r!,C' '"'"r" ff' v ? i i.'iTT( Jv WiiXvi tty' V '5 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1921 WEATHER Fair Organ pfnys at 9, 11 and 4:50 WANAMAKER'S Store Opens at 9 WANAMAKER'S Store Closes at 5 WANAMAKER'S 2.lilmt it Noon With All Its Light and Air and Space, No Wonder This Store Is Cheerful! f A Man With a Bad Temper Is Better Than a Man with no temper at1 all, for with care and patience the worst of us have some good nature that can be wrought upon to overcome the bad - natured, ill-mannered, hastiness of speech and animosities of human beings who have grown up to make themselves more disagreeable than they know. There are "natural heart singers" and unconscious growlers. The greatest need of this present-day world is more smilers, singers, patient, good-natured, strong-minded men and women. Teachers, train the children such to be. Signed' 'April 26, 1021- Women's Silk Frocks of Quality at $50 Something over a hundred frocks of the afternoon Variety are to be cleared out at a substantial saving sizes being broken and the Spring season almost over. The mate rials are Canton crepes, silk jerseys and crepes de chine, heavy and fine, and the colors the dark blues, several shades of gray, tan and brown and black. As for the styles, there Bre shallow round and square necks and a few with collars, while sleeves are three-quarters and short. There is a great deal of fine pleating and a little beading and embroidery, and drawnwork is one of the chief features. Now and then there is a frock simple enough for morn ing or smart enough for semi-evening use ; in a word they are peculiarly adaptable and admirable garments. Sizes 34 to 44 in the lot. (Flrnt Floor, Ontralt There's Good Choosing Among $35 Dresses for Young Women All the dresses are unusual for the price and they are attractive and new, all of them. Taffetas, charmeuse, georgettes and laee-and-taffcta combinations are included, there are smalt street, afternoon and dinner frocks among them, and the colors include the ever-popular navy blue, black, dark brown, light gray and beige. 14 to 20 year sizes. (Srroncl Floor, lirMnut) A New Chinchilla Polo Coat for Young Women is $45 Certainly there's no style moic popular than the becoming, youthul, polo coat! And this is biand new a coat of soft, wool chinchilla in a light tan shade, in three-quaiter length, lined throughout with silk, raglan sleeves, nanow belt, deep pockets, and pearl buttons for finish. 14 to 18 year sizes. (hrroiiil Floor, (.'limtnut) 10,000 Yards Good Checked Gingham, 20c a Yard Lost shipment we had to sell at this price fairly flew away to make dresses, aprons, and all kinds of gingham things. This won't stay long. Seveinl size checks, in just the good, clear colois wanted hrowns-and-whlte, black-and-white, red-and-whitc, pink-and-white, bluc-nnd-whitc, and lavender-and-whitc, 20c a yaid. OVcut AUlr) Thousands of Toilet Articles at New Low Prices v Ecry price in the list is a new low price either because cer tain lines aie to be closed out, or by leason of a specially advan tageous purchase. It is everybody's chance to stock up on good toilet wares at a saving. Hair brushes, 50c to $1.75. Nail brushes, 18e and 45c. Tooth brushes, 15c and 25c. Clotn blushes, 35c and 50c. Shaving brushes, 15c, 35c and $1. Violet toilet soap, 10c a box of thiee takes. Vegetable oil soap, 75c a dozen, 7c cake. Deodorant cream, 18c. Wanamaker shaving sticks, lBc each. Chalk and on is, 20c largo package. I'eroxido cream, lot- Cream of cocoa butter, 15c. Imitation Ivory Toilet Articles, "Seconds" ai an average of less than one-half usual prices Hair brushes, $1,15 to $4. Mirrors, $1.00 to $5. fombs, 25c and 35c. I'ulF boxes, 25c to $2. Hair receivers, 25c to $2.25. Cloth brushes, 50c to $2.75. (Muln Floor, Climlnut) Four Good Afternoon Slippers at $9.75 a Pair 'I he downward nnce tendency in all wearables is very well illus trated in these four models of afternoon slippers. Ea"h has come clown from ono to several