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Midsummer Finds No Letting-Down of Interest in Stocks at Wanamaker's
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Unconsciously Lopsided
High winds blowing many years over
the wide Gulf of Mexico have in some places
bent the trees landward and caused them to
spread out more fully on the shore side.
Very little things ofttimes warp the
mind and heart unconsciously.
David Rittenhouse, Philadelphia's
famous citizen, astronomer and clockmaker,
said that a small silk thread drawn across
the lens of his telescope would obstruct the
sight of a star and that the sun, 886,000
miles in diameter, could be "covered and
obscured behind a thread near the eye
although in the telescope."
Little threads of careless talk without
strict regard to truth will zigzag one's life
almost beyond repair.
Warped men and lopsided stores are yet
to be found in the large cities, owing to the
dangerous Trade Winds yet existing.
Signed
July 23, 1919.
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Women's Cotton Frocks
Now $5 to $12.75 .
Some are just reduced, some have been reduced
twice; some are mussed and others perfectly fresh.
Altogether they are the sort of things which women
will buy eagerly to finish out the Summer.
Expect
Ginghams
Voiles
Organdies
Linens
(Flrat Floor, Central)
Young Women's Silk Dresses
Now $20 to $35
trt frocks which started the season .with considerably higher-priced
tickets.
They are such dresses as may be -worn now and well into the
Winter for they are of lustrous taffetas, crepes de chine and a few
foulards. Dark blue is the predominating color, though there are some
soft, pretty grays and some flowered effects. .
Some are frilled, some have fine white collars or vests, and all
are in good, wearable styles and useful for informal afternoon or
street wear.
14 to 20 year sizes.
(Second Floor, Cheatnat)
Looking Forward
in the Millinery Salons
When the milliners plan new hats these days, their thoughts
seem to run on to the coming season, and their fingers fashion
delightful new creations of silk or of velvet. Here are some of
the newest hats to come into the Gray Salons:
roll sailors of dark blue taffeta, pleated to look like great
mushrooms smart of line and quite simple as to trimming.
new duvetyne hats with satin facings, embroidered in
colored wools.
sailors of lustrous velvets in the new brown shades,
stitched in fuzzy wool.
new short-back hats with straight brims of soft duvetyne
with chenille embroidery in gay shades.
Prices start at $15.
(8eoon& Floor, Cheatnut)
Young Women's Spring Coats
Are Reduced
Not a great number, but practical dark blue or black coats of
ergs and a few velours.
Simply made, with collars that button high if you like, belts as
a rule -and deep pockets.
And they may be worn till the snow flies.
Now $18.60 to $32.50 14 to 20 year sizes.
(Second Floor, Cheatnut)
The Annual Sale of
Cotton Remnants
So far it has broken all records,
the weather notwithstanding.
And as we are still selling yard
goods, and as selling yard goods
means fresh remnants daily, we
have added quantities of them to
the remnant tables for tomorrow.
All lengths, from those for
blouses to those for children's
dresses.
Prices lcto $1 a yard.
' Women's
Umbrellas Special
at $7.50
A little miscellany, but good
sorts for all that the silk
covers of good quality and
-color, the handles pretty and
fashionable. One may find
malacca mounts with. leather
straps," horn tops, enameled
tops and many other types of
handles.
. Price $7.50.
(Main Floor, Market)
Fashionable
Furbelows
New veils and new ribbons
and other newnesses all of
fashionable interest, and nil
to help freshen up one's Sum
mer wardrobe which is apt to
have lost its first freshness by
now !
Dotted Veils Are
the Vogue
and so much asked for we're
very glad to announce the ar
rival of these new ones.
French, all of them, and of
fine hair-line meshes with small
dots generously sprinkled over
the meshes.
Black, brown, taupe or mag
pie $1.50 a yard.
(Main Floor, Central)
If She Could See the
Paris Colored
Handkerchiefs
a woman would be apt to want
one in every color to match her
Summer frocks!
They are the most delicious
squares of color, snowy linens
with borders' and plaids and
dots and dashes of glowing
color rose, pink, green, violet,
tan and gold shades and ever
so many more.
$1 to $5 apiece and you'd
have to go to Paris to see the
duplicates of many of them I
(Main Floor, Central)
Dainty, New Cotton
Edges Just From
France
They are the crisp, fresh
little embroidered edges women
use for children's dresses, porch
dresses or fancy aprons. They
are as pretty edgings as we've
seen in a long time and are
new as can be. v
There are narrow edges
scalloped in red, blue or white,
some with embroidered dots,
and some white veinings, also.
