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EVENING' PUBLIC 'LEDGER PITILADELPHI A', MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1910
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WOULD YOU?
By FANNIE HURST
Mmun.nn iiiii i mtjnrrr 3
1 ' , '- "hy a
T-ou cnoicd "WMio Goods and
Hailing Stock," didn't loitf This
U tho fir.it installment of another stx
day serial, tcrittcn in Fannie Hurst s
fascinating stylo with a somewhat
different appeal, but just as good,
IN SECOND AVENUE spring only
dnrcs to show her facts In an occn
sionnl square o city park, and tlio
kocp - off -
the - Brass
sign, sprouts
even b o -fore
tli o
blnilcs them
bclvcs; hu
man nature,
that ilroll
dyed - In -tho
-rib stuff
which makes
o Eve and
Lot's wife.
Pandora and
Isanc Ncw
t o n first
cousins,
flows like
n. torrent
TANN1I3 JIUK3T "U ly mo
springs ot
every country in the world where op
pression and black bread mftko emi
grants to tho new.
In Second avenue, where St. Mark's
rears its incandescent crosses, -lllyrian
children with the smoky eyes of north
eastern and dark-eastern Eurppe shout
all dny in its Doric shadow, mingling
their SlnnVpiittnrnll with tho hicllTcU-
tpnic babel of low Germany. Swedish
women with wide faces and bad teeth
swap dos English on the neighborly
stoops of houses long since fnllcn from
grandeur to lodger. The sign outside the
City Clinic repeats itself in five tongues
and tho Hungarian cafes multlgrnph
their menus in three languages. Girls
with voluptuous busts and slim thighs,
and tho dark glnuco of Polnnd flashing
out from under two-dollar-and-n-half
reproductions of tho twenty-live dollar
thing in Fifth avenue millinery, suun
tcr past these cafes of early evenings,
not unconscious of the loiterer's ar
rested glance or the bold advance.
Of spring Saturdays, to the smell of
city sap, Second avenue bursts into
carnival. The fcquares of park bloom
with new crocuses and new babies. Shop
floors are propped open. Tup Scandi
navian Orthopedic Homo sets out a
row of small hunchbacks for tho warmth
of the stoop. Young men with bad com
plexions and yellow second and third
fingers linger at the entrance to lofts
for the noonday exodus of the fivc-dol-.lar-a-wcck,
spit-curled, white-nosed
daughters of shawled, oue-baby-a-year
mothers. The Galacian Chess Club
laiscs its windows for tho first time in
a nlno mouth.
Upon the first half Saturday of the
season, with months-old snows dwin
dling out of the cold granite crevices
of St. Mark's, and up and down the
nvenuo a head out of each window,
Illfkin ladks' tailor drew a grccti
Holland shade down against the broad
est and heaviest plate-glass front in
tho vicinity; and Miss Lenh Rifkiii,
posed like a conventional flower on a
grccn-ieic uais neioro a luu-ieusiu mir
ror, turned her brass-colored head slow
ly to the left to conserve her posture.
IJy no telling what atavism, she had the
Hellenic profile that is slimly etched
and wont to quiver. She turned it now
toward tho darkened shop-front.
"Drag the bolt, too. l'ap. The only
way we can give ourselves a half-holiday
in this joint is to hang a crape
on the door." '
"Quit that line of talk. Lee, it gives
me tho shivers even in fun."
On her knees, effulgent enough, too,
tho profilo one-chinned and ardently
thrust forward, Mrs. Vancl Illfkin sat
back on her white spats regarding the
posed figuro of her daughter.
"We gotta hand it to little Barney
Reward 1 Take it from your mother,
Lee, you make a noiso like an im
port." "Ain't it sol That kid could design
a spiral stalrcaso along new lines.
Looka thoso sido plaits, Ma, just rest
your eyes on 'cm."
"It's that flaro gives it. novelty. He
got the idea from tho model Dodd &
Itnnkin had In their window."
