r"!"w s VXl EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1920 jTcToTDand D In honor of Crlspus died for American I tit a -jwT a - . . . WEATHER .Rain yuiucnsi Independence March 5, 1770 VV ILV AIVIAKEK S Store Opens at 9 WANAMAKER'S Store Closes at 5 WANAMAKER'S Own 1:55 and 4:50 t:t These Are Spring Days in This Store, Whatever They Be Outside An Enthusiastic Man From New York Visiting Us esoccially commended the 108-year-old advertisement of the first Insurance Company organized in Philadelphia, reproduced in these columns, last Saturday. - ' ' The Pennsylvania Company is still in business not far from its original site, and ably presided, over by C. S. W. Packard, Esq. Other favorable and forcible criticisms said that this country is now too rich, and too disgustingly proud and full of makc-believ. and it audaciously puffs up everything and spreads its feathers like a big peacock and screams loudly calling to be looked at. A fine young business man said, "Just think of it, when Philadelphia and New York began and when our country all over was first settled, there wasn't in it what could be called a rich man." Everybody was poor and all worked a day's work, living a simple life. Advertisements were short, simple, to the point, without steel traps for the unwary. In those days people lived plumb up to the Declaration of defiance to the world and genuine Independence because they did right. Do you haripen to remember that poem of dear, old Jim Whitcomb Riley (as his near friends called him), entitled Griggsbys Station ' I Tap's got his patent right and rich as all creution; But Where's tne peace una comiort mat we an nuu before? Let's go a-visitin' back to Griggsby's Station Where we ust to be so happy nnd so pore! "What's in all this grand life and high situation, And nary pm'c nor Hollyhock n-bloomiir at the door.'l Let's go a-visitin' back to Griggsby's Station Back where we ust to be so happy nnd so pore!" -The Hoosicr Book of Riley Verse, ten verses. Published by Bobbs-Mcrrill and for sale everywhere. - Signed tfarci 5, 1020. Smart New Spring Suits in Dark Blue $13.30 to $135 for new suits of serge, tricotine or Pouet twill. Some have those saucy little pony coats, some have the new long coats, some arc simply tai lored and borne arc quite elaborate. 14 to 20 year size. New Sports Suits for Young Women $29.50 to $10 for the new suits of wool Jersey in attractive models and all the new Spring colorings heather, Ian and brick shades, greens, blues and browns; 14 to 20 year sizes. New Cloth Dresses for Young Women $55 to $135 for new serge nnd tricotine dresses, chiefly in dark blue, and a few of tan; smart, unusual models in 14 to 20 year sizes. . (Stroud Floor. JJfomen's Shoes in 61 Styles Special at to a Pair All IICW nml ..II :.. ii.i.. . . . .. . . e i.L , " "". "i mis season s biyics, u models 01 "8h shoes and 20 of low shoes. i ' " conTvatlvo estimate, tho savings range from 10 ' pair. Styles rnnin . ii.. .., Uole l Z extremely lasmonauie 10 mo cell Jln1 types' with varlo8 kinds of toes nnd - u u.e good leathers among them. uhlnn r i pnnicuI"y Rood choosing among the fine FrL a "' that is beiK 80UB for Estcr- Uul tho mm... .1 i .. 'tomnr oiupio siyies many of our regular ire, v"aro buyi"tf enough pairs to last for two or UaorVnn ,y Know bcttor t,mn niy otnors "ordinary values these shoes aro at $12. QM jpmmfc. Pretty lew Spring Clothes for Grls aid' Yoiuig Women Ire. Ready In '"J m LmLLmiLt "" lmt wfixTJ 1'lleT - --- 5jj Capes, Grave and Gay But Charming Withal Should a woman want something distinctly new she may have a fascinating tan-colored tricotine cape, with deep bands of tobacco-brown brushed wool on the capelike collar and around the bottom. And a new feature is the loose straps to hide the arm openings. Another out-of-the-ordinary cape is of dark brown wool mixture with bright green stripes, nnd these stripes meet in V's down the center of the back. It has long scarf ends in front and a lining of changeable tan and green silk. Henna-colored velour, black and white checked velour, dark blue serges, tricotine, gabardine and whipcord are the other materials. Some are accor dion pleated. Prices go from 40 to $225. . (Flrnf Floor. (Vntrnlt Children's' Day Tomorrow . in Egyptian Hall With Glw-Cho at 2:45 A wonderful talk by the famous health clown and good motion pictures that all the children will delight in. Girl Scout Rally in University Hall at 2:30 THE Exhibition of Photographs continues just outside the Picture Galleries on the Fifth Floor, Market. Lovely New Spring Gowns $39.50 to $150 for the new dresses of taffeta", crepe Georgette and of charmcuse in street nnd afternoon shades. 