I never buy new window shades long as the rollers are ir good wo ing order. Lecome worn and soiled, I make n ones. ) head cloth (this sized window) for cleth I 36 durable, and lasts four years, the bottom, and Then I tack a roller, and 1 have new shade better than the commerce variety. and iron again, be dyed amy shade. ording T Ve for the each shade. is use is inches wide, starch stiif, Wherever there are childeen or ca afford to, or would not throw I tried all sorts of bottled and cak cements, etc, but net one of gave satisfaction, especially if the di or other articless were afterwa placed in hot water. until finally I found a mixture th gave absolute satisfaction. when a dish is broekn I mix one-he ounce, of boiling milk, adding enough plast of paris to make a paste, sed on the dish with impunity. Whenever 1 pack away woolen bla kets and winter clothing, I keep awe all musty odors by sprinkling the 7ith this sweet-smelling mixture: ne ounce each of powdered cinn ion, cloves, nutmeg, tonca bean araway anw mace. Add to this s bunces of powdered orris root. ake little cheesecloth sachet bag ing. When doing dirty work I find thd If you have the misfortune to spi nk on the floor or on cloth,- dry u all the ink you can with waste clot or blotting paper, then dampen th place with water and cover well wit ommon baking soda. [nd that all traces of ink are gone. Inside my pantry door I have tw prdinary file hooks. On these I han aper bags that I wish to save fo ture use, hanging them by the uppe dge so there will be no hole in th ags. other for the smaller ones. always ready for and little room. le e use, - D my furniture that has to be moved n. Having them on e has helped much in saving steps e the table may be moved wher: t needed at the time. ! ry covering your kitchen table wit! ¢ and see how much labor is saved ¢ zinc is not easily kept clean, but tL cooking vessels may be set on it thout harm. If spots get on the zinc rosene on them. never am bothered by having corks hering to the glue, medicine ber bottles—I always rub the cork 1 with vaseline or olive oil. sandpaper handy the kitchen, and use it instead of spoon or knife to remove burned d from enameled pans and kettles, vill not injure the enamel. Vinegar ine for cleaning white enamel ves- , and keeps them from getting a ty color. Steel wool minum. Use the finest Kind. Keep a piece of is good for ‘hen silverware becomes tarnished ak it in sour buttermilk for twenty- looking for zine r hours, and it comes out >» new. This is fine it-jar tops when they get dingy. Al- \ Is wash in warm soapsuds, and dry also pouring salt, pepper, and such shakers or holders, I use a hade from the cut end of an , cutting a hole in the corner; envelope should be sealed up be- the end is cut off. This makes hod emergency funnel for other gs as well, find the graters easily cleaned if a stiff vegetable brush. These | brushes are handy for a number ings. hade a neat-appearing and service- waste-paper basket for the len from a tall slat fruit at stained a dull color. Also a one can be made of same mater- y covering with washable wall to match the walls of the room. bver fail to add a few drops of ae to the water with which my hd woodwark are to be scrub- makes the room smell like he, fresh from the woods. up man should not be up- HOUSEHOLD HINTS Instead, when my shades I take two yards of white Indian I hem ir When soiled, I wash, starch, Of course, they may less servants, there will be broken provision. for broad. and h ta dishes. 1 have my share of them. . Ravy granite walls, two stories below ground and I have had many souvenirs and keep- twelve nrore skyward. sakes, glass, delicate china, and so There are secret facts in the history of buildings as well as in the cn broken—Thhings that I cowld net away. them I experimented So now gum arabic with a teaspoonful I have the broken pieces that are to be mended warm, then apply the paste with a soft brush. When set aside three or four days, either hot or cold water can be Then ill them with the mixture, and place in the folds of the blankets or cloth- n oilcloth apron saves much washing. hey can be bought made up, but are heily made of white or small checked lcloth and bound around with tape. After letting it stand for two or three hours you will One hook is for the large bags, They take have #-unning casters put on the kitchen t water doesn’t remove, use a little or Organ Plays at 9, 11, 11.55 : J | SO and 4.50. Chimes at noon. AN AMAKER S rk- f ew LI'y he Ty on We Have Been Told That