Sho reached forward and drew tho
n.i.un niniii elf Irf nut to n fan.
'T.I.P. It'n n lu-lu! If I had the
strength left in mo I'd wear it myself
and fill out them shoulders a little
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Mr. Kifktn sprang n 0011 iicrusa j ;
front door and advanced down the
length of tho shop. Ho was of negligi
ble height and various rotundities; a
convex span of fawn-colored waistcoat
studded with five adjustable pearl. but
tons; a dome of. head that reflected
pools of light like n parquet floor,
horn-ribbed glasses, ground concx
against far-sightedness, and a certain
dapper patter to the balls of his small
C"01!" he said, regarding the figure
on the dais, spreading out his short
hands and wagging ls head in the di
rection of car to car, "01, from a dis
nnn t mn't toll if my wifo is my
daughter or my daughter is my vie,,
"I n'sk you, Hcnrj, is she a picture.'
Ho blew a kiss off bis palm, Mm-
m-m-mt" ho said, with the same
1.1...1 lmnl ivmtfnn.
Miss llifkln drew her white kid boots
together in n snarp ciick, ' "
.! i ,iri,(- lmnc threw out tho
salute of a lfussar. her ep uleted oung
shoulders squaied to the military
thing in white cloth suits, her head
!-!.,.. i.riiiinnMv out from the lust
word in snug collars. ,
"Another year ami mere uu u u ..u-.-tomer
will let her fat old mother show
off a model with the kid around.
"Forward march!" cried Miss llif
kln nnd spun in n circle, the skirt with
its hidden flare opening out like an
inverted morning-glory.
"Tho lines. Henry! Looka how he s
worked out them shoulder seams. One
clever kid. You can take it from me.
before I let the Fifth avenue crowd
grab that boy off us, wo got to nail
him to the business.
"Ma! You mean it!
"The kid don't know it, but it looks
pretty much to mo like he's going to
represent the 'and company' to thu
Arm. and quick, too."
"Say, Yanci, you don't got to holler
it. Nothing ain't sure yet. For the
next two years wo rant-
"There you go again, Pap afraid or
your shadow. Honest, it's like Harney
hissclf says, you're the best little tailor
nnd the poorest little gambler in this
town. iYou know yourself, once on
the Avenue you got tho world by the
wrist, but oi, oi. oi, getting you there!"
"She ain't all wrong, Henry."
"Three years we been wntchin' the
.Tosephy store to sneak in next Machin.
Well, now It's vacant nnd it's our
chance to break into the Avenue. Does
Pup make a move? Pap does not; Am
I right, Yanci?" .
"It ain't so nice, Lee, you should
call your mother always by her first
name. You're right sassy, Lee, when
you want to bo."
"Now he's mad 'cause ho knows the
only way he'll ever get to tho Avenue
Is if wo tow him up liko iiis engine was
dead."
He plucked n thread from tho coat.
"You children got easy talking. Go
try liko your mamma did with old man
Scllg to get somebody to back us up
those few thousand, nnd see what hap
pens. I'm tho best tailor in town till
I usk my own bank, whero I've dealt
twenty years, It should give mo n few
thousand backing to mako a movo with.
Then right away I ain't so good."
"Hut. Pap, JOu "
"Look at them undcr-nrms, Yanci.
hat n garment that Wolff makes !
Perfect, ain't it? You don't think,
Yanci, you fill It out maybo a little bet
ter ns Lee?"
"I'm getting hippy, Henry. I got to
stand nsi'do for tho kid."
"I wish yon was. Yanjj. Every time
what I look at you I got a feeling you've
dropped somewhercs a pound."
"I should say sho does fill It out befc-
ter'n me, Pap. I feel like the Goddess
or Liberty gone wrong in this thirty-
eight. Looka this left-over wad of
coat."
"She's right, Yanci; if you wear this
coat ich got twice the spottiness."
Mrs. itifkin rose from her knees,
brushing at her superlatively tight
cloth skirt. She was like Pnphla, pale,
but who is the plumpest of all Venuscs.
lhrough the vaguest of vague blouses
her arms and high chest stammered
through, white, even young.
