EVENING' PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920
LOSES OTHER LEG
flnglneer Already Had Lost One In
Previous Railway Accident
Marcus Steele, n Heading Railroad
Engineer with nil artificial leg, lost bis
rood limb Inst night whop he was run
down by a locomotive nt Lehigh and
Kensington mcmies. Steele wai stand
ing on the track when his left foot
eot fnit I" n 8ar(I "". A few mln
utes Inter an engloe bore down nnd
his Ifff aid foot were so bndly crushed
ihst amputation was necessary In the
Vplvopal Hospital.
Steel lost his right leg In it railway
accident some years ago. He is fifty
years old and lives at 205S Enst Stella
avenue. v
Organ plays at 9,11, 11:55
and 4:50
Chlmea (it Noon
WANAMAKER'S
DOWN STAIRS STORE
WANAMAKER'S
WEATHER
Fair
What a Fine and Glowing A rray of New Spring
Fashions in Wanamaker's Down Stairs Store!
A fireproof office build
in);, with elevators, right
In the center of the city,
is for Bale. The building is
fully tenanted, but if it
were remodeled and thin
Is easy to do it would
brine in a greatly increased
revenue. We would like to
talk over thin proposition
with n man who ran sec a
bit ahead for we've facts
and figures to show.
City Office, Chrttnut nt IStU
Boulevard Office, Cor. Rising Sun Ave,
Oak Lane Office, Opposite Station
Big Bargains
in Pianos and
Player-Pianos
at North's
Better than cheap new
pianoi, these standard
makes have been put in A-l
shape by our factory ex-
perts.
Player-Pianos
S750GE0,STECK?9OC
(food tone. Mahogany ome. VVV
$650 MELVILLE $
I Large, sire. Walnut cast,
285
$ouu iinutm $
ULAHK
Ijirce mahogany oast.
375
UprightPianos
$400 QIRARD
Large mahogany case.
$350 IMPERIAL
Like now. Beautiful case.
$400 RIEKES
Mahogany. Large slue.
$400 FERHW00D
Medium size. Mahogany.
$350 WILLARD
Almost new. Handsome,
large mahogany case.
$450 LESTER
Kicellent tone. Smooth action.
$400 SINGER
Mahogany raise
$700 STEINWAY
Small etxe. Mahogany case.
$500 HARDMAN
Large size. Mahogany case,
$600 CHICKERING
Mahogany. Oood order.
$500 LESTER
Large size. Mahogany.
$375 LEONARD
Mahotrany case. Good coridltlon.
$400 COLONNADE SOA
flood tone. Oak case. LsLiXf
$450 EMERSON
Mght mahogany. I.urge alze
$350 REGAL
Like new. large size.
$350 KINGSBURY
Excellent condition.
$400 STULTZ
Mahogany. Like new.
'245
225
s230
235
s220
245
230
$225
$195
$200
$275
i225
$220
$225
$225
$200
$235
F. A. North Co.
1306 Chestnut Street
T'lease send me a complete descrip
tion of your bargains In slightly used
Player-Pianos rJ
Upright Pianos j
also detalla of eay. payment plan,
without Interest or extras.
Xima . .
(Address
n.r.i.. s-27-in
Other F. A. North Stores
WEST rilll.A.i 3OT B. 62I St.
fcEHINOTONl 1813-15 K. Allrghrnr Alt,
MANAYflNKl 4STS MftJn 8t
KOKTII rillLA., 2ISS N. Front St.
OKltlKTONl ZM XV. Main SI.
CILKSTKIli 313 Edxmont Ave.
I'AMIlKNi Mt Hruiulwuy
TKKNVONl ro K. SUU St.
HHADINOl IS ji, fitb St.
"I Simply Must
Have a New Hat!"
that Is as much a state of mind as it is a quotation, for almost
every woman's thoughts run along that line every time sho puts
on her old Winter hat. It is the season of the year when a new
hat acts as a real tonic.
An Opening Exposition
is being held in the Down Stairs Millinery Salons and it is quite
a revelation to sco what charming new hats can be had for com
paratively small sums.
At $5 and $6
there aic about 350 smart new hats that aro oxcellcnt for the
money. There are tailored hats with burnt plumage, with stjff
wings or with ribbon used in frills and bows. Others are touched
with the fashionable raffia straw and you'll seo some nodding
chcrrii s. Most of the straws arc in brown, black and navy, but
trimmings adopt 'most any color.
(Market)
Silk Envelope Chemises ,
$4.85
Talc pink satin and crepe de chine chemises aro in the plain
tailored style, with only hemstitching for adornment, others trimmed
with laces or Georgetto crepe; all have shoulder straps.
