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WANAMAKER'S
Store Opens alt 9
WANAMAKER'S
Store Closes at 5
WANAMAKER'S
WEATHER
Show o fam
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2e Safe of Larries Starts Monday at Wanamaker's
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This Is Benjamin Franklin's
Birthday
The drawing shown
here will be a new picture
of him to many, and
without1 doubt must have
been made during his
lifetime.
He was born at Boston,
in New England, Jan
uary 17, 1706.
It will riot be difficult
for many of us, familiar
with the pictures of
George Washington,
Thomas Jeiferson, Alex
ander Hamilton, Robert
Morris and James Madison, to imagine them
walking around Independence Square, discussing
each clause of the Declaration of Independence
with Benjamin Franklin.
It is interesting to, read, from Franklin's
Betters and Miscellanies, written during the
times of the Revolution and of the formation of
the Government of the United States, to realize
that politics then was about as difficult as it is
today.
"Poor Richard" signed many of his letters
"Veritas," and when he signed his own name it
was generally
"B. FRANKLIN"
Evidently he had, with all his experience and
ability, to encounter much bitter opposition
while he was laying the foundations, of our
country.
It may be seen that a very bitter attack was
made in 1763, in the shape of a protest against
his appointment as agent of the Province of
Pennsylvania, in which it was pointed out that
he was unfit because "he had just failed of
election to the Assembly," and for other reasons,
some of them even insinuating his mismanage
ment of public funds.
In a reply to this he said :
"My very zeal in opposing the
murderers and supporting tho
authority of the government;
and even my humanity, with re
gard to the innocent Indians
under our protection; were
mustered among my offences, to
btir up against mo those
religious bigots, who are of all
savages the most brutish. Add
to this the numberless false
hoods propagated as truths; and
the many perjuries procured
among the wretched rabble
brought to swear themselves
entitled to a vote; and yet so
poor a superiority obtained at all
this expense of honor and con
science! Can this be a matter
of triumph? Enjoy it then.
Your exultation, however, was
short. Your artifices did not
prevail everywhere; nor your
double tickets, and whole boxes
of forged votes. A great ma
jority of the new chosen assem
bly wero of the old members, and
remain uncorrupted. They still
stood firm for the people, and
will obtain justice from the
proprietaries. But what does
that avail to you, who are in the
proprietary interest, and what
comfort can it afford you, when,
by the assembly's choice of an
agent, it appears that the same,
to you, obnoxious, man (not
withstanding all your venomoua
invectives againBt htm) still
retains so great a share of the
public confidence?"
In spite of the bitter protests and attacks so
often made against him, Franklin still main
tained a calm demeanor with the philosophic
content of the man who knows that he is in the
right, and when he was leaving for England in
1764 to submit the cause of the Colonies, he
wrote:
"I am now to take leave (perhaps a last
leave) of the country I love, and in which I
have spent the greatest part of my life. Eato
perpetual I wish every kind of prosperity to
my friends, and I forgive my enemies."
How familiar some of these old, bitter
bickerings sound nowadays in what we are
pleased to call our days of greater enlightenment,
and how small would all the little partisan
quarrels of today seem to Franklin, whose labors
concerned no little appointment to office or small
offense to officials of the district, but no less than
the construction of the world's greatest and
most prosperous nation, that remembers today
to venerate his memory.
Walk down Arch Street today and stop at
the grating in the wall of the graveyard at Fifth
and Arch, and look upon the tombstone of
Philadelphia's first and foremost citizen guide,
and pray for more plain common sense and the
spirit of Franklin to be given to our leaders and
representatives in Washington.
Signed
January 17, 1920
QMnm.
Thermometers
te very much in fashion just at present; everybody wants to know
low cold it is in the morning, pnd whether the furnace is doing its duty.
Thermometers, 40c to $10.
Window thermometers, $1.60 to ?3.50.
Self-registering thermometers, ?5.B0.
(Main Gallery, Chestnut)
Only Women Who Know
Something About Shoes
li !t? "W'N'ato what it means to bo
If'ttifl ooso from twenty-one of
,-wwt shoe styles in America at
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'or half mflnna ravwh.
