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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEPHIIJADELPHIA' 'FRIDAY, FEBEUARY 1& 1920
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This Is Such a .Great Furniture Sale Because the
Economies in It Ring True
Philadelphia Still Wallows
Helplessly in the Paralysis
of the snowstorm shackles, which endanger the use of
automobiles and leave her streets an icy wilderness at
various points.
The trolley lines, doing the best they can with
their thousands of cars, full forces of motqrmen and
intelligent conductors, find it impossible to meet the
needs of the hour.
In New York City fifteen thousand men of the
Street Cleaning Department, by an all-night concen
tration of effort, even employing store clerks to work
at night, cleared an important business center of snov
and ice, opening up arteries of travel.
In the absence of warm rain, could not the new
Director of Public Works, by day and night forces of
men, clear Broad Street, north and south; Locust,
Walnut, Chestnut, Market and Arch Streets, Girard
and Columbia Avenues, east and west, as a beginning
of relief to the shut-ins, thus opening the main arteries
of traffic and allowing the doctors and nurses to relieve
house patients and get to and from the hospitals?
The serious condition of our thoroughfares, inter
rupting every phase of city and country life, deserves
the consideration of the Mayor and his staff of as
sistants, as the out-of-town people are discouraged by
the reports of the dangerous condition of many of the
snow-piled streets.
Can You Stop for a Few Minutes to Hear .
RACHMANINOFF GODOWSKl
ORNSTEIN
Playing the Piano in Egyptian Hall?
One after another you may hear them the
masters. You may call for any selection in their
repertoires. It will be played."
Not the artists in person, but the indistin
guishable reproduction of their splendid powers
by means of the
AM PI CO
Find out at once what this wonderful piano is.
(llltj-ptliin Hull, Second l'loor)
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Women's New Suits
of the Favorite Jersey
Priced at $35 to $50
Good country or- sports
models, with the characteris
tic features of belts, yokes,
pleats and pockets.
A few have brushed wool
facings, or show the new long
(First l'loor, Central)
straight revers ; also a few are
light weight.
Colors are brown and green,
heather mixtures, dxford and
navy.
Prices $35 to $50.
With a piece of lead pencil one can figure one's
self into fabulous wealth, but that is where the differ
ence between pencil marks on paper and money in one's
pocket becomes so apparent.
"Economy" as the word is often used is a relative
term and frequently it is something very elusive. To
be real, economy in a furniture sale must represent a
saving from an already fair price for an article" of
genuine quality and desirableness. We claim that
economy in. this Furniture Sale lives up to that
requirement.
It Is a Sale of Rleal Economy
A sale in which economy is founded on fact, the
fact of an original fair price on an article of genuine
quality and desirableness.
The greatness of the sale is due in large measure
to the fact that the savings, whether they are large or
little, are on things that people want on furniture of
genuine quality and desirable character, furniture
which, as a matter of fact, can always be-sold without
being reduced.
On furniture of that class a saving is a saving.
It is not an illusion, or a myth, or a mockery. For a
furniture sale the great thing needed is a background
of furniture that people want at reductions that appeal
to people of common sense and prove themselves real
in the test of service.
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Women's Salons!
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If you are tired of Winter clothes an d are longing for something new and fresh
and smart, to wear at once, you will find something ta please your fancy in the Young
Women's Store, for it is full of bright, pretty-new Spring clothes. v
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Practical New Spring Sports Suits
$29.50 for a particularly good model of wool
jcisey in a new sports stylo with four pockets,
nanow belt and many buttons; tailored skirt.
$35 for several other good styles, all in youth
ful and becoming sports models. These, too, of
wool jersey.
And they are all in the new Spring colors
Pekin and Copenhagen blues, browns, heather mix
tuics and other shades. 14 to 20 year" sizes.
New Sports and Other Topcoats
535 for a good model of wool jersey in three-quarter-length,
with pleat in the back, slit pockets
and narrow belts. Spring colors, too.
$62.50, $67.50 and $75 for the new polo coats in
attractive btyles, and of those soft tan wools that
are so fashionable. .
$65 to $75 for other new Spring topcoats of
evora, silvertone and other fine materials, in new
colors' and models.
14 to 20 year sizes.
The New Dresses Are Delightful
$27.50 to $95 range the prices and the models
start with a charming little taffeta dress of lus
trous silk, with snowy V at the neck and little
pleated frills for trimmings, and "goes on up to $95
for the handsomest satin dress, elaborately beaded.
There are taffetas and satins in new colors and
fetching new styles, many beaded, quite a few
with ruffles, many with short sleeves, ever so
many cdllarless, and some brightened with a vivid
touch of color in some unusual fashion.
