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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER- PHIL'ABELPHIA", TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1919
Organ Plays at 9, 11, 11 :65
and 4:50
Chlmee at Noon
WANAMAKER'S
Store Opens at 9
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The Muddy Mountain Streams
Disappoint Fishermen
whose picturesque camps are pitched along the
beautiful Juniata, as the fish in these streams
only travel when the water is clear.
After the successive showers of a few days
ago ajl the streams, like Shorer's Creek, were
overflowing their banks and at least two feet
higher, and still worse, were of the color of the
dusty, country roads.
It was interesting and useful to notice a
crystal stream pouring out of the rocks, which
kept its purity for a long time, as it leaped from
rock to rock, but lost it entirely in sixty seconds
when it joined itself to be company with the
swollen and soiled creek, reaching up to it and
sweeping on to the river.
To be born pure and sweet amid the beauties
of nature and to run along for a time without a
stain and then suddenly plunge into a giddy,
noisy company of even an old neighbor and
become a part of a tainted life and lose identity
entirely seems an awful downfall.
The shifting currents of life must be
watched closely and guarded carefully, lest they
engulf us and endanger all our future days;
A business life can be as highly honorable
as any other, if we keep clear of entangling
alliances.
Signed
August 5, 1919.
Clesjraway of Women's
Summer Dresses
Now $5
Ginghams, voiles, or
gandies and batistes, be
' sides a few linens and a
few nets. Colors are the
rule, but there are a few
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There Is a Furore in Paris Over
Fringe for Dress Trimmings
It is used to adorn skirts,
tunics, bodices and sometimes
whole gowns are draped with
fringe.
The very wide fringe, used
for this last purpose is here,
(Main Floor,
Philippine Lingerie
A great many women are buy
Ing ft now to save their finest
French lingerie while they are
away from home. But always it
is extremely attractive and refined
in itself.
Envelope chemises, $3.25 to
,4.76.
Nightgowns, $3.25 to $5.50.
Straight chemises, $2.75 to
$5,50.
(Rant Alile)
(Third FloorChentnut)
Here Are the First
Autumn Skirt Fashions
They come a bit earlier this year but the many women
Interested in new fashions will be glad to see them now.
t Snakeskin silk combined with brushed wool is the new fashion
4-the skirt proper of silk with a deep band around the bottom
of brushed wool, hanging pockets and a girdle, wool trimmed. In
black or the new brown shades, $28.75.
Other snakeskin silk skirts jn new plaid designs are in rich
browns, greens and other shades and are $28.75 and $32.50.
It promises to be a great year for wool plaids largo plaids
and small plaids, plain and pleated skirts. The wools are of
beautiful quality, and the skirts gathered and pleated, $25.
(Flrat Floor, Central)
Women's Silk Stockings
"Seconds" at $1.50
060 pair of full-fashioned black and white ingrain thread-silk stock
ings with mercerized cotton tops and soles.
(1Vet Alile)
Women Who Want Pumps
With Very Low Heels
like this group.
They have tipped toes and little leather bows and are the sort of
iocs that will appeal to young women
In black and mahogany calfskin
Ik whita buckskin at $10 apir.
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to $25
white frocks in the col
lection. Some are badly
mussed, but the prices
are reduced to very little
and all sizes in the lot.
Central)
in black or deep blue, of silk,
35 inches wide, and is $14 a
yard.
And there are plenty of
other fringes in the fashionable
widths and colors, at various
prices.
Central)
Cool White Waists
Half the waists chosen by
women at this time of year are
the simpler cottons. For instance,
here are a voile with round neck
finished with pleated ruffle: price
$2.50.
A corded organdie with scal
loped collar and cuffs at $5.
A novelty voile with shawl col
lar, knife pleated, $3.
Voile with square neck and
hand-embroidered collar, $3.50.
(Third Floor, Central)
of fashion.
and patent leather at $8.60 a pair.
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Early Autumn Fashions
for Junior Girls
those "betwecn-age" girls who like more grown-up fashions than those
for children and yet do not want "old" clothes are arriving daily in
the Girls' Store.
Dark blue serges combined with rich plaid silks are among the
smart little dresses, the plaids beautifully harmonizing with the dark
wools.
Picture a vivid, glowing orange duvetyne collar, in round, Bertha
style, on a dark blue wool frock, and you've some idea how attractive the
frock is. Or you may have the same dress with an American Beauty
collar.
Heavy dark blue taffeta with a ruffled skirt, each ruffle fringed,
is another feature.
And there are other dresses of dark wool poplin, of heavy silks
and of serges in many new fashions. ""
12, 15 and 17 year sizes and $35 to $53.50.
