w 1 r-K-T- J"F,l y7""t fpr-" ' N - EVENING' PUBLIC LEDGEIPmADELPHfA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1921 13 STORE CLOSED ALL DAY TODAY WKATHHU U mettled WANAMAKER'S DOWN STAIRS STORE WANAMAKER'S Opening a Quality-full Cost-Saving White Sale In Wanamaker's Down Stairs Store STATE LEGISLATURE ! TO OPEN TUESDAY f Unanimous Election of Former Presiding Officers Predicted. Arrange for Caucuses SPROUL'S MESSAGE JAN. 17 1t the. Assoflaled I'rcst HarrWiiirB. '"". ' -Preparations ,. ..nninlulr fr I i" olii'lilins of llic Tcnnlvanfit ill Hn1 l' 1'ltol on Tif.(lav lit noon. "In-ti (uent.v-sk Srn ni"rV !ro Ih.IiI-omt memlicis, Inn lug " on circled fr f.mr-i'r terms In 1018 nnil imp fr IIhmii'W M-milnrswuHi- eeli'il irlr u two "m- I'''-"' " HiiirriMl .lillm-H M nim.lMll. uli illi-il just bofoi-p tlio ,.,." lie -s-iou of Will. There ,'rp hPiiiilor-' circled fi'ini nit of lip. .,1.1 niimliiT H-Sr,r,H ,,1", ViIXrn,1,ri; , ni f tli.- members of Hip I Ioiip of Urprr,ciiliilliPH were chosen lit that ""lmlipnli'in-j nn election of lh' Prr .MlitlB otlicTH of Hie I wo houses will lie without oiipo-illoii. thprc belnc n pos slliilllv Hun tin- UrmoprnlN, who num. t'rr lcU thmi a x'ore in I In- I wo liou-M. mm join witli Ihrir Ucpiiullnin eol rasiiri mi.l ip pI'-'-I SpiiiiIoi- rank 13. Ilalduin. of lNiltrr. us pies .lent pro tcin. of the npppr House nml Hubert S. SpuiiRlpr. of York, ns nn-iiker of Hip lower brniipli. PreM-lil phms 'Up f"1' ,l"' caucus uiorliiiK" to ho I'phl .Monilny nichl. wIipii Ihtp will iil-o bp tukpii ui Hip phin of ovine April !IS us tlie ilntP for liiuil ml imirnnient. The lnl time thin uption !u,s tnkni wB in JflOH when April 15 H ,.. Slurp lluil tlniP two hi'H'lonH Inn i adjourned In Mhj nl three in limp ... . . .. .. 'I'lir (Imnnior will send to the Sion iiti luminous rpppxs appointment, conic . f wliu li mm be disposed of lit once, but ip will not M-iitl his iiipsmhtp until uflpr thp rrpp. wliii'h will 1"' Ink on 'I lies ,lnj until .Iitiiunry I" to enublo the mi'miullces I" hi' muilf ui. Headquarter For Engineering and Technical Books Philadelphia Book Company 17 Santh 911 Street Comfort Baby's Skin With Cuticura Soap And Fragrant Talcum FoMimpUCotieart nram.afa)m(p gfruriaet. AdrmCiUjaIiiMrMUiiW?iX.auKM.llMi. We Buy Gold Silver, Platinum, Diamonds, Jewelry of All Kindt PennSnie'tfnp:& Refining Works the oi.n ooi.d snop tins Filbert St.. pl-"- i " onrl Moltlno ' Boxea and Mailing Tubes "Jtofr i EDW1NJ.SCH0ETTLEC0. I 533 N. 111!) St. I'hilsdclphU &&&iEsJi mms. . ... I'll. .Imm" l. I'M'. No sil-fli r lrl No -jnli un.plrlr Million! tll'in. rir.ll III Mint-nil s.'s "If t l. juiir plumber i'ir siulll'i. MMin-mtK fniti t'lq. THOS. SAVILL'S SONS nun i.u..ci: niitr.i; INSTALLATION and REPAIR WORkI ifl jkl-r aH COVERING THE ENTIRE riltO OF MECHANICAL COUIPMENT FOR 0UILDING8 POWER STEAM V ELECTRIC HEATINO PLUMBING WATER SUPPLV SYSTEMS , LIQHTINO VENTILATINO OCNERAL PIPINO WORK ETC. 1 ' j ly-two years yiMiu- fl V i! ' practical exponent". M 1 Jiint'd chiy by day from B 'eslcrday's errors or I ui'ccsses, is the distinct 1 I tdvantage we ofTer you I I 'ere in our siiop. We 9 m 'Mo 12 business years I M-l today. I STOP The High Cost of Construction by Using SHEETROCK WAU, BOARD- lroen i;tt Ideal Hoard 'I'hroiigl) lis Many Hunt, ll imliidet overy good (eulkiir tor Ideal coimtructlon. II rn't burn, won I wrp oi hrink; any one can ereel H and save time and money. Can he papered, painted or paneled. l.rg atock of convenient aliea. Pearce Fireproof Co. 1847 ARCH ST. jfwk ii&rwr' vi-iir'K v, ' ' ''- yuM yw 8 ' a nDaBW i ku 7w ;'... " s i&uri i r i;mv a. x ' r ?j ..", 4yMuimm;n mm&rmh iwk i ' i - i i " ww aA'WA -r jswrs,i in' ' - itxm. y . ' v WZf- - -' N-8 w "-- 'u- i ONCE more Wanamaker quality nightgowns are back to 50c and $1, petticoats are back to (ifin flllfl 7fif lllnmiUlVa 11n ll.inlr fn 7Kn ommlAnn ilinmicnr. .... 