F7 . r W1 i ' if. EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920 rj ., . I f --&, "tPl Band plays at 9; Organ at 11, 11:55 and 4:50 Chimes at noon WANAMAKER'S WEATHER Fair Store Opens at 9 WANAMAKER'S Stortf-Closes at 5. WANAMAKER'S JM m "That Lawyer on the Other Side Is Only Splitting Hairs" said a bystander to a brother lawyer m the courtroom where a case was pending. The judge on the bench seemed to think it was a vexatious and frivolous use of time for the learned and honorable, gentleman to dwell upon presumptions instead of facts. The subtle and minute views of a logician arc often tiresome if not unintelligible to a majority of most audiences. This page serves its purpose best by a simple, truthful statement, avoiding inconsistencies and improb abilities. Pomposity, spoken or printed, and unintelligibleness in advertising is confusing, if not misleading. Signed Jan. SI, 1920. pm A FEW fine evening' goivns in the Women's Fashion Salons show how charming is the 'present fancy for black lullc and black net. Here is a gown with the net over silver doth; another is altogether of net with a 'sapphire velvet girdle; another black net has iridescent beads upon it. Black Chan tilly over black charmense and white filet over black charmense are both pretty vari ations of this idea. Prices of such gowns are $125 to $275. (Tint Floor. Central) j . . Exquisite Beaded , Handbags From France Veritable masterpieces of this artistic handicraft. In original and beautiful designs and the most mar- clous Mendings of color. Some of the bags havo effective frames and others are draw-string stylo, and there arc some among them of the kind known as antiques as soft and flexible as a bit of fabric. Prices range from ?70 to $400. (Slain rioor. Chestnut) A Sale of 3000 Waists All Specially Priced 1200 white cotton waists at $1.75, 53.83 and $5.50. Those at $1.75 are mostly samples and overlots; those at $3.85 and $5.50 are lin gerie waists with dainty laces and embroid eries. Also they are all made with skirts be low their belts. 1000 silk waists at $3.85 to $7.50. Geor rntfo nrpnoa mnstlv. manv beaded and em broidered. Some of these are light colored. (East Aisle nnil Third Women's Weatherproof Coats . of New Design Made to weather any storm, they are the ulster type of wrap that also makes a delightful fair weather friend and arc really a necessity for the changeable days of Spring. The materials, all of which arc British, arc tweed and frieze cloth, in bright plaids or green and brown heather mixtures. Excellently tailored, they are half lined, and made with a mannish collar that buttons high at the throat. Prices $60 to $85. (First rioor, Central) Beautiful Plaid Skirts Special at $22.50 These are women's skirts, in sizes from 24' to 31 inch waistbands, though there are not all sizes in each design. They are a good maker's oddments or they would bo con siderably higher priced. Materials aro rich velours, gabardines and worsteds, tome in plain sports model and others in full box-pleated style. In dark colors, with blues and greens prcdominat ' tag. (First Floor, Central) Japan Sends the Baby Soft Silk Quilts and Kimonos Quilts made for crib or bassinette are of China silk or messallne and are delightfully embroidered in n variety of designs, and are also quilted in a number of different patterns. Tho colors aro pink or blue and tlio sizes 27x36 and 3Gx4C. Prices $2.50 to $8.50. Tho auaint ljttlo kimonos arc of China silk and may be had in pfnk, blue, Copenhagen or rpso. Theie aro weo ones tw thebaby Up tf the 10-year a'.ztv Prices $7.50 to $18. t X ' (Thirty Floor, CliMfnutJ I ; the Wanamaker 1920 Spring Exposition and Sale of Silks "JT? VERYONE knows of the unexampled j scarcity of silks in the market and the unprecedented prices to which raw silk and all silk manufacturing costs have risen. Yet, in the face of this scarcity and in spite of the extraordinary costs, we arc able to put before you these beautiful new Spring-fashion silks of quality and dura bility unquestioned at prices thai for equal quality can hardly be matched. ; It is an occasion that we call to our customers' particular notice because of its importance as an investment opportunity. If you are going to need line silks at any time during the next several years and everybody is our very best judgment is that you should buy them in this sale. because these are prices that we must frankly say we do not expect to see again. We call particular attention to the fine Japanese silks which are our own direct importation, and practically all of which we could easily and instantly sell to the wholesale trade today at the same prices at which we offer them to our customers. . We call particular attention, likewise, to the unusual beauties of the new Spring dress silks, meeting every fashion demand of the moment. They are in great variety and their prices are in nearly every instance far below the market. Fine Japanese Silks SG-inch white habutai, $1.50 a yard. 3G-inch white habutai, $1.G5 