WANAMAKER'S STORE CLOSED AIL DAY WANAMAKER'S STORE CLOSED ALL DAY WANAMAKER'S WEATHER m. TmiORROW TOMORROW TOMORROW Unsettled CLOSED "ALL DAY' H There Are Certain Great September Sales at Wanamaker's That De Net Need te Be "Cracked Up" te the Housewife Who Knows Her Business and Most Philadelphia Housewives De! A Geed-Sized Chunk of a Bey Was Asked what two books had interested him most in his life. His instant reply was My Mether's Face and the Example of Her Patient, Hard-Working Life Who can ever forget hew the mother seethed us in sorrows, helped us in our first lessens and kissed away our disappointments! Signed September 1, 19BS. Jfmwfa China- Glasswares Hensewares Lamps They are the Sales that serve the housekeeper's kitchen, laundry, pantry, china-closet, bathroom, dining room even her sewing room, her attic, her cellar and her very back yard with a completeness that leaves no possible place for a reasonable disappointment. They're the Sales that serve the housewife's purse: an honest service an authentic one. The savings that they offer consist of real money the kind that does you some geed at the paying or depositing window of your bank. Phantom savings, conjured up cit of trickery, trumpery and transmogrification of values, solemnly stalk the stage of many se-called "September Sales" of household wares, but they tempt one te echo Hamlet's half-scoffing adjuration te the Ghest: "Say aft thou se? Art there, True' penny?" .... j.:) It Is Only at Wanamaker's That Yeu Can Find Such Quan tities, Such Varieties, Such Excellencies, Such Economies The Great Sale of Heusewares, Which Started This Morning With Such a Swing will reopen next Tuesday, prompt te the minute of 9 A. JVL, bringing serv ice and savings te the housekeeper, upon such a scale of immensity in range and honesty in qualities and in savings as is seen only in a Wana maker Sale. The very words "Wanamaker Heusewares Sale" are a magnet for housewives. Here we have 75,000 articles of necessity or use in efficient house keeping. Refrigerators Electrical household appliances Tinware Aluminum ware White and gray enamelware Ironware Bathroom hardware, white and nickeled Brushes Breems Mops Feather dusters Knives Baskets Carpet sweepers Vacuum cleaners Wash boilers Galvanized ware Woodenware Kitchen cabinets Sewing machines Roundabout there are mere than 75,000 Kitchens, bathrooms, cellars, pantries, laun dries, in which something must be replaced te offset the year's wear and tear; and some homes new ones, interesting ones must be turmshed, net with something but with everything needed te run the domestic ma chinery smoothly. Luck te Housekeepers Old and New ja the meaning of this September Sale and every woman knows why. Every woman appreciates the savings in prices, which average 27 per cent. Every woman appreciates the qualities which net merely back but create the savings. Values cannot be created by lowering prices en trashy or imperfect wares which are net worthy te serve the household and which in some instances (such as refriger ators or cooking wares) positively endanger its health and mock its comfort. Take 75,000 splendid, high-grade house heuse wares such as have been collected for this sale and they are a blessing te households, even at their regular fair Wanamaker prices. Take an average of 27 per cent off their regular prices take even 40 or 50 per cent from some and you have the unparalleled opportunities of the Wanamaker September Heusewares Sale! A Sale of China for Everybody Every home needs new dishes, but net every home the same kind of dishes. One family needs one kind, another fam ily another kind; one plans te pay one price, another has planned te pay a different figure. One fastidious housewife must have French china a dish is net a dish te her unless it bears the magic word "Limoges" en its under side. Te another woman's taste, American semi-china is plenty geed enough and pretty enough and geed and pretty it is. Yet another housekeeper holds by the charming English wares, china and semi-china, while still another is intrigued by the handsome china made in the potteries of that newcomer among the nations, Czecho-Slovakia. Everybody has been provided for. This is the most important sale of china and glassware that has been held anywhere within six or seven years. A strong state ment but simple fact. Come here Tuesday and verify it. It is a sale important in