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it 10 o'clock Vivian Wyimte. countliiR
,A,r flnecrs whon the striking of tho
2?t clock across tho attest first re
?J?led hir to a eenso of bodily fiUlnuo,
found that alio had Wood at tho win
f,0w without movlnp for three nourB,
Sy nerhap. she thought, tho morning
Inn werln? between the parted .tlra
:i.a would nnd her there, waltltilry.
ivici and mlserablcr ui she waited now,
fnrtho riht of a little form for tho
Sffll of little feet.
Behind hor at Intervals Felice, most
wrflct of perfect lady's ma Ida, Jn
acd tlie jrreat, somber apartment and
.m.vvl some attempt at consolation.
.Mrred the logs on tho hearth, passed
. Jearf about her mistress' slim shoul
Jots or offered dellcato morsels of nour
ishment, only to bo waved silently awny
by a repelling hand.
The door opened again. Vivian, whos
lf.absorptlon had been momentarily
broken by the tolling of the hour,
turned fearfully.
"Any news, Fellc?
"N'o, madame.' '
"Has Mr. Wygato teleplloned again?"
"Only to mako 20 enquiry, Madame."
"Don't como to mo again unless there
i news. Then como at once no matter
what it Is. I want to be quite alone
Bul, Madame."
-nd still Felice lingered, loath to
imvs tho Pltful figure. It had pleased
Vivian that day to wear a soft, loosely
hung gown of blnck crepo do chine, and
to Vh? French girl's cycsJt appeared now
llko tlio garb of mourning like an omen
-made the more vivid In contrast
with the wearer's youthful contours nnd
bright beauty, the wavy chestnut hair
and tawny brown of her eyes seeming
to Intensify the blackness of tho cling
ing silk.
Please leave me, Felice.'
Tho girl closed tho door and Vivian
wr.n?,'L!V!r fearless eyes again to the
el night nnd her gloomy watch.
.. ii?,X. Tany thousands of women, una
wondered, mothers, wives, sweethearts,
an ojcr tho broad earth wero waiting,
wai.cJlln'rpr'llnMor eom ono to como
home, Just as she waited 7 A gTeat
gush of sympathy went out from her
52.111 Pi.t!,1, .nd for a m'nuto a warm
thrill within her seemed to nssuage
something of her pain. Perhaps It was
a message from thoso others that had
been sont adrlff for any aching heart
to harbor,
Was It only this morning, she thought
wearily, that she had left tho house
caro-free, young nnd happ'y7 She felt
llko an old woman now.
She had shopped nil tho morning,
lunched Bayly with some friends at a
downtown hotel and como back nt .1
o clock to bo mot at the door by Felice
and In a (lash everything was
changed. Tho terror In the girls wide
eyes, tho tightly gripped hands, had
seemed to plorco her heart, to tear It,
and oven now she marvelod how she had
stood so steady and so stonily calm,
Why had she not fainted or fallen? In
stead she had asked In a voice that
might have como from a woman of Ice:
"What Is It? My husband? Jack?"
"Jncque, Madame "
"Not killed I"
"No, Madame : he Ibs gon. Tie Iss
not como back since 11 o'clock. He
went out to piny "
"And you loft him."
Sho remembered how tho Ico Inside of
her seemod suddenly to melt nnd In
stead she was filled with a consuming
flro. and that hor words had dnrtcd out
at tho girl as though sho would have
scorched hor with them.
icl!Co had burst Into Incoherent sobs.
"For a leetle minute, Mndamo I was
cold I went for a. coat only siat,
Madame Cook knows zy till lenow
zat Iss zo truth. "
Vivian drow her hand across her
forehead. What had happen Ml after
hat? Oh I yes, she remembered. She
telephoned to Barnard, nnd to tho po
llco stations, and the newspapers, and
then Bho had got herself somehow Into
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tho limousine with tho weeping Fellco
nni.i d .?.?df n u" one street and down
another till dusk.
u.?1?". IJarnard had come homo and ho
lma taken her In his arms and ho had
ui-eii very tenuer and sympathetld nnd
hopeful and he had coaxed her to ent.
which she could not do, and then ho
had gone to the club.
Oh I yes, she had wanted hlirf to go,
sho had even asked him to. Bho couldn't
bear his endless speculations and the
Incessant movement. Bho wanted lust
this dull quiet and the speeohless
watching, It seemed the only thing her
taut nerves could hold against
Men wore like that, sho thought They
must over question, and protest, and
seek relief In bodily exertion, while
women endured. Hut could she endure?