dollars a pair since the ast shipment that came in. They aie (1) n iriav suede slinner with small toncue. Louis heel. nci1 8ol nml PIain vnmP (2) tnn samo '" light-weight tan calf; yi a nrown Kitf slipper witn one DucKied strap, Louis neel and turned fole; (.J) the same in light-weight tan calf. ' Laeh model, now $9.5 a pair, and extra good for the price. (Flrnl Floor, Market) Sturdy, Blue Cotton Play Suits for the Youngsters ""P 'planned somewhat alonir the lino of overalls and arc iust as 1'iactical. i lhey are of heavy blue cottons in different styles, simply made, M good for no end of hard wear. $1.25 to $1 75 and 3 to 10 year sizes, , - ' (third Floor, Chcatmit) famfe Rose nnd almond cieam, 15c. Benzoin, glycerine and lose water, 20c. Tar shampoo, 25c. Compressed powder, 15c each. Face powder, white, flesh, brunette, 15c box. Double vanity powder and rouge, 25c each. Compressed rouge, 15c. Eyebrow crayons, 5c each. Nail polish, stick or cake, 5c each. Genuine, impoitcd olive oil enstile soap, usual four-pound bar (less .slight shrinkage), $1.15 bar. Bonnet brushes, 75c Trays, 10c and 25c. Nail files, 10c. Salvo jars, 35c. Cream jars, 45c. Soap boxes, 10c. Emm mpp V Knitted Capes Are as Fashionable as They Are Graceful Their long, sweeping lines are so attractive it i3 snjall wonder Dame Fashion ap proves them so highly. These newest capes for Spring and Summer are all of knitted weaves smooth wools, shaggy wools nnd all silk. They are not too bulky, they have just the right warmth, and they arc admirable for warm weather wear. The Women's Coat Store has a remarkable collection of these new wraps some all in one color, some in striped ef fects, some with striped yokes nnd plain colored capes below, some with scarf-like tics and collars. They start at $37.50 for the plain wool capes, $47.50 for alpaca wool, $57.50 for novelty striped wool capes, and up to $95 for the fine silk capes. (Flrnt Floor, Ontrnl) a PARTICULARLY jCm. pretty Parisienne" cor set for dancing has a novel scalloped closing over its fr'ont steel, and boasts only tMK bones one on each side. It is of pink satin with novel lace trimming and costs $22. Other models of somewhat the same type are as low as $11-50. (Third Floor, Climlnul) Women's Silk Stockings at $1.55 a Pair First and second grades of goods that usually aie more than double this price. Of fine ingrain silk to the top, in u good weight and with extra leinforced heels and toes. About 3G00 pair in black only. (Went AIhIc) Women's Good Plaid Skirts for $7.50 They aie skirts that have been higher priced and were un usually good at the higher price, too. Theie aie velour checks in brown-and-black, and bluc-and-black, and soft finished worsteds in attractive plaids. The velour skirts are in gath ered style, well tailored and with pockets; the plaid skirts are box pleated. All sizes up to 32-Inch waist bands. (r.nut lk) Don't Try to Clean House With Poor, Old, Out-of-Date Tool$ Mrs. Houseclcaner, do you know the very best and newest aids to housecleaning in the way of specialized brushes, labor saving mops, dustless dusters, buckets, ladders, polishes, disin fectants, moth-senrcrs, soaps and cleansing implements of every kind? Somebody is constantly finding an easier and bettei way to do these things. All these new ideas are brought to us. What is piactical and truly labor-saving and efficient, is put on sale heic in this piogressive Housewares Store, for your benefit. Do not miss seeing this great exposition of nil the newest and best houso-clenning aids. Their use will make the gieat annual dut-i outing carnival almost a pleasure. Newest and best things in Brushes Dusters Brooms Buckets Mops Stcpladders Siceepcrs Soaps and powders Vacuum cleaners Floor and Furniture Polishes Chamois Disinfectants Tar and cedar moth-proof bags, and preventives. N. B. No better house-cleaning soap made than the famous Wanamaker white borax soap a large bar for 12c, or case of CO bars for $6.75. ' (Fourth