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EVENING PUBLIC .CEBGER-PHILADELPHIA, " WEDNESDAY, " DECEMBER 22, 1920
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Chrlslnws Mus c by the Or
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WANAMAKER'S
Carols
Store Opens at 9
WANAMAKER'S
Store Closes at 5:30
WANAMAKER'S
WEATHER
Unsettled
No Time toWaste in "Shopping 'Round" When All You Need Is Here
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No, Thank You, Sir, We Will
Keep to Our Plain Bread
and Butter Ways
There's nothing of the windmill aboitf this
gtorc -nothing to overstrain the faith of the
public. People can believe what they see all
around them when they come. We can believe
what is revealed here every day.
There is a kind of truth-likeness all over
our good, safe building, and we like the people
to visit, explore and enjoy what is here to see
and to know.
Have you visited the Picture Gallery since
the last paintings came from this year's Salon
at Paris .'
Signed
Dec. SJ, I MO.
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1 Women's Fine Suits at $50-
Lowered Prices
A little group of broken sizes silvertone cloths, trico-
Iines and velours in mahogany and other brown shades, black
nd navy. There are hardly two of the suits alike some are
everely tailored, a few embroidered, a few trimmed with fur,
nd the majority are tne conservative suits wnicn are neither
llaborate nor severe. Tney all nave tine silk linings and are
nterlined for warmtn.
Price $50, which means a substantial saving over their
irst prices.
Sizes 34 to 52' in the lot.
(FlMt l'loor, ( entrul)
New Silk Plush Coats Make
Fine Cold Weather Gifts
In point of warmth they are close rivals to fur, and
ith their big fur collars and deep, thick pile, they are very
fi? 'ilsome coats.
Those without fur collars and from 36 inches to full
gth are $75 up to $100. Those with collars of nutria,
istralian opossum and beaver are $100 to $175.
' (Flmt Floor, Ceutral)
About the only woman we know of who
doesn't long for
A Lovely Sable
Neckpiece
is the woman who already has one! Mo.st other
women envy her!
The Fur Salon has a very fine collection of
the bmall sable scarfs which are so very fash
ionable this Winter. The skins are soft and
beautifully marked, they arc in the smart one
and two skin styles and the prices begin at $85
for a Hudson Bay snblc scarf and ro on up,
with many 'prices in between, to SG40 for a
beauty a Russian sablo scarf of two full skins.
(Second l'loor, Chestnut)
New Cotton Dress Goods Are
Very Welcome Gifts
The; are the rrond nrnnt.ienl Ihincrs that so manv women
ke to receive and they will all be boxed on request.
Ginghams, 30c to 85"c a yard.
Madras shirtings, 50c to $1.35 a yard.
Silk-and-cotton shirtings, $1 and $1.75 a yard.
Woven tissues, 85c a yard.
Percales, 25c and 30c a yard.
Printed voiles, 50c to $1 a yard.
Kindergarten cloth, 50c a yard.
Plisse crene. 38c a vavd. Plain and t'ancv and a fine
uality.
(First l'loor, Climtnut)
V Timely New Arrival Glove
Silk Underwear
A new shinmnnr, lins insf. rnmn in tn make some women's
fte gift selection easy.
uiove silk vests in pink are $2.
(jlove silk bloomers in pink are $2.50.
Glove silk chemises in pink are $3.25.
I'irat l'loor, .Miirket)
New $12.75 Velour Skirts Are
What Many Women Need -
Women who have fur or other kind of coats should have
smart pleated skirt to go with them.
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'"' Plaids in brown-and-black or in blue-and-black. The
"uuiai is a ery fine all-wool velour, kilted with a box pleat
nt and back.
(l'lrsl l'loor, I enlnil)
Women Like the Warm
Comfv Sliooers
I win a-, well as any kind of house slipper made. With their
"V It'll uppers and soft padded soles, these are delightfully
"ntorUihie. And there is a wide ranire of colors.
Plain tailormade, $2 a pair.
Itlbljon trimmnfl S9 7.r. n nnir.
Hyio style, that can be buttoned up around the ankle, $3
Pair.
(I'irat l'loor, Marl. ft)
inexpensive and Useful
Women's high-necked muslin nightgowns at $1.50.
inty pink batiste nightgowns at $2.50,
Jwcelient white petticoats with embroidery, $2.85.
