I ' - , : 1W1SNING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA", MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1920 ! Christmas MurIc by the Organ at 9 and 5:20, With Singing of Carels Ornn Chime llnch Heur WANAMAKER'S Stere Opens at 9 WANAMAKER'S Stere Closes at 5:30 WANAMAKER'S WEATHER Cleudy A Stere That Is Always Safe, Ne Matter Hew Great the Crowds i" ' The New Life of This Big . Business Temple Is Easy te Be Seen and it is remarked often by these who, crossing te ether streets, walk through the Stere because they like the buzz of something going en. There is no dullness here ! On every hand you see much that is new en the day you see it. There are few days in the year that we de net take in at least upward of one hundred thousand dollars' worth of new and fresh goods. The characteristic growth of the Stere is manifest. There is lets of thinking going en here. Signed Dec. 1.1, 1!20. Gorgeous Spangled Scarfs Are fascinating Gifts Prnm Paris, of course, and the most elaborate and beautiful that city has ever sent us. Anv woman who rocs out at all te evening functions will simply delight in such a Christmas gift, (Muln 1'lnnr, New Eedleaf Gloves Came en the "Haver ford" were rushed thieugh the customs and arc here ready for our customers tomorrow. There Are Warm Lined Gloves for Women Suedes and sturdy captains in strap wrist nnd short lengths, lined with wool or fur. $4.50 te $8 a pair. Hand-Sewn Gloves for Men Extra-heavy suede, $4 a pair in gray and brown. Men's Lined Gloves, Toe Capes and suedes lined with wool or fur. $5.50 te $9 a pair. Te be found nowhere in Philadelphia but Wanamakcr's made especially in England for this store. (Miiln Fleer, Cenlrnl) Beaded Handbags in Beautiful Celers These bags are very well hided and in various shapes and lira with cither covered or shell finish celluloid frames. (Main riaar. Embroidered Bordered Serges Are the Height of Fashion Seme of the handsomest gowns of the season are using thec beautiful serges and tried hies as their material. They are chiefly in black or (FlrM Fleer. Smart Oxfords I Wear With Weel Stockings Yeune women nf fashion like kf-hte' wng-tip oxfeids best of hw wear with woolen iiese. These shops are of black and uigan calfskin with 'long I (Flrt Meer. Scarf and Cap Sets horn Switzerland TVse fine woolen scarfs unj (ps are much liked bv girls M women. In plain colors, jsestly dark, the are $f.50 Je sf and in fanev stupes tv aie 810. All were te wt been much 'higher in Price. Artificial silk scarfs from NJtwiIand, in plain colors Ma d'ep st'tch stvle. $5: in "e-color stripes. S7.50. Heth audi belev vegulni. "1ri ,or, Markrt) Silk Petticoats Large Sizes Jmnv . ...... ..,,.... itM m black enlv. SS. I JH-niMfalnie at '$10; jersey lj'ith taffeta flounces at $12; rli " uu au-jersuy at m"e shades at- 'Tlilnl r,,r, rittrul) Bandeaux and Brass ieres . "siide: Itav. ''incy material or i.-, wc, h.ie nml ?li25; nise K"Me Mlk bandeaux at $1.10. H,,n of P,ni" Pl"k mute" Hi 75c ft"l of pink broehe ri'njy p.lnK w white satin and '15.25 "masiercs nre $!1 I'Aeasiercs trimmed with 15 'atin bandeaux and i f iktmui PIoe, . ffijfaufa for it is something shn .en ,- O w bull tC(& easen after (season without going out of fashion. On black or white net, with spangles, beads and sometimes even embroidery in geld or silver, $15 te $58. These are all new prices. Cetitrnl) Fer handbags of their mod el ate pi ices they are original in design and unusually beautiful in their colorings. Prices $14, $18 and $25. Chetnat) navy blue embroidered in self color, contrasting colorings or in silver or antique geld. There are ethers with open-work embroidery. Frem $5.50 te $12 a yard are the prices. t'liritllUt) for Women te wing tips, much perforation and uinking and low, brand, mannish licels. Their price new is $8.75 n pair; they were a third mere. .Marl.el) ' Levely Waists of Voile A quartette of charming new styles: One with tucks, drawnwerk and hand-made lace of Irish pat tern, $5.50. A second with filet and em broidered sprays, $6.85. A third with square neck, real filet and a little hand embroid ery, $3. A fourth has Irish lace, diawn diawn werk and a jabot effect en col cel lar, $9.85. 