Thore arc six styles of low shoes
and fifteen styles of high thoes,
every pair fine in fashion.
Shoes for southern wear now, for
spring and summer wear later ami
for winter wear now, noxt year or
tho year after.
An extraordinary opportunity.
Something like five thousands lamps, shades, fixtures and candlesticks are in
it all at prices from a third to a half less than the prices they have been selling
at on our floors.
Here are the details
500 floor lamps at $12.50 to $150 half of regular
prices. These are of mahogany-finished woods, solid
mahogany, polychrome effects, richly painted woods,
metals, cloisonne, bronzes and wrought iron.
100 floor reading lamps at $8.50. Short lamps of
metal and wood, for use in bedrooms, offices and beside
davenports.
350 table electric lamps at $5 to $150. Mahogany,
cloisonne, pottery, wrought iron, polychrome and elab
orate painted sorts.
100 electric lamps for the tabic at $12.50 to $35.
These are metal lamps with shades of metal with rib
bon and other glass panels.
75 metal lamps at $4.50 to $12.50. These have
shades of metal parchment and glass some very
beautiful.
500 lamp shades at $6.50 to $75.. All silk; some
Japanese ; some flat with exceedingly deep fringe.
500 small shades at $1.50 to $10. Silk and parchment.
1000 candle shades at 50c to $5. They are of silk
and parchment.
Hundreds of candlesticks at $1 to $5. Wood, poly
chrome, metal, silver and gold finishes, ivory and tinted
ivory finishes.
200 pieces of electric light fixtures, brackets, indi
rect lights and alabaster bowls at $10 to $100.
(fourth Floor, Central)
THREE
BEAUTIFUL NEW
ENVELOPE
HANDBAGS
All arc of fine polished pin seal
and in rather square shapes. The
workmanship in them is beautiful
and the linings are richly colored
rilks. Their whole effect is one of
great good style.
Prices are $13.50, $22 50 and
$28.50. The $22.50 book isv in
brown, gray, blue and black; the
others are in black only.
(Main rioor. Chestnut)
WOMEN'S WINTER
CAPESK1N
GLOVES
ALL WASHABLE
Stout, comfortable gloves that
are satisfactory to wear and that
look well on a woman's hands, are
these good capeskin gloves that
may be freshened with soap and
water when they need it.
$2.75 a pair for gloves in tan,
beaver, pearl, white or light gray,
outseam sewn and with" 1 clasp.
$4 a pair for fine quality gloves
in dark brown, mastic, 'tan and
pearl white, with pique or outseam
sewing and 1 clasp.
Main Floor, Central)
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fans Reveals Some of fa Spring Fas
- Secrets in These
jj0k&s&fc Mew Hats
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TAILORED
SILK SHIRTS
A natural pongee is $3.
A white crepe do chine, $9.50.
White and flesh crepes de chine,
$9.75.
White soft taffeta, $12.
Men's-wear crepe, $13.50.
(Third Floor, Central)
PLEASE NOTE
Entries for the Exhibition of
Photographs close, on Saturday,
February 7th, 1920. The Exhibi
tion itself takes place on March
1st to 13th, inclusive.
(Main Floor, Chestnut)
Coming, as they do, from the fore
most modistes of Paris, these new
hats are particularly interesting be
cause they give some hint of the new
Spring fashions to come in fact,
they are the new Spring fashions !
There are new shapes, new colors,
new styles. There are a number of
all-white hats and a number of all
black hats, not to mention any -number
of bright and vivid hued colored
hats, so that one has wide choice.
There are hats from
Jeanne Lanvin Odette
Hermance Evelyn Varon
Le wis
One hat in a npw red brown has a brim wholly covered with bright colored beads
in a striking design. Another unusual hat is of that much-seen new straw, cellaphone,
which looks like patent leather but is much lighter in weight. And still another strik
ing hat has the brim faced with black oilcloth and a wide band of the same shiny black
around its high brim.
There are delightful little hats which come close to the face ; there are small hats
with bewitching black lace veils; there are small satin turbans with a maize of bright
hued feathers.
They are hats to wear South or hats to wear in the North just to wear one
will be a pleasure !
