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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1919
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Pointing Out Where the Better Goods Are to Be Found
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Anonymous Criticism ,
A good, honest, face-to-face, outspoken criticism
is not only welcome, but may be valuable; but an
invisible critic, however well meant, tumbles into the
waste basket discredited and on the road to
destruction.
For the anonymous scribbler, you have about as
much respect as you could have for a small boy who
threw p stone from behind a wall at the back of you
and then ran away.
Many of the otherwise beautiful shaped and
Colored shells washed up on the beach of the Gulf of
Mexico are spoiled by barnacles; and the gracefully
drooped forests of parts of the sotjth are the homes
..of parasites, which, in time, are said to kill the big
trees.
Rather let us choose to be masterful and out and
out with living energy as we pass on and do
something worth while.
This Store shall keep at it with shovel, tongs and
poker.
N Sept. SO, 1919,
Signed H 1
A New Showing of Leather Jewel
Cases of Beauty
Owing to the scaicitv of the
fine leatheis of which they are
made, we have had to wait
months for them, but when you
see them you will surely say
they were worth waiting for.
Of morocco, finely finished
calf, seal and pigskin, in blue,
black, rose, brown, soft dark
green. All beautifully lined
some with silk, some with plush.
Squaie and oval shapes, a va
liety of styles some with re
movable hays, some with trays
(Mnln floor.
adjustable on hinges, still others
with collapsible or fall-over
trays., Eveiy one of them hand
some, exquisitely finished and
so practical.
Fiom a size that a man canv
easily cary in his pocket up to
one of quite elaborate dimen
sions. Prices are moderate, consider
ing how hard it is to get these
goods at all $5 to $25, with a
libel al selection at various
figures in between.
ClirMiiut)
Evening Gowns of a Splendor
That Is Fairly Dazzling
Everything .that gleams and sparkles, everything that
makes for beauty of fabric and grace of line is to be found in
Jhese wonderful gowns.
There are sumptuous gold and silver brocades, draped in
- classic iasuion, metal laces oi tne most Druuani nues maae into
charming ruffled dresses, rich panne velvets combined with
gold or silver cloth, entire gowns made of metal cloth with the
blouse part of fringe. And there are others of copper sequins
and brown tulle or chiffons beaded and embroidered. Also
handsome black evening gowhs for older women and the most
youthful radium taffetas for debutantes.
Best of all, the prices have the wide range of $50 to $325.
(Klrnt Floor, Central)
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Furs Play a Large Part With
Some New Handsome. Coats
They even go so far in two cases as to make the entire upper
part of the garment. In one instance the fur is mole, in the other
Hudson seal (dyed muskrat). To this short jacket of fur the skirt
part of silk-and-wool duvetyne is attached, the color blending in
with the color of the fur.
. Both coats have loose dolman sleeves ending in cords and orna
ments. The moleskin one is $475, the Hudson seal (dyed muskrat)
is $450.
Another of duvttvnc, in deeo red, resembles a monk's robe with
a huge high cape collar and cuffs of. squirrel and a cord with orna
ments dangling from the waist. This beautiful and unusual coat is
$350.
There are many others among these new- fine coats that have
much use for fur. Thiy me made of bnlivii. paloncic, vicuna,
duvetyne and tinseltone, and the large pointed collars and cuffs,
sometimes even the pockets and belt, are of beaver, mole, ringtail,
Hudson seal (dyed muskrat), Australian opossum, mole, kolinsky,
dyed squirrel and gray squirrel. Prices from $150 to $475.
(Vint i'loor, Central)
$3-r-Topless model of pink
with broad elastic band at
broche
waist.
,$4 A pink satin
topless with elastic
hips; short skirt.
hip confiner,
section over
FURS TO FORESTALL
JACK FROST.
(Forewarmed Is Forearmed!)
Many women are selecting
th.eir fur coats early this year,
so as to forestall any surprises
which that famous practical
joker, Jack Frost, is ever ready
to spring upon the unprepared.
The lovely richness of Hudson
seal (dyed muskrat) trimmed
with contrasting furs skunk,
squirrel or beaver never
showed to greater advantage
than in the new Winter fashions,
which run notably to short mod
els 30 and 36 inches.
One very good-looking coat is
of Hudson sea.1 (dyed muskrat .
with deop collar and "boll" cuff
of skunk, the two rich shades of
brown represented in the two
kinds of fur, "setting each other
off" most beautifully. The coat
is belted, has jaunty pockets in
the front fine for chilly fingers
and is 30 inches long. Price
$460.
Another smart belted model in
Hudson seal (dyed muskrat)
has a deep border, as well as
collar and cuffs of the sltunk. is
3G inches long and is lined with
a splendid flowered satin. Price
$700.