1 lilrtl rieur. Centrnl) A Weman's Umbrella in Conservative Style There is one at $7.50 which is a particularly geed value for the price, aud which will just "fill the need. The cover is of firm, close roll ing silk, the handle is in simple, geed taste and of hard weed, with a silk loop for carrying. This umbrella will give excel lent service and it is guaranteed for one year. $7.50. (Muln I'luer, MurUei) Mere albatross breakfast coats for women are here made with short kimono sleeves in pink, blue and lavender, price $12. Alse mere albatross kimonos in the same shades, with frog fastenings and rope girdles, price $16.75. Werthy Gift Furs Skunk or Black Lynx Skunk is one of the fine furs which renlly combine bccemlngness with, service for the rich brown-black of the skunk is becoming te most women, nnd there are certainly few furs which give better wear. It s a fine cold-weather fur, tee there Is warmth nnd comfort in every piece. . New skunk neckpieces in smart chokers, animal scarfs, steles nnd ether neckpieces, begin nt $5G.50 and go te $245 this last price for a handsome stele with two pockets. Skunk muffs, $35 te $100. One of the hnndsemest black furs is the glossy black lynx. It is here in cellnrs and chokers of many styles, in scarfs and steles and at many prices stnrting nt $03.50 en up te $365. Lynx muff3 te match are $100 and $110. (Neceml Fleer. Chednut) FineChristmasNews for Women Fur-Trimmed Coats Are Less Every woman who has been looking ferwnrd te n new coat before Christmas will be delighted te hear it, for they are the handsomer ceata nnd wraps from ever $100 up thnt new average about a fourth ess in price. All the fashionable materials of the Winter, such as vcleur, belivia, penchbloem, evern, silk-and-wool duvctyne and ethers. The furs nrc dyed and natural racoon, Australian opossum, nutria, wolf, squirrel, beaver, mole nnd Hudsen seal (dyed muskrnt). Seme have cuffs as well as cellar of fur and many have embroidery as well. New prices nrc $95 te $475. (1'Irnt Fleer, Cenlrnl) The Newest Spring Silk With a New Spring Price One of the loveliest silks that ever wbb thought of for sports cos tumes, separate skirts and blouses nnd that is new used for evening and afternoon gowns nnd wra"ps. It has n slightly crinkled surfnee with designs in the same or a different color in n satin finish". There is a large assortment of both light and dark shades, and the price is $6.50 a yard, nearly half what it was last season. (Flrnt Fleer. Chestnut) Most Women Prefer French Imitation Ivery Toilet articles made of it are finer and better than these made of the ether kinds of this imitation ivory. Tliis is a geed point te remember when cheesing Christmas gifts, either starting n new set or completing one already started. Mirrors, $10.50 nnd $12.50. Pin cushions, $3.35 and $3.75. Hair brushes, $5.25 te $10.50. Snlve jars, $2.65. Hat brushes, $5. Puff boxes, $10 and $11.75. Trays, $2 te $10. Hair receivers, $10 and $11.75. Buffers, $2.10 te $3.75. Combs, $3 and $3.50. (Muln Fleer, Cheatnut) Silver Crescents, Set With Rhinestones and imitation sapphires are among the pretty trinkets in the Jewelry Stere. They arc in different sizes, nnd are $1.25 each. New rhinestenc bar pins, all in sterling silver, set with rhinestones are $2.50 te $30. (Jewelry Stere, Chenlnut) Hundreds of Blankets at Half Price Yeu cannot give a better home-gift than blankets, and in the Wanamaker Christmas Sale you can cheese from hundreds of the best blankets of Amcricnn and European