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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA', FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1921
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WANAMAKER'S
WANAMAKER-'S
WANAMAKER'S
WEATHER
Fair
Slerc Opens at 9
Stere Closes at 5
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And New for a Busy Farewell te a Year That Is "Closing Streng
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Count Up the Hindrances
That Suggest Themselves
te what you thought of doing and what you
really wished te de, and perhaps you will
find some of us have found that
postponement caused abandonment and an
opportunity was lest that afterwards did net
return.
Our first thoughts, that come from we
knew nefc where, are often the very best.
Signed
JfceenW SO, 1021.
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Prices en All Our Women's
Camel's-Hair Coats Drop Drep Drop
New $45 te $175
This is great news for the women who want these very
mart, very simple and delightfully warm coats.
Nearly a hundred coats are in the reduction, and they
are of all lengths, from the smart little tan sports jackets te
full-length coats. Tans and light browns predominate,
although there arc a few bright colors, and a few white,
while among the long coats you will find navy and black.
Alse, there are a few barely distinguishable cress-bar effects.
The linings worthy of the beautiful fabric in every case,
and some of the finest coats are cellared and cuffed with
beaver.
Only a day or two age the prices were from $12.50 te
S50 larger.
(First Fleer)
New Millinery at $10 and $13
A special collection of silk and satin hate, or silk-and-straw
In combination, has been prepared for tomorrow te sell at $10,
$13 and thereabouts.
Fine navy blue straw and henna silk make one smart hat
t $13.
Anether, at $10.50, is made of rows and rows of narrow burnt
erpnge silk inbben, each row edged with the narrowest blue silk
braiding. It is a soft little hat of admirable effect.
There arc many ethers equally geed, all at equally reasonable
prices.
(Second Fleer)
Changeable Taffetas for Evening
Wear a Handsome Showing
Changeable taffetas are se much "the thing" for evening
wear that the remarkably geed selection of these fabrics
which we are new showing is of exceptional interest.
With changeable taffetas we also include gres de
Londres.
There is something particularly fascinating about the
ever-changing and elusive color effects of these goods, which
include blues and yellows and pinks and greens and orchid in
many seemingly shy and subtle tones.
Taffetas, 36 inches wide, $2.25 a yard.
Taffetas, 40 inches wide, $3.50 a yard.
Gres de Londres, 36 inches wide, $3 a yard.
(Vint l'loer)
Rich Winter Coatings
Only $6 a Yard
Belivia cloths, cashmere veleurs, panne veleurs and
Mentagnacs which were several dollars higher early in the
Beasen. They are in the best of coating colors browns, tans,
dark blues and se en, and are 54 inches wide.
Women who prefer te have their own and their chil-.
dren's coats made te their order will find this one of the best
opportunities of the season.
(rirst rioer)
Black Satin Slippers for
Afternoon and Evening
The most overworked slipper in a woman's outfit this
aeasen is black satin. Ne .matter hew many ether slippers
ahe has, the black satin slipper is indispensable. Its most
approved form is with the rounded tee and rather shortened
vamp of the French last, supplemented by a high Spanish
heel, and a single strap buttoned across the instep.
These dainty black satin slippers, se popular for both
afternoon and evening wear, are $9.75 a pair, and exception
ally fine and well made for this price. ,
(rirst l'loer)
Girls' "Dress Up" Shoes
of Patent Leather
These are the shoes te go with Sunday curls and "best"
frocks. Patent leather with cloth tops, for little girls who
wear 8i2 te 11 sizes, at $6. Patent leather with kid tops, for
girls who wear lli2 te 2 sizes, at $7.50.
(l'lrt l'loer)
Youngsters' Warm
Night Garments
Nightgowns of white flan
nelet in 1 te 14 year sizes,
COc te $1.35. Of colored
flannelet, 4 te 14 year sizes,
1 te $1.35.
Night drawers of white
and colored flannelet, with
and without feet, 2 te 12
years, 75c te $1.35.
Pajamas of ilannelet, 4 te
14 years,. $1.25 te $2.50.
TlilrU l'loer)
The Veil Is
Half the Hat
In effect, a n y w a y.
Smart and becoming are
the two-color veilings, the
mesh of one color, the dot
of another. . Tan and blue,
brown and beige, coral
and black, blue and gray,
jade and brown, flesh and
black, and te en. These
and ether dot and fancy
mesh effects are priced $1
te $1.75 a yard.
(Mulu l'loer)
Yeung Women's Finest Coats
Drep in Price
All the remainim? coats
of the finer kind, in sizes
14 te 20, new lese about
one - quarter of their
prices.
This applies te every
coat or wrap in the Yeung
Women's Salens that was
95 and upward, and in
cludes altogether about
150 garments.
