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Only a Forward-Looking Store CanKeep UpWith the Pace of America
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In the Nature of Affairs
Certain Things
must "grow better in one place than in
another. It was only the farmer having a
neighborly talk on the train. He was saying
lje always had his crop of early vegetables
ready before his neighbors, giving the
reason that he made his garden where it was
sheltered from the Winter winds and
favored by the sun.
The knowing of such things, how to live
and how to act with your tools and your
knowledge, makes the difference between
success and the middling ordinary results
of labor of the man who often mumbles in
a half -growling mood when he is bemoaning
the slackness and thinness of his farm,
lying sideby side with his neighbor's.
Crops" of any kind are not dependent
upon soil alone, for time and care and
quality and quantity of seed planted have
much to do with the harvest.
Happy-go-lucky farming or storekeep
ing are much the same.
It is the man and the manner of
operation, just with a little "aboveness" in
thinking out the right things an'd applying
his thinking at the right time in the proper
place, that fill the barns- and savings bank,
or the store and its harvest.
Signed
May 24, 1913.
A Sale of 1000 White Wash
at $3.75, $4.50, and $5
This is the largest and most Important sale of wash skirts of
the year and it is conveniently timed to come before Memorial Day,
so that the skirts may be worn then.
The skirts are some that are not sold on any other occasion
except at much higher prices. Many are samples, the rest are fine
models, some are the same as we have in regular stock from one
third more to twice as much. Some are far below even the whole
sale cost. '
In the face of many difficulties the manufacturers have sent us
this year the best skirts we have ever had, and the materials are
very good. Also there are more styles in extra sies up to 38
inch waistbands.
.200 skirts at $3.75 Samples in shrunken gabardine arid wash
sateen, some buttoning down the back. All are very good and new
styles.
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Little Gifts in Gold for the
"Boys" Who Have Returned
Cuff buttons, loose links, $7 to
$70.
Cuff buttons, stiff bar, $7 to $54.
,Tie clasps, $3 to $30. .
Collar buttons, $1.25 to $1.50.
Scarf pins, $2.50 to $56.
Vest chains, $11.50 to $30.
Fobs, $11.50 to $47'.
Lockets, ?a to $38.
(Jewelry More, Cheatnnt and Thirteenth)
i 600 Unusually
Pretty Silk and
Novelty Vests $1 to
' $2-Half Price v
and Less
There are many vests in this
group that were- meant to sell
for three times these amounts,
so you will sea, they are extremely
v low-priced.
' " Of fashionable, cool and lovely
materials, Ihey are , smart vests
and vestees precisely what well
dressed women are wearing' this
minute.
' Crisp, sheer organdies', fine
,-(, wh.ite piques, white and colored
, 'linens, silk tricolettes in beautU
' ,,ff til -color'; and, noveHy eilkiCin
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Aisle)
Signet rings, $9 to $26.
Rings set with semi-precious
stones, $13.50 to $35.
Belt buckles, $15 to $25.
Cigar cutters, $9 to $16.
Pocket knives, $7.50 to $27.
Cigarette cases, $72 to $150.
Key chains, 3.50 to $28.
watch boxes, $32 to $52.
- Waists of White "
Cotton
A self-striped voile with cro
cheted buttons and edging on
its' long collar is $2.
A tucked and lace-trimmed
voile is $2.
A dotted Swiss made tailored
style with linen bands is $,2.25.
(Third Floor, Central)
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Women's Colored
Handkerchiefs 25c
For pretty colors and good de
signs at an inexpensive price, it
takes the Irish manufacturer to
produce . fcuch handkerchiefs, as
Garden-Party
Hats of
' Transparent
Organdie
Pretty enough for garden
parties or to wear to Summer
weddings, or with your dain
tiost thin frocks or at any
time and place when one
wishes to wear a charming,
airy chapeau.
There are mushroom brims
and straight brims, large hats
and hats of medium size, and
they are wholly of organdie
and trimmed with organdie
bows.
The colors are lovely rose
pinks', orchid shades, a rich
red purple that is just the
color of Catawba grapes,
China blue and baby blue, and
white, of course.
Prices begin at $15.
(Second Floor, Chestnut)
Women's Ready-to.-Wear
Riding Clothes
Coats and breeches of the approved cut will be found in one of the
Little Gray Salons.