14 to'20 year sizes. New Spring Coats to Go With " the Dresses $12.50 to $80, for the new polo coats in many styles in three-quarter, and the last named coat in full length style. 14- to 20 year sizes. $35 for a good-looking coat of the now goldtonc in tan, brown, Pekin or Copenhagen blue; yoke and sleeves lined; belted. $38.50 for a sports coat in brown or reindeer. $53.50 for a new model in burella cloth, lined throughout with peau do cygnc; pleats in the back and belted. All in 14 to 20 year sizes. New Silk Dresses for Girls $18.50 to $15 for taffeta and pongee dresses in light nnd dark colors, many styles and 6 to 14 year sizes. Girls' New Spring Coats $18.50 to $85 for coats of serge, velours and checks; new models, lined throughout; 0 to 17 year sizes. New School Clothes for Girls $7.50 for a now regulation dress of white jean, with middy blouse, red collar, cuffs and chevron on sleovo; 0 to 14 years. $3.75 to $10 for other new cotton regulation dresses; 0 to 14 years. $2.50 to $1.50 for middy blous.es in many styles; (i to 16 years. $4.75 to $G for new' separate plaid skirts in 10 to 1 4 year sizes. $11.50 for dainty separate guimpes, with hand stitching white, with colored trimming; 10 to'lG year sizes. Chestnut) A GREAT manv women are taking advantage of the Lenten season to have refreshing facial treatments in the Salon de Beaute. The new French pack method is wonderful for cleansing and bleaching the skin. Appoint ments should be made whenever possible. (Thlril Floor, riientniil) E xguiste Sheer "Undies" Nightgowns, chemises and petticoats mado of the vcrv lightest of cottons, with wide and narrow laces, real filet and leal Irish, with sometimes a little hand embroid- Cl Nightgowns arc $5.75 to $12.75. Chemises, $8.76 to $15. Petticoats, $10.50 to $46 Camisoles, $5. . .. Tn the Spring Women Like to Wear Small Animal Scarfs such as the soft and lovely one and two-skin sable and fisher scarfs. They add a delightful touch of omartness to a tailored suit or gown and are of precisely the right weight for oarly Spring. Somo of the sables aro Hudson Bay and some Russian, but nil aro of beautiful coloring, and each scarf Is a beauty. They start at $195 nnd go on up to $400. Most fashionable indeed, also, are tho fisher scarfs. Thoso aro usually single animal scarfs, but each piece has been most carefully selected, iyid they arc handsomo skins. These begin at $225 ard go on up to $500, at which price there Is a wonderful scarf of the extremely dark brown fisher that is so beautiful. (Sec.-- I Floor, Clitntnut) TJundreds of Women 's --New Sports Suits for Spring, at $32.50 to $70 Light-colored tweeds, soft wool checks that are almost Invisible, light weight burella cloths and jerseys these are the materials, and the linings of the cloth suits aro soft peau dc cygnes. The colors are oxford grays, navy, browns, heathers, old blues, rose shades, tans and greens. The coats, as a rule, arc of the favorite length for sport use 30 inches; just a trifle short of the fingertip length which obtnins in dress suits and there nre fea tures such as Inverted pleats in back. Graduated box pleats, single or in clusters. Narrow leather belts and stitched self-belts. Pointed and curved yokes. Rows of buttons. Tailors' touches crows' feet and so on. Brushed wool facings. (Flr.t Floor. .Market) IVTew and Lovely Spring Hats at $10 to $15 Delightfully Springlike, fresh us posies and in charming variety are these new hats all of which arc just out of the boxes. Gay colors, new shapes, now trimmings, new ideas of ull sorts are here to interest the woman in search of a smart and becoming now hat. Plenty of small hats hats that turn off the face. Plenty of small hats, flower trimmed. Plenty of hats in the new brown and blue shades. Many hats trimmed with