1.1. 4 CM n.)nn- ,..r,.r. are back to 50c, silk nightgowns Are back to $3.85. Once more really wearable cotton shirtwaists can be had at $1.35, and smart silk ones are as little as $2.90 and $3.50. Once more such small sums as $1 to $3.50 can purchase properly cut corsets designed by corset manufacturers of recognized reputation. nr-. Once again soft, fine little garments for children and young girls can be secured for 25c to $1.50. Once again good towels are as low as 18c and 25c ! Most of these prices are back to a pre-war basis, in some cases they are even less than before-the-war rates but for this White Sale only. Households which 'have been waiting to supply their needs will welcome enthusiasti cally this splendidly practical White Sale in the Down Stairs Store. Envelope Chemises, $1 to $3 Quantities of styles trim med with embroidery or Valenciennes lace. Satin Nightgowns, $3.85 Crepe de .chine or satin trimmed with imitation Duchess or filet lace suid nar row ribbons. Their quality will surprise everyone. it "J" Silk Camisoles, $1 to $2 White tub silk, heavy wash satin or crepe de chino in the lot. Plain or elabo rately htcc trimmed. Many styles. f s;i Nightgowns at $1 Such pretty ones that women will wish to choose three or four. Quantities of styles. Cotton Bloomers, 75c to $1.50 Pink sateen at 85c. White batiste with em broidery or lace, 75c to $1.50. Striped voile at $1.50. (c Envelope Chemises and Nightgowns, $2 Interesting collection of many styles at this moderate price. - Especially dainty in material and trimming. Silk Chemises, $2.25, $3 Flesh-colored cropc de chine, $2.25 and satin. $". .j i White Petticoats, 75c These are ofTered now tit the makers' wholesale price. Made of strong while seer sucker which will stand many tubbings. Heavy Satin Petticoats $3.85 Another extra special pur chase of the heavier kind of satin petticoats in irresist ible plain and changeable colors. Better than any thing we have had at this price recently. enlriii) Center Aisle Opportunities 1000 Bandeaux, 35c Pink cotton ones in plain or figured niHtcriul.s All sizes. Sample Shirtwaists, $1.35 A third lc.-s for u fai-cinatiiiR miscellany of shirtwaists in white and colors. Polka dotted and striped dimities, colored Inwn.i and other materials. All sorts of likeable htjlct. Sample Waists, $1.55 Astonishing ones. Dozens of stylos nearly all fif-h and new. White voile and colored cottons with all sorts of original style notes. Waistline and good-looking hip length blouses are included. All are a third less and some are half the early season price. Silk Blouses, $2.90 and $3.50 Good, comfortable all-silk pongee blouses in natural color, mostly with Peter Pan collar), at $2.90. Georgette blouses at $3.90 include regulation lace-trimmed styles as well as smart panel ovcrblouses. ( 1900 Bath Towels, 25c Better than kinds we have sold earlier at double. Heavy ones, proporly woven and in regulation bathroom size. Plain white or with colored border?. 1200 Towels, 19c Sold earlier this season at almost three times this price, cotton buck with red borders. Good for boarding house use. White Outing Flannel 25c 30 inches, wide, heavy, warmly fleeced outing flannel at this new low price. Plain and variegated stripes. ' j : ijt 600 Bath Towels, 18c White Turkish bath towels which boarding house owners will be glad to get. (Crnlrill) i- A. 1,1 Women's Rep House Dresses $1.75 A third less for the pret tiest, most becoming house frocks of cotton rep in Copenhagen and navy. They are hand smocked and have good pearl buttons. Fin ished with three-quarter sleeves. Plenty good