Philippine nightgowns, $J.8D.
Fi-to Rico nightgowns, $5. , , ' s .
Dnvetyne Handbags are
Favorites of Fashion
If you give a woman a
handbag of silk duvetyne in
one of these fine new styles
you need feel no uncertainty
about its welcome.
Here is a large lot of such
bags in the desirable fur
shades and in many shapes
and sizes. Frames are cov
ered, some with fancy clasps ;
metal, shell finish celluloidv
and sterling silver.
Prices, $6.75 to $20.
(Slain l'loor. Cheatntit)
Women's Sheer Hand
kerchiefs, $3 a Dozen
Another late shipment of
these good handkerchiefs is
good news for people looking
for such things for gifts.
These are of shear and
snowy linen, they are in plain
hemstitched style " and the
kind most women prefer.
(Mnln Floor, Central)
Inexpensive
White Waists
Voile waists with Hat col
lars and a good deal of lace,
$3.85.
Batiste with fine, close
tucks, with black bows, $5.
Voile with tucks and a
little hand-embroidery, $5.50.
(Third Floor. Central)
Petticoats Warm
and Practical
Knitted kinds, white and
gray, some with colored bor
ders, 85c to $4.75.
Flannelet, white and
striped, 50c to $3.
White flannel, $3.50 to
$8.75.
Black wool with sateen
flounces, $5; with silk
flounces, $7.50 to $10.
(Third Floor, Centrnl)
Electric Grills
For toasting, broiling,
stewing, frying or baking
griddle cakes, $15 com
plete. Electric Toasters
make evenly colored toast,
$8.50, $9 and $9.75.
Electric Curling
Irons
fitted with comb for dry
ing the hair after sham
poo, $8.
Electric Irons
complete with cord and
plug, $8.50.
Percolators
Six-cup nickel-finished
coffee percolators, $13.75.
Lazy Susans
Revolving mahogany
trays with glass, $10.75 to
$20; without glass, $12.75.
( Fourth Floor, Central)
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A N intimate practical
jjL. gift for a woman may
be found in a new shipment
of pink brochc corsets with
two insertions of clastic,
short skirts and light bon
ing; price, $2.50. They are
intended for slight women.
(Third l'loor, Cliritnut)
Glistening, Pretty
Slipper Buckles
of cut steel make pleasing
gifts. Tho buckles are in
square and oval shapes and
other fancy designs; they
are most attractive and
range in price from $2 to $21
a pair.
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Those Who Motor like
Automobile Pillows
They can be used as foot
or back rests and are filled
with hair with a waterproof
material Jor covering., $3.75
"each, ani$ this is a very mod
erate price. .
y Books
"The Americanization of
Edwhrd Rok." One of the most
important and popular hooks
of the year. One large volume,
$5.
"Belgium, Old and New," by
George Wharton Edwards,
quarto, finely illustrated, $10.
"The Outline of History." by
II. G. Wells, 2 vols., $10.50.
"Margot Anquith," the auto
biography which has set every
body talking, 2 vols., $7.60.
"Steeplejack," by James Gib
bons Huneker, 2 vols., $7.50.
"Thcodoro Roosevelt and Ilia
Time, Shown in His Own Let
ters," by Joseph Hucklin
Bishop, 2 vols., $10.
"Vcnizelos," by Herbert
Adams Gibbons, $3.50.
"Tho Victory at Sea," by
Rear Admiral William Sowden
Sims, $5.
"An English Wife in Berlin,"
by Evelyn, Princess Blugher,
$6.
"Empress Eugenie in Exile,"
by Agnes Carey, $4.
"A Cycle of Adams Letters,"
2 vols., $10.
"Roaming Through the West
Indies," by Harry Franck, $5.
(Main Floor, Thirteenth)
Why Not a Wallet
for a Man?
Here are wallets of many
kinds, all of them fine kinds.
Of seal, sharkskin, calfskin
and pigskin, chiefly black,
though the pigskin Pallets
are natural color. Some of
the higher-priced of the
black wallets are 14-kt. gold
mounted.
Prices, $5 to $20.
(.Main Floor. Chettunt)
Few Gifts Are More
Useful Than a Cedar
Chest
All our cedar chests are
guaranteed, kiln-dried and
hand-rubbed and polished.
They are the best made
chests we know. All-cedar
chests begin at $36.50 and
go ud to the finer ones of
mahogany with cedar linings
at $90. These are the new
and lower prices.