quali ties, important in quantities, impor tant in savings and, above all, in practicability. It is out te serve the homes, net merely te make a glittering display, glittering dis play though it is, arranged with a taste and beauty worthy of the dignity of the occa sion, through the co-operation of the ablest staff of interior decorators in the world. It includes few fal-lals, concerning itself chiefly with the thing of first concern the household dishes; the dinnerwares that are taken out and put away se many times in the year. Here you can cheese your new dishes from the finest assemblage of dinnerwares of five nations, all priced at figues the average family can pay $6 te $325 a set in quan tity sufficient te serve all early comers, and in a variety represented by mere than 300 different patterns. Think of it! Three hundred different decorations, all selected for their beauty, all en wares that were picked for their quality ! And savings, representing 15 te 50 per cent, en every set! Te many women it will seem best of all, there are lets of new patterns, exclusive te this store. Fer example, one French factory has sent us no less than ten such patterns, some of which will be sold only as complete sets and ethers will be open stock. Te quote even typical prices is an im possibility here all are typical of high value at low figures. Perhaps, however, if you're here en Tuesday, you may be in time te secure one of the 200 sets of 106 pieces, semi china, with a new wide border decoration and coin-geld handles, $25 the set about half the regular figure. Tables Sparkling With Fine Glassware All Moderately Priced The beautiful table glassware offered in this September Sale is worth a page of de scription in itself, and even then it would net be described. All that can be said right here is that everything in the collection is useful as well as fine, that there are thousands of pieces and that every piece is priced below regular selling figures. At least 10,000 of them are worth two and three times mere. (Teurtli Meer) A Sale of Lamps That Makes Light Cheaper Than Darkness Its opportunities leave net the slightest excuse for a dark corner anywhere in the house, or the least need of continuing the un satisfactory services of an antiquated or inadequate lamp, or the annoyance of a shabby shade. We Own Mere Lamps Than Any Other Stere, and They're All Reduced 10 te 50 Per Cent The average reduction is 25 te 30 per cent. Prices start at $1.50 for a boudoir lamp and end at $225 for a superb French shade as gorgeous as a Parisian ball gown. HI.!! J- it?i NiMfll Xwl - The Wanamaker Stere Will Be Closed Tomorrow, Saturday, and en Monday, Laber Day Any one could talk brilliantly about this Sale, that represents se many thousands of bright spots in existence. The collection is known te be, as just stated, the largest in any store in Philadel phia and is believed te be the largest in America. Fleer lamps, bridge lamps, table lamps, boudoir lamps, desk lamps, candlesticks and lamp shades all are here and in a variety that is just about as easy te describe as a splendid garden blooming with thousands of different genus and species of flowers. Lamps of weed, lamps of rare porcelain, lamps of metal; plain lamps and ornate lamps pick out what suits you, among the prod ucts of the art of fifteen countries, including, of course, the geed old U. S. A., but ranging as far as net only Belgium, but India; net merely Mexico, but Beluchistan, Russia, Ar menia. As for our stocks of lamp shades, they are conceded te be the finest in America. All fashionable sizes, styles and materials are included, and in the higher-grade goods, practically no two shades are alike. One could say almost the same of the lamps, se great is the variety. Tuesday Will Present the Biggest Chance at Highest Values in view of the really remarkable character of some offerings, puch as Wicker lamp shades, silk lined in various colors, at half price nine sizes, 35c te $2.50. Reed fleer and table lamps in most of the fashionable finishes te match the furni ture, $12 te $71.50. Iren bridge lamps, $2.70 te $3.60. Shades te go with them, $1 te $4.50. Solid brass candlesticks from England, perfect reproductions of antique pieces, $1.80 te $36. These are likely te sell fast. Vouched for by Wanamaker's :i A Vy! S m at, ,,... . arajst-' E5 tiSM r ? -i 4.M1 m
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