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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERS-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1913
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THE WANAMAKER STORE WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY TOMORROW
This Last Day of the Year
We Stand
with an angel on either side of us
The Angel of the
New Year
pointing: out to us the Star
of Hope that the authorities
at Washington may reach a
happy and unanimous solu
tion of all unsettled ques
tions that will send over the
world speedily a mighty
wave of
The Angel of the
Christmas Time
repeating the joyous cheer
of the children, which still
fills our homes and hearts.
Sales Friday at Wanamaker's
The White Sale, the Fur Sale and the Sale of
Domestic Rugs
In the Sale of White the Savings Are 25 to 50 Per Cent.
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men
When the settlement of National questions is
reached, the President and Congress of the United
States will take up the railroad question and the
Labor and other problems
and a lowering of the cost of transportation
which enters into the high cost of living.
and a fixed eight-hour dag to increase
production and to not lower the wages that
have helped to produce the higher cost of
goods.
and with an embargo, something like that of
Great Britain when the war broke out, fixing
the rise of wages and the prices of goods from
the manufacturer's hands on all the wag down
to the consumer.
We shall then be able to reduce the high cost of living and
it will not be possible to do it otherwise, except in some
temporary, uncertain way.
It was the Government of the United States that raised
the high cost of wages by the mammoth purchases that the
war necessitated, and by the locking up of the mills and
factories to the Government by taking their entire production
for a period.
Naturally this was the cause of the beginning of the
scarcities of goods and of the awfully serious factor of
advancing prices, by increasing wages made to let the
Government get snorter times for delivery to meet
emergencies.
These important considerations have not been known
generally to the public, but they have had more to do with the
raisins: of prices than would be supposed.
The law of supply and demand regulates prices,
and not profiteering only.
The Government has been mainly at fault in not
executing the laws as to cold storage dates, which led to
profiteering in some cases.
Let us be thankful and work for the Happy New Year
that we hope for and wish each other. The wars are past and
done. The New Year morning will bring us not only to the
high mountain of 366 days, but to where we hope to get the
first glimpse of the sunrise of an everlasting peace.
Signed
December 31, 1019.
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A Sale of Domestic Rugs
in the Face of Advancing
Prices
Friday marks a general advance in the mill prices of
domestic rugs. They are scarcer than they have ever been.
Yet Friday Wanamaker's puts on sale over 1000 fine
domestic rugs
At Savings of 25 Per Gent.
These will include high-grade and standard Wilton
rugs, Axminster rugs, tapestry Brussels rugs, wool-fiber
rugs and rag rugs. Both room sizes and small sizes and
all good pieces no shop-worn goods or undesirable
designs.
Some of these rugs are reduced from stock and
others were brought in new for the occasion.
It is obvious that a sale of this sort, at this time, is
more to the advantage of the public than it is to the store
that holds it. But our customers have been accustomed to
look to us for some rug reductions around the first of the
year and as long as it is possible to make a sale we will not
disappoint them.
Wilton Rugs
9x12 ft., $78.50, $92.50 and $129
8.3x10.6 ft., $127.50.
Axminster Rugs
9x12 ft., $47.50, $54 and $63.50.
8.3x10.6 ft., $34, $42 and $48.50.
Tapestry Brussels Rugs
9x12 ft., $32.50.
11.3x12 ft., $46.50.
Wool-Fiber Rugs
9x12 ft., ,$14.50.
8.3x10.6 ft., $13.50.
Rag Rugs
(Colonial and Hit-and-Miss
Designs)
9x12 ft., $12.
8x10 ft., $8.85.
6x9 ft., $5.75.
36x72 in., $2 and $2.25.
30x60 in., $1.75 and $2.
27x54 in., $1.65 and $1.75.
24x48 in., $1.35.
18x36 in., 55c.
Bath Rugs
24x48 in., $2.50.
30x60 in., $3.75.
THE Wanamaker Winter Sale of White will com
mence at 9 A. M. on Friday, January second, when
our doors will re-open after a brief New Year's holi
day enjoyed by our faithful workpeople.
It will be the greatest event of its kind ever known
in the history of even this Store.
It will supply the women even the children, and
indeed, in respect to linens, the households of Philadel
phia and the outlying cities with all that they need in
new, fine, fresh, tasteful, often beautiful garments of
unimpeachable quality in material, cut and trimming, at
prices lower than those which even we, with all our whole
sale purchasing facilities, could command, going today
to the self-same makers who months ago accepted our
orders for these dainty, snowy undergarments and
allied articles of attire.