In 6-yard pieces, 75c to $1.65.
(Main Floor, Central)
Those Fashionable
Two-Tone Moire
Ribbons
so much used for girdles and
sashes, with fluttering ends,
may be had in all the desir
able light and dark colors in
the Ribbon Store.
A new lot just unboxed in
cludes ribbons of one-half to
one-inch width, 60c to 85c a
yard.
(Main Floor, Central)'
A FEW of the reduced
J. low shoes for women
may still be found in Hie
Exclusive Little Boot Shop.
Tliey are all fine and the
savings from a third to a
half. Prices start at $6 a
pair.
(Flrat Floor, Market)
Fresh White
Lingerie Waists
Voiles with shallow necks and
rather decorative blind embroid
ery down their fronts, $2.25.
Organdies with shallow necks'
and little pleatings, $2.50.
Batistes with tucking, $5.50.
Batistes with hand embroidery
applied in a novel way, $7.50.
(Third Floor, Central)
Large Petticoats
One style of strong cambric
with double panel and firmly done
scallops, $1.85.
One of pique, also with scal
lops, but minus the panels, $2.65.
Either excellent to wear with
sport clothes.
(Third Floor, Central)
- Nougat-Center
Caramels Are New
$1 a Pound
Squares of rich chocolate cara
mel, with a layer of nougat be
tweenthe first bite will tell you
how good they are!
Old-fashioned plaited cream
mint has the true mint flavor
40c a pound.
(Down Stairs Store, Chestnut)
With a Big Cake of
Good Soap
and a generous box of talcum
you're sure to enjoy your bath all
the more.
Queen Mary bath soap, in vio
let, rose, cold cream or verbena
scents, 12zc a cake, $1.35 a
dozen.
Queen Mary talcum powder,
pure and fluffy and fragrant, 15c
to 75c package.
And toilet waters are most re
freshing to use, too violet or
lilac, 60c to $3.75 a lottle; l'Em
pire, 75c and . $.1.35; La Fere,
$1,601 Avamo.- $1.50 and $2.50.
(illln JFlooiy Che.tnot)
Apropos of the Great
August Furniture Sale
All things come to those who are
ready to take advantage of them. The
time to get ready to take advantage of
the August Furniture Sale is now.
Good furniture was never so plenti
ful in this Store as it is now, no matter
how scarce it may be in other places.
That is not a mere opinion, but a
fact based on an intelligent count-up of
the furniture now in our possession.
There is no gainsaying that the
goods are here.
There is no gainsaying that they are
the finest in the country no other
kind will do for this Sale.
Because this is essentially a Sale of
quality, it has inevitably become a Sale
of quantity, and because it has become
a Sale of quantity it has inevitably be
come a Sale of economy.
This Sale Has an
Investment Significance
In this coming August Sale economy
is going to mean more than ever. That is
no mere opinion, either, but a fact
based upon actual conditions. Almost all
the furniture comprised in it was
bought in a low market. Putting it
another way, this means that almost
all the furniture in it has gone up in
value and in price in the open market
since we came into possession of it.
Therefore, nearly every price reduction
in this Sale is from a former regular
price which was lower than today's
regular price. In other words, the
reductions, whether they be 10 per
cent or 50 per cent, mean more than
they seem. According to the best in
formed opinion in the furniture busi
ness, prices are going to rule high for
some years. This fact alone gives to
this coming Sale an investment signifi
cance beyond any other sale.
It points to the wisdom of buying
now all the furniture you are likely to
need for a good while.
Let nobody imagine, however, that
we want to scare people into buying.
We merely state the facts as they exist,
leaving people to form their own judg
ment as to what they should do. One
fact, however, stands out pre-eminently
beyond all others.
If You Are Going to Buy
Any Furniture Worthy
of the Name, This Is the
Sale to Buy It In
It is a Sale that meets every re
quirement of every individual who
needs good furniture as no other sale
can meet them, because the goods are
here to prove that in magnitude and
varieties, in beauty, in dependableness
and in economies, now as always, it
stands alone.
The August, 1919, Sale of Furni
ture will open on August 1st (Friday
of next week).
Preceding the day of formal open
ing there will be four Courtesy Days,
during which the display will be thrown
open to the public for inspection and
selection (if desired), all transactions
to date from August 1st.
