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No Wonder
Mark Twain Once Said
to One of Our Old
Friends:
"Henry, there are two times when you
should not speculate. First, don't do it
when you haven't any money! And be
pcrtickelar to be sure not to speculate
when you have plenty of money."
This good advice applies equally well
to others beside buyers of shares in the
numberless varieties of companies now
being formed all over the United States,
even to go as far as the planet Mars to
make discoveries.
For all the merchandise in which we
deal we go to the sources of production,
the reliable, best makers, pay cash, and
sell all articles as low as possible, even to
the buyers of largest quantities of the
articles we sell.
Large sales often create a condition of
smaller profits.
Speculations in highly frescoed
advertising announcements are often
disappointing. We seem to be "old fogies"
nowadays in our simple announcements
of actual facts.
Signed
Fib. 10, 1020.
CERTAIN French blouses recently re
ceived in the French Room are mar
vels of delicate luand hemstitching and
embroidery, the designs being mostly
appliqued. Some of the blouses have real
lace and some are of the simply tailored
sort. Prices are $62.50 to $165.
(Third Fioor, Chestnut)
Young Women's
Novelty Sports Suits
Change Prices
Of that soft, pretty "sports angora" wool and
of baronet satin, these attractive sports clothes
are such things as may be worn for Winter sports
in tho North or the South.
There are many white suits, as well as white
combined with bright colors like canary, orange,
blue, rose and green, and there are man, effective
combinations. Some suits have sleeveless jackets,
some have belt-scarfs instead of jackets, some
have Tarns to match, and some have scarfs as well
as jackets.
$37.50 to $95 which is a great deal less than
the original prices and 14 to 20 year sizes.
(Sroond Floor, Chestnut)
Just a Handful of These
Velvet D r esses for ,
Young Women, $22.50 to $30
Some are of velvet and some of velveteen, but there
we no two alike, and every dress started the season I at
a much larger price, you may be sure.
The styles are good; there is navy blue or black from
which to choose, and there are 14 to 20 year sizes.
(Second Floor. Chestnut)
Evening and Semi
Evening Dresses Down
to $55
About seventy-five odds and ends reduced be
cause they are odda and ends, and because most
of them are not fresh. They are of Georgette,
chiffon and satin, beaded and embroidered. Colors
aro tho usual dainty, light shades wanted for
evening.
Tho lot is well worth a looking over.
(First Floor, Central)
Jfool Jersey Coats for
Spring
l hey are very good looking, strictly tailored models
n? .a nouWer yoke, curved to a point in tho middle
oi tho back and the inverted pleats which start from
e yoke continue to the' stitched belt. Tho center one,
nowever, goes all tho way down the back. There is a
aw lining of pongee silk.
One may have a pretty Bhade of brown, olive, bluish
en or Oxford, $47.50.
(IHrit Floor, Central)
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nchanting Skirts for
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Southern Wear
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wi,r'?'ottes Georgettes, baronet satins, and fancy
enWi an,d snakeskins, all in tho most delicious pale
"'wings that can bo imagined.
tor?. pinks nnd Greens, blues and yellows and silvery
wnes Ko perfectly with tho new silk sweaters.
1 rtcesare $25 to $35,
.1mi Fbxw. Cwtritl)
This February Furniture Sale Is What It Is
The Charming New
Sports Hat of 1920
It may be large it may be small it may bo
subdued and quiet or it may be very striking in
deed but it is fairly sure to be smart, to be be
coming and comfortable, and very suitable indeed
for any outdoor or sports wear. Here are just a
few of the many original models you'll sec in the
salon devoted just to these useful sports hats:
A symphony of browns is the hat of tan Ba
tavia cloth, with high crown and wide brim, both
embroidered in a golden brown. $25.
If you wish a small hat, that one of fine ecru
straw, with the narrow, upturned brim and the
wide band and bow of black-embroidered rose
color ribbon, is delightful it is $28.
Another small hat has a tarn-like crown of
pink silk, and a narrow roll brim of fine pink straw.
