tf ' !J r ti vrw .,, W- ',? ' EYEttlNa PUBLIC LBD(EEA-PilIIADELPfelA, THTJ&SDAY, 'SBPTEMBK f 1, 1921 5 V i . a ., . ? ft I r kw WEATHER Fair ,H- V Orcan Plays at 9; 11 and 4:50 WANAMAKER'S WANAMAKER'S Store Opens at 9 WANAMAKER'S Store Closes at 5 ft Chimes i r.oon fc ' l l . i j ! i . 1 "Hti m Much Good News Here Besides the Great September Sales it 16 Whoever Measures Other People's Corn by His Own Bushel likely to underestimate his neighbor. What is the use of measuring other people's faults and counting up the mistakes of our neighbors, instead of spending our time in correcting our own short-sighted blunders? It hardly seems fair to pass judgment on others, who get the same results by a way of their own, though it be different from that of their neighbors. Fair play is a jewel. Signed Ys Stptembcr 1, 1921. m You Could Not Tell These Pretty Hats From Their Paris Originals until you looked at lab'el nnd price. A little turban of black hat ter's plush with a great chou of royal blue velvet falling off one side a great, picturesque black velvet hat with only a touch of monkey fur for its sparse decoration ra gleaming Willi littlo hat of circ satin (Second l'loor, Chestnut) brilliantly lacquered quills there is something decidedly French about each. And they are but threo of a considerable company ready tomorrow, each of which had its original inspiration in Paris. Prices start moderately at $20. Women's Dinner and Evening Gowns in Delectable Colors $40 to $100 Chiffon that isike sea foam Georgette in the cloudy blue of the sky on a gray day vivid coral apple green soft old blues one would buy these de lightful dresses for their colors alone! 'All are chiffons or Georg ettes, but how varied ! Some are exquisitely simple, with only folds of self-material and low hip girdles of dull colored flowers. Others are elaborated with embroider ing, crystal beading, glitter ing fringes, soutache in self color. And there are navy and black also for those who pre fer these soberer hues. The prices of $40 to $100 are unusually reasonable for their quality and beauty. (Iflrst Floor, Central) Sale of Blouses Continues 1.65 to $5 silk blouses and overblouses of Georgette, tricolette, crepe de chine and habutai. The prices of $1.65, $2.85, $3.85 and. $5 mean extraordinary savings. Tailored, lingerie and dress waists at prices far below usual. White voiles and Swisses, hand-made and hand-drawn Porto Rican batiste waists with filet lace, (Tint nnd West Aisles, Mnln Floor) Three Smart New Slippers of Black Suede One is brightened up with patent leather. The single strap, the low French heel and the perforated band finish are all of the shiny black leather. $9 a pair. The second is all of the soft black suede. It also has one strap, low French heel and medium toe. Price $12. The third is on a quaint and most becoming French last short vamp, round toe and three straps, each with a twinkling cut-steel orna ment in the center. At the sides are inset elastic gores to insure snug-fitting tops. Price $13. (first Floor, Market) Serge Regulation Dresses for the Schoolgirl $9.50 to $13.50 Better school dresses the girl Of 6 to 14 could not have. They are carefully planned, cut and ronde to satisfy the most dis criminating mother; and they o jaunty enough to please mmost exacting daughter. Three models, made of Kurdy blue storm serge or fino rench serge. All are onc Piece dresses, but some arc box pleated from the yoko down, and others aro in blouso effect with box-pleated skirt. Collars and cuffs aro braided; and sleeves and shields aro em broidered in the regulation de signs. Priced $9.50, $10 and $13.50. New Jersey Dresses for Miss 14 to 20 Sleeveless wool jerseys in plain colors bcavor, Copen hagen, brown or navy at $0.50. Sleeveless dresses in the smart ribbed jersey with fancy silk braiding black, sorrento blue, beaver, malay brown. Priced $13.50 And very effective dresses of new bilk-and-wool striped jer sey with long sleeves and col Iar and cufLs of white kid. Brown-and-eopper, black-and-white. Priced $23.50. (Second l'loor, Cltmtmit) Women's Silk Stockings at Good