(Second Floor. Chestnut)
Among the New Fall Dresses
for Young Women
that we noted in a walk through the Salon are these, that we'd like
you to know about
A rich brown velvet dress, with a round neck, just a bit of real
lace for a distinctive touch, a row of buttons down the side and a wide
satin girdle. $58.50.
Quite stunning is a frock of serge and satin the black satin for
foundation with a long pleated tunic of blue serge, a new satin girdle
and a smart little cockade of emerald green at each side. $57.50.
A black lace dinner dress is made over black satin, has jet for
trimming, airy tulle sleeves in flowing style, shallow, round neck and
jet rope girdle, $87.50.
Another dinner frock is of China blue crepe, with a new skirt with
many side ruffles, a rosebud of silk here and there, and new diaped
sleeves of tulle. $58 50.
14 to 20 year sizes.
(Seiond Floor. Chestnut)
New Autumn Silks, Too
Tricolette, $6 a Yard
Many fashion rumors whisper that tricolettes are to be used
for gowns, alone and combined with silk and cloth.
These new tricolettes are in the smart brown shades, in taupes
and sand color, as well as dark blues and black.
$6 the yard.
(Flrat Floor, Chestnut)
Striped Silk
Handbags
A fine grade of black and navy
moire silk, with quarter-inch
satin stripes running around it,
makes these bags. The black,.
bags have black, taupe or purple
stripes, and the navy bags have
navy stripes.
In the fashionable shallow,
roundish shape with one-piece
frames of tortoise shell finish
celluloid.
Price $7.50.
(Main Floor, Chestnut)
rp HE ' Sale of Cotton
Remnants is going on
merrily with a great va
rlety of gtngliams, voiles,
percales and various cotton
tissues, besides a few linens
and a few sllk-and'cotton
mixtures. Prices are 12yzc
to $1 a yard.
(First Floor, Chestnut)
House Dresses
Now $1.85 and
$2.65
A little group of gingham
and percale dresses in many
styles and different colors all
exceptional value for their new
prices.
Broken sizes' and odd lots
but good choosing nevertheless.
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rpllE Graflex is the last
word in camera perfec
tion being built to do the
Impossible things In pho
tography. The Camera
Store has an excellent stock
of Graflex Instruments at
$77.85 to $252.80.
(Main Flour, Chextnut)
New White
Petticoats
Double-panel kinds with plain
scallops, $1.25 to $2.85; of thinner
materials for lacy frocks, $3.50
and $3.85.
Heavy white cotton petticoats
without panels, made of pique,
$1.85 and $3.50; of sateen, $2.25.
(Third 'Floor, Central)
Play Aprons for
Little Folk
Some are of sturdy striped cot
tons with two pockets in figured
designs. Others are of crash
bound in pretty colors, and still
others are of colored chambrays
bound with white.
Ever sq many kinds $1.25 and
$1,50 and no two-to-six-year-old
would mind wearing such aprons I
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THE
"PICTURES of things
are great teachers.
If you have ever
seen a picture of a piece
of the woodwork in the
choir stall of some Middle-Age
cathedral, you
must have realized, not
without a certain feel
ing of disappointment,
how little, after all, has
been done in recent cen
turies to make furni
ture and things more
beautiful.
Perhaps these me
dieval men of the Guilds
attained to a height of
beauty in their work
that is extremely diffi
cult to equal and which
it is hardly possible to
surpass, but at least
it is not impossible to
aspire after their stand
ards and to seek after
the source of their in
spiration. In those olden days
Kermanshah and Saruk Rugs
Are Part of Persia's Glory
There is something exquisitely fine about Kermanshahs that gives
them an unfailing charm; and to rich loveliness of color Saruks add a
substantial quality which entitles them to foremost rank amongst the
rugs of the East
The story is old, but like many another old story, it is always
worth recalling.
The recent bales that came in are excellent specimens and priced
25 percent below prevailing rates.
Kermanshah carpets, 9.3x7.8 feet at $350 to 18x16 feet nt $3175.
- Saruk carpets, 12.7x9 feet at $575 to 12.8 feet at $735.
Also a most attractive lot of small Saruks in sizes 3x5 feet to
4.6x6 feet at $145 to $345.
(Seventh Floor, Chestnut)
Have You Seen the Wanamaker
Special Wardrobe Trunk at $35 ?
The body is veneered basswood covered with waterproof duck
and bound with hard fibre; the trunk is cloth lined and riveted,
not nailed. The equipment consists of five diawers and hangers
suitable for men's or women's garments.
Another Wanamaker Special Wardrobe
Trunk at $60
is covered and lined with fibre.
