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Clilmi at Noon
WANAMAKER'S
Store Opens at 9
WANAMAKER'S
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i tie browing uesire or the feople Tor Better Quality in furniture
Has MadeWanamaker Furniture Sales the World's
Greatest and This One
Today Is a Little Seed, and in
It Is Some Tomorrow
It is possible that there will be from it a field
ready for harvesters.
But life is not all a Summer day. There are four
seasons in the year, and every month of the year is
Somewhat of a planting time, and at a subsequent
time the crop awaits the coming of the reapers.
Every part of the world thus is particularized
in different ways according to its own calendar and
so verified by centuries of proofs.
Having visited Egypt and sailed on the Nile
River, an old story comes back to me of its shallow
waters and an Egyptian rice planter, with a half
starved family of smallish children pleading and
bewailing when they were so poor that at the first
rising of the water around their hut in the swampy
region their father uncorded a bag and scattered its
contents over the water in every direction. A few
short weeks later it was easy to be seen that, "there
is that scattereth and yet increaseth."
Contrast this grown-up large building with the
old one-story sheds of the Pennsylvania Freight
Station we moved into here in 1876.
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August IS, 1919.
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When the Young Woman
Returns Wanting New
Fall Clothes
Her first thought is for a smart blue sorgo frock, and her next is
a good-looking tailored suit. Both will he needed within a month.
New dark blue serge and tricotine street frocks have been coming
in so rapidly that there is an excellent selection here at this moment.
The styles are really beautiful, and the prices quite moderate, owing
to our buying so early.
Among the new fashion features of dresses are
Effective embroideries to emphasize the long skirt panels. Also
embroideries in wedge shapes to give certain desirable lines.
Fringe trimming and the novel fringe insertion.
Satin used in connection with serge for the sleeves and underdrcss.
Long chains of black beads and much braid for trimming.
Prices for dresses start as low as $35 and go to $85. 14 to 20 year
sizes.
The new Fall suits incline to mannish worsteds, but there are
plenty of serges, tricotines and velours in plain colors and checks.
They introduce,. pleated skirts and long side panels, and they are
braided or embroidered with charming effect.
Many have smart little vests of tricolctte.
Prices range from $40 to $120 in 14 to 20 year sizes.
. (Sec&nd Floor, Chestnut)
New Fine White Silks When
White Is at Its Height
And, as every woman knows, there never has been such a
season for white silks as this.
These newcomers are very beautiful and very fashionable
for seashore skirts, frocks or blouses and many women will be glad
to know they arc here.
Novelty white silk crepes do chine with black, bar or plaid
design of white satin, 40 inches wide, $7 and $8 a yard.
White jersey weave silk, 32 inches wide, $3.50 a yard.
White silk. broadcloth, satin striped, 32 Inches wide, $4.25 a
yard. White sports silk with shadow stripes, 40 inches wide, $6 a
' l'lrt Floor, Cheitnut)
Women's Umbrellas
for Fall
Wc ordered the new umbrellas
early this year, because of the
scarcity of materials.
Many foresighted peonlo are
buying umbrellas not only for
their own use, but for gifts as
well.
AH silk umbrellas, black, col
ored and flowered, from $5 to $15.
, Some havo plain wood handles;
others, corded loops, rings or
leather straps. , There is great
V variety and many new styles.
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EA BATHING and outdoor
snorts arc delightful .thines.
but indulged in overmuch they
are often hard upon hair and
complexion. The Salon do Beauto
gives excellent shampoos and fa
ciul treatments to do away with
such ill effects; appointments arc
best made for tho morning hours.
(Third l'loor, rlioalnut)
Women's Silk
Stockings "Seconds"
for $1.50
Full-fashioned black, white and
colored silk stockings with cotton
tops.
Worth buying in quantities, nt
this price.
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Over 8,000 Pairs for Women, Men and Children
at an Average Half -Price
Every one of the thousands of
pairs is a Wanamaker glove and
comes from our own regular stock.
This is the time of year when we
clear out all the broken sizes, odd
pairs, mussed and tumbled and re
paired gloves, and all gloves are
marked about half the price at
which they would ordinarily sell.
The collection includes practically every kind of hand covering the
gloves are all of first quality and the prices are such that wise folk will buy
for some time to come.
There are silk, lisle, duplex, kid, lambskin, suede, cape, buck, washable
leathers and mocha and quite a few one and two handed golf gloves.
For Women
pair, silk chamois lisle and
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duplex.
65c-a pair, long and short .silk and a
few skin gloves.
$1 a pair, kid, lambskin, doe and wash
able leather gloves.
$1.50 a pair, belter-quality kid, suede
and washable leather gloves.