The stocks are strong in numbers as in quality:
75,000 undergarments alone, without counting blouses,
petticoats, corsets or children's garments.
And there is an amazing variety in styles to suit all
demands, whether for a frilly boudoir cap, bright with
flowers and agleam with ribbon, or a demure, high
necked nightgown; from a soft, silk chemise, dainty as a
peach-petal, to a sturdy flannellet nightgown.
Entering the Store, and admiring the tables
heaped high with their snowy offerings on the Main and
Third Floors, it will seem as though an army had been
provided for.
It has, but it is a very large army.
See how many things it is that you need when you
come to set them down, and add the things the family
needs, too.
So it will be with thousands of other women.
The earliest comers will inevitably enjoy the most desir
able selection, so we impartially recommend early attend
ance to all.
Shirt-Waisls
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Opening With These Goods and Prices
Undergarments
cotton waists of excellent
aualitv. nrettilv made, in a
great variety of styles, both tailored
and trimmed, mostly white; some
with a touch of color. Principally
samples and overlots. $1.75.
waists of net, both light and
dark shades, embroidered in
self-color or a combination of colors.
$2.85.
waists ot Chinese pongee, a
firm, smooth weave the kind
that launders so well. Four differ
ent styles, $3.85.
1000 s waists, Georgettes and a
few crepes de chine, white
tub-silks, and so on, in great di
versity of attractive styles, and a
range of light and dark colors. Some
are plain, some elaborate. Trim
mings are frills, pipings in contrast
ing colors, embroidery in silk or
beading, and even drawn work. $3.85
to .$6.85. Some of the $3.85 lot are
"seconds," but to an almost negli
gible extent.
2Qrt charming blouses of fine ba
tiste, in simple, tailored styles,
$5. Made in Porto Rico, and trim
med with handsome hand-drawn
work.
(Main unci Third I'lonrt)
Corsets
1500 C. B.'s (seconds), 95c.
(Muln Aisle, Center)
1G20 Wanamaker Specials, the
newest and best models, $1.25, $1.50,
$2, $2.50 and $3.
96 Warner Rust-proof, average
figure sizes (20 to 26 inches), $1.50.
Discontinued L. R.'s, $1.50 to
$5.50.
And a number of other excellent
corsets of various famous makes,
priced much below regular.
Also Neatform brassieres, 65c.
(Tlilril I'lunr, Chestnut)
Corset covers, 50c to $2.
Nightgowns, $1 to $25.
Drawers, 85c to $2.85.
Bloomers (batiste), 65c to $1.85.
Chemises, $1 to $3.50.
Petticoats (short), 85c to $1.75.
Petticoats (long), $1.50 to $5.
Hand - embroidered Philippine
nightgowns, $2.85 to $6.75.
Hand - embroidered Philippine
chemises, $2.65 to $5.75.
Camisoles of tub silk, satins and
crepes de chine, $1 to $6.75.
, Silk nightgowns, $5 to $25.
Silk bloomers, $2.65 to $5.50.
Children's Garments
Bloomer drawers, 65c to $1.25.
Straight-leg drawers, 45c to $1.25.
Garments Closely Related to the A hove and to Their Wearers
Nightgowns, . nainsook, $1.25 to
$3.25. (In all sizes 2 to 12 years.)
Bloomers, $1 to $1.50. Sizes 2 to
16 years.
Cambric night-drawers, $1 to
$1.25. Sizes 2 to 10 years.
Princess slips, $1.25 to $2.50. Sizes
2 to 14 years.
Combinations (d r aw e r s and
waist) , 85c to $1.75. Sizes 2 to 10
years.
Girls' petticoats, $1.50 to $3.75.
Lengths 32, 34 and 36 inches.
Colored dresses, $2.25 to 54.50,
sizes 2 to 6 years.
Infants' long slips, $1.25 to $3.50.
Infants' short white dresses, $1 .25
to $3.75.
Creepers, $1.50 to $2.25. Sizes 1 to
2 years.
Rompers, $2 to $3. Sizes 2 to 6
years.
(Third lloor, Chestnut)
500 Women's Warm
Blanket Bathrobes
in a good range of attractive de
signs and color combinations. Very
Pockets, cord girdle. laces, silks and bows. 50c and $1.
well made
$3.85.