Floor, Market) Japanese Uabutai Silk at $1.50 a Yard Old-fashioned people still call it China silk, but it really ib Japanese habutal. A thin, cool, summery silk, use ful for linings, for feather-weight dresses and kimonos, for lamp shades and all sorts of fancy work. Good colors, and espe:iallv plenty of good navy blues. $1,50 a yard. (Flrnt Floor, flieMnut) For Earrings Tiny Bunches of Grapes They arc her nowest fancy earrings of tiny bunches of grapes. k There are several atti active styles some of the grapes are of imitation jade in pretty color, some arc of the rich deep blue of the imitation lapis lazuli, some are of sapphire blue beads. They all have leaves of the metal the leaves fasten to the ear. while the grapes hang, pendant fashion. $7.50 a pair. (Main Floor, Chefttnutl New Kid Suede Gloves All in the Fashionable Gray They arc French gloves, nnd of soft, beautiful texture kid suede, which is the finest suede. They are in that lovely gray shade which is so much in demand this Spring. Eight-button length gloves are ipo.bU a pair. Twelve-button length gloves gloves are $6.50 a pair. Sixteen-button length are $7.50 a pair. (Main Floor, Ontrnl) Every Woman Likes to Have a Vanity Bag And she can surely find the bag she wants in this collection. One-piece bags of the style that has a frame opening all the way to the bottom, and an inner frame and pockets. . Made of auto leather, pin seal, morocco and calfskin, chiefly in black but some tan, navy, gray and gunmetal. From $4.25 for a little calling shape to $10 for a capacious shopping or business bng. (Mnln Floor, Chmtnut) Women's Initial Handkerchiefs $1.90 a Dozen Of real linen, too, stuidy and snowy, and of Irish weave. The handkerchiefs are in plain hemstitched style, with a neatly embroidered letter in one corner. " Sold by the dozen and half dozen only. (Went ui TwoToned Sash Ribbons Delightful satins and moires each with two colors for in stance blue with rose, black with Copenhagen, pale oichid with deeper orchid and so on. The moires are six inches wide nnd may be had for $3 a yard. The satins are tyi and 6 inches wide and priced at $2.50 and $3 a yard. (Mnln Floor, Ontrnl) To People Waiting for Chinese Filet Laces 3500 yards of these exceed ingly scarce and exceedingly fashionable laces go on sale to morrow. The shipment includes edges and insertions in par ticularly good designs and a good many of them. The widths are h of an inch to nine inches, ami the prices ure 30c to $3.50. We havo only to add that women desiring these laces will be wise if they make their selec tion quickly. Wrt Alulr) Old Pennsylvania Furniture SOME quaint examples of antique furniture used in the earlier days of this commonwealth arc gath ered in the "Old Pennsylvania Rooms." They include a number of old tables, corner cupboards, wall cupboaids, chests, four postor beds, chairs, desks and similar pieces, interesting in themselves for their scarcity and for the undeniable charm of the bygone period they represent. A few of the pieces ate: Old Dutch Hope Chest. This old dower chest, in which some early Pennsylvania maiden treasured her bridal linens, is painted in age-worn dull colois and has the original brasses. It is CO inches long, 30 inches high and has three drawers along the bottom. Price $275. A Walnut Chcst-on-Chcst with block front and knee hole base, has fifteen drawers and an unusual draw-leaf shelf. Price, $400. Old Tables. A most inter esting collection, including drop-leaf, gate-leg, draw-leaf and tables of many sizes and kinds that filled various im portant roles in the kitchen, dining room or library of the substantial early Pennsylva nian. Prices from $80 up. Two of the most interesting are a ten-foot library table of walnut, with claw and ball feet and three drawers (price $500), and a fine, large ma hogany octagonal table, said to have passed an important life in Washington in the chamber of a famous old statesman. Price $1000. Old Cupboards. Among the wall and corner cupboards