a yard. SG-inch white habutai, 1.75 a yard. 3G-inch white habutai, $2.00 a yard. 30-inch .colored crepe, $2.25 a yard. 31-inch colored striped habutai, $3 a yard. 36-inch colored striped crepe, $3.50 a yard. 32-inch colored striped satin habutai, $3.50 a yard. 29-inch colored wash silk, $2.50 a yard, (First Floor, Chestnut) Special Silks 40-inch printed Georgette crepe, $3 a yard. 36-inch faille, black and white, $4.G0 a yard. 40-inch crepe meteor, black and . white, $4 a yard. 3G-inch black gros-grain silk, $4.50 a yard. 36-inch tinsel brocades, ?15 a yard black-and-gold, black-and-silver, white- and- gold, green- and- gold, orchid-and-gold. 35-inch white sport satin, $6 a yard. 40-inch crepe meteor, $3 a yard. 40-inch crepe de chine, $3.25 a yard. 42-inch flcur dc soic, $3 a yard. 40-inch crepe meteor, $5 a yard. 40-inch crepo de chine, $4.50 a yard. 40-inch black charmcuse, $5 a yard. 40-inch black and colored crepe do chine, $2.25 a yard. 40-inch black charmcuse, $6 a yard. 40-inch black charmcuse, $6.50 a yard. 40-inch colored charmeubc, $6.50 a yard. 40-inch black, wool-back satin, $G.50 a yard. 40-inch navy blue satin, $5.50 a yard. 36-inch black moire, $4 a yard. 36-inch tinsel brocades, black, white, rose, green, blue, purple, $18 a yard. 40-inch .printed crepes, $3.75 a yard. 40-inch, black and colored satin, $5 a yard. 40-inch colored satin, $4.25 a yard, 40-inch navy and black satin, $3.50 ' a yard. 40-inch navy, black and taupe satin $4 a yard. 100 crepe dc chine waists at $S.50. The silk is of very fine quality; the colors pink and white. 500 embroidered nets at $2.85. Most of the work is hand done; the colors are dark and light ; some of the waists are satin trimmed. 200 pongee waists at $3.85. These are se verely tailored. Floor, Central) Thousands of Special Petticoats, Bathrobes and Undermuslins 1000 cotton petticoats at $1, plain and fancy, black and colored. Sateens and other materials, all with elastics at waist, and some with plain tops and fancy flounces. Many arc worth double the price. 175 jersey silk petticoats at $6.75. Black and colors, simplo and fnnciful. 150 jersey silk petticoats at $7.50, These aro in dark street colors. 200 cotton petticoats at $1.50. Flowered cottons with tailored flounces. 200 bathrobes at $4.85, $5.S5 and $G.85. Eider down and blanket materials, all in light colors; sam ples, surplus lots and some seconds. 150 breakiast coats at $8.5t0. Of corduroy, un lined, in rose, Copenhagen blue and wistaria. 200 cotton dressing sacqucs at $1.85. Mostly samples. (Third Floor, Central) 500 nightgowns and chemises at $1.85. All of nainsook, daintily trimmed. Some of tho chemises arc $2. 700 Philippine nightgowns and chemises. The nightgowns are $3.85 and are hand embroidered in several different patterns; tho chemises aro both straight and envelope kinds, charmingly em broidered and priced at $2.85, $3.75 and $3.85, (Kast AltU) 36-inch white Shanghai China silk, $1.50 a yard. 36-inch ivory taffeta, $2 a ard. 33-inch Ninghai pongee, $2.50 a yard. (Urst Aisle)'' Silks in Regular Assortment 32-inch white silk broadcloth, $3.50 a yard. 32-inch white silk jersey, $3.50 a yard. 36-inch paliette do soie in black, brown, navy and tan, $3 a yard. 40-inch black chiffon velvet, $9.50 a yard. 40-inch colored chiffon velvet, $9.50 a yard. 33-inch satin Majestic, white and ivory, $5 a jartl. 40-inch black satin crepe, ?7 a yard. 40-inch crepe do chine, white and navy, $4 a yard. 32-inch shirting, $4.50 a jard. 40-inch pussy willow satin, $5.50 a yard. 40-inch printed satin stripe voile, 35 a yard. 40-inch Georgette crepe in black, white and nuvy, $3.50 a yard. (Tirst Floor, Chestnut) Oriental Hall Runners of Beauty and Sendee, $175 to $325 Karabaghs, Mosuls and Hamadans in a good selection of colors and designs. , Some very interesting antique weaves in the collec tion. Pieces of this kind arc now so scarce that the attrac tive group we are showing holds a pronounced interest, especially as tho prices arc moderate, $175 to R3"3 in sizes 2x11 to 3.4x18 feet. (Seventh Floor, Central) Women's Duplex Gloves Are Fashioned Long for Spriiv A soft, washable fabric, deft fashioning, fine work manship these nrc the characteristics that commend the Duplex glove at all times to women. The colors are pongee, mastic, beaver, white oi white with black embroidery'. 