7 vr V .w ,.v ''?' - 'iff l ' u v -, !.r m I'-' "S I V ! ' ' ) -e r; 41 'kJ S mmfjESia? -KBTiI0 LBDaBR-PHIIABIiiLPKtA:, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1920 V- i ICE WATER PL ! By FANNIE HURST FANNIE 1IUHOT r. .;... ' 1. ij Aia. inu iiuit 0 . ,ttzm at -,-- ftriertmall appetite. CHAPTER. II urnHAT'S right, Mr. Vetsburs, you J. should eeold her when sho don't -.. AWn the black-bomba-zlno basque, to pleasantly relieved a t the throat by' a V of fresh white net, n wave of color moved up Mrs. Kauf man's face into her ar c h 1 t ectural coiffure, the very black and very coarse skein of her hair wound into a large, loose miA rilreCtlT atop ner ueuu ouu pr"V,fl.ur 01 MOW" ww -. . .1,,. tnr. Sir. Vetebure. she Binds you before she minds anybody JS in the world." icy. said J1IS3 jvauiinuii, i-iuse A. I. ,nrirL. "f.Omfi BUCCOtasb. upon -u"k "-- - From ner T ,"""" .1 ,"' "Yi" ftati leaned a dh. " ho8-1 , v , "Look. Mrs. iinsnriDer, now lur mman her ago she snaps ner Diacu "ben a woman's got a marriageable i&a mn take it from me she'll get Um for her Ruby jet! And take it from me, ", mmtm. j b-v """i much less Ruby Kaufman, could do 1 worse as get Meyer Vetsbure." "S-tay, I wish it to her to get him. ! Tor why once in a whilo shouldn't a poor girl get a rich man except in tools and choruses?" "Believe me, a girl like Ruby can menage what sho wants. Take it from Be, she's got it behind her ears." "I should say so." "Without it she couldn't got in with neb a crowd of rich girls like she does. I tot it from Mrs. Abrams in the Arline Apartments how every week she plays gfe hundred with Nathan Shapiro's dl!cof Shapiro & Stein?" "Ana yesteraay ar, maunee iu baa eones with a bot of candy and laugh -to with that Rifkin girl! How she rets in with such swell girls, I don't faow, but there ain't ti nice Saturday afternoon I don't see that girl walking otlMth avenue witn just sucn a crowu cl fins-dressed girls, all with their noses powdered so white and their hats little and stylish." "I wouldn't be surprised if her mother don't send her demn to Atlantic City over Easter again it Vetsburg goes. Eery holiday she has to go itelv like it uas coming to her." "Say, between you 'and me, I don't jrat it past her it's that Markovitch toy down there she's after. Ray Klein sew 'em on the boardwalk once to gether, and the sajs it's a rfehame for the people how they sat so close in a rolling chair." "I wouldn't be surprised she's fresh irlth the boys, but, believe me, if she gets the undo she don't tako the nephew!" ''Say, a clerk in his own father's ho tel Je the Marko itches got In Atlantic City ain't no crime." "Her mother has got bigger thoughts for her than that. Tor why I guess she thinks her daughter should take the nephew when maybe she can get the uncle herself. Nowadays it nin't noth ing no mora than girls marry twice their own age." "I always say I can tell when Leo Markovitch comes down, by the way her mother's face gets long and the oangnter s gets short." "Can you blame her? Leo Marko vitch, with all his monograms on his flirt sleeves and such black rims on JU his glasses, ain't tho Roscnthal-Vets-burg Hosiery Co., not by a long shotl There nin't a storo in this town you ask for The No Hole Guaranteed Stocking nj?nt away mcy aon'c snow it to you. Just for fun always I ask." "Cornstarch pudding! Irving, stop making that noise at Mrs. Kaufman! Littlo boys should be eecn and not heard even at cornstarch pudding." "GottI Wouldn't you think, Mrs. Kntz, how Mrs. Kaufman knows how I hate desserts that wabble, n littlo something extra she could givo me." "How she plays favorite, it's a shame. I wish jou'd look, too, Mrs. Flnshrlbcr, hoW Flora Proskauer car ries away from tho table her glass of milk with slice bread on top. I tell u it don't givo tuno to a house, tho table liko that. Irving, come nnd take with jou that extra piece of cake. Just so much board vie pay as Flora Pros kauer." The line about the table broke sud denly attended with a scraping of chairs and after-dinner chirrupings attended with toothpicks. A blowsy maid strained herself immediately across tho strewn table and cloying lamb-patter, and turned off two of the three gas jets. In the yellow gloom, the odors of food permeating it, they filed out and up the dim-lit stairs into dim-lit halls, the line Or conversation and short