A very novel and very charm
ing style of coat of Hudson seal
(dyed muskrat), trimmed with
squirrel, which forms the cuffs,
extremely high military collar
and deep border, in which the
pockets are placed, 38' inches
long. Price $725.
Coats of Hudson seal (dyed
muskrat), trimmed with beaver,
range in price from $550 to $625.
A Large Special Sale of
Thousands of Toilet
Necessities
Imitation Ivory Articles, Perfumes, Soaps, Brushes,
Hot Water Bottles, Etc.
A most unusual sale, of interest to every woman who loves
dainty toilet table and bath appointments.
It comprises many thousands of small, wanted things at
prices notably reduced, and offers opportunity to "stock up"
for several months to come.
(Second Floor, Clirntnut)
Beautiful Are the New Dresses
and Coats and Suits for
Young Women
The work of getting together in this season of scarcity a
full and fashionable collection of young women's Fall clothing
has not been an easy one.
But now that it is here, we certainly have reason to take
pride in it.
For it is no ordinary assemblage.
Not simply a gathering-up of "small sizes" of women's
garments and of short-length work-ups of manufacturers, but
.4 Distinctive Collection of Goods to Our Order
and undoubtedly superior to any other.
There is more of fashion, more of quality and more of
value than may possibly be found elsewhere.
Full Suits !
$40 and $42.50 for the new tweed
and burella sports suits and these
will be wanted fier school and busi
ness and goneral wear, too.
$43.50 to $150 for smart new
velour suits in styles for better
wear all the fashionable colors
and many new models are included
in this group.
$75 to $150 for handsome velvet
suits' and other dress suits, many
fur trimmed. 14 to 20 year sizes.
New Dresses
$35 to $110 for silk and satin
and crepe Georgette dresses in
navy blue, black and brown.
(Hpcond rioo
$32.60 to $75 for smai t new serge
flocks.
All these dresbes nie planned on
new lines and arc in many styles.
Warm Coats
$28.30 to $150 for cloth,, velour
and other wool coats, many fur
trimmed. They are richly lined
and in distinctive new styles. 14
to 20 yeat sizes.
Winter Coats for Girls
$20 to $55 for new cloth coats in
light and dark colors for school
and better wear and in 6 to 17
year sizes.
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New L. R. Corsets for Fall
ana Winter
And they are here in excellent season for the fitting of
the fine, new fashionable frock or suit-which can't help but
,look the finer for having a new, fine, fashionable corset be
neath it.
L. R. corsets, famous wherever there are well-dressed
women, are. made exclusively for the Wanamaker Store, and
there is no better-fitting or better-wearing corset made in this
country. These are the newest of new models and have never
been shown before. The materials used are especially good.
Styles and prices include:
$1,25 A model for growing
girls and slight figures, topless,
with elastic inserted in the waist;
short skirt,
$1.50 L. It. -Topless model of
pink coutil for average figures;
lien kirt.
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$4U88 .Bnsitiful model of pink
4000 Yards
Japanese Silks
Special at $2. and $2.25 a Yard
These silks are just out of bond and they are priced the same as
formerly, although -in the meanwhile their cost has risen half as
much again.
2000 yards natural ivory white wash satin, 36 inches wide, at
$2 a yard. Used for all sorts of garments that require constant
tubbing blouses, foundations, negligees, linings and lingerie.
2000 yards natural ivory white broadcloth, 36 inches wide,
$2.25 a yard. It has a schappe warp and n silk weft, making it
especially durable for men's shirts, women's shirtwaists, skirts,
lingerie and so on. It is a beautiful silk and a very popular one.
(Halt Alile) '
The Finest Woolen Fabrics
for Suits and Coats
Beautiful this year, not only because c their exquisite
texture, but also because the colors have never been lovelier.
Bolivias and camel's hair chjth
Fine velours in all the new
shades, $5 and $6 a yard.
Silvertone velours in indistinct
plaids and stripes, $6 a yard.
Handsome mixed tweeds, $5 a
yard.
for the warmest coats, $10 and $12
a yard.
Also all-silk duvetyne, $12.50 a
yard. ,
(Flnt Floor, Cheitnut)
Oddments of Undermuslins
Reduced ls to
Chemises, petticoats and camisoles chiefly, some very
pretty things among them, and a great many have been taken
from our own good stocks because they were mussed or sizes
were lacking.
(Eait Al.le) '
High-Neck Nightgowns
Are Now Here
There have been calls for them already from women who
like to Have them in hand for the first cool days.
Materials are very gocd, and the
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Surplice-neck gowns, $1,85 and
$2.85.