It is $18.
Wide brimmed and charming is the hat of lilac-and-brown
rough straw with a quaint arrangement
of lilac-silk bows. $15.
And in contrast to the large, drooping brimmed
hats is a small hat of pearl-gray grosgrain rib-,
bon with round croVn and soft upturned brim. $28.
Heavy purple silk, stitched, and set off with
coin dots in American Beauty color, makes an
other large hat with brim that may be bent in
any shape. $40.
Of porcupine straw is a hat in American Beauty
color, with a wide band of brown satin, embroid
ered in green and red. $22.
(Second Floor, Chestnut)
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xguisite New, Long
J Hrptirh Sn.pnp CZlnmec
for Women
It would seem as if the French were trying to make
up for all that long period when they could not send
us such lovely gloves as these, for the new French gloves
for Spring are unusually fine.
And now that short sleeves aro so much in vogue,
these new gloves are most desirable indeed.
Tho skins are of beautiful texture;, soft and velvety
and fine French suedes of the finest quality. And the
colorings are lovely three springlike shades of tan, a
delicate mode and two light putty shades. And all fasten
with three pearl buttons.
The eight-button-length gloves are $6 a pair; the
twelvc-button-length are $7 a pair.
We doubt if you'll find anything like them in town.
C-UiUn Floor, Central)
J ovely Bead Necklaces
There are necklaces with red and purple, green, blue,
amber, pearl, white and pink beads, used alone or in
combination. In all the fashionable lengths, they are in
many pretty designs and styles, that will give an orna
mental touch to any frock or blouse.
Prices start at $1.25 and go on up to $14.
(Jewelry Store, Chestnut and Thirteenth)
Five New Styles Enter
the Women's $12
Shoe Sale
Every ono of these styles is greatly in demand,
and four of tho fivo come from one of the leading
women's shoo factories in tho country. Ordinarily
these shoes aro $2 to $0 a pair more than tomor
row's price.
Black calfskin lace with straight tips, dull matt
kidskin tops and Cuban heels.
Black glazed kidskin button with dull matt
kidskin tops and Cuban heels.
Black glazed kidskin button with dull matt kid
skin tops, turn soles and Cuban heels.
Black glazed kidskin button with black cloth
tops and Cuban heels.
All-black satin lace with covered Louis heels.
In addition to the shoes just described there aro
a couple of dozen other now and fashionable styles
in this sale at $12 a pair and representing the same
ratio of saving 03 the above.
(Flrit Floor, Market)
i A Somewhat Different
- Silk Handbag
It is a medium-size pouch shape, of black and navy
moire silk; some with tassel.
The distinguishing feature is the frame, which is
engraved metal with fancy clasps.
Price U0.
(M Ityor, CheitBBt),
Men's Ulsters
at $48.50
A special lot that we secured to sell at
this price.
.These are no ordinary coats. At the
price they are extraordinary.
Made of an excellent hand-finished
friezy fabric that will wear and wear.
Excellently modeled and hand finished.
Their normal selling price today .is
$11.50 to $21.50 higher.
A good manufacturer made them for us
from his Winter overplus of this particu
larly good material.
(Third Floor, Market)
lfen 's Fine Fuji Silk
' Shirts From Japan
The material is pure, unloaded silk of a very high
grade. Men who have worn shirts made of it &ay it
gives splendid service. It is a light tan in color and
looks even better after it is washed than before.
All soft cuff, plain neglige style.
Price $12.
(Main Floor, Mar lie I)
$6 Will Buy a Man a
VV Good Felour Hat
Rather extraordinary, when ono considers that
this is about as little as ono expects to pay for any
kind of a good hat nowadays.
The velour in these hats is an excellent quality, soft
and silky, and the colors are black and rich shades of
brown and green.
Tho reason for the low price of these hats is that
they are a much-belated shipment and must be hurried
out.