The new prices are
a saving of from $20 te
They are rich materials
and colors midnight and
Italian blue, russet and
golden and walnut and
deer browns, deep wine
red, or black beautifully
made and finely lined and
handsomely trimmed with
squirrel, beaver, nutria,
wolf, opossum or ether
furs.
$75 te $170, representing
$55 en each coal.
y (Second l'loer)
Yeung Women's
Smart Tailored Dresses
at Lewer Prices
A group of about fifty "well
tailored gowns of fine trfcetine,
of which but enq or two of a
kind are left, are lowered in
price.
The majority are dark blue
or black, and the fashion and
(Second
quality of each arc such that
Its wearer will invariably feel
well-dressed in it.
The new lower prices are $38
te $G8, which is a saving of
from $5 te $20 en each dress.
The sizes are 14 te 20.
l'loer)
Women's Evening Frecks
at $27.50 te $65
Gay and delightful little
frocks for New Year's fes
tivitiesthe kind of thing
a woman buys at the last
minute and then enjoys in
the most light-hearted
fashion.
They are of chiffon, crepe
de chine, taffeta, brocaded
(Vlrnl
chiffon and velvet, and in
clude a few soft, quiet colors
like brown, as well as the
brighter greens and roses
and blues. Alse some of
them have a great deal of
lace and are graceful and
filmy in consequence. $27.50
te $65.
l'loer)
These Fine Silk Knitted Gloves
Are Frem Scotland
be slipped en ever delicate
evening or dress gloves.
They are in white, brown
or gray, and for their kind
and quality they are very
reasonably priced at $7.50 a
pair for women's and $8 for
men's.
rioer)
It is a pleasure te tell of
these fine and useful Scotch
knitted silk gloves, which
will net be found everywhere.
They are lined throughout
with fleecy cashmere wool,
and are net only among the
very warmest of gloves, buJL
are soft and fine enough te
(Muln
Wanamaker
Original Winter
Sale of White
The first and greatest of all White Sales, better than
ever this year.
Tens of thousands of women await its coming te
get new supplies of undermuslins, silk underwear,. shirt
waists, linens, handkerchiefs, wrappers and all such
dainty things.
Ready Next Tuesday
January 3d
Prices down te pre-war basis and workmanship
better than ever.
Geed Toilet Preparations
These arc the well-known Honfleur articles, and the
prices en all are se low that it will repay any woman who
likes geed toilet waters, face creams, powders, and such
things, te lay in a goodly stock of them tomorrow.
Extracts, l'Empire and rose, 60c.
Toilet waters, l'Empire, violet, 50c and 85c.
Lilac and wistaria vegetal, 75c.
Cleansing cream, Youth and Beauty cream and skin
cream, 40c each.
Violet ammonia, 20c and 30c a bottle.
Bay rum, 85c and $1.65 a bottle.
Witch hazel, 35c and 65c.
Sachet, violet, rose and l'Empire, 85c.
Face powder, violet, rese and l'Empire, 35c,
(Kait Alile)
Music Can Make a Year Glorious
There is something vital about music.
It is impossible te put that into words, but
it is equally impossible for any one te listen
to-geed music and net feel the force of it.
If you will bring music into your home
for this coming year of 1922, your life, and
the lives of these about you, will be the richer.
Yeu may net be richer in dollars and cents,
or in health, or in material things, but your
spirit will ride high ever the rough spots in
the read.
If Yeu Get a Geed Piane
you will find it an investment that will never pass a
dividend, even if it does no mere than entertain you
and your friends. But it will de mere than that, be
assured; se much mere that we are leth te say hew
much, lest you think we exaggerate.
The Wanamaker Stere has a wonderful assort
ment of pianos te cheese from. Among them are
the Chickering, the Schemacker, the Emersenr the
Lindeman, the Haines Bres., the Marshall & Wendell
and the celebrated Knabe, in uprights, player-pianos
or grands.
The prices of the pianos here range from .$375
te .$3500, the last for a magnificent Ampice grand
reproducing piano, and all may be purchased en con
venient terms.
All pianos bought here up te Stere closing tomor
row will be delivered in our city delivery limits in
time for New Year's if desired.
(Second l'loer)
New
Victer Records
for January
On Sale Saturday,
December 31st
(Second l'loer)
Bags for New Year
Travelers
Yeu can get a geed black
cowhide traveling bag here
today for $6, while a limited
let lasts. They are a popu
lar shape and have leather
linings.
Frem this price up te
$16.50 there is a wide assort
ment of traveling bags in
black, brown and tan cowhide
and natural pigskin, hand
sewed. There are many
prices between, se that any
one who wants a new bag
for the New Year trip may
have one.
