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. Christmas Music by the Organ
WANAMAKER'S
it 9 and Oize, with singing of uareis
Stere Opens at 9
WANAMAKER'S
Stere Closes at 5:30"
WANAMAKER'S
WEATHER
Cleudy
organ uiiimei J.ncii Heur
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eady for a Great Wave of Merry Christmas Gift Buyers Tomorrow
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In Order te Learn te Judge
One Must Begin by Knewing
All this great business, the growth of sixty
iears. would be in jeopardy were it net for the geed
judgment and care we exercise in selecting the
merchandise which we allow te be submitted te the
people whose tastes and likings we have studied and
cultivated.
The Wares and Articles
That Please Us
are required te meet standards that our experts
have learned by long and
I patrons for a lifetime.
We prefer te miss sales
qualities, doubtful fabrics
have by experience proved
Any one has a right te
generally will print any advertisement offered.
If you knew the people . whose names and
practice guarantee what you get, all is well.
Signed
iDec. 10, 1920.
The Smart, Short Fur Coats
Yeung Girls Like
Sometimes they are belted, sometimes they hang straight and.
full; sometimes they have great furry cellars of a contrasting
fur; but usunlly they are in the light colors girl3 like, and usually
in the thirty and thirty-two inch lengths that are se popular this
Winter.
Marmet coats are well liked their glistening brown is be
coming te many girls. $150 up te $245 for the trimmed coats.
Black or brown penyskin coats, plain and trimmed with ether
furs. $170 te $300.
Seft taupe nutria ceuts are lovely, $400 te $600.
Natural muskrat coats arc popular $280 te $325.
Nnturnl racoon coats are well liked, tee, $315.
And you may be sure of the quality of the fur in every coat!
(Second Fleer, Chestnut)
Silks Are Net Luxuries but
Economies This Christmas
Thev are something that everv man. woman and child wears in
eme form or another, and the use
hey arc very practical, certain silks
Imest any ether material.
And every piece of silk new in
djusted te meet the new and lower
ally.
Christmas silks are especially
re giving them for gifts and there
(Vint Fleer, Chentnut)
If She Likes Outdoor Life
Give Her a Leather Ceat
If q the pnnt for nil weather, for moterinir. skatinir and every
ther form of Winter sport, and it is
forth te business every day.
New leather coats are in short
hnpk. lined throughout, at S02.50.
llse belted, in gray, natural or black
Euede cloth at $125. These are all new
(I'lmt lloer.
ou Can Give Pretty Handbags
and They Cost Yeu Little
Between S3.7.i and S6.50 we have a remarkable assortment of
nvctyne and velvet handbags in black, navy, taupe and brown. Any
would make a welcome gift.
These linea urn in mnnv Shanes
lave covered, metal, shell finish and
ibve fancy clasps.
the. mere you knew about nnnuuag values me mere you v-u um
late being able te get such excellent bags at huch low prices.
(Went Alile and Main
Way Down in Price Yeung
Women's Fine Winter Suits.
$40 te $175
Here is a chance te save dollars and dollars, for these are
fine suits and prices have been very substantielly lowered.
Smart of cut, beautifully tailored, of fine quality materials
and in the best Winter styles, they are suits of distinction. The
most fashionable colors ure here Chinese and ether blues, rein
deer, Zanzibar brown, tan, henna and brick.
Tricetinrs, veldynes, penchbloem, veleurs, silvertenes, duvet
de laine and novelty materials make them. They are trimmed with
beaver, natural gray squirrel, nutria, opossum, Hudsen seal (dyed
muskrnt) and nenrsenl . (dyca ceney). Seme are handsomely
embroidered, yeme arc beaded, some braided. Seme are without
fur, for girls who wish te wear their own furs. All arcfrichly lined.
$40 te $170 anu 1 10 as yeur
(Hrceiid l'loer,
Many People Are Buying
Cotten Goods for Gifts
in.e r. niumvn nenular. and especially se this year since prices
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ve dropped se low. oemu ui wiu
Percales, 25c and 30c a yard.
Flisse crepe, 28c nnd 38c a yard.
Kimene crcpe, 50c a yard.
Figured voiles, 60c te $1 a yard.