14 to 20 year sizes.
(Secqnd rioor, Chestnut)
NEW WAISTS
OF GEORGETTE
The fust stylo in navy and tan
hdi steel beads, hand embroidery,
a square collar and a square neck.
This is $15.
The second, with heavy embroid
ery, s-howing cut-out work, has
tuckn and conies in white, flesh,
bisque and navy, $15.85.
Navy Georgette with rich deco
ration of amber, navy and crimson
beads; navy silk and gold-thread
embroidery, $28.50.
(Third l'loor, Central)
NEW PLEATED
PLAID SKIRTS IN
DARK, RICH
COLORINGS
Occasionally a woman" objects to
wgc plaids or finds them unbe
coming to her. These now Spring
'Kirts of soft all-wool velour fin
isned woistcd are in very small
plaids that every woman can wear.
Being quite conservative in color
j-tan-and-blue, brown-and-bluo and
"lue-and-green being the combina
tions they aro particularly nice
for street wear and they have the
advantage of going -with any kind
of a waist.
jiB00 witn Bmn11 box Pleata aro
S19.50 and tho ones with accordion
Pleats aie $25.
(First Floor, Central)
FLOWERED cotton crepe
kimonos are mtitle with
Empire backs and have blue,
Phk, rose or lavender
orounds with white wistaria
designs upon them. Price
(Third l'loor. Central)
LARGE NJGHT
GOWNS WITH
PHILIPPINE
v t YOKES
Pad&? 0f. lho. butiful, thickly
WrTJ hmtl embroidery which 1ms
"Mome so familiar to us, set into
Emr,!Jmilso,ok nightgowns mado
empire style, and run with rib-
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Price $7.50.
(Third Hogr, CBtrl).
This Women's Shoe Sale
' Is Like a Snowball
the longer it continues the larger it grows.
It started with 5000 pair of finest fashion shoes at $12 a pair, which
price represented savings of from $2 to $0 from the prices at which these
samo shoes were selling regularly.
Since then thousands of additional pair of shoes, have been ridded at
the same price and with tho same savings. .
There are over two dozen styles of shoes in the sale today and every
"one of them is of very high grade.
And the demand for these shoes is even keener now than it was at
the beginning, for every pair that leaves this store is a better advertise
ment of tho extraordinary nature of the disposal than anything c can
put into print.
There are high shoes and low shoes; extreme styles and staple styles.
Of tho latter in particular many women are buying enough to last them
several years.
(First Floor, Market)
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Silks for Many Spring Needs
All Speciatly Priced
Silks for morning and afternoon dresses, for dance frocks and
more formal evening gowns; silks for wash blouses and pretty
fancy waists, for warm weather suits and beparate skirts.
But the best thing about them is that every one of these silks
is fashionable for Spring; they aie all good qualities and decidedly
less than present-day prices.
Printed Georgette crepes, 40 inches wide, at $3.75 a yard.
This is within a few cents of the price of plain Georgettes.
Pailetto do soic, 86 inches wide, black, navy, brown and taupe,
$8 a yard.
Charmcusc, light, medium and dark colors, 40 inches wide,
$6.50 a yard. , ,
Printed Georgette ciepe, 10 inches wide, $3 a yard.
Printed radiums and taffctab, 40 inches wide, $3 and $4 a yaid,
Stiiped and plaid, satins and tau"etas,,$2 a yard.
Also other silks, white, black, plain colors and fancy silks and
somo wash silks, some with prices starting at $2 a yard.
(V.afo and Went Allien)
THE Fur Salon
has just re
ceived a new ship
ment of foxes,
brown, taupe and
black, all in the
shape of animal
boas and all spe
cially priced,
(Second Floor, Chestnut)
The Sale that we are holding is backed by a stock
of furniture large enough and good enough and at;;
sure enough economies to make it tHe greatest sale we''1
have had up to this time.
Only the goods that-are in it and the economies it t
affoMs could make it what it is.
(rifth, Mxth and Seventh Floors)
LARGE SUEDE
HANDBAGS
SPECIAL AT $12.75
We can sell a limited lot of these
bags at this nrice, which is unusu
ally low for such a style.
The suede is of good quality and
is in dark brown, tan and gray.
The bags are quite large and in a
rather broad shape. Frames are
shell-finish celluloid and linings are
silk.
(Mnln Floor, Chestnut)
AMONG NEW
SPRING SUITINGS
VELOUR
' IS PROMINENT
It is such a beautiful fabric for
handsome suits and coats that it is
close to the top of tho list of fash
ionable materials for Spring.