Savings Many women will want a lew pair or two for the coming week-end and holi day. $1.50 a pair for second Wade, full-fashioned silk stockings in black, white and colors, with cotton tops and coles. $2 a pair for second-grade, full-fashioned silk to the top in black, white and colors. $1.75 a pair for first grade, full-fashioned arti ficial silk with openwork ankles. $3 a pair for second-grade, full-fashioned silk in black and colors with openwork ankles in different designs'. The Brilliant Sale of Lamps Is a Joy With the long Winter evenings coming on with everybody to whom it means increasing 'beauty and comfort for their homes, the sweeping sale of the whole stock of the Wanamaker elec tric and gas lamps comes as an almost unequaled opportunity. This sale brings hundreds upon hundreds of beautiful lamps at less than half the prices that people paid a year ago. Floor lamps from $7.50 to $200. Table lamps from $4.50 to $50. Boudoir lamps, $1.50 to $10. Shades in a magnificent variety start at $1 and go to $165. People who wish to choose lamps and shades to match their furnishings should be early, as the best things will not be the last to go. (Fourth l'loor, Central) A Number of Novelties in Women's Fur Coats Just to mention a few of the new arrivals, there is an American broadtail coat, in other words a South American lamb, sheared very close, in a soft taupe color and very silky to the touch. It is a beautiful coat and is priced at $525. Another even prettier coat of the same fur, but in a platinum gray with kolinsky collar, is $765. Black caracul of the finer kind promises to be one of the most fashionable furs this Winter. There are a number of wraps, one would almost call them capes, of this fur at $425 and $485. New Hudson seal coats (dyed muskrat), 36 inches long, with huge' collars of the same fur or of skunk, range from $300 to $465. (Second Floor. Chestnut) The First Showing of Women9 s Fur-Trimmed Coats After seeing them, one would certainly feel inclined to put the accent on the word "fur," for these marvelously beautiful coats art fnirly laden with fur from neck to hem. "It will be a very cold winter," say the weather-wise, so perhaps that is the reason. For materials, there are Bolivias, duvetynes and mnny of tho new and charming variations. Monkey, Hudson seal (dyed musk rat), beavor, natural and dyed squirrel, dyed caracul, wolf, mole and opossum are the furs used. They not oniy make tho huge collars, which sometimes extend down the entire front, but deep bands are found on the hem, on flying panels and on the deep square capes in the back. Prices start at $250 and go to $175. (First Floor, Central) Paris Sends Spangled Tunics Rich in Color They are truly gorgeous in effects, and the colors are beautiful. Jade, rose, tango, sapphire, white and black are equally effective in spangles and bugles. One model with deep V neck has solid bodice of black touched with color, the skirt being entirely of bead fringe. A black net tunic shows all-over designs in black bugles and red cabochons. The tunics of iridescent spangles are very effective, as are also those of opalescent and square gold spangles. Prices are from $22 to $175. (Mnln Floor, Control) Excellent School Coats for Little Daughter, $11.50 and $14.50 Soft, warm coats of brown all-wool mixtures in two good schoolgirl models, with big, high-buttoning storm collars and capacious pockets. Both warmly interlined and well lined throughout. Sizes 6 to 14 years, and priced $11.50 and $14.50. (Second Floor, ClieMnut) Silk Petticoats in a Sale at $3.85 Splendid skirts of taffeta, mcssalino and silk jersey, colors, plain nnd changeable. Exceptional value. All (Went AUIh) Interesting Prices on Short Lengths of Embroideries These are not remnants, but odd lengths of some, and broken assortments mean a great reduction in price. Everything from narrow headings to deep floimcings and corset-cover embroideries is in the assortment. , This is a splendid opportunity to pick up attractive trimmings for the Fall underwear. The new prices are 12c to $3.25 a yard. Best Time of the Year to Buy Dinner