(Main l'loer)
Men's Union
Suits at Geed
Savings
$2.50 for medium and heavy
wool-and-cotton union suits.
First-grade goods, but be
cause they are broken lines,
with some sizes missing,
they are marked at half the
regular price.
$1.25 for white and ecru
ribbed cotton union suits in
sizes 34 te 50. Discontinued
lines and some second grade,
or they would be double this
price.
(Main fleer)
Men's New Neckties
for New Year's
If we told you the number of neckties we "-old for Christmas
gifts you would think no man in Philadelphia would need another
tic for a long time.
But wc have noticed that no matter hew many gift tics arc
sold there is always a call for new neckties en the Saturday
before New Year's.
Se we prepared accordingly with fresh lets of 50c, Cec and $1
ties in floral, figured and striped designs, including college stripes.
(Muln Meer)
Men's Half Hese at Lowered
Prices
G5c a pair for full-fashioned fancy striped silk-plated
half hose.
75c a pair for full-fashioned plain black silk-plated.
$1.75 a pair for full-fashioned silk and wool mixed, with
silk-embroidered clocks.
(Muln I loer)
Candy and Favers
for New Year
Parties
Fer the dinner table there
are many styles of Jack
Herner pies, with twelve
strings and a favor at the
end of each. Prices, $3 te
$10.
Little fancy baskets te
held nuts and candy, 15c.
Snapping bonbons, 75c te
$3 a dozen.
Red glace mints, $1.50 a
pound.
Red straws, 70c a pound.
(I)eirn Stulrs btere, Cliretnnt)
Men's $8.50
Shoes That
Recall Old
Times
That make a man think of
the days when he could get
as fine shoes as he wanted
for that price.
These are in high and low
models, both of stout tan
grain calfskin and made en
brogue lasts with perforated
tips, perforated vamp seams,
very wide shanks and liat
heels.
(Muln l'loer)
Men's Redleaf Tweed Hats
Halved in Price at $3
These are the celebrated "oatmeal cloth," as tweed of thia
particular design is termed. Highly distinctive and extremely
durable.
All hand-tailored into shape, net blocked or stretched, and
therefeie they held their shape the better.
Wonderful Winter hats, especially for rough weather.
(Muln l'loer)
lTOVELTY bead neck
i laces in lets of colors
are ready te put the finish
ing touch en many a plain
little frock. Prices are 50c
te $10.
(Mnln Doer)
Men's Umbrellas at
$2.50
Streng black cotton-covered
umbrellas, with eight-rib
paragon frames and handles
of light and dark weeds.
Altogether excellent te lend
or te keep at the eflice.
(Main rioer)
Yeu Should Knew of These
Splendid Blankets
It takes the depth of winter te awaken people te a full
appreciation of a really fine pair of blankets.
We have the blankets that the depth of winter calls for.
We have one particularly geed kind, made of excellent
California wool the fine, long staple se full of warmth and
service.
These are all-wool, warp and weft. They are white, with
borders in either pink or blue.
There is no better wool than the wool they are made of,
and they are as geed in the making as they are in the
material.
Priced at $16.50 a pair for size 60xS4, $18 a pair for size
72x84, and $22 a pair for size 80x90 (extra large).
Four ether grades te cheese from in these blankets, up
te $30, $35 and $40 a pair for sizes 60x90. 72x90 and 80x90
inches borders in pink, blue, rose and plain white.
All arc cut separately and neatly bound with satin.
(hlxlh 1 loer)
The Shee for the Bey
en a Wet Day
An ideal school shoe for
wet and snowy days is this
blucher storm beet of heavy
chrome tan grained leather,
lacing high up the ankle,
with strap and brass buckle
at the top. It has large
metal eyelets, bellows
tongue, extra-stout sole, and
is in every detail the sturdy
and serviceable sort of shoe
an active youngster needs te
wear.
Sizes 11 te 2. Priced
$7.25. ,
(first l'loer) ,) a
300 Beys' Norfolk Suits in a
Special Sale at $18
The Best at the Price in Years
Here are 300 Wanamaker Norfolk style suits taken directly out of
our stock and marked anywhere from 20 te 50 per cent below the former
prices.
Among them are suits of the very line kind of unfinished worsted,
and the general selection takes in a splendid choice of worsteds and
cheviets in a wonderful variety of colors and patterns grays, browns
and greenish mixed goods, in designs that the boys will surely like.
There is a full range of sizes for boys of 8 te 18 years, and a very
large proportion of the suits have two pajr of trousers.
All are belted Norfelks, some plain, but most of them with inverted or
box pleats.
As a collection they are the best suits that have been offered in
several years at the price $18 each, in 8 te 18 year sizes.
On the great bulk of the assortment the saving is 25 te 33 13 per
cent. l
(ecenil Fleer)
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