500 Boudoir Caps
mostly manufacturers' samples, in
no end of bewitching effects in frills,
(Muln and Third riuors)
2000 White Aprons
of all sizes, shapes and styles. Work
aprons and tea aprons; big aprons
and little aprons and aprons of in
butween sizes. Plain aprons and
aprons with coquettish bibs or trim
med with laces and embroidery. 25c
to $1.
In the Sale of Furs the Savings Are 25 to
33V3 Per Cent
To fashionably dressing women, an
announcement of great interest:
Starting Friday, January 2d, the entire remainder of the
Winter stocks of the Fur Salon will be offered for sale, at reduc
tions ranging from one-fourth to one-third, according to our
annual custom at this season.
The importance of this event to women interested in pur
chasing new furs needs no .demonstration. The Wanamaker Fur
stocks are famous for their qualities, and the Wanamaker Fur
Sales held in January of each year are famous for their opportu
nities. Our entire stocks, a large and valuable collection of fine furs
of practically all kinds, coming from wherever the Arctic Circle
touches, are thrown into the Sale, without reservation of a single
piece, for it is in every respect
ice, when women who have planned
to invest their Christmas gift
money in furs are just ready for
their opportunity. Thus it is
An Honest Sale
as is the tradition of Wanamaker
Sales. In prices, no trading on the
excitement of the occasion or the
hypnosis of the words "sale" and
"reduction" to create an illusion of
savings where there is none. The
January paring-knife has done its
work systematically on every price
ticket, as the tickets will show, and
being Wanamaker tickets, they can
be believed.
In qualities, no misrepresenta
tion or wrong names? and certainly
they are one and all beautiful furs,
beautifully matched and carefully
made up according to Fashion's
latest dictates.
A Seasonable Sale
it certainly is, also. In opening it
to the public wo do not wait until
the call for furs is over, the stocks
almost exhausted and the moth
looms.
We have chosen the season when
"cold begins to strengthen" and the
need of furs is most imperatively
felt; and the time of greatest serv-'
A Serviceable Sale
in all respects. The holly berrios
grew thickly this year, and folks
commented on it and said that it
meant a cold Winter, with plenty of
ice, snow and knife-edged winds,
which, if true, mean3 plenty of need
for warm, becoming furs.
We are not weather experts, but
we are experts in judging and buy
ing furs, and the public attending
this Sale will reap the double bene
fit of high standards plus lowered
prices.
Of course, those attending
earliest will have the finest choice ;
but there is not a piece among the
hundreds of offerings with which
the Sale will start which is not fine
and desirable of its kind, new this
season, fashionably made, and
priced one-fourth to one-third
below its former figure, however
moderate that may have been
already.
The Furs and Their Prices
Coats of Fashionable Cut
including Alaska seal, Hudson seal (dyed muskrat), sable,
natural squirrel, mole, natural muskrat, pony, Persian lamb
and nutria. All are this year's models, exhibiting the newest
fashion features. Lengths are full, three-quarters and
sports styles. Some are self-trimmed, others trimmed with
contrasting furs.
All are fine, glossy, high-grade skins, every piece repre
senting careful selection.
Prices go from $187.50 for a coat of natural muskrat
to $1087 for a wrap made of Alaska seal.
Scarfs in Many Styles
from the jaunty little animal neckpiece or "throw" tie to
the huge, fluffy, picturesque open animal scarf; from the
high, warm, cozy muffler collar to the graceful stole effect
with pocket-ends.
A great variety of furs to start, consisting of Alaska
seal, sable, Hudson seal (dyed muskrat), skunk, beaver, all
the foxes gray, red, cross, taupe, black mole, racoon,
squirrel, mink, wolf, kolinsky, nutria and natural muskrat.
Prices include:
Hudson seal (dyed muskrat) scarfs, $26.50 to $200.
Sable scarfs, $93.75 to $525.
Mole scarfs, $26.50 to $216.50.
Skunk scarfs, $46.50 to $100.
Black lynx scarfs, $26.50 to $100.
Fox scarfs, $33.25 to $83.25.
Natural squirrel scarfs, $26.50 to $200.
Beaver scarfs, $36.50 to $100.
Nutria scarfs, $26.25 to $60. '
Muffs to Match
the above pieces can also be had at reduced prices.
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