Gnlatens, 38c a yard.
(l'lrt neon
Hand-Made
White Waists
Batistes mostly.
One with square neck has hem-
Ititchlng and dots, and narrow
let edging its long cellar, ine
Ice is $5.60.
One with hemstitchinir and real
llt has tucks and a V neck, and
ests $8.
Anether has a large filet cellar
fid wide frills edged with lilet.
Ice $10.
Still another with hand-made
ee is $16.60.
And some delightful pink, white
pa blue voiles trimmed with filet
e $18.75.
nXWi. Xlef. CntnJ
close relations with our
than te have inferior
or such articles that we
te be undesirable.
keep a store. Newspapers
of silks is increasing every year.
wearing ana wasning neuer tnan
the Silk Stere has had its price
prices. of the new silks arriving
, , .
attractive this year, many people
nre Christmas boxes for all such.
the coat for women who go back
belted models in tan, mahogany or
and a three-nuarter length style,
leather, from $75 te $100, or in
and smaller prices.
Outrun
and 3izes and all HOW styles. They
fancy celluloid frames, and seme
l'loer, ChfntnuO
oiice.
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Children's suiting, 38c and C5c
a yard.
Ginghams, 35c te 85c u yard.
Silk and 'cotton tissue, 85c a
yard.
Madras shirting, 76c te $1.50 a
yard.
OlieMnnt)
As a Change Frem
Plain Imitation
Ivery
There nre some lovely imi
tation ivory toilet articles out
lined with cither pink and geld
or blue and geld.
Mirrors, $0.35 and $0.76.
Hair brushes, $5.60 and
$5.75.
Cleth brushes, $5.75.
Hat brushes, $3.76,
Jewel boxes, $6.
Hatpin holders, $3.25.
Puff boxes, $4.75.
(Main J"'oer, ClieMnut)
Q.pU
( S PRIX'
(jIynier)
Reynier Gloves
Come Down!
Effective tomorrow morning all Reynier
ishert gloves will have new prices as fellows :
Women s everseam gloves te be $3.50.
Women's pique gloves te be $4.
Women's washable suede gloves te be
$4.50.
Women's Chevrette gloves te be $4.50.
It is geed fortune indeed that
this lowering of prices comes
just befere Christmas.
Old friends of the famous
Reyniers may new give
Reynier gloves with the old
time freedom several pairs at
n time.
It is also geed fortune that
we are in receipt of a new
shipment of Reynier gloves,
new, fresh skins, fust at this
time, te meet the demand that
(Muln Fleer,
EVEN If you have a Christ
mas list a mile long and a
heap e' things te de, you'll feel
better and leek better in one
of these
Women's
.Smart New
Hats
at $70 and $12
They are just out of their
boxes, are the rawest whims
of Dame Fashion, and are as
pretty us they are new. There
arc new duvetynu hats in gay
colors, fetching new affairs of
glistening satin in fashiennblc
hues, some glistening brocades
with soft furs and ethers of
lustrous velvets.
And there nre no two alike
$10 and $121
We've Reduced Mere
Winter Hats All
$10 and Under
and there's "geed cheesing for
any woman who will take the
trouble te try them en till she
finds just what suits her.
Dress hats hats for shop
ping hats for every day
there's a goodly collection
nnd prices are considerably
lowered.
(Herentl l'loer, Clicntmit)
All the Favorite
Celers in Bead
Necklaces
are here new the pretty green of
the imitation jade, the deep blue
of the imitation lapis lazuli, the
soft, lovely coral and ever se
many mere. The beads nre in
graduated sizes, they are in the
fashionable lengths, and the neck
laces begin at $3 and go te $10.
Novelty necklaces in many
colors and attractive designs arc
$1 te $19.
(Jewelry Stere, Chentnnt)
New and Pretty
Neckwear for
Christmas
Dainty sets of cellar and cutfs
in organdie or cream or white net
and vestees of net with the cellar
attached. They are just what
many women want for the new
gowns and they would make the
nicest sort of gifts.
The prices are particularly
moderate, $1 and $1.50.
(Muln l'loer, Central)
Silk Bleemers
for Women
Knee-length sorts of pink ciepe
de chine are $3 te $8; of wash
satin, $2.85 te $5.50.