These days are next Monday, July
28th; next Tuesday, July 29th; next
Wednesday, July 30th, and next Thurs
day, July 31st.
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Crankless fee-cream freezers
first, which require only an oc
casional stirring and turning
upside down. They do their
work by intense cold instead of
churning, save ice and may be
had in 6 and 12 plate sizes for
$4 and $5.
Bags of salt for the freezers,
30c each.
Ice grips, 25c a pair.
Tiny ice picks, which super
sede the time-honored hatpins
for splitting off small quanti
ties of ice, 25c.
Ice bags of heavy unbleached
canvas to carry ice in, $1.25.
Aluminum ice shredders,
with blades which can be re
moved and sharpened, fine for
shaving ice to put into cool
drinks, $1.50.
Ice (Shippers to make larger
chips than the foregoing, 65c.
Ice-cream dippers, half
sphere shapes, $1.50 and $2.
A flywheel added to a freezer
gives more power to your
elbow, $1.50 to $5, according to
size.
(Fourth Floor. Market)
Western Electric
Fans, Special
at $6.25
There isn't much about them
to get out of order; they can
be n.ung on the wall and ad
justed to any angle; they cost
less than lc an hour; may be
had in two finishes, and create
a fine current of air one
which will make many a day
bearable for a future owner.
Price $6.25.
(Fourth Floor, Central)
Escaped Operation on Spine
by Wearing
Sometimes truth is so astonish
ing that people who think they
are very shrewd refuse to recog
nize it. For that reason we hesi
tated, at first, about printing this
narrative because it was so re
markable as to sound "fishy."
But we know the facts to be true
facts and the message is one that
many will be glad for.
A member of the Wanamaker
Store, while visiting friends, com
mented on the absence of the
daughter of the house. Her father
said she was practically confined
to her room with spinal trouble
and that specialists had advised
an operation.
Learning that the young lady's
attacks always started with pain
in her feet, which would then
exterfd up her legs to the spine,
the visitor suspected the ailment
to be foot trouble, rather than
spinal trouble. Being an old
friend of the family, he insisted
(.Men's. Miiiit 1'
H omen's and Children'!!
that the girl be brought to
Wanamaker's the next day to
try a pair of Anatomik shoes.
The parents laughed at him,
but "agreed that the experiment
could do no harm. They accord
ingly brought their daughter to
the store in a carriage and as
sisted her into the shoe section,
where she was fitted with a pair
of Anatomik shoes. She walked
out of the Store unaided and has
had no foot trouble, and no re
currence of the pain at the spine,
since.
We make no claim that Ana
tomik shoes will perform mir
acles, but we do say that they
will prevent and relieve prac
tically any sort of foot trouble
and the ailments resulting there
from. They are sold in Philadel
phia at Wanamaker's only and
there are many styles, in both
high and low shoes, for men,
women and children.
lonr. .Market)
Flrit Hour,
DOUBLED IN VALUE
Compensation for Lost Suit of
Clothes
"An interesting case connected with the price of
men's clothes came before Judge Crawford today at
Ilford County Court. The plaintiff bought a blue
serge suit in 1915 for .'1 10s. After wearing it six
times he joined the army.
"In December his wife sent tho suit to a firm of
dyers to be cleaned and pressed, ready for her hus
band to wear on demobilization. The firm admitted
in March of this year that the suit had gone astray
and offered to pay 3 10s.
"The tailor who made the 6uit told the judge
this morning that its present value would bo at
least 9, and his honor gave judgment for 7 and
costs.
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This clipping from a recent British newspaper
throws a powerful light upon the men's clothing situa
tion. It was the judgment of the court that a blue serge
suit, for which in 1915 $17.50 was paid, now in 1919 is
worth $35. The dyers who lost it had to pay that sum.
This in spite of the fact that the suit had been worn.
The English wool market is the greatest in the
world, and if men's clothing could be anywhere produced
at low cost, it would be in London today.
But the court ruled that men's clothing was worth
at least twice as much in London today as it was four
years ago.
Actual costs of clothing to the retailer today are
very high, and it is only the large house, doing a great
business and enjoying the first consideration of the
manufacturer, that can still be absolutely sure of getting
all-wool, standard clothing at moderate prices.
Some clothing houses have felt it incumbent upon
them to double or more than double their prices, others
have followed the line of least resistance and reduced the
quality of their goods.
We have taken the firmest of firm stands against
any reduction in quality and have, at the same time, held
our prices down as low as possible consistent with fair
service.