enough to wear around the house. (Central) v Women's Gingham Dresses $2.25 Unusually pretty ginghams- in these belted and "Billie Burke" frocks. So pretty that they would almost seem to help in the cooking of a delicious meal. Stripes or plaids irr becom ing colors. Sizes 156 to 4. (rentrHl) s : , Underclothes in Extra Sizes, 85c to $3 Drawers, 85c to $1.50. Bloomers, $1. High - neck nightgowns, $1.75 to $3. Low-neck nightgowns, $1 to $3. Envelope chemises, $1.50 to $2.50. Combinations. $1.50 to $2.50. (Central) Pretty Blouses $2.50 Fresh, new batiste blouses in Springlike shades flesh corn color. Peter Pan i or collars trimmed with knife pleated frills or made of eye let embroidery. Especially nice for young girls. Fine Shirtwaists $3.25 Made of small quantities of materials, mostly of the better kinds of white voile trimmed with embroidery and lace. Some of the lace is real hand-made filet. ft Pretty French Voile Blouses. $3.75 These fascinating blouses arc copied from French hand-made models; Here at this extraordinary price be cause their making kept a factory busy at a dull time. Enchantingly trimmed to look almost exactly like hand work. New Crepe de Chine Blouses $4.90 Fresh, correctly tailored blouses of flesh or white crepe de chine. Easy to tub them. Washable Satin Blouses, $5.90 Made of especially good, heavy wash satin in white or flesh. They have Peter Pan collars and are just what young girls will like. The same model also in brown and navy satin. (MarUet) Kitchen Crash 15c Yard Almost half less for this ex cellent cotton crash with red borders. Regulation width. ' (Centrnl) $ ! Girls' Nightgowns $1.50 Little snow drifts of tine white cotton, lace trimmed and sometimes hand em broidered. Low necks and short sleeves. Sizes 4 to 1G' years. Girls' Nightgowns, $1 Soft while cotton affairs with embroidered scallops or lace trimmed: some have pink bands. Sizes A to 1G years. Children's Gertrudes 75c and $1 Sizes 2 to 6 years, in soft white cotton princess slips or (JcrtrudcF. 75c ones are hemstitched. $1 kinds have lace and ribbon betiding. Girls' Drawers, 25c 45c, 55c Sizes 2 to 12 years in these drawers, made of excellent muslin or cambric. Plain ones at 25c, others prettily trimmed with lace or em broidery. Children's Underwaists 25c, Less Than Half Price Until a few days ago al most exact duplicates of these standard under waists sold at three times this price in our own stocks. Regula tion taped buttons. GOO only. Size.", 2 to 14 years. WW Babies' Dresses, $1.50 Dresses for infants and up to 2 years. Sheer, fine nain sook with dainty embroidery at neck and sleeves. Charm ing at the price. (( cntnil) 250 Fine New Sample Coats at $29 Fashionable and Beautiful Coats at Average Half Price P J. &miy $29 $29 $29 Everything about these coats shows their high quality. Fashions are the newest and best ports coats, street coats and dolmans. Materials are line and soft to the 'ouch, mostly Bolivias, crystal cord, ve our, duvet de laine, silk plush and im ported coatings. Colorings reflect the shades you like navy, reindeer, taupe, brown, wine, green and black. Linings are of plain and figured silks of unusually fine quality. Some Have Fur Collars of racoon, Australian opossum or sealene. Others are entirely without fur. Plenty of Black Coats cut on simple tailored lines are here for women who like coats of the more con servative type. Sizes for Women and Young Women $29 but as most of these are samples there are not all sizes in every style. (MHrk.t) for dresses of navy sorgo, with a long blouso line. Skirts and bodices are quite elaborately stitched in gray, Copenhagen or henna silk. $12 for drofc.