They have heir first showing Monday.
(Hecond Floor, Cheitnul)
Sterling Boudoir Silver Has
Received Additions Lately
So that we will be able to match many scU, in the pieces needed.
for their completion.
Hand mirrors, $21 to $29
Hairbrushes, $13.50 to $19.
Combs, $3.50 to $7.
Puff jars, $12.50 to $19.
Also all the smaller pieces at corresponding prices.
(.loHclry Store, CheMnul and Thirteenth)
.Salve jars. $3.50 to $7.
Cloth brushes, $10.50 to $17.
Hat brushes, $4.7G to $12.50.
Lucie Hamar
Caroline Reboux
Marie Lancret
Jeanne Due
Good Blankets for "Old-
Fashioned" Winter Weather
Low-priced blankets of good, serviceable quality arc scarce n
doubt about it.
We have a lot at $10 a pair that vp believe to be the best low-priced
blankets anybody can buy today. None that arc offered for less can
compare with them. Wc have better ones at $15 a pair and still better
at $18 a pair and so on up to the lrnc, all-wool blankets at $25 a pair.
AH of them are white blankets with borders in either pink or blue.
All are in double-bed sizes. Blankets of a corresponding grade can be
had at proportional prices in single-bed sizes.
1 (Sixth tlaor, Centrul)
A Few Fine Duvetyne Coats
Are Very Much Less
Marvclously lovely garments, luxuriously fur trimmed and they are
designed in such a way that they may be worn for evening coats as well
as day-time wraps. The fashions, too, arc very new, for these coats have
only been here a short time.
There are large collars, usually cuffs and sometimes entire facings
of fur mole, blended squirrel, kolinsky, fitch and Australian opossum.
In fact there is so much fur used in some cases that these new
prices little more than cover the value of the fur alone, $200 to $350.
(First Floor, Central)
A Special Sale of Women's
Sweaters and Scarfs
We have taken from our good regular stocks 1615 women's sports coats,
sweaters, slip-ons, scarfs and tam-o'-shanter sets and marked them an
Average Less Than Half Price
They are of wool, mercerized, artificial silk, linen and fine thread silk,
and there are a great many different styles, though not every size in each style,
as they represent odds and ends and discontinued lines. But 'the variety is so
great that any woman can find something she wants at a saving of usually half
or more.
Prices are $1.50, $2.50, $3.50, $5, $7.50, $10 and up to $40.
(Wot Aide)
A remarkably good thing to put on your
shopping list is
The Winter Sale of
White
in which there are thousands of substantial
undermuslins at $1 to $5.
(Third Floor, Central)
Corsets in the White Sale
Parisienno corsets of pink coutil, topless, with wide clastic bands
partly across tho top, and with long hips. Broken sizes only 22, 25,
26, 28 and 29 inches. Price $6.50.
Other Parisiennes of tricot with low tops and light boning, sizes
25, 26, 27. Price $6.50.
Letitia corsets of pink striped material, made with very low bust
and long skirt. Sizes 22 to 28. Price $6.
Another Letitia is of white batiste, with medium bust and long
straight hips, $4.50.
(Third Floor, Chrttnut)
Shoes and Shoes and Shoes
For Babies
They arc shoes and slippers and moccasins of crepe do chine,
of soft silks and of kid, as well as of washable white pique, and
they come in white, of course, in delicate colors like pink1 or blue,
and in black and tan.
There arq many styles, and thoy go from $1 to S3.7B a pair.
(rhlril Floor, Chestnut) T
MANY WELL
DRESSED GIRLS
ARE WEARING
REGULATION
DRESSES
becauso their mothers think regu
lations are the most sensible prac
tical dresses for school and general
wear. They arc in good taste, they
are becoming to most girls, they
are comfortable, and the girl inside
one looks well dressed for school
or every day.
Wanamaker regulation dresses
are made especially for us, in our
own workrooms, and to our own
orders; serges in Norfolk style arc
$27.50; in sailor style, $25.
Wash regulations, in white or
dark blue, are $16.50.
All in 11 to 20 year sizes.