$1.85 a pair, long and short fine kid and
.short mocha gloves.
For Children
ouc and 75c a pair, a small quantity of
fabric and skin gloves.
For Men
35c, 50o, $1, $1.50 and S2 a pair, silk
gloves and street and dress gloves and golf
gloves.
Though the choice is wide, early choos
ing is but the part of wisdom!
(Went Alnlr)
Every Good Player-Piano Has
a Score of Imitators
Good player-pianos arc few.
Inferior playcr-piniios are legion.
A good player-piano is woith all it costs and more. There
is no way of measuring the value of a really fine instrument to
any one who loves music.
An inferior plajcr-piano is almost never wortli its price,
which is only a little less than that of an honorable player-piano.
riaycr-pianos are pianos equipped with player mechanisms.
To get a good one you must first have a good piano, and to make
a good player-piano cen out of a good piano you must have a good
player mechanism.
Wc do not intend to make comparisons between our player
pianos and others. Wo would rather you got your information
from disinterested poisons who know how the standards of musical
instruments vary. But we do advise you not to buy a player-piano
without fulUnvestigation of the makes you have to choose from.
Chickering Knabe
Scfiomacker Haines Bros.
Emerson Marshall and Wendell
Lindeman J. C. Campbell
These are the eight famous pianos we sell and we are the
sole distributors for them in Philadelphia. Their names aic
known all over the musical world and any one who knows anything
at all about pianos knows that they arc dependable.
The player-pianos in which these instruments arc incorpo
rated are the finest player mechanisms made. Tho majority arc
Ampico reproducing ,or Angclus player-pianos.
Prices range from $585 for a J. C. Campbell player-piano to
$3350 for a Knabe Ampico grand reproducing piano. Any instiu
ment may be bought on convenient tcims.
(i:ptlan Hall, Second l'loor)
50 Women's Fine Coats
and Wraps Reduced
- Their new prices are $35 to $75 prices at which they ought to
disappear pretty rapidly. They include serges, tricotines, duvctyncs,
and bolivias, in rich colors; and the linings arc rich and beautiful also.
Women looking for fine things will find them distinctly intcicsting.
(first Floor, Ccutrul)
All Teakwood and
. Lacquered
Furniture Reduced
All the odd picccr, in the
Oriental Store are 10 per cent
less than usual during the August
furniture sale.
This includes ,
Consoles, tables and chairs of
Chinese lacquer.
Settees, chairs, tables and tab
ourets of teakwood.
(Fourth Floor, C hotnut)
500 Pairs of Children's Low
Shoes Reduced Now $2.75 to
$5.25 a Pair
This is a quite substantial leduction upon shoes which aic
as good as they ever were except for the fact that they arc in
broken sizes.
They arc all low kinds, in white canvas and buckskin, and
black and tan leather.
Parents with children and growing girls please take notice.
(Flrt Floor. Market)
Heavy White
Petticoats
The sort which are so much in
demand to wear under white
skirts. One style newly arrived
is of strong muslin, scalloped und
finished with double panel, price
$1.85. The other is of still heavier
batecn, with scnllops, but without
the double panel, price $4.75.
(Third' ripor. Cntr)
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Women's Rever
handkerchiefs
Special at 50c
We bought them two years ago
when linen was much more plenti
ful. They are of sheer Irish linen,
double revcr, hemstitched and
'just tho kind of handkerchief
yery particular women like.
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Cream-Bleached
Table Linen
$2.75 a Yard
Cream bleached means paitly
bleached and it is .sometimes
known as siher bleached.
One good thing about it is that
it takes practically nothing out of
the substantial wearing quality of
the goods they retain their origi
nal weight and "heftiness."
This is an especially Rood,
heavy damask, 70 inches wide, of
pure flax, free from dressing and
comes in three good patterns to
sell at a moderate price nowadays
?2.75 a yard.
(I'lrnt Floor, t'hmtnut)
Collapsible
Overnight Bags
Special at $12.50
There is only a limited number'
of these bags, and if you expect
to get one at this low pi ice w e
would advise you not to delay.
They are made of black long
grain cowhide, in a high shape
with collapsible bottom. Wheu
empty they ate not much over an
inch thick, but when extended
they will hold a gcneious amount
of clothing.
Good looking, well made and
splendidly durable.
In three sizes, 11, 10 and 16
inch.
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Showers and Cooler
Building a shower bathroom in
your home is an expensive prop
osition, especially at this time.
But just the same, you can
havo a shower bath, perfectly ef
fective and delightful, without ex
pense. Ono style of shower, complete
with curtains and hose to be at
tached to tho wall over the bath
tub you can do it yourself in
fifteen minutes is in three sizes,
$9, $11 and $13.