Materials are light weight for Summer and include covert cloth,
khaki, linen, checked and striped worsteds and fine broadcloths, and
prices run from $18.50 to $75.
Flrt Kloor, Central)
,.400 skirts at $4.50 Samples and others in regular and extra
sizes. These include dozens of wonderfully pretty models in fine
shrunken gabardine, tricotine and wash sateen.
400 skirts at $3 Samples and others in regular and extra sizes.
They are beautifully designed skirts, made of the fine shrunken
gabardine, tricotine and needlecord.
(First Floor, Central)
100 Snakeskin Skirts Special at $15 Each
This is much the lowest price for which these 'fashionable skirts
that all women want have sold this season, and there are only 100
of them!
In white, green, purple, orchid and blue, made with a deep girdle
and fancy pockets.
(First Floor, Central)
Much Finer Pumps
Than Women
Usually Get for $8
We made" a fortunate pick-up
of 500 pair df two of the most
desirable styles of women's
pumps.
Long vamps, narrow, pointed
toes; turn soles and covered
Louis heelsv-right at the top of
fashion. Perfectly plain, but
many women will wear buckles
with them.
pne style is patent leather, the
other black calfskin.
To get such smart pumps at
$8 is most unusual.
(First Floor, Market)
Children's Creepers
for Play or for
"Dress-Up?
Some of wash silk, in rose
pink, are $7.50,
There are 'fine chambrays and
sheer white dimities and clean
Jookirig cross-bar muslins, and
sturdy ginghams. Many are in
white with colored embroidery,
smocking or stitching. And
there are pinks and blues', greens
and yellows in charming variety.
"Some have' frills and some quite
festive have white sashes,
$2 tr $7.50 and 1 to 2 year
Beautiful New Beaded Tunics
From Paris n
It is such tunics as these which make ravishing gowns, as you
will know when you see them. They are quite new of line, most
fashionable and have just arrived in America within th'e last few
days.
One radiant tunic is of gold spangles thickly encrusted, with
shallow neck and sleeveless.
Another beauty is of black net with colored bead flowers and
rows of black and gold beads.
Almost a complete gown is a handsome black and steel tunic
with black bead fringe.
These are just a few there are many others in black, in
colors, in white', and in lovely iridescent effects. And there are
also jackets and little garnitures.
$15 to $125.
(Main l'loor. Central)
200 Women's Jersey Dresses
at Late-Season Prices
$20 and $25
Nearly all of these dresses are new fiom the manufacturer; the
rest are the same styles which have been selling at higher prices in
our regular stocks, but which have been reduced to match the prices
on this later purchase? They include a great number of colors henna,
gray, emerald, Pekin blue, old blue, navy, taupe, black, sand and beige;
and there is a very fair variety of styles.
More than two hundred women will seize the opportunity to get
dresses for c,ool Summer weather, for traveling and motoring, at such
remarkably small prices.
(Flrt Floor, Central)
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Skirts
An American
Brocaded Crepe as
Fine as France
Makes
A 'strong statement, but we
know it to be the truth, and
everybody who appreciates fine
silks will bear witness to the
fact.
This new arrival is a silk for
wedding gownB and handsome
evening costumes. It comes
only in white, and it has all the
fineness of weave, the softness
and beaUty of French silks at
double this price, and we con
sider it even better.
It is 40 inches wide and $5
a yard.
j (First Floor, Chestnut)
New Porch Dresses
oi Pretty
Ginghams $3.85
These dresses' are of good qual
ity gingham' in attractive plaids
and pretty color combinations.
There are two styles, both in one
piece effects, one with white
pique collar, the other with white
organdie, and both trimmed with
pearl buttons. ,
A New Haggard
Story
"When the World Shook,"
by Sir Rider Haggard, is a
thrilling tale of shipwreck on
an enchanted island in the
South Seas. Price $1.60.
(Main I loor mi (I Thirteenth).
Silk Handbags of
Unusual Interest
A new and effective style with
pierced frames and chain handles
of tortoise-shell finish celluloid.
A medium-size bag of black
and navy silk, with a good per
centage of the navy, and daintily
silk lined. Made in one piece,
and in an uncommonly graceful
shape.
Price $7.50.
(Main floor, Chestnut)
Special Prices on Wilton
and Summer Rugs
Four good domestic" weaves, all marked to
save you money.