There 1s as Much of a Tree below ground as there is above it, and so it is if one is to build height: is not possible with shallow foundations. In constructing this building we had to dig far down and make wide « ial it re- nations’ treaties and people's lives. Unless trenched deep and well b alanced, neither buildings nor citi- zens can safely rise to lofty heights. There is daily work going on here upon the foundations of this busi- ness in the interest of its owners, of the city in which it Is planted, and of the general public. ed sh rd (Signed) JOHN WANAMAKER at lf er | Founder’s Day in the March Anniversary Special Musical Program 9.00 o’clock—Anniversary Fanfaer, followed by music by the organ and the J. W. C. I. Military Band; military exercises and singing by the boys and girls of the J. W. C. I. with salute to the Founder's Flag. n- YY m 1111.00 12.00 o’clock—*“Lead Kindly Light.” Brass quartette and organ. o’ciock—Organ recital—favorite festival music. a- s stroke of the hour. iz 4.45 o’clock—Festivel concert. Grand organ and J. W. C. L. Military Band. GREAT ORGAN CONCERT IN THE EVENING i 8.15 o’¢lock—Special Founder's Day Recital on the M. Courboin, the Philadelphia Or- chestra. Admission by ticket; ticket holders are requested to be in their seats by 8.15. srand Organ, Mr. Cas. and Brass Choir from LU Chimes on | Meeting Great Problems and Getting Great Results A Welcome Lot of Honfleur Toilet Articles So many people, men as well as women, tell us they are willing to wait a month or so if need be for these sales, for there are many ocd things in them when they do eo re. : Toilet water, violet, I'Empire and Douquet d’ Amour, 50c and 85¢ a bottle. Aalcum powder, violet and rose, 10c¢ a box. Face powder, I'Empire, violet and rose, 25¢ a box. Skin cream and Youth and Beauly cream, 40c a jar. Sachets, violet rase and I'Empire, 35¢ each. Bay rum, 60c, 95¢ and $1.85 a bottle. Violet ammonia, 20¢ and 35¢ a bot tle. Lilac and wistaria vegetal, 85¢ a bottle. Pau de Cclogne, 75¢ a bottle. always so The Polo Coat’s the Young Women’s Coat for Spring At least you'd think so, judging by the number of well-dressed young women asking us for them. The polo coat is a jaunty, practical topcoat, usually belted and poc- keted and rather severely tailored. Y os may have it in velour or burella cloth, or novelty weaves, or bolivia of fine camel’s hair, and in all the fashionable brown and tan shades as well as other Spring colors. $43.50 to $80.00—and 14 to 20 year sizes. New Easter Silks are Coming Daily The loveliest of colors, the most interesting and unusual of design—in fact, they are more beautiful than any Easter silks we ever remember seeing. But the quantities are small, and there is wisdom in buying as soon as one finds them here, because of the possibility that they may not be here later on, Women’s Tricolette Dresses PRICES $60 to $150 Novelty dresses, which means that very few of them are duplicates. 1 p h e h Also, it means that they have many delightful features—bands of rich- fluted of ribbon gold colored embroidery, defining their square necks; ruffles outlining their panels; one embroidered with thread and another with self embroidery in blocks; while still others have festoons of beads or are gathered in at the foot. The weaves include besides the usual trico- 5| lette, the paulette, a drawn-thread tricclette and a novel matelasse. Colors are various shades of brown, taupes, grays, Copenhagen and | navy blues, rust color and rose. Prices are $66 to $150 . The Stole 1s a Much-l.iked Fur . N . Fashion for Spring When they are made of the lighter-weight furs, the fashionable stoles are rea'ly most practical for Spring wear, for they afford just sufficient warmth without being bulky, and they are a smart finish to one’s suit or costume. Some of the new furs are quite some have pockets, and some have pointed, square ends. There is the lustrous deep, Hud:on seal (dyed muskrat), the soft gray moleskin, the pretty natural gray squirrel, the much-liked Australian opcs- sum, and the dark brown Kolinsky. They begin at $175 and go up to $35¢. New Coatsand Hats for CHILDREN 29 24.9 r a 1 some are more medium width, while others have rounded or broad, ’ 3 1 Between $12.75 and $ 0 there is an unusually good assortment of little Spring coats—coats of sturdy tweeds in Spring-like mixtures, of soft wool velours, of dark blue serges and other Spring fabrics in atfractive colorings. Usually the coats are simply made, in styles best suited to little girls and boys of two to six