laughter drifting after. A door slammed. Another, Irving Katz leaped from his third-floor thresh old to the front hearth, quaking three layera of chandeliers. From Morris Krakow er's fourth floor back the tune of n flute began to wind down the stairs. Out of her just-closed door Mrs. Fin shriber poked a frizzled grav head. "Ice-water, please, Mrs. Kaufman." At the door of .the first floor back Mrs. Kaufman paused with her hand on the knob. "Mama, let me run and do it." "Don't you move, Ruby, When Annie goes up to bed is time enough. Won't you come in for a while, Mr. Vetsburg?" "Don't caro if I do." Sho opened the door, entering cau tiously. "Let mo light up, Mrs. Kauf man." He struck a phosphorescent line on the sole of his shoe, turning up three jets. "You must excuse, Mr. Vetsburg, how tho room looks. All day we been sewing for Ruby her new dress " She caught up a litter of dainty pink frills in tho making, clearing a chair for him. "Sit down, Mr. Vetsburg.'.' They adjusted themsehes nround the shower of gaslight, Miss Kaufman finally curling her foot up under her, her needle flashing and shirring through one oS the pink flounces. "Ruby, in such a light you shouldn't strain your eyes." "All right, ma," stitchlug placidly on. "What'll you give me, Ruby, if I tell you whose favorite color is pinkr "Aw, Vetsy 1" she cried, herfaco llko a rose, "your color's plnkl" From tho depths of nn inverted sewing-machine top Mrs. Kaufman fished out another bit of the pink, rufulug it wun aetc needle. The flute lifted its plaintive voice, feeling for high 0. Mr. Vetsburg lighted n loosely wrapped cigar and slumped in his chair. "If anybody," ho observed, "should ask right this minute where I'm nt( tell 'cm tor me, Mrs. Kaufman, I'm in the most comfortablo chair in this house." "You should keep it, then, up in our room, Mr. Vetsburg, and not always bring it down again when I get Annie to carry it up to you." "Sty, I don't givo up to cosy toy excuse for dropping in evenings." He cat regarding her. puffing nnd chewing his live cigar. Suddenly he leaped forward, hii hand closing rigidly over hers. "Mrs. Kaufman!" "What?" "Quick, there's a hole in your chin." "Gott! a a what?" "Don't let him tease you, ma; he's after your dimple again." "Ach, du tease, you! Shame! Hole In my chin he scares mo with!" She resumed her work with a tmilo and a twitching at her lips that she was unable to control. A wnrm flow of air came in, puffing the lace curtains. A fniut odor of departed splendor lay In that room, its high calcimincd celling with the floral rosette in the center, .the larnisneu pier-glass tilted to rcuect a great pair of walnut folding-doors which cut off the room where onco it had flowed on to join the great length of salon parlor. A folding-bed with an inlay of mirror and a collapsible desk arrangement backed up against those folding-doors. A divan with u winding back nnd sleek with horsehair was drawn across a corner, a marble-topped bureau alongside A bronze clocV ticked roundly from tho mantel, bal anccd at cither side by a pair of blue glass cornucopias with wnrta blown iutc them. y Mrs. Kaufman let her hands dro idly In her lap and her head fell bacl against tho chair. In repose the Hups of her mouth turned up, and her throat whero so often the years eat in first was smooth and even slender above the rather round swell of bosom. "Tired, mommy?" "Always around Easter spring fever right away gets hold of me!" Mr. Vetsburg bit his cigar, slumped deeper, nnd inserted a thumb in the arm of his waistcoat. "Why, Mrs. Kaufman, don't you and Tttihv coma down bv Atlantic City with mo tomorrow over Easter? Huh? A few more or less don't make no differ ence to my sister the way they get ready for crowds." Miss Kaufman shot forward, her face vivid. "Oh, Vetsy," she cried, and a flush rushed up, completely dyeing her face. His face lit with hers, a sunburst of fine lines radiating from his eyes. "Eh?" "Why why, we we'd Jjst love it, wouldn't we, ma? Atlantic City, Easter Day! Ma!" Covvrloht. 