If this waiting nnd watohlng never
ended or If ended In
A soft, swift football behind her
Felice's voice broken, but glad,
"Madame, II est venus ze back way "
Vivian staggered and pressed her hand
to hor side.
Strange that she who had stood
straight and strong as a young pine
ngalnst tho shock of fear, should now
bend llko n broken willow before this
rush or good tidings I
Then a light shaft of nngcr filtered
through her, lifting her head In proud
protest:
'Why did ho not come to mo now
at once?" fcho demanded. "How could
he wait?" was her unsnoken thought.
"He eats, Mndame, II a grond-faim,
zn poor boy "
"Hurry, Felice ! Go ahead of mo
Tiikn m to him "
lUcklcsi of narrow. Ill-lighted back
stairs nnd the high, slender heels on
her dainty shoes. Vivian sped on
through passages she knew but little,
to tho kitchen nnd heedless of her as-'
tontshed servants, with a smothered cry
of "Jack '" flung herself onto her knees
bofore tho stove,
Another second and twenty-six Inches
of Pomornnlnn poodle was crushed to
her straining bosom
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Only because we bring your groceries direct from the Pro
ducers are we able to give you such low prices on the high
quality merchandise we handle. We are in constant touch at all
times with the food markets of the world and it is a genuine pleasure
to us when we are able to reduce still further our already low prices.
We want to point out that our fresh eggs are now selling at
the lowest price in years, even though it is close to Eastertide,
when the largest quantities of eggs are consumed. As with eggs,
so our Producer-to-Consumer Plan functions in all other lines of
groceries, to bring down the cost to you.
Asco customers are saving dollars by our Prodifcer-to-Consumer Plan
Rice ?' 5c lb-
Choice
Head
Not the ordinary broken
rice but fancy Blue Rose.
Treat tho folks to Rice Pud
ding with some seedless raisins.
g Salmon cut-iOc0
Not ordinary Chum but
the very finest Pink Salmon.
An unusual bargain!
Calif.
Sitniweet
Prunes
t3e Size 1 n. lb. 21e Site 1 7JL
Cut to 1UC cut to l'ICIII
Big, meaty, and small pit
ted. Eat plenty of prunes
they're good for you.
"Gold
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"Gold Seal" Eggs arc tho pride of the
barnyard because they are the biggest and
meatiest eggs laid.
Eggs Carlon 44c
ISIy Eggs 38c
Not quite so large ns the big "Gold
Seals," but absolutely fresh.
Asco No Waste Sliced Bacon Pk& 1 9c
Sweet sugar-cured bacon with an irresistible flavor.
Asco Blend Coffee
29c "
If you're not using tho delicious Asco
Blend, serve it tonight nnd see how quick
the family will taste the difference! Its
delicious flavor wins all who taste it.
Asco Blend Teas
Velb.pkg., yfEiiL lb. pkg.,
23c OC,D- 12c
From the world's finest tea gardens.
Five delectable blonds to suit anyone's
taste.
Ornnice VrUnr Mlxril TMnln Ulacli
India .V ( fjlon Old Country Stjlo
Victor presto
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contains the elements most needed by their growing
bodies. Children thrive on it.
tli i "Taste it!"
Ask your next-door neighbor what she
thinks of the delicious "LQuella Butter."
Richland Butter ,b 55c
A pure crcumcry print butter, better
than some so-called Bests.
These Prices in All Our 181 ''Asco" Meat Markets
Genuine Native Beef
Whole Cut Chuck Roast u 12V2c
Rolled Beef u 15c I Boneless Pot Roast " 1 5c
iSfffi, Beef lb 10c
T Bones ra 5c
la" Beef ,b 8c
Sk Rib Roast 20c I Fresh Beef Liver 15c
Xeaealving Chickens ib 43c
Milk-Fed Country Veal
Breast ,b 18c
Rack Chops '" 28c
Shoulders ,b 22c
Rump Roast lb 35c
Neck " 22c
Rib Chops '"35c
Loin Chops '" 40c
Cutlets '" 50c
jv We thank the patrons of our big new combination Grocery and Meal
Market at 239-2ft So. 10th St. for their splendid encouragement.
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WANAMAKER'S
DOWN STAIRS STORE
WANAMAKER'S
Every pair is perfect
Every pair is specially priced
$1 $1.15 $1.35 $1.90
The most fashionable and wearable
gloves of the Spring season Easter
gloves in every sense of the word.
There are two-clasp gloves in all the
delicate Spring tints; strap-wrist gloves
and long gloves which women like to
wear with the new wraps and dolmans.
Complete size ranges in each style
to start the day but gloves like these
will go fast.