-c of tuny blue l'oiret. twi'!, trimmed W't'i French knots ilone in tan or I'oprnhagen wuul. Or for wool olour ilretOh in vsindee,, n.ny or tniipi, embroidered in tan or henna wool. $15 for pietty wool jersey frocks with deep bands of embroidery on the t-kirts. Navy and brown, mostly. Navy blue Polrct twill drosses have silk embroid ery in tan, gray or henna almost covering the entire skirts and repeated on the collars and c-iifl"-. $16.50 for dresses of navy tricotine with gaily colored girdles of tricolotte. Straight-lino frocks of Poiret twill arc embroidered about the skirts with colored silks, touched hero and thoro with long iridescent beads. UUikit) Center Aisle Opportunities 1200 Women's Nightgowns, 50c Las', year they worn double. Flesh color cotton with low neck and shoi t sieves. Stitched with duik blue. 1500 Women's Nightgowns, 75c lull-cut affairs with open embioidery or blue and pink stitching Sumo are hand embioiilcrcd. Shoit .-lefvcv and round necks. 1000 Pair Drawers, 50c Women'.-, good iiiikIid drawc- with blind oi open embioidery and cliittnrs of tucks. Decidedly a pn.-'ar prire. 1000 Corset Covers, 50c Moio than a third lc'ss than our latent price for a timilar grade. Good white nainsook trimmed with lace or embroidery. 2000 Combinations, $1, $1.50 and $2 Corset covers and petticoats, corset covers and drawers or corset covers and knickers with built-up shoulders or traps of the snme ma terial. Trimmed with lace or omhruidfi'j . 1000 Envelope Chemises, $1 Many arc half the early season price. Kxtraordinary to get a sheer nainsook chemise with wide filet lace' top at SI. Many others equally unusual. 1000 Envelope Chemises, $1.50 Pink ones with hand embroidery or white nainsook with laces. Many have beautiful imitation Valenciennes. 600 Silk Bloomers, $2.85 Pjnk crepe de chine or satin bloomers with hemstitching, picot l utiles or wide, cieamy iollii(l-niclie'l u'ent,i,!iiir- lace. Pink Pajamas, $2 Trade-marked ''otttm ciepe pajamas in one or two piece styles. Plain or printed with bluebells and other designs. Some arc hand embroidered. Some arc nearly half price, others less than half price. 500 Wonderful Petticoats, $1 White sateen petticoats with hemstitching or scalloped edges; also all-black sateen petticoats, or black ones with roses printed on the accordion-pleated flounces. Many ne half price, some not quite half. , 1200 White Aprons, 25c, 38c, 50c Fic-h apron-, in ;ili sort... of farinat'tg - l,.ipi"-. Made of naiiitilj -beer whit" la a ii and organdie or of ulivtiiinial linen-linis'ifd cotton. 1200 Gingham Aprons, 85c ! .i-i mating Dutch apioii" Irimninl with in-iack lnuil Plain blue or pink chunibruy and unuual! aUioctiu' plaid.- and checks. 1500 Sample Brassieres, 35c to $2 One of our regular manufacturers had these samples on hand and sold them to us at exactly half price. 1500 Wanamaker Special Corsets, $1 Krcah, new corsets just out of tho boxes. Made of better than usual materials by one of our regular corset manufacturers. Mostly of plain or figured pink coutil. Some have elastic insets. Three dif ferent models for slight, average and large women. All are half price. Corsets, $1.25, $1.50, $2 By taking all the corsets one of our regular manufactuiers had we are able to offer these exceptional model at cry small prices. Of good material-, mam with ela-tic in-et-. Models for -lender, average and larger wonm 'I he. are all down to-thi'-minulo mode New Dresses, $10.75, $15 and $16.50 Several hundred fresh new dresses of serge, jersey, velour, tricotine and Poiret twill will start the New Year with real economies for the womon who buy them. All Are Marked Lower Than UsualMany Are Half Price $10.75 sr!..- jwnxxniv-r.i -ST-3V.L ,lUtLIIIM I. i 1- l .! . . r mnECTccnr, 32 $10.75 $1S Tfin 'it X""
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