The new velours are in many
shades of tan (which have been
scarce until now), gray, light and
dark blue and silvertone effects.
Both plain colors' and silvertones
are 54 inches wide and $6, $6.50
and $7 a yard.
(Flrxt Floor, Chestnut)
Good Choosing Still
Among Pile Fabric Coats
Women who aro buying them aro doing so with tho future as well
as tho present in view, for these "pito fabrics are always in fashion and,
outside of fur, few materials' equal them for warmth.
Thore aresilk velours, silk plush and caracul cloths, some plain,
others with largo capes or bhawl collars of such furs as ringtail opossum,
dyed racoon and maison wolf. Some few aie in short sports length.
Prices start as low as $5J.Ij0 and go to $17B.
. (First Floor, Ventral)
A LITTLE clearaway of
jljl Oriental embroideries in
cludes pieces of many sizes,
from those big enough for a
workbag to priests' robes en
lire. They arc all about half
price $1 to $33.
Also in the Oriental Store
is a tableful of baskets of
many kinds, priced from 35c
to $5.
(Fourth 1 lour, ( hrslmit) ,
THE CORRECT
VEILS FOR THE
NEW SPRING HAT
According to a brand-new ship
ment, they are French dotted veil
ings, much the same as women
have liked so much this winter. Or
some very now scroll effects, a de
cided change, and many women find
them very becoming. Both kinds
como in black, navy, blown and
taupe at $1 and $1.85 a yard.
Also in the same colors there arc
some ptetty fancy mesh veilings
for only 85c. a yard.
(Mnlu 1 Inor, Central)
NEW BOOKS
"Where Angels Fear to Tread,"
by E. M. Forstcr, price $2. A de
lightful story of England and Italy,
in which a high-class Englibh
woman falls in love with an Ital
ian peasant and marries him.
"The Strange Case of Mortimer
Fenley," by Louis Tracy, price
$1.75. An excellent detective story.
"Grace Harlowc Overseas," by
Jessie Graham Flower, 75c.
"Grace Harlowc With the Red
Cross in France," by Jessie Gra
ham Flower, 75c.
(Main Floor. Thirteenth)
PRETTY NEW 50c
NECKWEAR FOR
WOMEN
Dainty organdie or net collars,
plain or lace trimmed, and there
are even some sets at this price.
Also you may have either long col
lars or the newer short ones. Most
women will like a number of
changes when they find how pretty
and inexpensive these collars and
sets are.
(Main Floor, Central)
GYM SUITS
FOR GIRLS
Bloomers of black, all-wool storm
bcrgc, full-cut, with double gusset
and pocket, price $5.75. Of coton-and-wool
storm serge, $4.75.
Middies to wear with them are
of all-white cotton duck, with
shields, biaid and laeers, pi ice $'J.
(Third l'loor, Central)
BLACK COTTON
DRESSES FOR
MAIDS AT $4.25
They aro hard enough to get at
any price well-made black cotton
dresses but theso were purchased
homo time ago, and that is why
they are so reasonably priced.
Of Arm, good black cotton, they
aie made in simple one-piece style,
with crisp White organdio collar
and cuffs.
And we have a plentiful assort
ment of sizes.
$4.25.
(Thttd Floor, Ccutral)
Seild Her a Red
Heart Filled With
Sweets
Bright led tin boxe.s. in heart
shape and with tho lids deco
rated with hand-painted de
signs, arc one of the novelties
this season. Filled with our fine
chocolates, they'll make delight
ful Valentines,, and they're $4
complete. Or send her a bov of the
French chocolates, all in heart
shape, $1.25 a pound.
Plenty of Valentine snapping
bonbons are here if you're hav
ing u party $1 and $1.50 a
dozen.
Assorted chocolates, in one
pound packages, 80c.
(I)oun Maim Mure, Chestnut)
Every Man's Opportunity in
the Unreserved Clearing of Winter
Overcoats at $30, $40 and $50
This is the best break of the season in men's overcoats.
It is the best Winter sale of men's overcoats this season in Philadelphia,
the best in the quality and style of the overcoats and in the lowiess of the
prices.
The least that any man can save on any coat in the collection is 10,
and he can save .$20. ,
The reduced prices $30, $40 and $50 are the lowest that have been
quoted on overcoats of these grades this season, and1t may be a very long time
before coats of the same, class will be purchasable for the same figures.
It is one of those Sales for which men wait. There should be more
men for the coats than there are coats for the men.
Regular Winter ulsters of good warm woolens, fashionably modeled
and hand finished and with handsome saving on every one of them.