bright yellow, or the fash ionable jade color. There are little hats faced with soft feathers, hats with a gay ornament or u fancy pin at just the right angle for effectiveness; new hats with soft facings of pleated mnlinc; hats gay with fruit and flowers. (Second 1 loor. Chestnut) HThat Versatile Silk J- Printed Georgette Crepe . Take any orfe of the new Spring designs and drape it over one color silk after another. Each time it looks entirely different, and tho most delightful effects are possible. That is one reason why women have taken such' a fancy to this beautiful silk and why it is so fashionable Jor Spring. There are new shipments of printed Georgettes arriving nil tho time, the darkest wood brown with bright peacock blue or vivid Chinese reds, gray or dark blues with different colored printings are extremely good. Tho width is 40 inches and the prico $4, $4.50 and $5.50 n yard. . (Firat Floor, tlirttiiiit) ray Gloves Are the Fashion This Spring and many women aro asking us for them to wear with their new gowns and suits. Mocha gloves, in the much-liked light-gray shade, are piquo sewn, Have I clasp and are $3.60 a pair. Of still better quality are other gray mocha gloves, nnd in the same quality are brown, beaver nnd light tan, at $4.50 a pair. They have 1 clasp or 1 button fastening. And just arrived are some new long French suede gloves, in light gray, 12-button length, pique sewn, and $7 a pair. (Main Floor. OntrHl) TXfomen jj Thread-Silk "" Stockings ' 'Seconds ' ' x at $1. 75 a Pair 1800 pair of black and white full-fashioned thread silk stockings that would be much higher priced if first grade. Hosiery mills are so hard pressed now to turn out enough first-grade goods to meet the demand that second grade are thrown aside. We were fortunate to procure these, (Wot Al.le) Men's Spring Suits and Overcoats 100 Per Cent Fine s If there were some method whereby the points of excellence in men's cloth ing could be standardized, graded and tested, as physical and mental tests are made of men in schools and in the public service, we are certain that these new Spring suits and overcoats would register the 100 per cent in eveiy essential in fabrics, in fashion, in tailoring, in real value at the prices. As a matter of fact, this Men's Clothing Store never has been and never will be satisfied with anything short of that standard. - There is no reason why any man should buy a suit or an overcoat that comes short of it. Not only are there no suits or overcoats lower priced than these that are as good, but there cannot be. Suits or overcoats offered at prices lower than we ask for these are made of inferior fabrics in some cases of downright shoddy or the making is deliber ately skimped, or both. The new Spring overcoats are of knitted fabrics, rough cheviots and Scotch effects in herringbone patterns grays, greens, browns and heather mixtures $45 to $75. ' New Spring suits in a large selection of woolens, in gray, green, brown and mixed fabrics; every suit admirably fashioned and well tailored $40 to $85. (Tlilnl The Man Who Wants a Fresh, New Soft Hat to wear with his new Spring clothes, or at least to take the place of the hat he has been wearing all Fall and Winter, will find a good assortment here. Good shapes, good weights and good colors. Fedora, telescope and dented crowns. Prices $G, $7 and $8. ' (.Main Floor, Market) Men's Handkerchiefs $4.50 a Dozen Irish linen, all of them, but sturdy of weave and fresh nnd snowy. Plain hemstitched style, with narrow hems. (Wot Alle) A China and Glassware Sale of Real Advantage Dinner setg and glassware are the two principal things in a China Sale. Our Spring Sale is a remarkably helpful Sale in both. It presents a choice of all our regular dinner sets, including a number of open-stock patterns at substantial reductions from our regular prices. At these regular prices there were no better dinner sets anywhere, if there were any quite as ood. The finest group of dinner sets in the collection is the French $45 to $350. English porcelain sets are shown in attractive selec tion at $35 to $100. (Fourth Floor, The Lamp Sale Goes On Merrily For tomorrow wc have put into it a hundred metal reading lamps, bronze finished, at $8.50, and