is a fascinating old corner cabinet painted a curious yellow with blue doors, priced $110. A handsome, large cupboiud of walnut with glass doors nbovc is $125. Among the wall cup boards is a little one painted robin's-egg blue, with paneled doors, at $55. Another, of walnut, with paneled door and deep drawer, is very interest ing, $65. Several Old Windsor Chairs with comb-and-fan backs con vey perfectly the ntmospheie of old Pennsylvania kitchens The old Pennsylvania slip ware and kitchen potteries of the period priced from $2 up are in exactly their right setting among this furnitute. (Fifth Floor, Chmtnut) Fine Straw Hats for Little Children Of fine Mtlnns and othor good straws, the hats are in those plain tailored styles which are alwajs good taste for children. There are small and larger sizes, the come in black, brown or blue, and will be suitable for little girls or boys of 2 to 6 years. Some have ribbon bands', and some have strcameis, and the, aie unusually good for $5 nnd $6 (Third Floor, Chriitmil) Women's Silk Umbrellas v Unusual for $5 They are all for women nnd kinds women will like. Most of them are of novelty silks attractive striped taffeta silks of good quality and in pretty colois like giecn and black, purple and black, and other com binations. Some few are of plain black taffeta. They have just the kind of handles most in fashion bakelite rings, imitation amber handles and ungs, and leather loops. Many havo white tips and fer uiles. (Mnln Floor, Mnrkrl) lfT' still have plenty of those 38c white voiles that are so much liked for summer shirtwaists and. en tire dresses. There ar e plaids and stripes chiefly stripes, and the width is .76 inches. Ask for them in the White Goods Store. New Fiction "Quccnic, the Adventures of a Nice Young Lady," by Wilbur Finley Pauley, author of "Jenny, Be Good." Price, $1.75 A swift ly moving, entertaining story of New York. "Get Your Man," by Ethel and James Dorrance, $1.76. A double barreled mystery of life as it is lived today in the Alaska-Yukon region. "The Dude Wrangler," by Caro line Lockhart, $1.75. A tale which deals with the plight of a very tender tenderfoot in the Far West. (Mnln Floor, Thlrlrrnth) New Charmingly Colored Glassware Royal blue, royal blue with a hint of purple, amethyst, tur quoise, celeste blue, pale nmbcr, canaHa, such are the shades in which this new lot of beautiful things in glassware comes The captivating colors nnd the attractive designs of the various pieces combine to make this a notably interesting group. And every piece hns its use as well as ornamental value. Footed fruit and flower bowls, $6.60 to $15 each. Aquariums, $12 to $20 each. Candlesticks, $10 to $30 a pan. Compotes, $4 to $1C each. Flower vases, $2.50 to $7.50 each. Covered boxes for bonbons, $G and $8 each. Candy jars, $4, $6.50 nnd $7.50 each. (Fourth Floor, flifntntit) Porch Shade Time Has Come and the Shades Are Here Vudor porch shades, self-hanging and ventilating, arc ready in the Oriental Store. For the bene fit of people who do not know them we add that these shades admit the air, but not the sun, that they can bo hung in four minutes and taken down in less, and that they turn a porch .into what is virtually another room and a cool one. Also they come in green and brown. 4 ft. wide x 7.6 ft. drop, $4.10 each 5 ft. wide x 7.6 ft. drop, $6.50 each 6 ft. vidcx7.6 ft. drop, $7.75 each 7 ft. widex7.6 ft. drop, 9.40 each 8 ft wide x 7.6 ft. drop, $10.10 each 9 ft. wide x 7.6 ft. drop, $12.50 each 10 ft. wide 7.6 ft. drop, $13 85 each ' 12 ft. wide 7.6 ft. drop, $16.75 each (Fourth I loor. riimtnitl) Canoes and Rowboats for Water Lovers Kennebec canoes in annus model, colors and length.