Men's Velour Hats
at $6 and $8
Both would have been much
higher priced if they had ar
rived in time, but they just got
heie, and it is somewhat late in
the season for them.
Not too late for another
month's weai-, though, or to buy
them for next Fall and Win
ter, when they can be had for so
little. Such prices would be low
for ordinary hats, not to men
tion velours.
In black and lich .shades of
brown and green, with a soft
and velvety texture.
(Main Floor. Market)
Men's Mocha
Gloves "Seconds"
at $3.25 a Pair
Plump, velvety skin's good
weight and good colors that men
want for Spring; browns and
tans and gray shades.
They arc outseam sewn and
fasten with one clasp.
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(Third 1 loor, Murket)
Men's Neckwear
Shows Spring
Designs
Coloib are gayer than in the
Winter ties and there arc many
new patterns.
Theic is a wide assortment to
choose from, even this early,
and the quality of the bilk is ex
cellent, whether it be a $1 or a
$u.50 tie or one at a pi ice in be
tween. (Main I loor, Murl.it)
Men's Initial
Handkerch iefs,
$9 a Dozen
Of good, sturdy Irish linen,
snowy and fine, and they arc
cmbroideied by hand, with clear,
easily lead letters. Plain hem
stitched, with narrow hems.
(MeM isle)
About the Least
Expensive Woven
Madras Shirt
that a man can place any de
pendence in these days will cost
him ?a.50.
We have a good assortment of
such bhirtb just now in boft cuff
neglige style in narrow, wide
and seersucker stripes, and a
few in solid colors. Blue pre
dominates, and it is a good blue.
Price $:i.50. ,
(Main Floor, Market)
" Men's Silk Half
Hose "Seconds"
at $1.50
Full-fashioned thiead silk in
navy, gray, white and tan. No
black.
If first grade they would be
much higher priced.
Good, sturdy black and navy
cotton half hose with double
soles., heels and toes, USe, three
pair for $1. First grade.
(Main 1 loor. Market)
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"BENNY BENDO."
THE NEWEST TOY
A cheer), big clown with a funny
face and with arms and legs of soft
wiie that will bend and twist and
turn in any direction, so Benny
can assume the most amazing
poses. He has flat, paddle-like
feet.
There's not a thing about him to
break, and he'll be a duiable and
jolly toy.
Price $:(.50.
(Toy More, beietilh I loor, Market)
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Better Bedding
the Kind in This
Half-Yearly Sale
is what people want. From the way the sale is pro-""
gressing they seem to want a great deal of it. -
All our stocks of mattresses, pillows, bolsters and "-
springs are offered in it at reductions from our regular
prices, not startlingly large reductions, but just good.
real ones. .5
(Sixth l'loor. Chestnut)
NEW SPRING
CRETONNES
PRETTY FOR SLIP
COVERS
Many beautiful flowered patterns
in both light and dark effects, and
the color selection is remarkably
good. Prices aro 50c and 75c a
yard.'
We.llnd that the tendency among !
housekeepers is to order slip covers
as early as possible, so that they
will be leady in case warm weather
comes earlier than anticipated. v
(Firth Floor, Market) 1'
A GOOD TIME
AND PLACE TO
GET AUTOMOBILE
SUPPLIES
Standard makes of tiica and
Wanamaker special inner tubes
that will givo good seivice.
Mobiloils at $4.'J5 for a 5-gallon
can.
Lubrika giease, $J for a 5-pound
can.
Pumps at $a.'J5.
Keyless clocks, $10 to $25.
Auto chairs, $2.50.
Auto cushions, $2.50 to $10,
Rainy Kacer will prevent rain
diops from collecting on the wind
shield?!. (The Gallery, Juulner)
New High Shoes for Boys
Please notu that the Boys' Shoes are now to be
found on the First Floor, Market.
Tun allocs high cut and wilh
buckle for storms.
Sizes 11 to 2; price $7.50.
Black calf nhoen, with brood
toes and hcelb.
Sizes 2 to 5; price $5.7G.
The same shoes on tho Knjj
Huh last.
I ones i iu us: price o.vu.
1 Tan calf on the English last.
I Sizes 1 to 5: price S7.G0.
Tan calf bluchcr lace hhoob,
with broad toes und welted
boles.
Sizes 11 to ia', price $1.75.
Sizes 1 to 2; price $5.75.
The biimc things in black calf:
Sizes 11 to 13; pi ice $4.50.
Sizes 1 to 2: price $5.50.
Tan grain blucher hIiooh, lace,
with broad toes and half hooks.
Sizes 11 to 2; price $0.50.
(II rut l'loor, Market)
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