Hih ckd'Mck gowns, $2.25
Imitation Ivory "Seconds" at Half
White mirrors, brushes, dies&ing combs, pin boxes, trays, puff
boxes, hair receivers and photograph frames. Prices start at 10c
for a comb and go to $2.90 for a mirror. We will mark any piece
you select in any one of five attractive styles of lettering for 30c,
wnicn is much less than regular.
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Honfleur and Other Toilet Specials
Toilet water, 50c and 85c, l'Em
pire and violet.
Extract, 40c and 60c, violet, rose
and l'Empire.
Face powder, 25c, violet, rose and
l'Empire.
Talcum powder, 10c, violet, rose
and l'Empire.
Bay rum, 60c, 05c and $1.85.
Witch hazel, 35c and 65c.
Violet ammonia, 20c and 35c.
Hair tonic, 60c and $1.
Eau de Cologne, 76r.
Eye lotion, 25c.
Vegetal, 75c, lilac and wistaria.
Liquid soap, 50c.
Bath crystals, 50c anJ 85c, violet
and verbena.
Cleansing cream, 35c.
Skin cream, 35c.
Youth and beauty cienm, 35c.
Boric acid, 1-lb. package, 30c.
Bicaibonate soda, 1-lb. package,
12c.
Chalk and orris, k-lb. package,
20c.
Toilet Soaps
Wanamaker Lath soap, 12c cake,
violet, verbena, vegetal oil and
peroxide bath.
Transparent rose soap, 7c cake,
80c dozen.
Specially Priced Brushes and Other Articles
to $1.75.
Hair brushes, 50c
Nail brushes, Tic.
Tooth brushes, 20c each, 6 for
$1.10.
Kubber gloves, 30c pair.
Hot-water bottles, 8oc.
Bath sprays, 85c.
Peroxide, 18c and 35c bottle.
Cocoa butter cream, 30c.
Rose and almond cream, 27c.
Benzoin, glycerine anU rose
water, 25c.
Face powder and cream, 60c for
the two, usually 60c each.
Ozo deodorant cream, 20c.
Oter depilatory powder, 35c.
Wanamaker shaving cream, lfec.
Tooth paste, 21c.
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Entrancing New Millinery
J list Arrived From Paris
is coming out of bandbox and tissue-paper chrysalis into butterfly
loveliness while these words are being written, and will be placed
on first exhibition and sale in the Little Gray Salons on Monday.
Beauty and grace in every line! be it the line of sweeping veil,
of flowing plume or the smart and well-studied shapes of the hats
themselves, which show no end of new and clever touches.
Small wonder that they are so lovely, for the artists from whose
hands and brains they proceeded include
Jeanne Lanvin Evelyn Varon
Odette Lewis
Marie Guy Jeanne Due
Rich are the materials fuis and fine laces, deep-piled velvets
and hatter's plushes novel and charming the effects in trimming.
In colors, biowns predominate, as befits a collection of Autumn
beauties! but there is satisfying range of choice in other colors.
The model sketched is an all but irresistible tricorne of black
hatter's plush that came from Lewis. Its piquancy is softened (or
else heightened) by the graceful draperies of a long flowing 'black
veil edged with Chantilly lace.
A round, roll-brimmed turban of golden nutria has one of these
long veils, exactly matching in shade, and edged with nutria.
(Second floor. Chestnut)
"Gardens of Celebrities and Celebrated
Gardens"
By Jessie Macgregor
London or near it is the site of all the gardens tieated in the book.
There are twenty beautifully colored plates and also pencil drawings by
the author to illustrate the text.
To those who know their London this book will Do a real joy in
recalling its gardens; to those who have never been there it will be an
inspiration to go. Price $7.50.
(Main Floor, .Tlilrtrmtli)
As to a Blouse for the"
Fall Suit
There is a host of lovely Georgette crepes in the most
desirable colors and as plain or fancy as one could wish, $6.85
to S40.
Cheerful-looking plaid and
striped taffetas which will go with
almost any kind of skirt or suit,
$6.85 and $7.75.
Crepes de -chine in dark blue,
black, white or flesh pink. They
are tucked or trimmed with narrow
pleatings in the prettiest styles, and
one may have V necks, square
necks or collars that may be worn
high or low, $6.85 to $10.75.
(Third Floor, Cental)
Introducing the Remarkable
"Caloric" Pipeless Heater
for Homes
That a heating outfit that has no pipes, no
radiators, no "system" throughout the house, can
be a practicable outfit is a proposition usually met
with doubt.
Yet there are 5000 homes in Philadelphia
territory that prove it.
"Caloric" is a big, comfortable, inexpensive
furnace that is set up in your cellar and has one
register at some .properly selected spot on the
ground floor of your home. This register is so
arranged that it sends warm air upward and
draws cold air downward. There is a constant
circulation throughout the house.
