enjoy on a bed of heather; and those you can't. The chairs in The Little House are as remarkable for this kind of comfort as they arc for beauty of color and propoition in fact, their perfect piopor tions have quite a lot to do with tho comfort. So has their up holstering they are uphol stered purposely to feel, when you sink into them, like soft, beloved, well-carcd-for old chairs. Their covering? Well, it may bo rare old needlework or vel vet, or it may be some fino modern reproduction, or merely a quaint flowered black rep or glazed chintz. (Filth Floor, Chestnut) Fine Brown Soft Hats for "Regular Fellows" The sort of hats that appeal to the sort of men who stand square on their feet, play the game and look their fellow men in the eye. In color a rich seal brown. In shape a graceful Fedora, with a somewhat flattish brim with narrow binding on the edge. Spring weight and silk lined. Price $5. (Main Floor, Market) Here and There Old-fashioned slip-covers in the Little House are made of gay glazed chintz cool, clean, sweet and home-like; in just such covers as one might sec in somo pretty English cottage. (Fifth Floor, Cheitnut) Soma particularly good hats for boys are beautifully made of Eng lish tweeds in.iich browns' and grays. The shape is-of our own design and the nrice $4. (Main Floor, Market) Boudoir caps of the fluffiest being combinations of laces and chiffons and ribbons are $1.50. Third Floor, Central) It's a Good Time to Get'Lace and Metal Bands and Flouncings for we have a little special lot at quite special prices. Metal bands, 75c to $1.23 a yard, are in good designs, attractive colors and 4 to 8i inches wide. Flouncings, $1 to $2.25 a yard black net flouncings, embroidered in black and colored nets, em broidered in tinsel and metal thread embroidery. 27 and 36 inches wide. Allevan, $2 a yard are of Bt, Sale Begins Its Last Want they move at all by $38 for a 46-inch mahogany china closet, Chippendale style. $60 for a 48-inch mahogany china closet, Queen Anne style. $01 for a 42-inch mahogany china closet, Queen Anno style. $64 for a 42-inch ivory enamel and mahogany china closet, Adam style. $70 for a 43-inch mahogany china closet, Georgian style. $75 for an inlaid mahogany china closet with slatted door, ncppeiwniic style. Floor) New Fiction "Maid and Wife," by Carolyn Bcechcr. A story of a heroine who starts in a small town, drifts to New York and has many experi ences. $1.50. m "The Edge of the World," by Edith Blinn, i3 a tale of the boundless west and some of the people in it. $1.50. "Fighting Byng," by A. Stone, is a mystery story with love as well as adventure in it. $1.50. (Main Floor, Thirteenth) Now an Aeroplane Cretonne appears and coers many aiticles in the Ait Needlework Store wiiting desk sets, scrap baskets, gloe and handkerchief boxes, trays, candy boxes, collar boxes and work boxes. Also there are cottage cretonnes which cover sofa pillows with quaint representations of cottages embowered in green. ' (Second Floor, Central) 200 Camisoles Special at $1 Of pink wash satin or crepe de chine, with laces and ribbons; some styles with colored em broideries on the front. $1. (Knit Alile) Dishing Up' Dinner Seven Days a Week calls for plenty of dishes on hand, and no woman is a housekeeper until she knows when and where to buy these wares. In choosing a dinner set, the things to make sure, of are the number of pieces, the composition of the set, the character and finish of the wares and the excellence of the patterns. ' The Dinner Sets in This are an object lesson in good quality. The variety is equal to every requirement and the less than our own regular rates. See the avenue of dinner sets running across the end of the, building, with counters on either side, showing English, American and Japanese potteries. Prices from $17.50 It is a very interesting $7(5 for a coiner eloct, mahog any and decorated, Japanese. 585 for a 48-inch mahogany china closet, mirror back. $90- for a corner closet, ma hogany, William and Mary style. $94 for a 48-inch mahogany china closet, minor back. $98 for a 42-inch mahogany china closet, Adam stylo. $99 for a comer closet, ma hogany, Chippendale style. 300 Men's Fine Suits in a Special Sale Tomorrow Morning at $32 These suits represent practically the whole range of our winter stocks and at $32 mean savings of $13 to $23 on each suit. These are winter suits in the sub stantial cheviots"and worsteds, and there are sizes for all men. (Third Floor, Mnrl.rt) Spring China Sale for English and American sets sight and presents a fine opportunity 7 wm. $112 for a mahogany china' closet, slatted dctors, French Chippendale style. $120 for a mahogany chin closet with cuned glass top Adam style. $153 for a mahogany china closet, slatted doors, Empire Colonial design. $166 for a mahogany chins closet, Matted doors, Empire Colonial design. $181 for a 42-inch mahoganj china closet, Queen Anno'design l JR " prices are 20 to 50 per ct ! ' floor to the Chestnut tret standard sets from French, up to $175 for French sjta. Tits sX M il -X I Wt tP 1a Aufeax Wilt Mil flMO ifty ,? I J- &- .' ,?'& A rr, fy j -Tjnrr , - i IHMI PHII i I IIN mSmaMAmammmmki nm,',tmki)lmmm mMbiI? y tittitilna9nfifci Li
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