Ankle-length bloomers in the
prettiest dark colors imaginable
are $3.85 te $10.75.
Excellent te go en Santa's list,
all of hem.
(Third Fleer, Central)'
Christmas
Decorations
The littlest red wreath of them
nil is one costing 25c, for an
automobile, and the biggest is an
18-inch wreath trimmed with
holly and peinscttias at $5.
Cresses ure from $2 for a plain
small one te $4.50 for a large
trimmed one.
Red festooning, $1.75 for n
piece of 50 yards.
Helly sprays, well-berricd, are
$1 a dozen. Peinscttias 12c each
and $1.80 a dozen.
Sprays for cemetery urfb, and
therefore designed te stand
weather, $2 a spray.
Magnelia wreaths with pine
cones and peinscttias for the ssme
purpose, $4.50.
AJfftarth tetw, Mk -
PAB5 '900 ;
will fellow these new prices.
Complete assortment of sizes
and shades.
Styles include suede in three
clasp; glace in three button
nnd three clasp everseam;
suede in two clasp, pique sewn;
glace in two clasp pique, and
Chevrette tnnne in two clasp.
On sale tomorrow morning,
at these npw prices, in the
Gleve Section.
Central)
Shoes at
Several thousand
women's Winter high shoes that
Were a Half Mere te Three
Times as Much
This is a clearaway of odd lets from our own
geed stocks. There are many styles and net all sizes
in every style, but almost any one can be fitted, and
it is certainly well worth taking a little time te leek
for your size.
All Wanamaker-standard shoes of geed style,
geed' leathers and geed workmanship.
(Mrn'n Shern, Muln l'loer, Market)
(W omen' Wlnien, rlrt l'loer, Murket)
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Toys!
'Tis get-ting near Christ-mas and all through the Stere
The pee-ple are buy-ing as nev-er be-fore ;
And, eh, what a rel-lick-ing, jub-i-lant noise'
Is made by the kid-dies ad-mir-ing the
Toys!
The Grump-ys who want te cut hel-i-days out
Are be-ing put swift-ly and sure-ly te rout;
They can-net rob child-heed of in-no-cent joys
As long as the world can find pleas-ure in
Toys!
If par-ents should ev-er lese sight of their youth
They'll find them-selves fac-ing an un-hap-py truth
We re-live our lives in our girls and our boys
And what is a Christ-mas with-out an-y
Toys!
(SMcnth l'loer)
Christmas Beeks
for the Youngsters
Youngsters of many ages. Fer "The Gingerbread
lnstance here is the "Ihc liunty
Boek," by G. Heath llobinsen and
J. Birch, for six te ten yenr olds.
It has heaps of jelly pictures
and costs $2.50.
"Glinda of Oz." by L. Frank
Bnurn, price $2, is for about the
same ages. Se is "Seven o'clock
Stories," by Ilobert Gorden An An An
dorsen, with 20 color pictures,
three children nnd n deg in it.
This Is $3.50. The "Kiddie Kar
Boek" is for these even smaller,
and costs $1.50. Right hore comes
ir "The Real Mether Geese" with
pictures by Blanche Fisher
Wright; price, $2,
Fer children from sny, eight
te twelve, thore are books like
41UU float,
Meme: Te Get
for the Heuse
A mahogany table-tray. Here
is a fine collection of trays te
cheese it from the trays varl-
eusly inlaid, handled with brass
or mahogany, sometimes inlaid
with etched glass. Prices, $12,
$14 and $15.
Lazy Susans a great conveni
ence in these days of "doing ene's
own stretching" $16.75.
A newspaper ruck for the man
of the house te prep his news
paper against, the rest of the
family may need the sugar bowl.
Hrass or nickel, $3.25.
Adjustable shaving mirrors
which take any angle, 8-inch
beveled French glass, $6.50.
Game tables covered with
green felt, and very light and
strong, being well-braced, $5.60.
Covered with leatherette, $5.
Detachable covers of stenciled
oilcloth for the same, $1.50. '
Babies' portable bath tub of
rubber en light frames, possessed
of fnucut and rnck; usable both
en the lloer and In the big bath
tub, $9.50 and $11.50..