"For God's sake, won't none of you
around hero havo a heart? I wish it
to jou your legs weighed a ton apiece
for fio minutes like mine do. Is it a
law that everybody in this joint can
go dead but me? Instead ot celebratin'
our eighteenth nnnUersnry tomorrow
with a supper crowd, 1 think I'll cele
brate it with one long sweet nap."
"Ynnei, I "
"A tired feeling from my neck up
nnd my neck down, and I should go
sporting this model out to the polo
meet jet!"
"Have n heart, Pap; she's right!"
"I'm all in, Henry. Looka these
rings under my eyes like ojstcr shells
Arc you nil tied to hit npion strings t
Do I gotta do all the engineering all
tho time? Can't jou and the kid nnd
Harney go out to tho grounds nnd mnke
a showing for tho firm nnd leramo have
one afternoon homo quiet in tho fiat
with Zctt?"
"Yanci, you ain't well?"
" 'You ain't well,' he asks me. No,
husband, there's just somebody up
Inside my head plajiu' with a triphammer."
Miss Itifkin leaned down from her
dais, looped a graceful arm around her
parent's shoulder nnd placed a young
cheek to Iiers.
"I'll wear the model, Ma, and get
away with It, too."
"Circulate, Lee. That's tho secret.
Get out in front of the grandstand nnd
the photographers nnd make every moe
a picture. Show off jour good points,
nnd remember when a lad's in public
she don't look no further than her nose
nnd not that far if It's a long one."
Mr. main ncercd up at his wife.
"Ynnei, it ain't like jou, this spring
fever. You go bark to Uoctor Stow -koski
this afternoon like he said jou
should conic tho second time, loh don t
look right. Since the lnathinc workeic
strike jou alu't looked right."
(CONTINUED TOMOUItOW)
Copyright by Wliclor fcsndlialc
A Word in Time
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sunlight or the backing will become I
clouded.
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"CINDERELLA'S DAUGHTER
By HAZEL DEYO BATCIIELOR
l For New Year's Dinner
SPECIALS FOR TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY
Off For the South!
Fashion Turns Her Back on Snow and Ice and Seeks
a Place in the Sun
To-
Radiant with color and
breathing the freshness
of Spring come the new
hats for the Southland!
morrow in the Down Stairs
Store a First Showing of
Spring Hats
Will Be Held
CopvrtoM, 1919, lu PuWo Lcdatr Co.
SYNOPSIS
Virginia West and Knthlccn Foster
meet at boarding school and become
engaged to college men at virtually
tho same time. Kathleen is a triiler
with life, and Virginia, plunged into
her first love affair, is very much in
love. Mrs. West is eager to break
up tho attachments, as she has run,
through her money and is anxious for
Virginia to marry wealth. However,
Virginia turns down a possiblo raar
. riago with a very wealthy and much
older man and upon her mother s
confession of their flnnncinl status
determines to marry Jimmy Ander
son immediately. He is just out of
college and muking $50 a week.
Kathleen and Her Mother
KATHLEEN nnd her mother blew in
on tho AVcsts unexpectedly one
evening. Mrs. Foster was a large
blonde woman, beautifully gowned. She
had a quiet dignity of manner and she
saw everything that was taking placo
nround her, although she did not give
tho Impression of unduly noticing any
Virginia sat on tho couch with Kath-
1A iiml ilin Krn tnllril PHfTOrlV.
"How is Jimmy?" were Kathleen's
tirst words.
Virginia blushed. "I'm going to visit
his family next week," she confessed.
Kathleen opened her eyes wide under
tho blue feathered hat. "Then it s
settled? Oh, Virginia, what made you
bo so foolish. Does your mother ap
prove? I never thought sho would." And
Kathleen looked nt Mrs. West lying
back languidly in a largo vhalr and
playing with her rings as blio chatted
with Mrs. Foster.