Some hand showers to connect
on the faucet in the bath tub, 75c,
$1, $1.25, $2, $2.50 and $4.
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NLY Wanamaker furniture can make a Wanamaker Sale no other kind
will do.
We are writing in earnest not trying to say something smart.
We have been working hard and learning patiently for years to make as
good a sale as this one, and probably it is still not perfect ; in fact, we have never
known a perfect sale.
But it is an astonishing sale in extent and assortments, in the excellence of
the furniture and the soundness of the economies.
In all that the word successful implies, it is a conspicuously successful sale,
the largest we have ever had in point of business and the most satisfactory in
regard to service.
We don't mention this for personal glory we would have no right to do so,
because all the credit for the unprecedented volume of this sale belongs to the
goods. "
There is only one way to have as large and satisfactory a sale and that is to
have the merchandise that nearly everybody wants, to have it in a choice that
nobody else can equal and at prices that cannot be beaten, quality and desirable
ness considered.
Nearly everybody understands that
the Wanamaker Furniture Sale must
have quality for a foundation because
nothing less would keep it up.
It is also clear that nearly everybody
understands the folly of buying fur
niture of which tjiey cannot be sure.
It is the ever-growing desire for
better quality that has made Wana
maker Furniture Sales the largest
events in retail business.
Today the desire is stronger than
ever, but 'this August Sale of ours is
stronger than ever to satisfy it.
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Clearaway of Young Men's Finer
Fancy Suits at $25
More than any other house of business in Philadelphia the Wanamaker
Men's Clothing Store has a reputation for the service of young men.
It has a large, growing, enthusiastic business typifying the young
man of college age in the smart clothes longest in the period of youthful
vigor.
Now we have 300 of these young men's suits to clear away at $25.
They have been $3 to $15 higher in price.
These are all three-piece suits in medium light-weight woolens with
various skeleton half-linings, and they are excellent to wear now and up to
the middle of Fall.
Fine to put away for next Spring.
Our reduction of these suits gives the young man a chance to get his
first long-trouser suit in time to start his college course.
(Third 1 lonr, Murkrl)
A Good Season to
Lay Linoleum
And a good and fairly pi iced
assoitmcnt of linoleum to choose
from. .Designs for kitchens, laun
dries, pantric.- and bathrooms.
Inlaid linoleum, $1.50, $1.70,
$1.85, $2.50, $2.80 and $:i a square
yaid.
Printed linoleum, $1.10 and
$1.25 a squaic aul.
.Tfii(li I lour, ( lirhlnul)
Men's Finest Bangkok and
Balibuntal Hats at $6
(Exactly Half Price)
ei fine and lightweight Summer hats from the Philippines.
Men who have admnril tlirm ltit hesitated at the legular price
now hac an oppoituiut to gt one for half.
Sailoi, telescope and natuial -hapc-.
Oliiin I Iniir, Marl. i-l i
China and Persia Join Hands in the
Spread-Out of Oriental Rugs
TN colors and patterns, Chinese
rugs are simple and unmistak
able to a degree that K rather
charming. Grounds of deep or
pale blue decorated with flowers
or queer figures in ecru or pink;
grounds of ecru, fawn or golden
tan with patterns in blu and
other shades these, with borders
of varying brilliance, give them
a character all their own.
Chinese carpets arc a notable
feature of tho recently arrived
shipments, which we aic now
showing at prices much below pre
vailing values. These arc priced
at $45 to $2170 for sizes 510.U
feet up to 20x15 lect.
New hales of Persian Mahal
carpets came in at the same time
to sell at ery attractive prices.
These are very desirable
weaves, of sound quality and
good for practical service. Per
sian red, blue and ecru, all in
(sirntli Flour, ( lirMnut)
well-blended combinations, give
them a warmth and softness
peculiar to themselves.
They are marked $107 to $1375
for sizes 10.11x7.1 feet to 19xlJ.3
feet.
Many desirable small rugs arc
shown at les than market prices,
such as Mosul s, Cabestnns,
Dagheatans, Shirvans, Beluchis
tans, Uozarts, Af-Shiraz pieces
and Kermanshah und Saruk mats.
The Art of Sleeping
Tho rest is lurgcly a gift but
Above all other merchandise,
The first principle is to choohc the proper bedding,
it can bo cultivated, and right bedding is a big help.
bedding simply should be unquestionable.
At any rate our bedding is, and we are offering it in this August sale at reduced
prices.
This applies to mattresses of all the kinds and grades wc sell; also to feather pil
lows and bolsters and to bedsprings.
Our stocks of these goods must always be unexcelled, and they, surely are now.
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