8-button length, price $2. ' 12-button length, price $2.25. (MaJn Floor, Central) . Nine Women Out of Ten Want Shoes Like These High-cut lace shoes with straight tips and Cuban heels or indicated wing tips and military heels. In nut-brown Russia calfskin at $11 a pair. In dull black calfskin at $10 a pair. Fine looking and serviceable. (First rioor, Market) Queen Mary Face Creams are among the best aids to women who want a clear, soft skin. Cleansing cream, GOc and $1.20. Cold cream, 30c and 60c. Skin cream, 60c and $1.20. Dclicato skin cream, 75c. Youth and beauty cream, GOc and $1,20. (Main Floor, Clicatnut) A REMINDER to all lovers of the camera the Fourteenth Annual Ex hibition of Photographs takes place March 1 to 13th, 1920, and entries for it close Saturday, February 7, 1920. February's First Business Day Will Start the Good Work of Sending Home the Goods From the February Furniture Sale TO HAVE the goods that people want; to have them in the larg est supply that can be found any where and at the lowest prices safe for people to pay we will back that formula against all others for the making of a sale. Wc have tried it. Wo have been following it for years, and even if we ourselves had any doubt about it or any preju dice against it, how could such doubt .or prejudice stand in the face of what we know to be the direct and inevitable result of holding strictly to it? And the greatest and most convincing result in our ex- l perience is the Wanamaker half-yearly sale of furniture. We have made this February, 1920, sale from the same old formula, and we shall never try to make a sale after any other until we have dis covered a better one. First of all, to have the goods! If you have been here on any one of the three days of advance showing you should know whether or not we have the goods. If you have yet to see them, we are willing to be judged by what we have to show you. The Furniture Is the Thing It is a condition of life that when a person needs a particular article, whether it be a stick-pin or a pair of tongs, no words, excuses or explanations will serve as a substitute. Excuses and explanations may be interesting, but they don't fill the bill, they don't meet the actual need. The only thing that will meet it is the particular thing that people want, and in a furniture sale the furniture is the thing. This February Furniture Sale is pre-eminently a sale of great quan tities, fundamentally a sale of dependable qualities and inevitably a sale of all-round safety for everybody. ' It is a sale of double safety safe goods and what is very impor- tant to remember this year safe prices. Now is a time to beware of startling prices. 'People who succumb to them will eventually be startled in another way when they discover the inferior quality that made so alluring a price. Without egotism or" selfishness it can be said that no store in America can sell furniture for less than Wanamaker's at least, not furniture of the Wanamaker kind. In this sale the saving on a great proportion of our furniture is 10 per cent, but it is a saving from an originally below-the-market price, and it is a saving backed by actual'merit in the goods. After thirty or more years of furniture selling a store would natur ally do one of two things know what the public demands or pass out of existence. We have done the first-mentioned thing, and we KNOW that what the public wants is furnituie of character and reliability; the kind that a self-respecting store is willing to sell and a self-respecting home-maker willing to buy. That is the kind, and the only kind, we have in this sale, and there is full and plenty of it at the lowest prices, quality considered. Monday we begin to send home the goods, and the great sale, hav ing struck its stride, goes ahead full speed. (fifth, SUtll anil beirnlh flnnr-i Two Interesting New Lois of Domestic Rugs One group comprises splendid seamless tapestry rugs in good designs and colors at J39.50 for 9x12 ft. und 535.00 for 8.3x10.6 ft. In the other group aro handsome Axminster ruga at 559.50 for 9.12 ft. and $Q.50 for 8.3x10.0 ft. (Seventh rioor. Chestnut) Marquisette Curtains At $2.25 a Pair "50 pair of plain hemstitched marquisette cui tains in white, ivory and ecru. About enough for one day's selling and no mo'-c expected at this price after this lot is gone. triftli floor. Market) Half Yearly Sale of Bedding This is an event that comes only twice every year, in connection with tho n l. 171 'l r-l- rni ., .. . . . I i-3 vji-uui r unmuru saies. mis year it embraces all our stocks 01 mattresses, pillows, bolsters and bedsprings at reduced prices. All of these are goods of our own regular standard kind warranted for mint ity, service and cleanliness. No other suinumg- mat, it may seem cneaper. The only Kind worth saving on is the kind, that has nothing left out of it to meet the reduction. Wanamaker bedding is as good as it has always been, and that is good enough. (Sixth Floor, - arsSSg&y Tabic Cloih and Napkins : Low Priced and Good j Ilcay, full-bleached, puie flax table cloth, i iih matchi ing napkins u put chase secured from a lending Irish maker. . Ihcv arc the best low -p -iced goods vc know of today and they arc exceptionally scarce at nny pi ico. ' - i' our lloral pattern-. M.K!tf!,,; j:ach' 08u ch5ii Napkins to match, U'JMJa inches, ?10 u dozen fvi (1 Irsl I liior, Chestnut) t ' TJ7WLENTINBS nrc ready 3c to SI tin the t counter close to the elevators (Main Floor! f Thirteenth) kind of bedding is worth buying, nolwithHI Chestnut) . m m n mi m "A . 4." jfj -H M if I 1 i ,ti i X 'VfV'i ', -V-L K '.. t. lln Tloor, Clitttnut)
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