(Second Floor, Chestnut)
FINE DARK BLUE
FABRICS ARE
FAVORITES
Womtn are particularly buying
the finest all-wool qualities in serge,
tricotine and gabardine for Spring
suits and dresses and they are here
in an unusually good assortment
now.
Various weights and twills, all
are 51 inches wide, $3.75 to $10 a
yard.
(Flrtt Fluor. Chestnut)
SUN-AND-RAIN
. UMBRELLAS
Little ones, s,ueh as are desirable
for use at Palm Beach or for gifts
to be used in the Spring. They
have covers of plain green, purple,
,brown, blue or black taffeta, and of
plaid taffeta. Thev ireneriillv lv
i eight or ten ribs, together with the
fashionable light tips, and blunt
ferrules, and their prices are $5 to
(Mnln Flour, .Market)
wom'en'sIjm:
brellas special
AT $7.50
Covers of good silk taffeta
green, garnet, navy and black;
handles mission btyle; some with
silk loops, and nearly all with bake
hte tops.
Uncommon for $7.30.
(Mnln Floor, MurKet)
Three New Books
"Memories of Buffalo Bill," by his wife. Price $2.50. An
intimate biography of one of the most picturesque characters in
American history.
"The Mjstery at the Blue Villa," by Melville Davisson Post.
$i.75. Seventeen -bhort stories of mystery, of romance and of
mysticism charming all
"The Blower of Bubbles." by Arthur Beverley Baxter. $1.75.
Fhc delicate, whimsical stoiies of love and adventure with the war
for a background.
(Muin 1 loor, Thirteenth)
Table Cloths and Napkins of
Fine Wearing Quality
Wc hac two particularly good gioups, one embracing fine double
damask table cloths and napkin belonging to a -ery good purchase
secured last year in the Irish maiket, the cloths being 2x2 yards at $10.75
and 2x2 Vj yards at $13.75 each, with napkins to match in .size 24x24
inches at $15 a dozen.
The other group comprises a remarkably fine lot of double damask
table cloths and matching napkins, an impoiler's overlot, mostly in larger
sizes, and these ve are offering at a largo saving from today's values.
Table cloths, 2x2 yards, $14.50; 24.2U yards, $20; 2M:x2 yards,
Matching napkins, 25.25 inches, at $22.75 and 27x27 inches at $25
a dozen.
(I'Irst Floor, (hritnut)
French War Cretonnes Down
to $1 a Yard
During sonic of her most anxious days Pans found time to
design and make these chaming war prints, expressing her faith
in the ultimate victory of the Allies' aim.'.
Each of the six patterns has iU own story to tell. They arc
hand-blocked prints and are delightfully unique for draperies,
cushion covers and rcupholstenng furniture.
(Firth i'liiiir, MurKet)
Children's Velour "Tanis"
Half Price at $4
We have these handsome lots in black, brown, navy, pearl, tauno
and Rutsian green. ' ' v
Their shape, their color, their soft and silky texture all combine
to make them most becoming headwear for little folk.
At $4 they are exactly half price.
(Muln Flour, Marked
WOMEN'S INITIAL
HANDKERCHIEFS
$3 A DOZEN
Sheer Irish linen, spotless and
snowy, and of unusually good qual
ity with hand-embroidered ini
tial in one corner.
It's not easy to find hand-cm-broidercd
handkerchiefs at this
price I
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China and Persia Seen Side by Side
in the Oriental Rug Event
The Oriental Rug Event is particularly rich in Chinese carpets and there
is a growing appreciation of the decorative adaptabilities of these interesting
weaves.
Because of their distinctively individual and unusual color effects and
symbolic designs they fit into and accentuate the general effect of many a
scheme in which rugs more neutral in shade and more conventional in pattern
might fall short of the desired result.
Apart from the unmistakable shades of Chinese rugs, in their remark
able blues, golden browns, rose-pinks, tawny yellows and burnt orange
their symbolism is a study. Almost every device you see on them is emblem
atic, from the flower baskets, lotus pods and musical instruments celebrating
the immortals, to the wheel and knob of destiny and the fish patterns of reli
gious import.
It is a pleasure to walk through this beautiful exhibition and compare
these rugs with the fine weaves of Persia and other Eastern lands all of
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