manufacture at half price. Mere than ten different lets are irt the Sale, including all-wool as well as part-wool blankets, all mnrked at the prices of Jive years age from $6 a pair up te the finest pure Australian wool blankets at $32.50 a pair. A large choice at several prices in between. (Hlxth Fleer, Cenlrnl) "Be Sure Yeu Don't Miss the Wanamaker Tey Stere" writes one little boy te another Dear Friend William: I take my pen in hand te say that I am well and hope you arc the same. Say, have you seen the Wanamaker Tey Stere? Gelly, but it's fine! I have been there twice, once with my Mether and the ether time with my Father, and I like te go with my Mether best, because my Father spends all the time nreund the counters where they have the structure!! toys. He bought me a struc tural toy last Christmas, but I did net get a chance te play with it. , There are se many things that you cannot sea them nil in one vizit. There nre beats and trains and moving pixture ma chines and sleds and gnmes and nil kinds of annlmels. I dent see why they have be many dells though and toy kitchins nnd such things. Nobody likes them but girU. Yeu ought te see Santa claws. He has a dandy house with a slay and a leter box euUside te drop leters in. Be sure you dent miss it. Your Friend, ROBERT (Seventh Fleer) Women's , Riding Beets ere entirely suitable for holi day gifts, and the Exclusive Little Beet Shep hns them of tan and black Russia calf, cut with English legs and men's bread heels, for $35 a pair. (First Fleer, Mnrket) 1 Christmas Notes Electric heating pads are welcome te invalids nnd chilly folk, $9.50. Flashlights for big and little boys and ether people nre $1 te $7.50. Fresh batteries come into the store daily. Wanamaker electric irons, some with heel stands and some with metal stands, nre $8.5,0 complete with cord and Plug. Electrical adapters te turn vases nnd candlesticks into lamps are $2.50 te $6.50. Electrical percolators in sets, each set with tray, cream pitcher nnd sugar bowl, besides the six or nine cup percolator, are $32 te $47. Beth nickel and copper finishes. Jerusalem cherries, well berried, $2 n pet. Ferns, palms, crotens,Tvie8, 16c te $4. Artificial fruits run from 25c for a plum te 50c for an npple. Had you thought of vacuum bottles? Trices from $2.75 for a pint size te $11.25 for a vacuum pitcher. Trays for geed little boys and girls arc of decorated metal, priced at $3 and $4. Weeden telephone girls, $1.50. Pasteboard girls, 50c. (Fourth Fleer. Central) 5000 jelly red Christ mas candles, hand dipped, have come into the Lamp Stere, and will be going out faster than you can say Jack Robin son. They are -of the favorite tapering shape, and are priced at 20c, 25c and 35c. (Fourth Fleer, Ceutrnl) Initialed Nightgowns Anether shipment of these always-wanted nightgowns. They have eyelet yokes nnd are finished with lace and ribbon nnd cost $1.50. (Third Fleer, Central) The Geed News Has Spread About Velour Doer Curtains That is, that they are back te their old-time prices of be fore the war $30 a pair and a number of people have been in nlrendy te buy what they need. These are made of the finest mercerized velour, double- (Fifth Fleer, Girls' Wash Frecks at Lew Prices$2 te $3.50 are dresses that have been higher priced nnd nre geed frocks for such small sums. They arc of sturdy ginghams or chambrays in plain colors, striped nnd checked effects and they are in all the pretty colors girls like te wear. There are many geed styles, the Jresses are fresh and in geed con dition, they are in 6 te 14 year sizes nnd will make sensible school or play frocks for year round wenr. (Second Fleer, thentnut) Modern Spanish Organ Music $2 is one of the many gift books in the Music Stere that would de light the musician. But there arc many ether Organ Beeks, tee $1.50 te $2.50. In this same class of gifts for the