1920, bv Wheeler Syndicate (CONTINUED TOMORROW) S&gZ&CSSZ&SZZ f! An Evening Gown Reveals a Woman's Defects 4 TT7 11 TT ni H as well as ner inarm tpXCESS flesh jiclds so readily to the NATURAL L' methods of treatment administered by the Col lins System that there is no excuse for any woman to suffer the discomforts and humiliation of obesity, which not only ruins tho personal appearance, but is a grave menace to health. OUR simple, common-sense methods enable women to regain and preserve a graceful figure, restoring their jouthful charm and energy no home exercises no gymnasium apparatus. "I NDIVIDUAL service by skilled women attendants J-amid conditions of privacy and refinement. Visit Our Insiilutixm for Trial Dem onstration Treatment No Obligation FOR WOMEN EXCLUSIVELY Phone, Spruce SiSi C&&32&emif&!&gzz i i ! 8 .. i Bellevue Court Building fi lHO Walnut Street $' 4 rLEie sm vers u en an af omen- Both Stores 11:22 Foi Wojneil 5000 pairs Street Boots Dress BootsHppers at much below present cost of making. The most desirable and highest quality Walk-Overs we have ever offered at reduced prices. All materials high, medium or low heels. All sizes and our usual careful fitting service maintained. $790 $9J0 $ Several desirable lots as low as $5.90 FOV Meil No marking up before marking down prices on Walk- T Overs. Every reduction is bona fide from prices admittedly the lowest in town quality considered (they are as small as 60 cents to as much as $5.10 on old prices, which means $2.60 to $8.10 below present prices). All leathers all sizes including Cordovans. to J3,90 $7-20 Sfo Crtdlt So &tfimdt I'o J&dkoacet Walk'Over Quality is Economy: Dhe fifarper Shoe Go. WALK-OVER SHOPS jto22GHESTNUTSi:, 1228 MARKET ST., So OrtdiU SoStfimdi Vo BseKott WANAMAKER'S DOWN STAIRS STORE WANAMAKER'S. Wanamaker's Down Stairs Store Y7V It Una The White Sale of rnwmm Is Abundantly Supplied new things being added as stocks are depleted. 300 White Nightgowns at $1 Slip-over gowns of soft crepe-like material are hemstitched in color. 300 Pretty Envelope Chemises, $1 Soft white nainsook chemises, trimmed all around the top (both back and front) with neat embroidery and lace have lace shoulder straps. Warm One-piece Pajamas One pretty style is of blue-bird pink flannelleb at ?3. Another is a pink or blue stripett flannellet at $2.50. Other Sleeping Garments A delightful two-pieco pajama of blue-flowered maize crepe manaarin-iiKO coac anu uousers eageu vim wnitc. ipo lias a A the top with crochet lace. A soft white batiste slip-over nightgown, trimmed around i, is $5. (Central) Real Blanket Weather Is Here and With It Plenty of Warm Blankets and Quilts Wool-Filled Quilts A Delightful Kimono of soft crepe in pink, rose, light or Copenhagen blue or lavender is hand-embroidered and made in n loose, graceful style, caught in with a nanow belt. $3.85. (Centrnl) Skirts for School Girls Are Reduced $2.50 to $5 About a hundred pretty pleated skirts in short lengths aro of sturdy cotton serge. Just what schoolgirls need! (Mnrleot) Men's Sleeping Garments are of warm striped domet flannel, comfortably made. - Nightshirt, $1.85. Pajamas, $2.50. (Gallery, Market) ) Good Umbrellas for Men and Women Durable umbrellas of good ap pearance! At $3, they have covers of American taffeta (cotton) over paragon frames. The handles for women have wrist cords; tho handles for men aro crook style. At $0, union taffeta (silk-and-cotton) umbrellas are quite good looking. The men'c handles aro in crook or opera style, whilo the women's aro trimmed with white or colored bakelite and have bake lite rings. (Chestnut) arc covered with pretty figured materials with plain borders in light or dark blue, rose, pink, maize and lavender. The wool filling has a very small per centage of cotton mixed in. $10, ?12 and $1G. Blankets Gray cotton blankets with pink or blue borders arc $3.60, $5 and $6. White cotton blankets with pink or blue borders are $3.50, ?4 and $6. . Wool-mixed blankets, silver gray, 70x80 inches, are $8.60. In white, 70x80 inches, they aro $9. White wool-mixed blankets, 76x84 inches, aro $10. Plaid wool-mixed blankets, 70x80 inches, arc $12.60 and $16. Cotton blankets in Indian patterns (imitating tho Navajo blanket) aro $7.50. All-wool fringed plaid traveling blankets aro $8.50. Fully Bleached Sheets and Pillow Cases of good quality muslin are special. Sheets, 81x90 inches, seamless, are $2.25. Pillow cases, 42x3G inches, are 45c each; 45x36 inches, 50c each. Special, $3.50 100 extra heavy Winter-weight cotton-filled quilts covered with figured material are scroll stitched. (Central) Cotton Dress Goods -6 Noteworthy Items in the Sale of White 23c a jard for warm outing flannel, 27 inches wide, in pretty stripes and checks of color. 