For easy selection there are fifty styles of wardtobe trunks,
ranging in price to $175.
(Fourth Floor, Central)
500 Umbrellas at $2
Men's and Women's
Such things as $2 umbrellas
are fast getting to be things of
other days.
Covers of strong black cotton
with selvedge edges, paragon
frames, handles plain and polished
vood, mission style.
(Ml riocr, Mdrket)
TRADITIONS OF THE MASTERS
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With Special Reference
To the August Sale
the botch was unknown,
or known only to be ex
cluded from the ranks
o f craftsmen w h o
worked in the highest
spirit of which men are
capable.
A man had to be a
master to belong to the
Guild, whether he was
a builder, a cabinet
maker or a goldsmith.
The pity of it is that
today any man with
skill enough to slap a
few pieces of wood
together and assurance
enough to call himself
an artisan will find
some kind of cabinet
shop to employ him. A
revival of the Guilds
as they existed is hardly
possible now. It would
hardly be practicable,
because the world can
not "have it both ways."
Standards of beauty
and art in wood-working
may have declined
within the last few hun
dred years, but stand
New Autumn
Cretonnes
75c a Yard
The first cretonnes to arrive
for the new season, and they are
in delightful new colorings and
designs.
Of firm, good quality, they are
in light and dark colorings and
any number of pleasing patterns
and designs.
ards of convenience and
comfort have risen won
derfully. There is no denying
that the homes of the
people of all the peo
ple are today better,
more conveniently and
more comfortably fur
nished than those of
their ancestors ; and yet
such a sacrifice of
beauty was a high price
to pay for a universally
higher standard of com
fort. It would seem as if
great arc and ideal
social conditions do not
go together; and still
it would be a pity to give
up trying to reconcile
them.
In selecting furniture
for our Sale we have a
bias in favor of those
shops in which only
skilled men are permit
ted to work. We are glad
to say that there are
such shops and we are
Men's New
Handkerchiefs
Special at
$6 a Dozen
When we bought these hand
kerchiefs, back in 1917, we
knew they'd be good values
when they leached us but we
didn't think that we'd be able
to sell them at less than the
present wholesale price as
we're doing.
Firm, snowy Irish flax, per
fectly plain, with U-inch hem
stitched hems.
(Kant anil Wet Alslen)
Plain-Color Carpets in
Uncommon Variety
Some of the best effects, in furnishings are achieved with plain-color
floor coverings, but usually these are not easy to get.
We have just now a splendid assortment of plain-color carpets, in
various makes, at $3.35, $4, $4.50 and $1.75 a yard, according to kind.
Wilton velvet runneis, 3 ft. wide, $5 a yard; 4 ft. 6 in. wide, $7.75
a yard.
In Figured Carpets
we also have a large variety nt moderate prices.
Velvet carpet, $2.75 and $3.25 a yard.
Tapestry Biussels, $1.50, $1.75, $1.85 and $2.40 a yard.
Heavy chenille Axminster, 9, 12 and 15 ft. wide, $10.50, $11.60
and $13.50 a square yard.
. (Seventh Floor, Chestnut)
Only Good Bedding Is
Good Enough
This half-yearly sale is exclusively confined to good bedding;
by which we mean hair mattresses, cotton mattresses, felt, floss
and fibre mattresses, bedsprings
and bolsters.
Good bedding has never
tne ucst prooi oi uiui. it Dnngs me ncc ana saiest Deauing ut;
price reductions of not less than 10 per cent. This applies to all
our stocks, bedclothinir. of course, not included. '
Good bedding is a most important part of good home furnish-
ing a fact which particular people seem to appreciate these days, V
ior mey are Keeping us Dusy supplying ic ana we are surely rpaay
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glad to say that there
are still men who take
prid.e in the work they
do and who would
rather smash a piece
of furniture to bits
than let it go unworth
ily from their hands.
There will always be
enough men of that kind
in the world and enough
shops to employ them
to insure that fine furniture-making
will not
become a lost art.
We have more furni
ture of the kind that
these men make than
we have ever had.
Amongst modern fur
niture there is none
more true to the fine
traditions of the past
in its beauty of design
and none more worthy
of all that modern me
chanical skill can do to
give beautifully de
signed furniture the one
thing that makes it
worth while the qual
ity of endurance.
Men's Solid
Color Shirts
of Woven
Madras
Solid-color shirts are com
paratively few, and they
usually go out as fast as they
come in.
These are soft-cuff, plain
negligee style and are in good
shades of blue, gray, pink and
tan.
The material is a fine .woven
madras.
Price $2.65.
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