musicinn are bound volumes af Beethoven, Chepin, Chnminade, I.iszt nnd Grieg all cloth bound, with gilt tops, nnd $2.50 te $3.50 n volume. (Hecend Fleer, Market) The Most Popular Mether Geese Songs Illustrated $1.50 Well-loved rhymes set te music and illustrated the children will enjoy singing them. Otlier song books for children holiday songs $2,50. Songs of Happiness, $1.75. (Keeund Fleer, Market) Hand-knitted comforts of rtiany sorts are In the Art Needlework Stere, begin ning with babies' socks at 45c a pair and ending with women's boudoir jackets at $8.75. -uitftj (Hecend FVvr, Central) , Desk Sets and desk utilities. Diaries, foun tain pens, pencils, gifts that ere useful and in geed form. Desk furnishings from a paper weight at 25c te a complete bronze set at $41. Diaries, including the most complete, and elaborate kinds mnde, 35c te $7.60. Fountain pens, $1.50 te $35. Self-feeding or propelling pen cils, styles te match the pens, $1 te $35. In the Commercial Stationery Stere. (Third Fleer, Market) New Axminster Rugs Because of the vigor of its de sign and coloring nnd its reputa tion for geed service, the Axmin ster is one of the most popular of rugs. 9x12 ft, $03.50 and $73.60. 8.3x10.6 ft., $56 nnd $07.50. 6x9 ft, $33.50 and $40. 4.6x6.6 ft, $18 nnd $21.50. i 36x70 in., $9 and $11. 27x54 in., $5.50 and $0.50. Runners 2.3x9 ft, $15.75. 2.3x12 ft, $21. 2.3x15 ft, $26. (Seventh Fleer, Chestnut) Fur-Cellar (In the Londen Shep) The Men's Londen Shep has just received a ship ment of very fine fur-cellar overcoats. As a gift te a man, one of these handsome garments would be hard te match. Big, warm ulsters with raglan and straight shoul ders, half belts and belts all around and some with four pockets. Fine fleeces and cheviets are the materials used and they are in brown, blue and green heather mix tures and gray. A gray herringbone with plaid lining is one of the most effective. The big fur cellars en these coats are of selected pelts beaver, otter and Australian opossum. Prices are $135 te $250. (The duller)-, CheNtnut) faced and cither the same or with contrasting colors en each side. They are full 2,,a yards long and generously wide. Such curtains nre investments for years te come, and they nre wonderfully worm looking and delightful te live with. '.Mnrket) Lets of Beys Would Like n pair of sturdy storm shoes with buckles and straps at top. Sizes 11 te 2 are $8; sizes 2 te 0 nre $11. Heys' hip beets, sizes 22 te 6, prices $5 and $5.50. (Flrat Fleer, Mnrket) If Yeu Wish te Order the Christmas Candies New this is te say that we'H be glad te take your order and send the cftndies whenever you direct Asserted chocolates, 50c, 70c nnd $1.30 a pound; put up in five-pound boxes, $2.50, $3.50 and $6.50. Delicious mixtures, 50c, 70c and $1.15 a pound; in five-pound boxes, $2.50, $3.50 nnd $5.75. (Demii Mnlra Stere, Chentmit) Fer a mother or a father, for any one getting en in years, there is hardly any gift that means se much as an easy chair. Moreover, it is a gift te the whole family. But it should be a genuinely geed chair, and te be genuinely geed it has te be as reliable in side as it is impressive en the outside. Easy chairs and rockers of the genuinely geed kind are plentiful in the chair disposal that we are holding. But al though they are 100 per cent reliable in quality, we hnve taken 33 1-3 per cent off their prices. The Rare Boek Cerner Is the Place te Come when you arc searching for beautiful books for the best bibliophile of your clnn. Heic is an item or two by way of suggestien: Francis Bacen, Viscount St. Albanw, Works, edited by Basil Montague, with portrait, Hi vels. 8ve. Half morocco, gilt tops, uncut. Pickering, 1825-31, $90. Geerge Cruikshnnk, Comic Almanac. An ephemeris in jest and earnest, by Rigdum Funnides, gent, adorned with right merrie cuts pertaining te the months, sketched