-,, $8l to S134.50. Kennebec rowboats, $42.50 to SI 07.50. Yacht tendeis, 8 and 10 ft. long, S210 and $225. Caille fUe-spced low boat motoi with magneto ignition, $112.50. Caille Liberty drive motoi with battery ignition, $77.50. l'unrudo lowboat motoi, 5112.50. Paddles, oais, cushions, paints, varnishes and othor boating sup plies. (The (nillrr), .lunlnrrl 500 Adjustable Reed Chairs and Rockers at a Wonderfully Low Price $8.75 Each It is a long lime since people first felt the need for i illapsible reed chairs and rouxei'N but not so long .since the.se were produced to meet it They are the handiest and most convenient Umig.s of the kind ever .seen and we were very lortunate in .securing thus lot of 500 to .sell at an extraordinarily low price. $8. i Q each. ' They can be used on porche.s, eranda.s, yaclit.s wherever an ordinary reed chair or rocker can be used and when not needed they ci.n lie collapsed without' trouble and m that condition occupy a minimum of space. They are substantial in material and construction, being made with double back-pobts, well braced and wrapped in reed. The seal.s are of woven reed Three styles to select from straight back and arms, with woven sides; rounded back and arms with open sides; and rounded back and arms with dosed sides ' Chairs and rockers are both the same price, $8.75 each, which only applie, to this particular lot ol 500. (Sixth Floor, tinlriU) Men's London Shop Suits Much Less This Spring It will be an agreeable piece of news to the men who have taken such a fancy to the beautiful suits in the Wanamaker London Shop, that this year's prices arc about a third less than those of last Spring and Summer. And the suits are .iust as fine if anything, finer. Wonderfully tailored, with every detail carefully worked out and in unimpeachable fashion. The coats have a straighter effect than you will find in ordinary clothing and are in single and double breasted styles, with twothree or four buttons. Materials are unfinished worsteds in the shades of tan and gray so much favored now by well-dressed men. New prices are $45 to $65. Cllir Oullrrj, (lii'Mlnil) The Women's London Shop will show tomorrow some new golf suits which ure as easy to wear on the street as on the links. They are carried out in imported cheviots and Shetland wools, have the outside "bellows" form jacket shoulder to waist, not to mention four welted pock ets, and nie in the pleasantcst of colors blues, browns, grays nnd tans. They arc, in fact, closely copied from a man's golf coat and men know how to be comfortable when they are playing a game. Prices aie $55 to $85 (The (,Hll(-rt t llrMnnt More Men Are Taking to Stiff Cuff Shirts So we have bi ought in some new lots in a good vanetj of striped and figured patterns. They are of both wocn and punted madras and are made wtth plain or pleated bosoms. . The plain bosom shirts aie $3 and the pleated aiu $3.50. The demand for shirts with staiched culTs is noticeably inci casing. (Muln floor, Mnrkrt) Best $10 Brogue Oxford for Men in Philadelphia The Kind of shoe they are paying half us much again for clsewheie. Of heavy boaidcd calfskin in a medium shade of tan, with long wing tip, much perforation, flanged heel and heavy single sole, stitched aloft Suitable for sports and street wear nnd just the erj smart soit of shoe a young man likes. (Mnln Floor. MurUrtl A Varied Group of Oriental Rugs Moderately Marked One, two, three and four of a exceptionally large pieces, all of do moderate prices. Chinese, 129 3 ft . . S36"i Kurdistan, 22.7x15.1 ft . $1650 A'natolian. 12.1x8.10 ft ... $435 Aiak, 12 3x9.8 ft . ..$475 Saruk, 1 1.9x8 ft $655 Chinese. 12x9.2 ft $287 Sernpi, 14 6x11 4 ft $635 Mahal 12 1x9.3 ft $495 Mosul Rugs .4 Recent Shipment o " to 3 6x6h ft , $33 to $15 ( "e fiilli 1 loor, ( hi-ntnul) of them at very S387 S.279 $1175 . $367 $375 $285 $1565 $1275 pendable quality and marked Kermanshah, 13.9x9 '! ft ( hinese, 11 10x8.10 ft. . Mahal, 20.3x13 5 ft Serapi, 12.4x11 ft Cabi.stan, 11.2x6.1 ft . .. Vnatolian, 10.78 4 ft. . Fereghan, 19.6x9.9 ft . Chinese, 24 712 ft. tpc. in carpet sizts, some m Bfl ifi'i (Flrtt Floor, Chmtnut) "ei lsi r fS -'' i r .v- 4.m. . AV .fcjfc tt-jtw sWi-,. -..fcuti4 lrilW jr'h s pi jj
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