(Main Floor. Market)
W
'arm Woolen Jackets for
Sportsmen and Others
Very different from the ordinary wool jacket, being
of fine knitted wool and well tailored. They are coat
style, with the shoulders reinforced to prevent sagging,
and with two-buttoned pockets. In various heather
mixtures, $12.
Vests of the same material, $7.50.
(The Gnllery, Juniper)
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"ool Fabrics for Street
Frocks
Fine all-wool serges and poplins in plain colors arc
so far the favorites, particularly in navy or midnight
blue. They are here also in brown, Copenhagen and gray,
40 to 48 inches wide, $2.50 to $4 a yard.
Shepherd's clrecks, all-wool and very Spring-like,
$3.50 a yard. There are three sizes of checks.
(Flrit Floor, Chestnut)
Valentine Sweets and
Favors and Novelties
Whatever else you
send on Valentine's Day,
don't overlook the candy
the sweetest valentine
of all!
Glaco mint hearts are
$1.50 a pound.
Crystallized cream
hearts aro. 60c a pound.
French chocolate
hearts are $1.25 a pound.
Paper heart boxes, to
hold sweets and you
may select whatever kind you like are 40c, 60c
and $1.25 each.
Red satin hearts to hold candies are $1.50 each.
And new and attractive are the bright red tin
painted hearts, hand painted, of course, and each
different $2.50, $3.50 and $5 each.
Assorted caramels and they make delicious
filling for the boxes are $1 a pound.
Assorted chocolates to fill the boxes are $1.23
a pound.
Jack Horner pies, for the center of the table
for Valentine parties aro $8, $10 and have twelve
favors.
Valentine bonbons, to add to the jollity, are $1
and $1.50 a dozen.
Jars of assorted chocolate nibs, for favors. 60c.
Novelties on cakes of chocolate are 75c each.
(Down Stairs Store- Chestnut)
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Price List of 9x12 ft. .
D omestic Rugs
What this most popular size costs you in five stand
ard makes.
Wiltons, $119.50 to $175.
Body Brussels, $72.50 to $78.
Tapestry Brussels, $39.50 to $42.50.
Axminsters, $59.50 to $84.50.
Velvets, $59.50.
(Serenth Floor, Chestnut)
nThe Best Lot of Blankets in
Philadelphia at Th cir Prices
That may seem a sweeping statement, but if wo
know anything about blankets and blanket values, it is
absolutely true.
Wo are not basing our statement on the fact that
they would havo to bo sold for anywhere from 20 to 30
per cent more if wo had to go out and buy them now.
Wo baso it on prevailing retail prices for blankets of
the same grades. We shall bo clad to have anybody's
judgment on them.
We purchased them very favorably ono year ago and
havo only recently opened them up.
White blankets, singlo-bed size, with pink or blue
borders, $10, $12 and $15 a pair, according to the
percentage of wool in them. Each pair weighs 4 pounds.
White blankets, double-bed size, with pink or blue
borders, $12, $15 and $18 a pair, according to tho per
centage of wool. Each pair weighs 5 pounds.
(Sixth Floor, Cntrl .Am.1.
Considering What Is
Back of It
When we are told, as people nat
urally do tell us, frequently, that "it is
remarkable how this furniture sale of
yours has grown and grown," we are
tempted to say, it would be more re
markable if it failed to grow and grow,
considering the character of it, the
service which it is
the stock of merchandise behind it.
Probably we could make a more alluring kind of sale, but we could
not make a safer or a sounder one at least not so far as our present
knowledge goes.
By an alluring kind of sale we mean in especial a sale noted for
alluring price-tags, the kind of price-tags that promise economy to the
eye and break it to the experience.
Our sale is not notable for dangerously large price reductions, but
for safe, real ones.
It is a sale of too vital concern to ourselves to permit of playing
fast and loose with prices and valuations.
The furniture in it is not of the kind that can be "reduced" 50 per
cent and sold with a profit to the one who sells and an ultimate loss to the
one who buys it.
It is furniture on which a reduction of 10 per cent represents a
saving of ten real dollars no less.