Metal het-water bottles, last
ing and sanitary, $1.75.
Sweet-toned 'dinner chimes,
four bars, nickel Jilted en a
mnhetfany-rtnislicd base, $7.50.
Canary birds may be had for
$10 for the untrained singers or
$15 for Andreasburg rollers.
Chaffinches are $5; linnets, $5;
bullfinches, $8; parrots, $25.
(Fourth Fleer, Central and Mrlt)
$4.25
pair of men's
and
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Heustv" bv
Ituth B. MacArthur, $3; "The
Sendman'H Mountain," by Leuis
Dedge, $3; "East e' the Sun and
West e the Moen," by Gudrum
Ihorne-Themsen; price, $1.50,
containing twenty-two of the
best-known folk-lore tales; and
.Stokes "Wonder Boek of Fairy
Tales," price $3.50.
And for children of almost any
uge und grown-ups, tee, there is
endless charm in such books as
"The Happy Prince," by Oscar
Wilde, illustrated by Charles
Robinson, $4; 'The Sleeping
Beauty," Illustrated by Rackham
nt $2 j and "The Three Musket
e'ers," by Alexander Dumns, illus
trated by Hareld Brett, at S3.
XUlxtentb
Anether for Men!
A Great Wanamaker Sale
of Winter Underwear
All at, Halved Prices
A sale of underwear that we held two weekp age was and still is the
talk of the whole countryside.
Thousands of men shared in it and thousands mere missed it.
New we are te have another tomorrow morning.
It is a sale of great opportunities.
Every item here is selling all ever the United States for double,
or mere than double the price marked en it at Wanamaker's. Ne man
who needs Winter underwear can afford te let this go by. It is all first
quality, fresh merchandise.
There are light weights in shirts, drawers and union suits, but
the bulk of the sale is heavy-weight, warm, all-wool or wool-and-cotton
goods suitable for men who will have te buffet wind and sleet and
snow this Winter.
SI a garment for medium-weight
white and ecru and winter-weight
ecru ribbed cotton shirts and draw
ers. Alse winter-weight ribbed gray
wool - and - cotton mixed shirts and
drawers.
$1.50 a garment for winter and
medium weights gray ribbed wool-and-cotton
shirts and drawers.
$2.50 a garment for winter-weight
Men's British
Woolen
Half Hese at$l
Average half price for one
of the most satisfactory gifts
you could make te a man.
Seme taken out of stock and
lowered te meet the new price
of fresh lets that just arrived.
Heavy and medium weights
in ribbed fancy mottled effects,
checks, stripes and clocks.
Alse plenty of plain colors,
black, white and heather mix
tures. (Mctln Fleer, Murkrt)
Men's Knitted
Ties at $1
They are plain colors and cress
stripes in splendid assortment,
and at $1 each they will go out
by the dozen and half dezun.
(Mln l'loer, Market)
All These
All-wool, white blankets with
pink and blue borders, all rut
and bound separately, 60x54
inches, $12.50 a pair; 72x8 i
inches, $13.50 a pair; 80x90
inches, $15 a pair.
English all - wool blankets,
white, with pink and blue bor
ders, cut and bound separately,
70x90 inches, $17.50 a pair.
English blankets of pure Aus
tralian wool, in white, all cut
and bound separately, 60x81
inches, $20 a pair; 72x90 inches.
$30 a pair; 80x90 inches, $32.50
a pair.
Fine Helland blankets of pure
Australian wool and Arctic
1000 Chairs Lowered One-Third te
One-Half Geed Gifts Every One
Chairs for every room
and unprecedented Christmas
If you want te realize w
would be without them. The
"Won't you take a chair?"
Library and Living Living
Roem Chairs
Here are living-room chairs
in large variety, including a
splendid selection of great,
' upholstered easy chairs that al
ways stand in the front rank
as gifts.
Luxuriously upholstered easy
armchairs in tapestry, $75.
Armchairs upholstered in
green leather, $80.
Flreside chairs upholstered
in figured vcleur, $55.
Armchairs upholstered in
figured cretonne, loose - sent
cushions. SS2.
gray ribbed all - wool shirts and
drawers.