300 Fresh White Envelope Chemises, 85c
White nainsook chemises trimmed around the top and bottom with
embroidery or loco have ribbon shoulder straps.
A Skirt Combination, $1.50
A new one is of soft white nainsook, trimmed with neat lace
around the top and bottom,
(Central)
What So Fresh as a Batiste
Blouse?
So Bheor and fine of texture they express Spring freshness most
delightfully. Some are adorned only with tucking, some with Httlo
headings or edged of ricrac braid. Others aro quite frilly with fine
laces or little bands of shirred batiste. Each blouse is as spic and
span as you please.
Prices range from $3.25, to $7.50.
Among these charming blouses of batisto aro many that aro
eulUblc for school girls.
The Little Gray Salon
Is Proud of a Georgette Blouse
which is of unusually good quality at $12.75. Its deep, shawl collar
and turn-back cuffs arc heavily braided with soutache; it can be had
in flesh, white, navy, tan, black and brown.
(Market)
i
Sparkling Color!
Bead Necklaces at 35c and 65c
Rose, blue, green, yellow, etc., in myriad hues flash forth or gleam
with the mysterious light of the translucent when it verges on tho
opaque. The necklaces aro in various fashionable lengths and almost
all of them arc graduated.
(Clieatnnt)
Frocks for Miss Springtime
at $6.75
Fresh and Springlike arc tho well-tailored
regulations for girls who wear sizes 8 to 16
years. Some of them aro of dark blue ging
ham or of white jean and others combine blue
gingham skirts with white middies that have
blue collars. (Sketched)
Gingham and chambray dresses in attrac
tive styles for school and playtime arc $3 to
$8.50.
Middy Skirts, Special at $4
They arc of plaid or of navy Panama, fully
pleated onto white bodies; very attractive and
serviceable! Sizes 8 to 14 years.
Plaid Skirts for Junior Girls
At $5.75, good-looking plaid skirts, in
lengths 30 and 32 inches, are buttoned down
tho side front, have separate belts and are
finished with tailored pockets.
Taffeta Frocks at $12.75
Prettv strincd or plaid silk dresses are
eharmlnirlv fashioned on rather simple lines
and have sashes about tho waists with bows in back. Sizes 8 to 14
years.
Wool Jersey Dresses, $23.50, $25 to $27.50
The styles arc thoso that are most becoming to junior girls and
small women. There is a choice of tan, Pckin or dark blue and tho
dresses have three-quarter sleeves and are embroidered with silk or
wool.
(Market)
France Sent These
New Spring Gloves
for Women
Well-cut, smoothly fitting gloves of kidskin nrc in white with black
Paris point stitching and in black with white stitching. They are over
scam sewn and have two clasps at tho wrists. $3.75.
In a creamy tan kidskin, they arc $8.75.
Strap-wrist gloves of glace French lambskin are in mode, tan,
gray and navy. They have five-inch cuffs and aro pique sewn. $4.60
a pair.
(Central)
New
Petticoats
Pretty and Practical
at $3.85
Lustrous silk-and-cotton tussah
in a great many changeable hues
greens, blues, brown and tho
like.
Cotton Jersey Petticoats,
Special, $1.50
They have cotton jersey tops
and flowered or plain sateen
flounces; in black or navy.
Extra-Size Black Sateen
Petticoats, $2
Generously cut and well-made
petticoats.
Soft Petticoats of
Silk Jersey
have flounces t jersey pleated in
a series of double points. In Co
penhagen, brown, purple, black,
navy and jade green at $12.50.
With contrasting blocks of color
inserted in the flounces, silk jer
soy petticoats aro $13.75.
(Central)
Women's Spring Coats Are Fairly
Spreading
Themselves
Rn
Savings of 10 per cent to
33 1-3 per cent.
Relinblo Wanamaker Rugs,
every one.
Size 9x12 Feet
American grass ruga, $12.50.
Wool-and-flber rugs, $15.
lleuvy seamless Axminstcr
rugs, $62.50.
Heavy seamless tapestry
rugs, $30.50.
Heavy seamless- volvet rugs,
$55.
Size 8x10 Feet
RB rugs, $10.
Size 6x9 Feet
Wool-and-flber rugs, $10.
Seamless tapestry ruga,
$18.50.
Axminstcr rugs, $28.50.
(Clintnut)
In fact, they've- been arriving in such numbers that
wo have had to enlarge the Coat Store to make room
for the coats that will bo ready for your choosing
tomorrow. Hundreds of charming things in polo cloth,
camel's hair, Bolivia, tinseltone, wool jersey, velour and
silvortonc are ready to meet Spring moro than half wuy.