Woods and Work
These are not theories, leastof all, opinions. They are facts of
Wanamaker furniture and conditions of the Wanamaker furniture sale.
Theories and opinions could never make a sale develop as this sale
has developed, but the actual fact of dependableness in the goods and in
the savings has a way of making itself known from day to day and from
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proven dependableness.
Dependableness, desirableness, serviceableness, beauty, sound
value not words, spoken or printed, can make these things, but woods
and work can make them and have made them, as we can prove by the
furniture in this Sale.
Standard woods, standard workmanship, standard merchandis
ing, sterling value by these marks the Wanamaker Furniture Sale .is
distinguished, and by these the people have learned to distinguish it, and
so it grows and grows and grows.
(Fifth, Sixth and Serenth Floors)
6 IHhe Best Short Stories
of 1919"
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and the Year Book of the American Short Story, edited
by Edward J. O'Brien.
"Authors, editors, librarians, teachers of English,
teachers of short-story writing and others find it indis
pensable." Price 2.
(Main Floor, Thirteenth)
A
New Fountain Pen
and-Only $2
Moreover, it is an unusually good fountain pen at
this moderate price, and it is mado especially for the
Wanamaker Store.
Thero are a number of features about it that people
who use fountain pens a great deal will appreciate.
It is a self-filler, and the point is 14 kt. gold, and so
varied that it will suit every hand. The barrel is black
rubber.
(Jewelry .Store, Chestnut and Thirteenth)
B
ecoming Collars
Some are the finest white or cream-colored batiste,
trimmed with set-in pieces of daintiest lace and hand
embroidery- Others are net and lace or all lace in the
new patchwork effect.
There is such variety in tho shapes, from long,
straight collars to small curved ones and even round
points, that they will fit any stylo neck line. 2.50 to
$11 aro tho prices.
(Main Floor, Central)
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omen's Umbrellas
Priced $4
Covers of strong black cotton with a silk tape edge;
frames 8-rib paragon; handles plain or carved mission,
sometimes with bakclite tops and always with silk cords.
Price $1.
(Main Floor, Market)
Only Bedding of Good, Clean Quality
in the February Sale
We have no other kind at sale time or at any other time.
All our mattresses, mattress materials, feathers and bedsprings are at re
duced prices during this sale. The reductions are real, not startling. Market con
ditions borne in mind, they are exceptional, and they will not be offered again on
the same large variety of goods in at least six months.
(Sixth
designed to give and
Unfoldment of Chinese
Rugs at Very Moderate
Prices
One of the interesting' things about these rugs
is that they come in attractively graded sizes.
A still more interesting thing is that they aro
rugs of worthy class, in the striking individual
shades and with the striking individual symbolism
characteristic of Chinese weavings.
Perhaps tho most interesting thing of all is that
they are priced on a particularly moderate basis.
Anyhow these threo points of interest should
make a strong appeal A look at the rugs will
make it still stronger.
Chinese Rugs
12x9.4 ft., $495.
11.5x9.1 ft., $493.
10x8.3 ft., $125.
10.11x6.11 ft., $375.
10.1x8 ft., $365.
12x10 ft, $675.
11.9x9 ft., $475.
(Sornth Floor,
9x6 ft., $305.
8.2x6.2 ft., $235.
0.4x1 ft., $165.
7.4x4 ft., $175.
6x3 ft, $75.
4.11x3 ft, $65
4.6x2.2 ft, $35'.
Chestnut)
Kfew Upholstery Tapestries
Suggest Furniture
Re-covering
There is no secret about the reason that so many
peoplo choose tapestry for this purpose, for it is a well
known fact that it stands an enormous amount of hard
wear.
These new tapestries are beautiful figured designs,
50 inches wide, and tho prices aro $4.75, $5.50, $0.50, $7.50.
$8.50, $9 and $10 a yard. .uu,,
Wo have remarkably good facilities at this timo for
doing all kinds of reupholstcry work in tho best possible
manner, and wo are always glad to give estimates.
(Tlfth Floor, Market)
Floor, Chestnut)
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