2Uc a yard for heavy, nap white Shaker flannel, 27 inches wide. 35c a yard for plaid or striped white lawn of unusually good quality, 27 inches wide. 45c a yard for pink nainsook of fine quality, 30 inches wide. 55c a yard for 44-inch white voile, highly mer cerized. 68c a yard for white poplin, fine and lustrous, 27 inches wide. (Central) Especially Good Things Among Reduced Furs Sets of very attractive Jap anese crossed fox with inter esting muffs aro $50. Fox scarfs, long-haired and full-furred, in taupe, brown or back, are $30 to $46.50. (Market) Regulation Dresses for Maidsof 4 to 6 They are a most becoming style for small girls. Sturdy white jean maks them. The blouses are while with a lacer in front and the skirts (attached to a sep arate underbody) are white, cadeb or navy blue. 5. (Central) Snowy Table Cottons Fully bleached cloths of good quality mercerized cotton damask show an assortment of floral or figured patterns. They are neatly hemmedj hemstitched or scal loped. 58x58 inches to 72x72 inches, $1.50 to $2.50 each. Fully bleached cotton damask breakfast napkins, hemmed and ready for use, are 20c each. (Chestnut) Spring Things Are Popping Up in the Dress Store Of course, most of them can be worn up here right now, as well as in the warmer Southland, but Spring lines are evident and there is a refresh ing note of lighter fabrics. Ruffled Taffeta is somewhat like the first Spring snowdrop, good to see and full of promise of delightful things to come. Short sleeves, pleated frills or bands of stfutacho braid, as well as ruffles, adfirn these new frocks. $23.50, $25, $35 to $55. Fairylike Dance Frocks pause before the exciting whirl and there is color, color everywhere, suggesting Summer gardens and tropical flowers! Silver-embroidered net, beaded tulle, silver lace, taffeta, airy tulle flying away from its satin founda tion such are the frocks who could resist them? Many of them are samples, one, two or three vof a kind, and all are specially priced. $22.50, $25 and $39.50. Special Prices on Many Dresses At $24.50 charmeuse frocks of lovely quality are in various models. Many of them have pretty lace collars or lace-trimmed vestees. At $15 and $16.50 good looking wool jersey frockj in many models are in brown, navy, leindeer and Pekin. At 515, $16.50 and $18.75 serge frocks are trimmed villi braid, buttons or silk embroidery and are well tailored. (Market) sMTm W II J ! rKl 3000 Yards of Part-Linen Kitchen Crash Special, 35c a Yard It is a fine absorbent quality, half -linen and 17 inches wide, blue borders. with (Clifktnut) A Clear away of Fine Coats . Much Reduced-$59.50 to $9 7.50 Women will find many styles to choose from, aitnougn sizes are oroKen ana mere are uut one, two and three coats of a kind. The coats are all of the finer Winter materials, trimmed Avith hand some fur and beautifully lined. At $45 The coat that is sketched is but one of many Spring models in Winter-weight materials. It is of suede velour in taupe, reindeer or Pekin. Notice the tucking and the use of buttons; the narrow leather belt is also a smart style note. Of course, the coat is lined with silk. u New Short Coats in the approved lengths 36 inches to 42 are on the newest sports lines and some of them have detachable fur collars. Selection is not restricted, for there are coats of polo cloth, jersey, mixtures, silvertone, camel's hair, etc. $25 to $97.50. Evening wraps oi" panne velvet and vel veteen are marked a third less. Prices begin at $39.50. (Uarl.et) ill l Ickll il ' i Iro Hi o 'if The Great Children's Shoe Store in the Down Stairs Store ia particularly fitted to supply shoes for tho average family. Several active children wear out u good many pair of shoes in a year and the price of each pair is an item to beon sidered. Yet parents do not want their children teffivear inferior shoes made of "paper" leather on poorly Maped lasts it is poor economy and harmful to foot health. Here tho lasts are properly shaped for growing feet, soles and uppers are made of durable, good leather, and prices are sis low as we can possibly make them without sacrificing quality and that is as low as you want them. Infants' und Small Children's Shoei. of patent leather, kidskin, dull black leather, ,brovn and tan leathers are made with