Fine Wilton Rugs
34 in 9xl2-ft. size, $80 and
$87.60
21 in 8.3xl0.6-ft. size. $72.fi0
and $85.
17 in Cx9-ft. size, $G1.
26 in 4.6x7.6-ft. size, $36.
53 in 36x63-in. size, $15.
Wool-Fiber Rugs
75 in 9xl2-ft. size, $15.50.
55 in 8.3xl0.6-ft. size,$ll:50.
68 in 6x9-ft. size, $9.75.
(heienth Floor,
Now Is the Time for Gas Ranges
and Gas Ranges Are Here
The first consideration in select
ing a gas range is to learn
whether it runs wild in gas con
sumption and then whether it
bakes, broils and cooks quickly.
Wanamaker gas ranges have
back of them years of experience
and stove construction and are the
last word in gas cooking appli
ances. The Wanamaker $26 gas range
3-burner top, oven and broiler,
oven 16x12, enamel pans and door
panels. The range with plain
black finish, $25.
The Wanamaker $36 gas range
4-burnep top, double oven 16x16.
(Fourth
Furniture for Lawns,
It now looks as if this Summer
America is going to answer as
never before to the call of the
outdoors.
To- live as much as possible in
the open is not a fashion or a
fad, but a duty one owes; to one's
health.
Then think of the hundreds of
thousands of our young men
who have known what ij means
to live in a tent or a dugout.
Surely" the great, free, peaceful
outdoors of America must hold a
new charm for them.
Porch, lawn, garden and
veranda furniture is such a
helpful adjunct of outdoor living
that nobody need be reminded
of it.
T 0V that so many pco--
pic arc turning their
thoughts to making their
homes beautiful it is time to
remind them that the warc
rocms belonging to the Bu
reau of Interior- Decorating
known as The Little
House are filled with rare
and lovely furnishings for
the purpose. They arc nearly
all foreign, some genuinely
old, others remarkably line
reproductions of precious
museum pieces and other an
tiques, but all possessed of
a peculiar interest and value.
This Bureau, by the way,
will undertake any piece of
furnishing from decorating
a single room to decorating
a private yacht or an entire
great mansion.
(lifth l'loor. Chestnut)
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Touch and Go
Newspaper holders to use at
the breakfast table are apt to
raise a protest on the part of
wives, but husbands like them.
For one thing, the sugar bowl
doesn't need to serve as a prop.
Solid mahogany, $2. Brass, $2.25.
Nickel plated, $2.5J.
A step-ladder which is willing
to work as a kitchen stool is
$1.50.
Clean, white enamel salt boxes,
for the kitchen, $1.
A handy slicer for making
French-fried or (luted potatoes,
25c.
A clean, white china lolling pin
will make even the most tooth
some doughnuts taste better,. 05c.
A folding pressing board with
aluminum top to take on vacation
folds small enough to pack in
trunk or suitcase. Complete with
fabric cover and bag, $5.
Bread boards with decorated
edges complete with serviceable
hrcadknives may be had at $2.25
for the round, or $2.50 for the
oblong.
An all metal vacuum ice-cream
freezer which makes ice cream
without turning a crank is $4 for
a 1-qt. size; $5 for a' 2-qt.
A sanitary dish-washer which
ically docs its work thoroughly
because of the water that flows
constantly through the brush is
$2.85.
(Fourth Floor. Market)
Oval Rush Rugs
In natural color or with band
borders.
9x12 ft.. $27.50.
SxlO ft.. $21.50.
6x9 ft., $14.
Colonial Rag Rugs at a
Third Less
9x12 ft., $10.85.
7.6x10.0 ft., $8.85.
6x9 ft., $5.85.
3x6 ft.. $2.75.
Chestnut)
The Wanamaker $42 gas range
4-burner top. with oven 18x18
inches, enamel pans and door
panejs.
The Wanamaker Cabinet range
for $53 4-burner top with canopy
shelf, enamel pans and door pan
els, large double oven for baking
and broiling.
The Wanamaker $62 gas range.
This is the apartment house
range made to fit in a space 35
inches long; 18-inch oven, 4 top
burners, enamel pans and iloor
panels.
The Wanamaker $100 full
enamel cabinet range with plate
sneii, large oven, 4 top burners.