n hundred 10 and 12 inch parchment shades, im ported, and priced at $4.50 and $5.50. Besides which there are still plenty of poly chrome and-wrought-iron floor lamps, of metal table lamps and of all kinds of light fixtures. Prices are 10 to 33 per cent less than usual. (Fourth Floor, Central) lfost Sprifiglike of 1 Suitings Art Homespuns and Tweeds And from the busy way that they are coming and going it can easily be seen that many of tho Easter suits for women will be made of either one or the other. Both homespuns nnd tweeds nre woven entirely of wool and they are most serviceable for wear. Chiefly in gray, tan or mixtures and sometimes there is a fleck of color or black in tho weave. 64 inches wide and $3.75, $4 and $5 a yard. (Flrnt Floor, Chestnut) Little Novelties for the Baby's Use such as rattles, carriage straps and afghan clamps nre now here in unusually good assortment. They are of rib bons or celluloid, and many aro hand painted. 7."c to (Third Floor, Chestnut) Not Next Day Nor Month is the time to get best and Let us be understood. By extraordinary efforts we secured 80,6'J5 new articles of a houscfurnishing character to sell in this Spring Sale at less ihan regular prices. Wo can't get any more now except at regular prices. When they are gone they are clean gone. They aro going fast. Nearly every woman all of a sudden seems to have awakened to the fact that Spring is nearly hero and that Spring cleaning and Spring houso renovating have got to bo started almost at once. And so the new things aro going very fast, with no more to come in except nt tho higher regular prices. (Fourth Floor, SpriEg Sale f lHonr. Market) Men,HereAre GoodWoven Madras Shirts for $3 and you know tnat is a low price for a good shirt these days. Most shirts at that price aro only printed, not woven. These designs aro good, too, nnd tho style is tho soft-cuff, plain neglige. (.Main Floor, Market) Men's New Neckties In Spring Designs There is a noticeable difference between Spring neckties and Fall and Winter neckties. It is partly the designs, partly the colorings and often a lighter weight fabric. Men who keep up appearances are buying new ties now. Prices $1 to $4. OUIn Floor. Market) Of American porcelain sets there is a wonderfully large and well-chosen collection at $13.50 to $40. And a most interesting group is made up of American sets of real china not porcelain at $40 to $67.50. Set means 100 or 107 pieces, in standard sizes and combinations. Fine cut glass radiates abundantly in the Sale at savings of 20 to 33 1-3 per cent, and there is an extensive collection of light cuttings and other low-priced glass ware at very good economies. l)itnnt) New Fiction "The Matrix," by Maria Thompson Daviess, prico 51.75. A charming colorful tale of the meeting, tho courtship and marriage of Abraham Lincoln's father and mother. "Glamour," by W. B. Maxwell, $1.90. A novel in which the subject is handled with careless easo and grace. "Luca Sarlo," by Charles S. Brooks, $1.75. A story of love and adventure, set in the romantic Paris of Villon nnd Louis XI. "Taxi," by George Agnew Chamberlain, $1.00. An up-to-the-minute New York comedy-romance. "Raspberry Jam," by Carolyn Wells, $1.G0. An entertaining detective story. (Mnln Floor, Thirteenth) HThe Easter Bunny Has J- Arrived and is now in the Candy Store, where he will be glad to see all his small admirers. And Easter favors and novel ties are beginning to appear also. For tho week-end candy there are old-fashioned bitter-sweet chocolates, dcliciously fresh and GOc a pound. Old-fashioned stick candy, 60c a pound. Assorted caramels, $1 a pound. (I)iwn Stairs Store, Chestnut) Next Week Nor Next But NOW fullest advantage of the S i If you are one of those thousands of prudent people who want r new cleaning things, new kitchen utensils, new bathroom furnishings, new ironware, new vacuum cleaners, new sweepers, new enamelwarc, new aluminum ware, or a new trunk or sewing machine or noarly anything of a housekeeping nature, even to a dress form, and want It good and sound and true i-ui on your nnt and come at once. Market nml Central) .i I ' - rirt Floor, Markrt) i..r - A nkfcWtw.,.k yX &.. :.J.i
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