We are confident today that every man may get a
better suit for his money at Wanamaker's than he can
find elsewhere, and he can buy it as low or lower in price
now than he will be able to get it later on.
Good all-wool suits, three piece, $35 to $65.
Tropical two-piece suits (these are not wool),. $18
to $35.
Light-weight cheviot and tropical worsted suits,
$35 to $65.
(Tli'rd Floor, Market)
Men Who Want to Freshen Up
for This Week-End
will be looking for new shirts and ties. And here they are in
greatest variety.
Shirts that start at $2.G5 for one of fine madras ana go
up to $12 for a beauty of silk. (Silk shirts start at $6.50.)
Many of these shirts, both the madras and the silk, have separate
soft collars to match.
Neckties are 50c to $4, and between 75c and $1.50 is a
splendid lot of bat wings and four-in-hands of imported foulard.
(Muln Floor, Market)
Fine Silk Poplin Hats and Caps
for Men
There is enough "body" to silk poplin to make up well in
headwear; nothing flimsy about it. And this is an excellent
quality in a beautiful shade of gray.
Cool, light-weight hats and caps for motoring or any sports
wear and handsome enough for street wear.
Hats, $3.50.
Caps with 8-piece tops, $2; in one piece, $2.50.
(Main Moor, Market)
Gold Encrusted Glassware
of Much Charm
We are showing a particularly attractive collection of new glass
ware in rich and pretty gold encrusted decorations. Goods of this char
acter are very popular, but one should be particular to choose from the
better and more tasteful kinds, such as this lot comprises.
Candy jars, H-pound sue, $3.50
each.
Candy jars, 1-pound size, $5
and $6.
Handled sandwich trays, $5
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Bud vases, $2, $3 and $4 each.
(Fourth Floor,
Berry bowls, $6 each.
Sugar and cieam sets, $4, $5 $6
and $8.50 a set. '
Flowpr vases, $1.50, $3 up to
$9 each.
Cracker and cheese dishes, $6.50
each.
CheMnut)
Market)
Good Traveling Bags
Special at $13.75
Smooth cowhide in black and tan makes these bags, which are in
a new, high-cut shape and in the most popular sizes 16 and 18 inch.
They are all leather lined.
Under ordinary ciicumstances such luggage would be $3 or $4 more,
but we can stll this limited lot at $13.75.
(Main Floor, Chextnut)
Children's Play
Shoes Specially
Priced
Children's tan barefoot sandals,
sizes 5 to 8, price $1.25.
Girls' tan barefoot sandals,
sires 12 to 2, price $1.50.
Girls' fabric shoes with compo
sition soles, white and low, sizes
9 to 2, price $1.50.
Also we still have a few of
those tan Norwegian calf blucher
Oxfords, sizes 12. to 2, price
?1.25. '
(Flr "jrloor, Market)
"Far Away Stories"
By William J. Locke
A volume of short stoiies writ
ten in various moods and with
great charm and skill.
Price $1.60.
(Main Floor, Thirteenth)
New Domestic Rugs
at Moderate Prices
Durable weaves and desirable.
In a good range of patterns suit
able for almost any use.
Fine Body Brussels Rugs
6x9 ft., $35 8.3x10.6 ft., $52
9x12 ft., $57
Tapestry Brussels Rugs
6x9 ft., $16.50 8.3x10.6 ft., $31.50
9x12 ft., $32.50
Colonial Rag Rugs at
Special Prices
9x12 ft, $9.75 6x9 it., $6.75
(Seventh Floor, Cheatnut)
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Just Arrived A Carload of Famous
Wanamaker Special White Mountain
Refrigerators at $30
This is the refrigerator made by the Maine Manufacturing Company especially
for the Wanamaker Store, and in construction and design it is the exclusive property
of the Wanamaker S,tore.
The Wanamaker Special is a three-door refrigerator, 35 inches wide, 22 inches
deep and 50 inches high. It has 125-pound ice capacity and extraordinarily large pro
vision space. It is white lined throughout, has four shelves in provision chamber, has
nickeled or solid brass lockUd hinges. The white lining of this refrigerator is espe
cially durable, being an ervJA baked on metal. It will not stain, cleans very easily.
The Wanamaker Spefef White Mountain Refrigerator 13 supplied to the Store
in carload lots as fast as it can be manufactured, but the demand being vpry large, it
is sometimes necessary to take orders for late delivery.
(Fourth "Floor. Market)
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