(Fifth Floor, Market)
White Satiny Bedspreads
Always Good Gifts
One lot of satin-finished
spreads, size 72x90 inches, in
beautiful patterns, are now
marked $5 each, or one-third
less than they have been.
Others at $7.50 are made
with cut-out corners and
scalloped edges.
Bedsets, comprising a
spread and bolster piece,
double-bed size, with cut-out
corners and scalloped edges,
are marked $13.50 a set.
(Sixth Floor, Clientnut)
Boys' and Girls' Lined
Gloves
Two notably good kinds
$1.35 a pair for 1-clasp
suede gloves, with fleece lin
ing; gray or tan.
$1.65 a pair for tan cape
skin gloves, with fleece lin
ing; 1-clasp fastening.
Other capeskin gloves with
warm linings, are $2.50,
$2.75 and $3 a pair.
('Main Floor, Central)
Down Quilts for Babies'
Cribs $15 and $20
We had these made espe
cially for us to make sure
we'd get them just right.
They are soft, light, warm
down, with sateen covers at
$15 and with silk covers at
$20. And they are in pink
or blue.
Japanese quilts with silk
covers, cotton filled; some
hand embroidered, also, are
$3.25 to $10.
Quilted bathrobes for
babies, these of silk and
from Japan, aro $5 and $6.50.
IT AVE you thought of
spending just
about $5 on somebody's
gift? How would one of
these silver - finished
candlesticks do? They
are of wldte metal be
neath and are in simple,
very graceful designs.
(Fourth Floor, Central)
Candlesticks and Lamps
for Her Bureau
And they are in the dainty
imitation ivory to match the
toilet set, white or tinted
pink or blue, just as one
chooses.
Each candlestick and lamp
is complete with its shade,
and one, or, better still, a
pair, makes a very accept
able gift indeed. The candle
sticks are $1.25 and $1.50.
The oil lamps, $1.50 and
$2.50. These are the new
and leaver prices.
(Main l'loor, Clieatnut)
HandPainted Boxes
Filled With Sweets
for Gifts
Here are three special box
es, particularly suitable for
gifts
At $5 a large hand-painted
tin box filled with shining,
crisp hard candies and tied
with ribbons.
At $7 a large box, hand
painted and most attractive,
filled with delicious caramel
five pounds assorted.
At $7.75, large tin boxes,
hand-painted, filled with fine
chocolates and bonbons.
(Ilonn Stairs Store, Chestnut)
C ANTA CLAUS has been
merrily besieged these
past weeks by the children
that have invaded
The Wanamaker
Toy Store
Most of the vast stocks
of toys here have already
been wrapped up for thou
sands of good boys and
girls, but there are still
enough to fill the wants of
late shoppers.
(Seventh Hour)
Good Gifts Here, There and Everywhere
in China and Cut Glassware
Gifts of beauty and elegance and decorative charm; gifts of noveltv and daintiness;
gifts of practical utility these you will find on all sides in the China and Glassware Store.
In pottery there is a particularly interesting choice, comprising such favorite types
as Fulper, Van Briggle, Italian, Holland Cowan, French and English.
Pickard ware is particularly ornate.
Italian marble statuary presents a field of selection which needs no praise. Here
indeed are gifts of beauty.
An aquarium on a wrought iron stand is a gift that will please bv its unusualness.
Think of all the sparkling things in glassware
Cut glass . Etched gold glass Colored and decorated glass
Engraved glass Iridescent glass Gold encrusted glass
Cut and engraved gla.s.s Colored glass
(Fourth Floor, (livaiuut)
Bound Volumes of the
Opera Scores, $3.50 & $4
would be a treat indeed to the
opera lover who is also a
musician.
Another gift for a music
lover is an Anthology of
American Songs 2.50.
Venezia, Nevin', s $1.15.
Woodland Sketches, Wac
Dowell, is $1.15.
Songs of the North Amer
ican Indian, is $1.25.
Cadman's American In
dian Songs, is 90c.
Bond's Seven Songs, is
$1.15.
(Seioiul Moor, Market)
A Beautiful Wool
Filled Quilt
covered with one seamless
piece of satin brocade in a
figured pattern 09 a ground
of gold, light rose, old rose
or cardinal, the back being
of plain satin, is one of those
rich home-gifts that real
friends give. Quilts of this
very fine description are
marked at a special price,
S50.