Tho short coat that is sketched is a sports coat of
tan polo cloth, with a narrow leather belt. $19.50.
Other coats of polo cloth aro priced up to $65.
The long coat is of camel's hair, and excellent value
at $57.50.
At $25 to $39.50
there aro both long and short coats of tinseltone. gold
tone, jersey, velour and sflvcrtono, many with linings
of silk.
Finer coats of Bolivia, tricotine, suedeno and liiiscl
tono are mode in countless pretty ways and nicely lined.
For variety's sako there are capes, dolmans and capo
coats of soft materials, faced or lined throughout with
silk. $30.50 to $185.
(Mnrket)
$57.50
19.50
Women's Low Shoes in 32 Styles!
Women will greet with pleasure the long, slender lines that seem to be prevailing
as well as tho short vamps that are new. 32 styles offering almost unlimited selection
in pumps and Oxford ties with imitation wing or straight tips or plain vamps. Soles are
welted or turned and heels show great variety: high, medium, low, high French and baby
French.
Dark tan calfskin Oxford ties, $7.50 to $9.90.
Doric tan calfskin or brown Iddslrin pumps,
$8 to $9.90
Black Calfskin or black dull leather Oxford
ties, $6.50 to $9.90
Black calfskin or black dull leather pumps,
$7.50 to $9.90
Black kidskin Oxford tics, $8.25
Black kidskin pumps, $8.50
Spats
Some, in whito or ivory (soiled), aro special at
90c a pair; others aro $2 to $3.50 n pair.
Women's Sensible Shoes,
$7.25 a Pair
Size 2 18 to 9, Widths AA to EE
Tho shoes are of pliable black kidskin in button
and lace styles.
Children's Shoes
Sizes G to 8, $4 to $-1.50.
Sizes 8 to 10H, $4.50 to $5.75.
Sizes 11 to 2, $5.50 to $6.50.
All of them are cut with sensibly wido toes and
durably welted soles; tho shoot, are of dark tan
leather or of block dull leather in lace style and of
black patent or dull leather in button style.
Girls' Shoes at $6.90
Sizes 2& to G black dull leather or black patent
leather luco shoes have scrviccably welted boles
and are quite attractivo in appearance.
Small Children's Shoes
Sizes 2 to C have no heels; sizes 5 to 8 have
wedgo heels. Included aro shoes of black kidskin,
black patent leather, brown kidskin, tan calfskin
and white leathor. JWany havo white, brown or
chnmpagno color tops. $1.75 to $3.50.
All-Wool Ulsterettes Like These
Are Not an Everyday Occurrence
If there's the slightest chance of your needing a new overcoat next Fall, you
can't do better than buy one of these coats and keep it though, of course, there
is plenty of overcoat weather ahead now.
At $24.50 and $27.50
these coats are below actual wholesale cost today. They are of thick, warm
All-Wool Coatings
in gray, brown and green mixtures, mads in ulsterette style with convertible col
lars and belted backs or belts all around. All are double breasted and have deep,
roomy pockets. Many of the coats have satin shoulder and sleeve linings.
In a word, they are thoroughgoing, substantial coats at rock-bottom prices.
(CheitOQt)
(Gallery, Marlict)
Spring's New Silk Bags
$3 to $5
Springtime's favorite is moire taffeta and bags
arc very good to see and light to carry! Tassels?
Oh, yes, on almost every bag, and, sometimes, a bit
of shirring or ruffling or other adornment nt tho bot
tom near the tassel.
Linings arc all plain color, in excellent taste, and
the bags havo all the necessary fittings, such as
purses and mirrors.
The covered or metal top is equally in favor.
(Chestnut)
Warm, Soft Quilts
at $8.50
The wool filling is mixed with a little cotton
and the covering is of figured silkalcne with a
border of plain sateen.
At $10, quilts filled with wool mixed with
a little cotton are covered with pretty figured
cambric and bordered with plain sateen in
pretty shades.
(Central)
Mighty Good All-Wool
Mackinaws for the Boys
$10.75
8 to 15 Year Sizes
Good, warm mackinaws (and every ounce of these
mean sound warmth) will give much servico this
Winter and, if bought largo enough, can be put away
for tho next. '
These arc in good, dark plaids, belted all around,
with collars that can be buttoned snugly under tho
chin or worn low. Pockets are deep and roomy.
(Gallery, Market)
Most Little Boys Need New
Caps About Now
The ones they have been wearing through tho
Winter have about given out. New ones in various
mixtures are $1 to $3.