"I thought you liked Jimmy."
"I do, to play with ; but, my dear,
not to. marry. Y'ou'ro .uro jou know
what you aro doing?"
"Of course I do."
"When aro you going to bo mar-
"Has Jimmy a good position?" .
"In tho fall."
"Splendid."
Kathleen looked doubtful. She had
known Jimmy Anderson for three years
and she could not imagine marrying
him. She thought in her heart of hearts
that' Virginia was foolish, that sho was
throwing her chances awuy. It she
had known the truth of tho matter, and
that Virginia was planning to live on
50 a week, sho would havo been
scandalized.
"Hut you haven't told mo anything
hbout Bill," Virginia was saying.
"Oh, my dear, that's all oil. Mother
thought I was crazy to even think of
such a thing, and sho mado mo promise
to have nothing moro to do with him."
"Oh, Knthlcen, how could you? Hill
was 'awfully in love with you."
"'I know ho was, nnd I liked him,
too. But ono can,'t livo on love these
days. Somo of us havo to bo sensible
about life. It may be, Virginia, that you
cau bo perfectly happy with a poor
man. 1 know myself well enough to
feel that it isn't possible, so why keep
on with it."
"Didn't you lovo him?"
Kathleen flushed and for a moment
her eyes dropped. "Yes," sho said
soft," but not enough. Besides.I wanted
to come to New York and Mother made
mo promise before sho brought mo hero
that I wouldn't seo him again. I might
have gone on with it, and what would
havo happened? I should have made
Hill perfectly misarablo when I couldn't
have clothes. It would have ended hor
ribly." "Then you didn't lovo him," said
Vjrginla with conviction.
jlCatkln shrugged her phoulders and,
s a Kisnironi her mother, rose.
"Jt'n going to bfl nice to ge ynu tbU
BvinUr," (Mid Xm. Jfotw, pWiisg t
Virginia warmly. "Wo are going to
be out of town until September, and
then Kathleen wants to study designing
here in the city. She will probably stay
with friends. You two will see a great
deal of each other, I expect."
"Virginia is going to be married in
September," Kathleen announced tri
umphantly. Mrs. Foster raised her delicately pen
ciled eyebrows and Mrs. West said
sweetly.
"Virginia is going to visit the An
dersons next week and I am going to
my, sister in Detroit. Of course there
would be no need of keeping up this
apartment, so wo arc breaking it up and
Virginia will probably be married from
a hotel."
Virginia flushed painfully. She knew
that her mother was quite well awaro
of tho fact that there would be no
hotel wedding, nnd that she was merely
getting out of the situation as well as
she could.
"I'll let you know my plans," she
said, catching Kathleen's hand which
was beautifully gloved in light fawn
suede.
Kathleen drew it away lightly and
gave Virginia's arm a little pat.
"Of course, I'll write you from the
mountuins and send you my address."
Was there a little coolness in Kath
leen's voico or did Virginia imagine it?
(Tomorrow-
"Tho Visit to Jimmj's
Home.")
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There arc wide-brimmed, pic
turesque leghorns, sometimes with an
upper brim of sky blue velvet. There
are hats of brilliant orange, of pale
lilac, of fresh green and sea blue all
the glowing colors that one associates
with a hot sun and a sandy beach.
A new note, and one which holds much for Spring, is the use
of rallia straw. Sometimes it forms a whole hat ; sometimes sev
eral colors are used to form an embroidered pattern on a hat of
a different straw.
Small sports hats of great charm are of soft hemp combined
with delicately tinted grosgrain ribbon, which matches or con
trasts with the color of the hat.
Most unusual and very striking is a rough straw hat of octa
gon shape, Avreathed about the crown with wheat. The shape
would be unusual, but the colors are more surprising the entire
top of the hat is bright orange and the underbrim facing is of
bright blue !
Just to walk among these delightful things is
to feel the call of the South.
Prices Start at $5
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Bottles, 65c
They are of good red rubber,
"seconds," but tho Imperfec
tions aro in tho molding nnd
not in the rubber.