I Midi I loor. Central)
w- '1 Neckties
1 A 1 Neckties are one gift that you can f?et for a
t ' J man at any time and in any number and be
t I J mtc you are pleaains him.
jlL jfl' N'0 Inan ever as t man' lle
'IHtaw dl We npver sld so many gift neckties before,
iSSjsIs R$a99 kut stocks are continually replenished by thou
HnLuJM sandsof new ties at prices ranging from 50c
I vy&a There aie plenty of the TiOc ties and a splen
Jgf jaLri ilni assortment of knitted tie.- at M
(Main Floor, -Market)
"Merry Christmas "
Say the Hall Clocks
N'ot in o many words, per
haps, but the friendly chimes
have an especially happy
meaning on Christmas Day.
And the same cheerful re
minder of the passing hour s ill
be heard throughout the yeai
and for many, many years to
come.
It is good to give a gift that
is so companionable, one that
enters in such a pleasant fash
ion into the life of the family
and that is destined to becom'
part of tho family history. One
could not ask more from a
Christmas gift than this.
Tho Clock Store has good
reason to be proud of the fine
(Jeelr Store, die
collection of hall clocks here
now. They represent only the
best American makers and all
the cases are of the finest
mahogany.
Clocks, fitted with half-hour
movement, 230 to $375.
Clocks with Westminster
chimes on live tubular bells,
."235 to $7C0.
Clocks with Westminster,
Whittington and Canterbury
chimes on nine tubular bells,
570 to $395.
Clocks with Westminstei,
Whittington and Oxford
chimes on nine tubular bell?,
:t)90 to S10G5.
tnut nnil llilrteeoth)
Snapping Bonbons
for the Party
are here in wonderful va
riety. They start at the
small bonbons and go on up
to th.bse huge ones which
hold particularly nice favors.
All, however, hold favors
and caps. 75c to $12 a
dozen.
(Down smlr More, (liestnuti
Fresh Jack Horner Pies
have ,iust come down to the
Candy Store all sorts of
novel ideas and new shape
are here this year.
All the pies hold twelve
favors, they will make at
tractive centerpieces, and the
prices are $8 and $10.
(Down Malm store, ( lieiinut)
Men's Handkerchiefs
Unusually Fine at $9 a Dozen
The linen is so much better than this price ordinarily
buys. The handkerchiefs are in plain hemstitched style, they
have' narrow hems, and are well made.
We'll mark them with ink, if you wish, for .'3Gc a dozen.
iKu.l anil IWil Allies)
To Give a Smoker Pleasure
you may safely choose from the following:
Cigar and cigarette holders, 75c to $40.
American and English pipes, 75c to $lti..50.
Tobacco pouches, 75c to $12.
.Mahogany humidors in sizes to hold 50 to 200 cigars,
si 2 to $80.
Mahogany and metal ash tra and .stands, $1.25 to $15.
(Tli (inllerr, Ctiatnnt I
Linens of Fine Quality
Make Fine Gifts
We are glad to have such good assortment of linens of
the fine old quality to show our customers who are looking
for household gifts of a worthy kind.
Two particularly excellent group.s consist of double
damask napkins, of pure flax, beautifully bleached and m
handsome patterns at $13.75 a dozen, in size 22x22 inches.
These are alreadv hemmed and rpadv for Christma
presentation.
The other group iompris.es tea-cloths ol line Irish linen,
hand-embroidered and very dainty and attractive in appear
ance just such pieces as particular housewives are alwavs
delighted to get. '
They are in .size 4 5x45 inches and priced at $12.50 each.
il'irnt riuor, lientnul
The Furniture Store Is Equipped for
Last-Minute Service
Make your selections tomorrow and we will see to the de
livery. WrY '
There is plenty of everything, from footrests, game tables
and smokers' stands at $4.50 to davenports at $300.
There is no better home gift than furniture. There is no
better furniture than Wanamaker furniture. l e
There is no Christmas assortment of furniture anywhere that com
pares in magnitude, variety and attractiveness with the Wanamaker display,
a fact which is not new, unexpected or in any way surprising, but which is in
every way worth remembering. 4raqflHi8
Defend upon us to have and to do the right thingtyp to the last minute.
(Fifth ami Sixth Tloon)
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