years, but there are coats suitable for play as well as coats for better wear in the collection. Some have linings throughout, too. Staw hats to wear with the coats are in tailored styles, and are most often trimmed with ribbon bands and bows and go from $3 to $6 each. Boy’s Easter Suits of Blue Serge in Handsome Choice- For boys who need blue serge suits for Easter church occasions or for any formal wear we have ready a full and very excellent assortment, all noderately priced, considering their good materials, superior cut, tailoring and finish. Especially good at the prices are the blue serge suits at $16.50 and $18. Suits of as good and reliable a kind are very scarce at these prices. Old Fashioned Ironware in the Housewares Sale In spite of all inventions, there is still occasional use in every kitchen for a good, substantial, old-fashioned frying pan—there are some things that you never seem to get cooked just right without it. In the Housewares sale are many of these at substantial savings: Frying pans, No. 7, 90c; No. 9, $1. No. 10, $1.40. Pot roast ovens, No. 8, $3.85; No. 9. $3.20. Cake griddles, No. 8, 85c. Waffle irons, No: "8, $1.85; No. 9, $1.95. or. 25; How Best to Select a Vacuum or Suction Sweeper for the Spring housecleaning is a question perplexing to most housewives. Our facilities for supplying the best cleaner suitagle to your require- ments are unique, due to the number of various types we have handled and the selected few we have chosen, of particular merit, for the special type of work required of a cleaner. We have the kind best smited for your cleaning requirements and two experts here to show the many uses and the features of the various types. Electric Cleaners Superb, §70 Bissell, $125 Cadillac Special, $50 Superb, Jr., $57.50 Royal, $55 Santo, $125 | King eleetric vacuum cleaner The The The The The The The MARCH SALE SPECIAL The King Electric Vacuum Cleaner at $38.50. ~~ . - ~N Green Candies at $38.50. Both decorative and palatable these sweets, all planned with a thought ‘for the 17th of March. Clear candy shamroeks, 60c a pound. Green glace mints, $1.50 a pound. Assorted green chips, curls and straws, 80c¢ a pound. Small cream potatoes, 80c a pound. Large eream cocoanut potatoes, 25c each. Green snapping bonbons, 75¢ to $3 a dozen. Crisp green candies in jars, 35¢ each, Place card favors, 20c each. for holding candies, 40c each. yaper caps, 10c eaeh. Te ee : The Brunswick is a Mighty Popular Phonograph And a particular instrument sho wn is the most popular type of all. It is style 117, at $250. We have others at $20, $ 25, $30 and $35, with excellence in proportion. We planned to bave an exceptionzlly good collection of these suits for this Easter season and our plans worked out very well. All are Norfolk-style suits, belted, some plain, others box pleated, all lined with alpaca. In sizes for boys of 8 to 18 years. 22.50, | | | | ° Out-of-Town Service { Bvery facility in this great department store is being mustered in- to service for the convenience and profit of the out-of-town customer of the Wanamaker Company. For the convenience of those who cannot come to Philadelphia, our Mail Order is at your service. Do not hesitate to order by mail anything that you need, wheth er or not you see it advertised. v made from light, Spring materials are these: hag dainty lace and ribbon trimming and is priced at $25. | bust, long skirt and double garters, $38. as a hip confiner, being very easy and comfortable, $18. Wanamaker’s, This instrucent, of undisputed excellence, is known as the “all-record phonograph.” by a simple turn of the “Ultona” (an ingenious device present- ing different reproducing mediums) you may play any style of record. We invite your inspection in our beautiful and commodious salons. Very convenient terms for those who desire. Some of the Newest Parisienne Corsets A pink silk tricot very lightly boned, soft and pliable. It is topless, A second is of really exquisite pink silk figured batiste, with very low WEATHER Fair Men Put on Winter Clothes Through Necessity But They Put on Spring Clothes With Joy The joy a man feels in putting on new Spring clothes should never make him forget to make sure of the kind he puts on. Our Men's Clothing Store is prepared with a fine selection of suits and overcoats of the kind that a man could buy with his eyes shut, feeling certain that he was getting all that his money can get him anywhere, and raore than it can get him in many places. The assertion de- rends upon what is back of it. The