(Central)
Soft, Warm
Bed Shoes at 50c
Shoes of plain-color eider
down and figured blanketing
nre warm as toast and feel
good on cold nights. 1'coplo
who use sleeping porches will
be especially glad to havo
them I
(Crntrnl)
Special Women 's
Combination
Suits, $1
They arc "seconds," but good
ones, of white ribbed cotton,
niadu in two styles low neck,
elbow sleeve or high neck, long
blcevcj both arc ankle length.
(Central)
Interesting Silks
30-inch navy blue printed
radium printed with white
dots of various sizes. $1.80
yard, and today we would have
to pay moro than that for it!
36-inch satin do luxe in nay
or black, 4 a yard.
35-inch chiifcn-finished black
taffeta, ?2.D0 a yard.
35-inch btriped or plaid satin
and serge-twill silk in attrac
tive combinations, $2.50 a yard.
(Central)
A Snowy Spread
It is of heavy satin-finished
Marseilles and is hemmed.
$8.50. Scallorcd and with cut
corners, it is $10.
(Central)
Pretty Nightgowns.
Hand-scalloped nightgowns of soft white batiste are as dainty
as can be. $2.50.
There arc also nightgowns of durable white crepe that do not
need ironing. $2.50.
Nightgowns of bluebird crepe aic a delicate maize shade and
are tiimmed with Copenhagen blue. ?3.
Bloomers at $1
are of whito crepe with, elastic at the waists and knees.
Other bloomers of pink sateen or of pink crepe-like batiste aie
$1.50.
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Three Groups of Women's Suits
Marked at Low Prices
At $25 thcro is a group of dark mixtures in diagonal weaves.
Jackets in belted styles are lined with plain or fancy
silks.
At $29.50 wol iersy m brown, navy and heather mixtures
is in attractive styles.
At $35 individual models of tricotine, serge and velour in
fashionable daik shades are lined with pretty silks.
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Founded in 1865
The House that Heppe built
C. J. Heppe & Son Downtown 1117-1119 Chestnut Street Uptown 6th and Thompson Streets
Mason & Hamlin, Weber, Heppe Pianos. Aeolian Player-Pianos, Pianolas, Duo-Art Pianolas. Victrolaa
Invest Your Christmas Money
in a Victrola or Victor Records from HEPPO
Vmm Piiviotmna mnnov will wirrv the Christmas snirit
throughout the entire year if invested in a Victrola or in
Victor Records. , ,
At Heppe's you can secure Victor Records from 60c to
$3.50 and Victrolas from $25 to $350.
Below are four Heppe Victrola suggestions. .
Settlement may be by cash or charge account or by
our Rental-Payment Plan, by which all rent applies toward
the purchase price.
Immediate delivery can be made of the following outfits:
Heppe No. IV Outfit Heppe No. I-A Outfit
Victrola IV $25.00 Victrola 1X-A $70.00
4-10" double-face records 3.40 8-10" double-face records 6.80
Total Price 28.40 Total Price $76.80
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Heppe No. VI Outfit Heppe No. XI-A Outfit
Victrola VI $35.00 Victrola Xl-A $1 30.00 ... . ,
5-1 0" double-face records4.25 1 0-1 0"double-face records 80 Vactrolos
Total Price $39.25 Total Price $138.50 $25 to $350
Call, phone or write for catalogues and full particulars
" " ' C J. HEPPE & SON T
Downtown Founded In 1856 , Uptown
1117-1119 CkMtaet Street One Price EyoUm adopted la 1MI 6th and Thompson. Streets
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Warm, Good-Looking
Coats for Girls at
Special Prices
Special at 513.50 two models: one is of
heavy, rough wool navy coating and is fully
lined. The other, of navy cheviot, is trimmed
with attractive buttons. Tho collar is lined
with red and can be buttoned high. Sizes
10 to 14 years.