$1.25 and $1.50 for light-weight rib
bed white cotton union suits.
$2.75 each for winter-weight ribbed
gray wool-and-cotton union suits.
$.'.75 each for winter-weight ribbed
gray and white wool-and-cotton union
suits.
$5 each for winter-weight ribbed
gray all-wool union suits.
(Muln l'loer, Market)
Sweaters for
The Sporting Goods Stere hns
many kinds.
Fine imported sweaters for
men, $12 te $35.
American-made coat sweaters
with two pockets. $8 te $12.
Heavy Shaker-knit sweaters in
(Tim (.ullrrj. Juniper)
Prices Drep en Many of
the Men's Dressing Gowns
We have taken four groups of our men's Christmas dressing
gewn.s and lowered their prices. Savings range all the'way from
a couple of dollars up te half price. As a gift-buying opportunity,
it is unique, for such price revisions almost never come befere the
holidays.
Yeu can buy Redleaf lounging gowns of cloth in oxford mix
ture, brown, gray or black for $15, which is in seme cases half
price and in ethers close te it.
Yeu can buy gown of camcl'.s-hnir cloth for $25, a buvinir of
$2.50 te $10.
Or you can buy a beautiful English foulard silk gown, warmly
lined or unlined, or a nch elvet gown for $50, which in either
case represents a clear saving of $15.
( Main 1 lour, MurUrt)
Geed Bl-ikets at Half
wools, with long, Wavy nap;
and pink, blue, lavender, geld
nnd vermilion borders; single
bed sizes, $11 and $1 1 each; double-bed
sizes, $14 and $18 each,
and some Jacqunrd woven ones
in figured and floral designs and
in extra-large size at $19 each.
Indian style blankets, all-wool
filled, mnde in a lare ariet
of typical Xavnje colors and
patterns, $0, $7.50, $9 nnd 15 10
each.
Scarlet blankets ,of all-wool
with black striped borders, 60
8U inches, $6.25 each.
Tan blankets with dark brown
htripes, woven of wool and cot-
(Slvtli fleer, Central)
and for everybody are embraced in this very exceptional
Sale.
hat a geed gi ft chairs, make, think ui what the world
chair comes pretty near te being the symbol of hospitality
This is a great opportunity "te take a chair."
Adam design ti reside chair,
scat uphelsteicd in damask,
loose-seat cushion, $77.50.
Iauis XV mahogany side
chuir, upholstered in velour, $50.
Gelden oak rocker, weed scat,
$16.50.
Other living-room and library
chairs and rockers in large ns ns
bertment, at $16.50 te $100.
Bedroom Chairs
Enameled, $3.25, $7, $10,
$10.75, $13.5D and $16.50.
Mahogany, $10, $12.50 $13.50,
$15, $18.
Walnut. $12.50, $25, $27 and
S30.
(llflli anil sixth llm.rM
Men and Beys
coat style with cellar, pullover'
with cellar and pullover with V
neck, in various colors, $8 te $18.
Beys' sizes in these are $0.75
te $13.
Men's woolen vests in various
color-., $1 te $8.
ten, 02x84 inches, $8.25 each.
Crib blankets, fine for baby
gifts, white, part-wool and with
pink or blue borders, 36x51
inches, $3 pair.
Tluee lets of part-wee'
blankets, white with pink and
blue borders, with widu bind
!ng, some bound in silk, UOxH)
inches, at $1.50 and $6 a pai .
All-wool blankets for outdoor
or indoor use; in white and tan.
with blue, geld, black and tni
borders and close whipped idge
m colors te match, $12 each, in
single-bed nucx.
Willow Chair h
Mostly m the natural color,
but seme in stained finishes nnd
some Uphnlbtcied, $21, $25, $29,
$33 and $;U.
Dining-Roem Chairs
Set of Leuis XV walnut
chairs, consisting of five side
and one aim chair, eats uphol
stered m genul"' auhcr, $85.
Set of Queen ' mahogany
ihnirs, censistiij llve side
and ene arm ch upholstered
in blue haircloths a
Side chairs at j.'iiO, $7 and
$22.
rmchnivs. S'.i.fiO, $11.50, $15
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