Strap-Wrist Chamois -Lisle I French Strap-Wrist Glace
Gloves, $1
A fine quality in several color combina
tions: Gray with a black strap, gore and
embroidery ; light brown with beaver; biscuit
with brown ; or all-white
2 -Clasp Gray Suede
Gloves, $1.15
Pique sewn gloves with self-color em
broidery on the backs.
French Glace Lambskin
Gloves, .$1.35 Pair
2-clasp overseam sewn gloves of excellent
quality. They have Paris-point backs and
are in black, tan, brown, gray and beaver.
Also a few in white with embroidered backs.
Long White Glace
Gloves, $3.75
French gloves of fine glflce lambskin 'in
both 12 and 16 button lengths. They have
three pearl buttons at tle wrists and Paris
point backs.
(Central)
Gloves, $1.90 Pair
Most remarkable gloves ! They have 5Vs
inch cuffs, which make them long enough
to Wear with capes and dolmans. Pique sewn
with Paris-point backs, they are in beaver,
brown, white and a few tans. Also in black
or white with contrasting stitching.
Finest French Kid Suede
Gloves, $1.90 Pair
Beautiful gloves of the very finest quality.
They have two pearl clasps and two-tone
crochet embroidery backs real Easter
gloves that will make the loveliest kind of
gifts.
In delicate shades of tan, biscuit and I
mode, also in dark gray and black (Some in
all-black for those who prefer them.)
Pretty Easter Clothes for Girls
Are Moderately Priced
Good clothes at low prices arc a specialty of the
Down Stairs Junior Store. Many mothers depend
upon it when outfitting their daughters for the entire
season.
New Things Sketched
The charming gingham frock is only $2.75. The
gingham is good quality and comes in checks oi
green or maize. Sizes 8 to 11 years.
The frilly organdie is $7.75, and what a delight
ful frock it is and how n girl of 0 to 14 will like it!
It is in white, blue or pink.
The sports coat is $8.50. It is of polo cloth in
brown trimmed with tan or in tan with brown. Sites
12 to 16 yenrs.
The skirt is $7.75 and comes in plaids of brown,
red or blue. It is side-pleated, in sizes 12 to 16
years.
Silk Dresses
At $10.75, a naturnl color pongee dress, is trimmed
with embroidery in Harding blue. Sizes 10 to M
years. "
Well-tailored regulation dresses of natural pon
gee, in sizes 10 to 16 years, are $25.
Taffeta frocks, in blue or brown, have pongee
guimpes. Sizes 6 to 10 years at $15.
Spring Coats
$8.50, $13.50 to $25
Styles are quite varied in coats of polo cloth,
plain or checked volour and homespun weaves.
Colors, too, allow choosing.
Almost all the shades, of tan and brown are
leprescntcd, and there are many blues and green.
Sports coats, cape effects and dolman wraps arc
all here for girls who wear sizes 12 to 16 years.
(MarUtl)
Women 's Sample Blouses
Pretty white voilo blouses are in many
different models semi-tailored or lacy as you
please. Plenty of both kinds and a variety
of styles in each. Not all sizes in every style.
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on Women's EasterHats
and how Springlike
and fresh they look !
As if they, too, want
a part in this festiv
ity of Easter!
But tailored hats
are still in the ma
jority nnd women
have found them so
becoming that thoy
want to keep them
in fashion all
through the season.
However tailored
or bewitchingly love
ly, you will find
plenty of opportu
nity of choosing
around $10.
Children's Tailored Hats
$1.75 to $5
Good straws and good ribbons are used and
tho shapes arc becoming. The last resolves
itself into a question of selecting a turned-up-all-nround,
a turned-down or a Htrnight-brim
hat, for there are nil threo in quantity.
Navy, brown and black as well as lighter
straws. Natural leghorns in tailored shapes
are among the new things.
Sizes for G-year-olds to those who arc
quite grown-up.
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Excellent Silk Stockings
$1.45 and $1.75
Easter kinds for women and young women. Sizes
8Vb to 10 in black and all are first quality.
$1.45 for good weight silk with mercerized cot
ton tops nnd soles.
$1.75 for lovely all-silk stockings, of clean, sheer
silk.
Cotton Damask""
Tablecloths, $1.10
Lustrous mercerized damask cloths, 58x58 inches,
nicely scalloped or hemstitched. Soveral pattorns.
Women's Petticoats, $2
Practical as well as good looking petticoats of
a well-known trade-marked material. Navy, black,
purple, green, brown or gray, with deep ruffled
flounce and elastic at tops. Usually they are a dollar
more.