Special at $16.50 a good coat for girls
who wear sizes 10 to 14 years is of closely
woven navy cheviot fully lined with a
durable flowered material. The shawl collar
is of fur cloth and there are cuffs to match.
Top Coats for Girls and
Juniors Special at
$13.50 to $57.50
Included are coats of velour, cheviot,
tweed, silvertone, polo cloth, etc., in styles
that will be good throughout tho Winter and
late into the Spring. Some of them have
fur collars of nutria or of French sealcne.
Sizes 10 to 17 years.
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Winter Coats in Spring Models
15 Styles at $45
with the many styles at other prices, make
the Down Stairs Coat Store quite a satis-,
factory place to spend Christmas money.
And one gets so much comfort out of a
good coat that is correct in style!
The Shorter Sports Models
are well in the front for Spring. Ma
terials such as velour, polo cloth and silver
tone seem especially adapted to the smart,
clean-cut, shorter lines. Many of the coats
show inverted or box pleats in back and
fasten with buckles; some of the coats
have as many as four pockets in front !
Linings are delightful all of the bet
ter sort of silk in plain -colors or attrac
tively figured. '
A number of the coats have fur collars
and the model that is sketched is of polo
cloth with a sealene fur collar.
Other sports coats of camels'-hair,
bolivia, etc., are $49.50 to $97.50,
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Practical Tablecloths
At 51.50 to ?2.G0 there are hemmed, hemstitched or scalloped
cotton cloths, 50x56 inches to 72x7ii inches.
Satin-finished Irish cotton damask cloths, 72x90 inches, arc $ 1.50
each.
Heavy Iiish cotton damask tablecloths in several pretty circular
designs havo napkins to mutch. 72x72-inch cloths, $1.50; napkins,
22x22 inches, 55 a dozen.
' (Chestnut)
Four Groups of Shoes, Specially Priced
Snecial at SG.50. trirls' and women's dark
tan leather lace shoes aio cut high. They
have imitation wing tips with perfora
tions and tho heels are low.
The Style Sketched
is of black kidskin with imitation tips and
medium &6es. Tho kidskin is a good,
pliablo quality and the soles aro durably
welted. 50.50 a pair.
Children's Sturdy Shoes
for hchool are of dark tan leather in lace stjc. The toes aro
bensibly wide for growing feet. Both uppers nnd soles are heavy
and durable. Sizes 0 to 8, $3.50 a pair; 8M to lOte, 51; sizes 11
to 2, 54.50.'
Heavy Storm Shoes, $6.90 a Pair
They aro in bUcs 10 to 13 M for girls and small boys. Tho
ghoes aro of black or tan leather and fasten high with buckles.
Corsets for Many Figures
at $1.50 and $2
At $1.50 there are topless corsets of white or flesh coutil for
slight to average figures.
At $2, corsets for average to nicdium-blout fieures aro made
with medium-high bustlines and are fairly well boned.
Also at $2 there aro corsets for Might figures. They have deep
insets of elastic nt the top and bottom of each side.
Brassieres, 65c to $1.50
Between these prices there is a choice of six models in flesh or
white. Many are trimmed with lace and others are trimmed with
embroidery. One modl is of all-over embroidery.
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Dresses of Interest to Every
Woman
At Prices That Make Them Doubly Interesting
$16 $18 $23.50 and $25
At $16 Just about 1C0 di esses in many styles with good
choosing assured, because each dress is unusual value! Tho
materials included aro wool jersey, sergo and velveteen tho
three moht fashionable this beason, and tho colors are navy,
Copenhagen and taupe. Many of the styles are collarless and
the dresses aro variously trimmed with braid, rows of buttons,
plain or colored bead work or silk embroidery.
At $18 A group of silk frocks holds many pretty things.
Soft satin in navy, black or brown is in many models finished
with embroidery, vestees, rows of buttons, or collars and cuffs
of frilled Georgette, etc.
At $23.50 and $25
Pino sergo in navy or black is well tailored in various good
styles. Sizes' arc broken, but the worth-while values mako up
for that.
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