We are reliably informed by people who have
used it two or three Winters that it keeps the whole
house comfortably heated at 70 degrees and uses
only about one-half to two-thirds as much coal as
methods generally in use.
It Looks Impossible Yet It Undoubtedly
Does Do the Work
It heats your home thoroughly, it saves coal
lots of coal and it is inexpensive.
Made in three sizes $210, $240 and $325,
the price including installation. We will erect it
in any house in Philadelphia or the immediate
suburbs.
An expert from the manufacturers will be
here all next week to show the advantages of this
remarkable furnace.
(Fonrlh Hour, Market)
The Prettiest Window (Surtains
Are Being Made of '
madras, white and ecru, 90c and $1.25 a yard; cream with
colored flowers, 36 inches wide, 65c and $1.15 a yard.
Scrim and marquisette, plain and Special marquisette, 25c a yard,
bordered and with hemstitched . , . .. , , ,. .
blocks, 25c to 85c a yard. And for those who dont want
Swisses, various-size dots, 35c n the trouble of making the curtains
Fiiet net. figured or plain, 35c I we wiU be ,ad to have work
to $1.25 a yaid. I done.
(Fifth Floor, Market)
Presenting the First New
Fall Shipment of Madeira Linens
Just when appropriate gifts for October brides are being'" J
sought by so many people, we open today the initial shipment
of real Madeira hand-embroidered scarfs, tea napkins, lunch
sets, doylies and bread-tray covers. .
These are very handsome specimens of Madeira needle
work and priced quite moderately.
Komul do lies, G-mch size, Zoc, to lux24 inches, $1.75; two sizes' in
between.
Scarfs, 18x36 inches, $2.50. to
18x72 inches, $10.50 each; three
sizes in between.
Lunch sets of 13 pieces, $6 to
P37.50 each.
Tea napkins, $9 to $10.75 a dozen.
to 12-inch, 76c, with two sizes
between.
Oval clojlics, Gxll inches, 40c, to
16x24 inches, $1.50 each; five sizes
in between.
Oblong do lies, 6x12 inches, 50c,
(II rut Floor, Clicatnat)
We Used to Say It and
Nobody Believed It That
Housekeeping Was a Business
Now everybody is saying it.
Housekeeping's a business and the biggest of all
businesses. Every other business puts up its shutters at
night or at closing time that its workers may go to the
home that NEVER CLOSES.
In Wanamakcr's September
Housefurnishing Sale are tens
of thousands of "business helps"
for the housekeeper, priced 10 to
40 per cent below regular.
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itself
Eoing
There's no great and
business that could keep
great ana going without con
stant improvement and replen
ishing of its equipment and in
stallment of new and labor-sav
ing devices.
(Fourth Floor, Market)
French Dinner Sets Are a Critical
Test of a China Sale
The china sale that is not strong in French sets is not a
china sale worthy of the name.
Tested by the French dinner sets comprised in it, this is by
far the best china sale anybody can come to.
We are assured by experienced
people who have looked into the
which begin at $32.50 and go up
to $300. This means an average
saving of 20 to 25 per cent.
matter that the collection of
French dinner tets offeied in this
sale is absolutely unequaled in the
city in the variety of desirable and
handsome patterns and the ex
cellence of the waies at the prices,
The unusual buying of cut glass is a marked feature of
the sale. The unusual choice of good crystal in handsome cut
tings at price savings of 25 to 50 per cent is one very good
reason. Selections are still large and attractive.
(Fourth Floor, Chestnut)
English and American semi
porcelain sets are liberally shown
in the sale also at the same sav
ings, the American.sets going from
$15 to $40 and the English sets
from $22.50 to $45. ,
Bringing Up the Reserves in the
Great Sale of Shoes
Thousands of prudent Philadelphia people are stocking up on shoes for the Winter.
Nobody knows what shoe prices will be like two or three months from now, but everybody who
keeps his eyes open knows that shoe prices at Wanamaker's are 'way down now.
Black glazed kidskin lace shoes with narrow toea and
high Cuban heels.
Other shoes for women, $5.40, $6.75, $7.75 and $8.75,
'3500 pair of women's new Winter shoes have just come
in to sell at $4.40.
They are in four styles, as follows :
Dark brown, heavy grain lace shoes with medium round
toes and military heels.
Dull black calfskin lace shoes -with medium-round toes
and broad Cuban heels.
, Black glazed kidskin lace shoe3 with medium round toes
, widCuban heels.
(Flnt Floor, Market) !
1200 pair of new shoes for men, priced $5.70.
These are mahogany-color calfskin lace shoes made on
a narrow-toe English last.
Other shoes for men, $4.85, $5.40, $8.90 and $8,40"
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