and etched by Geerge Cruikshnnk, 10 vels, in , lfime. Half Levant, gilt tops, uncut. By Beet, Londen, Tilt, 1835-53. Original issue, $110. Charles Dickens's Works, Gudshlll Edition. Edited with the introduction and notes by Andrew Lang, in 30 vels. Sq. Cr. 8ve. Londen, Chapman & Hull, n d. Bound in half levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut, $225. The Life, Letters nnd Complete Works of Jehn Ruskin. Edited with additions-from original manuscripts by E. T. Cook and A. Wcderburn. Complete index te all the works. With about 1800 illustrations, many of them tinted, including some 200 draw ings by Ruskin net hitherto reproduced. A limited edition. 39 vels. Large 8ve. (OMixO'fe,) buckram. Londen, Geerge Allen, 1903-12, $200. (Muln Fleer. Thirteenth) Persian Kermanshah Rugs Rich and Beautiful Gifts These pieces have all the soft, delicate charm of color and beauty of design for which fine Kermanshnhs are noted, and their prices arc-' extraordinarily low. 6x4.4 ft $135 0.3x4.5 ft $100 6.3x3.10 ft $125 6.6x4.7 ft $175 0.11x4.6 ft $275 5.7x4.4 ft $289 (Seventh Doer, Overcoats for The Finest Half Hese England Can Make Isn't that something worth while te give te a man you knew well? A belated shipment just get here in time. Fine lisle in black, brown, gray and white, $2.50 a pair. Derby ribbed lisle in dark gray and navy, $3. Fine blnck, blue and gray lisle with embroidered insteps and clocks, $3.50. Luxurious iridescent silk with Tu.&O and $8.50. Derby-ribbed light-weight cashmere nnd heather mixtures, $3.50. Fine silk and cashmere mixed in black, blue, brown nnd gray, $3.50, Alse an interesting group of tine woolen golf hose at $10 a pair' (..Mil In Fleer, Mnrket) Men's Scotch Instead of These fine warm vests, all golfers nnd ether outdoor men, half again as much. They aie in gray checks and A new importation. (.11 ill n Fleur, Mnrket) Men's English Walking Sticks Begin at $5 and go en up te $30. They are all of that popular woed-malncca nnd they are highly polished and in plain hook style or finished with silver or ield trimmings. (Imlirellit lore, A Great Time in Chairs Especially Easy Chairs Luxuriously upholstered easy chair with spring seat anil back, wide spring arms, Turk ish effect, removable cushion M-at, upholstered in high-giade tapestry, $125. Fireside chair, high back and arms, spring seat and back, upholstered in tapestry, $48. Large arm rocker, over stuffed upholstering, full spring seat und back, loose-seat cush ion, covered in geed grade tap estry, $60. Genuine blue leather easy chair, high-grade workman ship throughout, full spring sent and back, removable cushion, $130. Queen Anne style armchair, (Fifth Fleer) 6.7x4.3 ft $167 6.2x4.6 ft :..$135 6.5x4.3 ft $87 6.9x4.9 ft $295 0.9x4.6 ft $287 6x4.2 ft $250 Chestnut) Gentlemen embroidered insteps and clocks, in black, navy, gray, white Weel Vests, $10 a Half Mere splendid gifts for motorists, are the sort usually sold for stripes and heather mixtures. Muln Fleer, Murkrl) fireside effect, ceercd in silk damask, remevable cushion seat, S05. William und Mary armchair, hitfh back and arms, fireside effect, upholstered in antique flour, $87.50. Walnut side chair, poly pely poly ihieme finish, rush seat, $60. Knglish-style easy chair, extra-high back, fireside effect, leversible cushion sent cov ered in sateen, $110. Mahogany fireside chair, covered in figured cretonne, Large assortment of chairs and reckrs from $30 te $100, nil ene-tiilrd less than regular pi ices. i Mr c A -; , , 1; 1 Se . tf- lla let IS: a. 6I- F3 'ity t ;in- " A 1 'FT It 1 !!'? r &'( fa?Ol r e ,ou will t pay 10 ,, miw- ? At all 10. D. e prep" e u t JSL Inc. '1 iJKt. 9 H801) 1 ft It 7. ..-. il vza sri T..r -Zi':J 'jJjf i w S -J i A vfl id VVf. C ft.. (Third noer, myuinn . kit w !, fv'. t , ujjKjjLfrt
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