self tops or tops of brown, champagne or white leather. Sizes 1 to 8 are $1.70 to $3.25. t ' Children's black dull or patent leather button shoes and black dull lace shoes have sturdy welted soles in sues $5.75 a pair. 7 to 2 at $3.40 to Rubber Boois and Arctics A-Plenty for Everybody Ancl for cold, rough weather there are heavy dark tan leather shoe3 in sizes 6 to 2 special at 53.5Q to $4.60 u pair. nutl1 Attractive Serge Frocks for Miss 14 to 16 Serge is most practical for all-around wear and these are pretty styles. One of navy tcrgc enibroideied with silk on the pockets and vestce has a satin collar topped with one of sheer while organdie. $19.50. A beautifully tailored regulation dress, also of navy serge, is $29.50. Velveteen Frocks Tho skirt of one model in Burgundy or green is attached to an under.vaist. The over-bodiccis bound with satin aud finished w ith a Georgette crepe collar $25. School Clothes for Junior going back to school after the holidays: A middy blouse of sturdy white jean, with de tachable collars aud cuffs of navy blue serge braided in white, is $3.75. u Navy blue serge box-pleated skirts, 12-to-lG-year sizes, are $6.50. ' Plaid gingham frocks for girls of 8 to 14 years aro m various pretty plaids, at $2.25. (Market) . Women's Suits in Extra Sizes at Lessened Prices Suits of mannish serge, tricotine and velour in dark colorings and of Oxford gray are straight and simple well adapted to large figures. $25, $35 and $50 are the lowered pricets. Other Winter Suits in regular sizes are also marked at special prices $25, $32.50, $50 to $85. (Market) The Little Maid, Perhaps, Is Going South ' Delightful new frocks, fresh from layers of white tissue, aie eager to fill a little space in her trunk. And, of course, the little girl who stays at home will be just as glad to have pretty' frocks ! Fine creamy voile frocks with deep hems are touched with handwork of some sort smocking, embroidery or stitching in delicate colors. Prices begin at $3.50. Colorful Organdie is be-ruffled enough to start a tiny girl'a heart fluttering with joy. The less expen bivc frocks are in white, but at $7.50 there is a cunning model in orchid, maize or hazy sky blue. Its picot-edged ruffles (oh, many of them!) make it especially fitted for the South land. Crepe de chine, loo, desires to adorn fair lassies, in delicate pink, it forms tome truly beautiful frocks. $18 and $20. Sizes 2 to 0 years. (Central) Many Attractive Batiste Blouses As Aell a3 being ery dainty they launder very well! r Mmiy, many models with high collars, convert ible collars, roll collars and flat collars. Some aro very simply tailored, others are quito frilly and trimmed with plenty of creamy Valenciennes lace. There is scarcely a tatle to go unsatisfied with so many to choose from! $3.75 lo $6.50 (Market) Corsets in the Sale of White Special at 85c Fresh, new corsets are in two models for slight figures, with a choice of white or pink. Special at $1 Cor&ets for slight and average figures are in two models of pink or white coutil. The lines of each model help towaid a slender appearance. Two Good Models at $1.85 One, for slight figures, is topless and has deep insets of elastic to, allow foi freedom in breathing. The other is for medium-stout figures and has a medium-low, full bust, iide steels in front and is well boned all around. At $2.50, there are special topless corsets of at tractive figured poplin and excellent corsets of heavy coutil. The latter have medium-high bustlines. (Centrul) Curtain Nets and Laces. Half Price 15c to $1.65 a Yard From a 12-inch width at 15c to a 72-ineli width, at $1.65, there ib a wide assortment of attractive nets, and lace. Some of them are finished curtain wise and a hem at the top und at the bottom will quickly make them into curtains or panels. Tho laces and nets are in white, cream and ecru, , in scores of small, all-oer patterns or in large de signs. The Upholstery Sale includes curtains odd lots greatly reduced and new curtains marked low; heavy cietonne at great sav ings; curtain materials, etc. , (Central) Rugs Savings of 1 0 to 50 and savings are based on old 1919 prices, and not on higher prices in effect now, , (Clieitnat) the the f-'i ; v; n 5 ' 41 1 I. . I i. ' ""iS ,VM. ' 4 '.- (Clieitnot) $u & T A. ' i ' Ac '5 J'" , h .
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