Swarthmore and bulldog hats of mixed suitings
arc $2: small boys' hats with roll brims that can be
j turned up or down arc $2.25.
I Blue serge tarns arc $2; leather tarns, $3.50.
(Gnllery, Market)
Scores of. Pretty Jersey Dresses
at $15 to $25 m
B f
s for early Spring, for they wf ir k
hWrA
Thoy make ideal frocks for early Spring, for they
are just the right weight for comfort. Colors aro
fresh, too, presenting plenty of silver gray, reindeer,
Copenhagen, Pckin and brown, as well as navy blue
and black. You'll like tho pretty braiding that trims
thoso dresses and their simple, straight lines are
becoming to almost any figure.
Three Jersey Dresses Are Sketched
at $10.50 n dress in reindeer, taupe and navy-
at $22.50 a dress in Copenhagen, Pckin, brown
and navy.
at $25 a dress with an accordion-pleated skirt
and an ovcrblouse, the latter trimmed with contrast
ing bands and embroidery. In Pekin, reindeer and
navy,
Special at $10
A little group of silvortonc dresses in .Oxford,
brown and navy. They aro tucked or trimmed with
ball buttons.
Serge Dresses Begin at $18
for tr youthful model with three-quarter sleeves and
draped pockets embroidered in two-tone braid.
At 520,50 there are two notable new models of tho
utmost simplicity, with long lines that heavy figures
will find most becoming. All are in navy blue.
Finer dresses of navy blue tricotino havo short or
long sleeves and are beautifully embroidered in silk
or beads. $35 to $50.50.
And Spring Wouldn't Be Spring
Without Taffeta
Fresh and rustling frocks of this Springtime silk
k
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dfc
til
S1G.50
Si2i0
.525
( Mill-lift
aic mado with long blccvcs, pointed overslcirts and
soft little net collars, cuffs and vestees. In navy,
black and taupe at 25.
Others aro made with puffy skirts and em
broidered bodices, and are sometimes combined with
Georgette crepe. Flowered foulards aro also among
the newcomers. $23.50, $25. S20.50 to $50.
An Interesting Group
of Skirts at
$9.75 to $16.50
Gathered skirts and box-pleated
ones in gay plnids and stripes, as
well as in plain colors. They're
of sorges, velours, tricotines and a
few of baronet satin and trico
lctto. You notice all sorts of
pretty porkets, wido belts and in
teresting buttons. Many are spe
cially priced.
(Market)
Dear Little Hats
and Coats
for Youngsters
Many of tho coats have just
been lifted from their boN.es
little flaring or straight box
styles, but most of th"m aYc plnin
and nicely tailored.
Black-and-whito check and navy
blue frergo coots, well lined and
topped with snowy collars, aro $5
and $5.50 for the checks; ?C for
tho serge.
Others, of velour checks, bu
rella and serge, aro 513.50 and
$14; these also havo white collars
and, often, whito cuffs.
Millinery Varies
from n plain little straw! with a
tailored bow to quite 4 fluffy
braided hat. ?2 to ?5.
(Central)
300 Good Corsets at $2.50
A clearing up of broken sizes of corsets that have all been
priced higher. Toplefs or medium-bust models for slight to
average figures aro of pink or white coutil; somo are u bit
mussed.
Bandeaux Brassieres, 75c
Of various good pink or white materials, they hac tapo
ihouldcr straps and clastic insets in the back.
Lace-Trimmed Brassieres, 85c
Tink nnd white lacc-trimmed, hook-front brassieres in sizes
i6 nnd 38.
(( rn(rnl)
Percale
45c a Yard
This Is a good quality per
cale, 30 inches wide, in stripes
that aro particularly suited to
boys' and men's shirts, as welt
us to little girls' dresses.
(Central)
Wool Jersey Suits
$25, $32.50, $35 and $37.50
Many models in brown,
navy, tan and Copenhagen
blue show box-plented or
pinch-back jackets, and
somo have trimmings of
contrasting color. A
?32.50 model is sketched.
Tweed Suits
in brown, green and gray
tones aro $29.50, $35,
$30.50 and $42.50. The
jackets, on simple, sports
lines, arc all silk lined.
Silvertone Suits
$39.50
Ono has a jacket of
novel cut, with a narrow
leather belt and buttons
for tulornment; another
has an attractivo rippling
tucket, and cither comes in
rown or navy.
Other Spring suits of
tricotine, mannish serge,
silvortonc, Illama cloth
and wool poplin aro $37.50,
$30.50, ? to $78.50.
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(Market)
$32.50
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