Sets and Chinaware The Wanamaker Great September Sale of china and glassware brings selection unequaled in America and at prices lower than they have been for many a day. Splendid selections from French and Eng lish potteries and American dinner sets at 20 to 50 per cent below regular. Hundreds of pieces of rich cut glass at an average of one-third less than regular. $30,000 worth of light cut glass to sell at $15,000. French china dinner sets from the famous Limoges potteries, $75 to $375. English porcelain and china sets in beautiful patterns and colors at exceptionally attractive prices. These semi-porcelain sets start at $35. American semi-porcelain dinner sets start at $16.50. Concrete garden furniture in full variety at a reduction of one-third. Marble statuary of groups, figures and busts at half price $7.50 to $375. And a great variety of fancy English china tea sets, Moorcroft potteiy, English pottery vases and Italian potteiy at notable reductions for this sale. (Fourth Floor, ClieMnut) A New and Novel Mesh Bag It certainly deserves the term "novel," for when ono is carrying it, the handle slips up over the frame, making it impossible to open or be opened. The shapes are odd, and all show fringed ends in points. Silver plated, $8 to $20. Gold plated, $26 to $36. (Jewelry More, Thirteenth and Chestnut) Parisiennes Carry Gay Bead Bags "to dinner or to dance. They are tiny affairs just big enough for a powdor puff and a whiff of a lace handkerchief. Paris has sent us some of the most beautiful of these bags. They are hand made with draw; strings and they dangle with fringe, just as the larger ones are wont to do. Tho designs are exquisite, worked in metallic beads, showing such beautiful colorings as rust with silver, gold, blue and white combined with black. This is an advance showing of these bead bags. Prices are $10.50 and $12.50. (.Mnln Floor, Chestnut) New Homespun Suitings Suggest Sports Garments Such, for example, as women's sport3 suits, top coats and capes. They are especially suited to all kinds of hard, everyday wear and any sort of weather. There is both a rough finish and one smoother and about a dozen styles in all. In tho new Fall colorings oxford, dark blue, brown, tan, green, mahogany, henna and amethyst, 54 inches wide and $2.50 a yard. (Flrat Floor, Chentnnt) New Little Prices on Good, Reliable Handkerchiefs In both cases they are newly arrived shipments, but the prices have dropped quite a good deal since they were here before. Women's plain Irish linen handkerchiefs, medium duality, nice for everyday use, $3.75 a dozen. Men's Irish linen handkerchiefs, extra size, plain hemstitched, with Vi-inch hem, $7.50 a dozen. (Mnln Tloor, Centnil) The Newest Candy Bag Is of Silk And It Comes From Paris We no longer clutch our sweets in an uninteresting paper bag but carry them in a large and beautiful silk creation which has a quaintly decorated oval box for a base. One might use it as a decora tive sewing bag after the candies have disappeared. Filled with fine Camee choco lates, $15. (Cnmee Shop, Mnln Floor, ClieMnut) $5 Is a Satisfactory Price for Women's Silk Umbrellas This is especially true when it is the original price on a splendid new lot. Some have club tops, or of Imkelite, with rings, cords of leather straps. Blunt tips of the wood or bakelite. A good assortment of the new Fall colors is shown. (Mnln Floor, MurKet) Even Ribbons Have Two Sides to show the world. But in their case, both sides are quite beauti ful and many times both aie bright I Six inches wide, ono side moire, tho other satin, snowing contrasting colors such as orchid nnd jnde, henna and navy or burnt orange nnd brown. Price is $1.50 a yard. (Mnln Floor, Centrnl) The Nicest Bootees for the Nicest Baby arc hind knit in white with the daintiest touches of pink and nine. Long or short, 45c to $1.75 a pair. Alo for the nicest babv are nnnd-knit sacks, henw or 'light. Prices are SI to $3.75. Warm blanket for the orib rome in r'nk, b'..p and white. Prices n'-e 75c to ? . (Third Floor.. TheMniit) Loop-Edged Ribbons, 38c These ribbons come in the con venient