Floor, Market)
Verandas Is Here
But we should like to remind
everybody of the fine selections
of this furniture to be found
here.
For the porch there are hard
maple and rattan pieces in
amplitude of choice; sturdy
hickory for veranda and lawn
use; and the rustic cedar and
handsome and impressive-looking
white cypress furniture for
practically any outside utje.
Some Good Practical
Pieces in Maple
A broad, deep-seated arm
chair, $4.25.
A high back, woven 'seat and
back rocker, $5.60.
A Great Little Sale
of Men 's Shirts
1800 Fine Woven Madras and Silk-Stripe
Madras Shirts at $2.15 Each
Beautiful shiits truly beautiful.
The finer kinds that well-diessed men want for Summer and
will buy by the dozen and half dozen at this price. We have been
selling similar goods legularly for $1.35 moie and had to reduce
those in stock accoidingly.
Soft-cuff negligee style in scores of different designs, every one
good. The great ariety of designs is due to the fact that the
maker had only a bolt or two of each. That is why we got these
shirts to sell for such a special price.
(Main Flnnr. .Mnrket)
Men's White Sports Oxfords -in
the London Shops
All very fine, smart shoes, such as a man wants for country
club and seashore wear.'
White canvas with composition sole. $8.50.
White buckskin with plain toes or with perforated tipped
toes, both styles with rubber soles and heels, $12.
White buckskin with composition sole, $12.50.
White buckskin with peiforated tan calfskin wing tip and
heel foxing, $15.
(The (.ullfM. ( hexliiut)
1200 Summer Blankets
Fresh, Cool and Low Priced
For some little while past we have been receiving these in install
ments. The last lot hab just arrived.
All of these blankets are excellent for Summer use, being woven
of fine, clean cotton in a choice of either gray or white, and in sizes
for single and double beds. Most of them have borders of either pink
or blue. All are sold in pairs, and the prices in some instances are
less than today's costs.
$2.50 white
$3 giay.
$3 white.
All by the pair.
lMth
50 Student Oil Lamps Special
So special, indeed, that their prices $7.50 to' $14.50 are
clo'e to half of ordinary pi ices.
The lamps all of them oil lamps show bionze. nickel and,
bras? finishes, and are possessed of single and double burners.
Kind them in the Lamp Store.
(Fourth Floor, Central)
A Flower Box, a Bird Bath
a Bench
What a distinct chaim one or all of these things will add to a lawn,
a garden or even a tiny little grassplot! As for flower boxes, every
porch should have one.
These are amongst the inteiesting collection of porch lawn and
garden furnishings shown in the China Store.
You may choose from two kinds white pieces made of crushed
marble and white cement, or gray pieces made of crushed granite and
gray cement. All are guaranteed to withstand the weather. The time1
for selecting these pieces is before the assoitment has become depleted.
It is still ample.
Flower boxes, $3.15 to $60.
Benches, $18 to $45.
Bird baths, $4.50 to $50.
Suu-dial pedestals, $12 to $30.
Sun dials for pedestals, $3 to $40. '
(Fourth Floor,
Gardens, Porches and
in Unequaled
A woven seat and slatted back
rocker, $5.25.
A woven seat and back rock
er, black striped, $9.
A high -woven back and seat
rocker, black striped, $7.75.
A broad, deep-seated arm
rocker, back and seat of hard,
woven rattan, $11.50.
The above piecei are all in
maple.
In Hickory and,Other
Pieces
For an arm-rocker in hickory,
$6.50.
For an arm-rocker in hickory
with curved, baeK, $3.25,
XL
$3.75 white.
$4.50 white and gray.
$5 white and gray.
rinor. Central)
Gazing-globe pedestals, $12 to '
$35.
Gazing globes for pedestals,
$7.50 to $25.
Chestnut)
Choice
For an arm-rocker in hickor
with curved sides and high
curved back, $8.75.
For a 6 ft. 6 in. settee with
curved ends and a three-section
curved bac.k, $27.50.
For a lounge 6 feet 4 inches
long, $22.
In rustic cedar there," is quite
a variety of benches at $4 each,
Houses and canopied benches
at $45, $62 and $70 each.
The wliite painted cypress can
be had in benches, chairs, tables,
arbors and such, ranging in
price from $16 for an oblong
slatted table to $123 for an
arched-top slatted arbor.
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