Wash Suits for Little Fellows
(3 to 8 year sizes)
$2.50
Oliver Twist styles of sturdy cottons in cadet
or lighter blue, gray or brown; some have white
blouses with the colored trousers, colored collnrs and
cuffs. Just tho sort of suits boys are needing now
and for Summer wear and the price in considerably
less than usual.
East Aisle
Aprons, 25c and 50c
Neat, business-like aprons nt littlo prices.
ific for black-and-white figured percale, some
edged with rickrack.
, COc for fine white lawn aprons with hemstitched
1 rufllej bluc-and-white checked gingham aprons with
. rulflo and pockets; light colored percalo aprons with
I ruffle and pockets. '
"What Will-a Good Suit
Cost Me This Spring?"
Men Are Asking
Here is the answer from the Lower-Price Store
on the Men's Gallery, Market Street, with a few other
pertinent facts that every man should know about
clothes, woolens and conditions in general.
This Season 's Prices
$25 $27.50 $30 $33.50 $35 $37.50
Last Season's Prices
$39 $42.50 $45 $48 $50 $53.50
What's the answer?
Suppose we take the entire mattur step by stop.
During the war and after this Wanam '.kr
Men's Gallery never deviated from its two-generation,
standard of ALL-WOOL.
Since last Autumn woolen prices have dropped
fifty per cent.
The Daily Trade Review stated recently that the
number of woolen and worsted looms stopped for six
months, July to December, 1920, was 27,000 in round
numbers. That cessation of labor meant a loss in pro
duction of about 100,000,000 yards of material
enough for 33,000,000 suits. In plainer words, the
United States is about 33,000,000 men's suits bchindx
last year !
Nevertheless Prices Are Down
even though this condition naturally would suggest a
rise in price instead of a decline.
Because Wanamaker's holds the position it does
this Men's Gallery has been able to do seven extraordi
nary things in the face of that scarcity, and do them
at this Spring's lower prices :
1 Secured all-wool materials woven firmly of
hard, twisted, strong woolen threads materials that
we know will hold their shape and resist wear, such
as cassimeres, worsteds and serge.
2 Refused all so-called "one-arid-one" burlap
like fabrics, such as are sometimes "all-wool" but
woven so loosely that one can almost read through
them fabrics which will not wear nor hold their
shape.
3 Secured all-silk sewing of all seams, button
holes, etc., because silk is strong and will not fade.
4 Made sure that "shape" was worked into the
garments not pressed in.
5 Made sure that inside tapings and necessary
canvas were shrunk and re-shrank to avoid any possi
bility of shrinking after the clothes were actually
finished.
6 Saw that the clothes were cut over patterns of
the new loose and easy style with all hazard of being
too small omitted making sure that collars were
plenty big and long, so that they would hug the neck
and set properly.
7 Closed its eyes to nothing excused no hid
den faults of construction in order to cheapen the
prices, but ordered and received Wanamaker stand
ard quality all-wool suits to offer at these satisfac
torily lower prices.
What Will a Good Suit Cost
You This Spring?
A GOOD suit of this Wanamaker standard will
cost you $25 to $37.50, depending on the fabric you
choose.
Blue serge at $25, cassimeres and cheviots at $30,
finished and unfinished worsteds at $37.50.
Last year similar suits were $39 to $53.50.
Ready now in the Men's Gallery, Market Street.
And only eight shopping days to Easter and
almost every man likes to feel that his new Spring
suit is home ready to wear Easter day.
Sale of 4600 Pair of Women's Fine Easter Gloves
in Wanamaker's Down Stairs Store
Mens Oxfords and Shoes of
Exceptional Quality at $9.90
Do you know the semce of the Men's Gallery Shoe Store?
Have you seen the kinds of shoes obtainable there under
ten dollars?
Men who once go there usunll come back eery pair of
shoes makes a friend.
Perhaps you will look, at these new Spring $9.90 shoes and
oxfords and see for yourself. There's something ubout them
which looks different, something that makes them fit and wear.
Probably it's the leathers, for they are of the finest grade of
shell cordovan and brown calfskin. Possibly it's the expert work
of their cutting, shaping and finish. Anyway, they arc the
finest $9.90 high shoes and oxfords that we have had in a long
time.
And this is the first showing of them.
Men's Shoes Specially Priced at
$4.75 and $5.90
Reconi special purchases. LOW prices foi satisfactory
qualitj .
Urogue oxfords of heavy tan lcathor with full wing tips
specially priced, 55.90.
High shoes of black and tan kid specially priced. $5.00.
Oxfords of real cordovan and tan calfskin special y nricod
$1.75. High shoes of black leather, $4.70. '
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