width of 11J inches, nnd nrc useful for so many purposes. The colors are navy, Copen hagen blue, sky blue, pink and geranium. (Mnln l'loor, Centrnl) High-Neck Nightgowns in Extra Large Sizes Muslin nnd cambric, made with high neck and long sleeves. Tucked yokes nnd embroidery or hemstitched frills. Both closed nnd V nocks. $1.50, $1.85, $2.25 and $2.50. (Third Floor, Centrnl) Tf "a Body" Breaks His Glasses and it certainly is being done a duplicate pair is a great blessing. Why not prepare for this omerc-pney by bringing vour pre srnnhon to us nnd having a du nlicato pair made' We hnvn n lens-grinding shop in the build ing. (Mnln Clnllery, ClieMnut) English Bath Tablets Exclusively Here Thesn pvpollent bth tablets are mndo for us in Encrland, so that our customers irnv have the identical soan "John Bull" enjoys In his dnily tub. Violet, verbena and rose. 35c a generous cako, or $2 for a box of six. 2 Housewives Are Coming Hundreds of Miles to the Housewares Sale It is known that there is no other sale in America like this one. It is a treasure house of the most reliable articles of household utility. Thousands of things specially brought into the September Sale at notably reduced prices. Especially interesting is the great collection of aluminum utensils, enamel ware, bathroom furnishings, housecleaning helps, chests, cabi nets, tables nearly everything to interest house wives. Also included are sewing machines, dress forms, electric devices. Whatever is needed during the next six months for any household purpose now is the time to get it and the Wanamaker Housewares Sale is the opportunity. (Fourth Floor, Mnrket and Centrnl) New in the Fiction World "The Thirteen Travelers," by Hugh Walpole Price $2. The author is famous for his por trayal of London life. In this piece of interpretative fiction he leads us again through the Lon don with which he is so familiar. "To Let," by John Galsworthy. Price $2. A romance of exquisite beauty finds birth amidst most peculiar circumstances. "Ten One-Act Plays," by Alice Gerstenberg. Price $2. Delight ful little plays which have been staged with unusual success. "One-Third Off." by Irvin S. Cobb. Price $1. If one is too fat or fears to be too fat, Mr. Cobb will explain humorously but quite, sincerely how he managed to be come just two-thirds of his usual self. "Dodo Wonders," by E. F. Ben son. Price $1.90. Dodo appears again, this time a charming woman of the world. Readers, will welcome this attractive char acter back with much enthusiasm. (Main Floor, Thirteenth) The Men's 50c Neckties Have Been Augmented by a fresh lot of new designs, making an unusually good selection in stripes of mnny kinds and fancy figures. These ties are a much better grade than is commonly found at this low price. (.Main l'loor, Murkrt) Men's New Oxfords of Black Scotch Grain This is one of the most popular leathers of tho Summer for men's shoes and will be equully favored for Tall. These new shoes are made on a brogue List in straight lace style with perforated tips, wide shanks and low, broad heels. Price $12 a pair. (Mnln Floor, Market) Charming New Suits for Little Lads The Copperfield styles particularly would warm any small boy's heart. One is of yellow percale with a square tucked vest of white, pockets, cuffs and vest being outlined in black. Others are made of chambray and dimity, with hand stitching or tailored effects. Two to five year sizes. The prices are $2.25 to $:?.85. (Thlnl Floor, Chestnut) I There Is Only One Original Blu-Mottle Laundru Soan 5c a Cake at Wanamaker's During September Blu-motUc laundry soup, introduced by this Store last year and alre-idv a favorite in a hundred thousand homes, is the pure and re iable production L a roh.ll;n'l11T,and blueig-no tar, no naphtha, no gaso ine This lioldpu. poles SaP' SP'endid f01' the lau',dl'y ind aU other house! tains MnffiK Um,dry Sap to be had at Wanamakei-a con-. vewarc of destructive imitations. (roqrth Floor, Central) r s iJrim jTioorj UhUu), , (Mnln Floor, Cheitnut) U k 4 ,' afiff - mAj UiM .Wftft Able)
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