fo regoing one is founded on fact. The record and standing of this Men's (Clothing Stare such that value of an are the only clothing it can afford to identify itself with in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter is the finest that can be Kad anywhere for the price. We are satisfied that these Spring suits and overeoats are of that kind and are not only willing, but eager to show that our satisfaction is not based on false ground, but on the sure foundation of actual superionity in fabrics, fashion, tailorwerk and finich. It is more important than ever that a man should be careful as to quality, and it all depends on the man, For Spring suits, $40 to $85. For Spring overcoats, $45 to $75. BED SPREADS OF INFINITE DAINTINESS The good Spring sunshine suggests newness, freshness and regs in the home. Bedspreads are the embodiment of all three. They are daintiness its They are white as the driven snow; and because we bought them op tunely we can sell them at moderate prices. Crinkled dimity spreads in three sizes, 63x90 inches, $2.50; 72x90 inches, 5; 80x90 inches, $3 each. <n od pass dk Corded dimity spreads, 72x90 inches, $2; 80x90 inches, $3.50: 90x100 inches, $4 each. Crinkled dimity spreads with scalloped edges, cut-out co ors bolster pieces to match, can be had in sets for metal beds in “» ? inches at $5 a set, 90x99 inches at $6 1 set. and 2x99 Young Women’s New Organdie and Gingham Frocks At $29.50 is the most attractive little organdie frock—of shell pink neck and flat eollar is finished with rows of goffered organdie. There is a broad orgamdie sash and a bunch of posie. the waist ta give a bit of color. or white, in a quite new and delightful st yle with round like a small bertha, which, like the tiered skirt, Ss at New gingham dresses in clear preity checks and pl unusual models are $17.50 and $22.50 aids—two smart an Dotted Swiss dresses in navy blues, pink and whike, and black and white and a becoming style—2 SLIP COVERS, UNFORNTUNATELY CAN'T BE MADE IN A DAY All are in 14 to 20 year sizes. ’ And the point of this statement is that everybody who is planning t bave the furniture in its protective co vering by the 0 time warm weather arrives material and place the order for its must start now to' ehoose the making. The prettiest new flowered eretonnes are here from 50c¢ to $1.35 a yard Algo linene, a really good substitute for linen, 3c a yand, which comes in indistinct stripes. New Combs and Pins for the Coiffure Some of the new combs are enchantin g with their gleaming settings of rhinestones or imitation s®pphiras or emeralds. They are all in new . y ar all AW designs and there are many unusual and altractive shapes. There ar < S. 1 are Lowknots, too, and carved cosnbs + that are extremely effective mn the hair. $6.50 to $34. New barrettes, in small and larg er sizes, awe $1.50 to #8.50. Fancy hair pins in many styles ane $1 to $11, "The Springtide Sale of Y : ~ . China and Glassware Goes Brisklv On . For all reasonable requirements the Sale presents a practically unl ited choice of dinner sets French, Engiish and Ame rican ut cone i 5 redwetions from our regular prices. er All our regular dinper set included in it, and they are the finest | sets that come from the pett ries, being ndard sets in vor . Peet. I Size, shape, number and combination of At their normal rice in igh represent the 1 tandard on them they are extraordinary. market and at the pottery. : If you need a dinner distant future, these est regular s E al 3 i regular of value. At the prices now marked all } 101 i 4 1 ail the more so in view of conditions in the set for Kastertide or for any oecasion in the not are the sets to choose from is and now offered in your time. Cut glass of our own regular kind n b glass g {ind ¢ i a and beautiful selections at reductions of 20 to 33 1-3 per cent from our regular prices = < eS. Light-cut and other lower-préced glassware is in ample choice at very | attraetive savings. is i is large Let Us Save You Money The suburban territory of Penn Sylvania, New Jersey Delaware Maryland is closely linked to Philadel phia by good : travel, excellent train and trolley “ser vice and the delivery system. and roads - for automobile wonderful parcels post How absurd it is to send your mail orders hundreds of miles away when you can make your purchases so near at home, save , A pink elastic corset with satin in front has a long skirt and is popular Philadelphiz Roney and secure a better selection.
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