Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-12-24


Purvide yer wife fust-rate stove.
She'll soon git cross and ugly lookin',
Ef bothered much about her cookin'.
Great on stoves and CRATES Is Skirvfng,
All sorts, more or less deserving,
Ell he can't persuade yeou to buy, why,
Cross over to Wood,cdrd or Siblsy Guy.
MILLINERY AND FANCY Gooos. /.
When yeou hev gone and done Ii,
You'll hear these words, depend upon it,
" My dear, 1 want to buy bonnet
And q new dress-I haint thing tew wear"
Now faint no use to rare
And :ware, but fork right eout,
And tell the gal TO scoot
To Mrs. Allen, Psares, or Lanphier,
I'm kinder bothered fer rhyme here,)
william, Etehtson, or Loics,
HiHS or Hutchinson 4 Mnaro,
Md1tceH Brothers, Stevens, Shsdd,
And rig herself from toe tew head =
Git ribbons, bonnets, collars, laces,
Feathers, howers-all that graces
Purity woman;-dew il hansum
Ell II costs princes ransum!
HARDWARE.
Tew housekeepin you'll need proper
Sight Of iron, brass, and copper
Ware, as knives and forks. and longs and scissors
Shoyels, kittles, tea-pots, razors,
Shutters, walters, coal-hods, tea-trays:-
ElrnRS has 'em, so has Sarags,
CRY & Stblsy, J. E. Shields too
Tools fer garden, shop, and field too.
CHINA, GLASS, AND FANCY WARE.
Yer next purceedin orter be
Tew git yeour stock of crockPTy-
There's FotcIsr, c. E Green, Nc Dsrit,
What yeou want, they're baound to hey Il.
CLOTHING, &c.
You'll want a shiny weddin suit;
Lemme tell you how ter do II.
Send rite on to Ts.I + Hinton,
(Hev yer measure tux and sent on,)
Or Wall, Stephens + RobtHson
Can git q tall fit on one;
Or ef yer not inclined TO wait,
Send and buy one ready-made;
You'll git IL here at WalPS,
OF Smith, or down at Z" Odsoa Hall"
ALE, &c
Fl yeou don't 60 the Maine-law,
Get sum ale Of CoIinsdE, =
Or try the cream Of Mortimer,
wv hen tasted wunst you'll order more.)
There's Goddard, tew, and Army 4 ShiRH,
Try them wunce and you'll dew 1t agin!
CONFECTIONERY.
/ swan tew man yer mouth I'D water
To see the sweet things spread by GaEtisr,
POtsatiHi, Page, and RUSSELL,
s. T. DrEyy, Angler, SchafieIdj
The bong bongs, patties, jellies, Ices!
THAR stores air arthly paradises
whair narvous folks forgit the crisis,
| Everything 30 good and nice Is.
HousxFuRNrsHrNe GooDs, NOTIONS, &c.
FIasetS, on Seventh street, beats the nashun
For notions in endless yariashun -
| Pocket knives, and combs, and brushes,
1 Forks and spoons, and chatting dishes,
| Coffee urns and table mats,
| And toilet sets and stands fer hats.
1 BotsIsT, tew, at Iron Hall"-
i I tell yeou wot, his stock 10 tall
Such tarnai hansum parlor soots,-
i And then be sells so cheap to boot,
such marble slabs and lookin glasses,
| Such springy chairs and hair mattresses,
| such glass, and plate, and hansum china
1 Not Bosting town kin show you finer.
But after all, sum folks dew say
| McGysgor's store, down Seventh street way,
| Jest takes the shine for household ware
| From any body anywhere;
| They sell right cheap tew, no mistake,
And that makes money sirkelate
Wall + Barnard make handsome show too,
| dono a better place TO go tew
i For beds, mattresses, tables, chairs,
1 Nd SIGH like wares fer married pairs.
And then A Green and Green Clary
| Sell lots Of furniture to folks VINO marry.
| A right good stock has T. IS. BrosVR,
Up At the north part Of the town;
Ditto, BHeA!y ideals In new and DID,
| They dew fust rate bizness I've been told.
1 Day GooDs, MANrILLAs, CLoAKs, &C.
You'll hev to shell out strong fer dry goods;
Ell twuz me, kno whair shood
Send the gal tew git the linen
Things You'll want fer a beginning
Blankets, carpets, cotton sheetings,
| Calikers, and go-tew-meeting
Fixins-cloaks, nantillers:
| Things that fatten out fellers
| Pus, Ike suthin hard had thumpt ont,
| Er, say, an elephant had stompt oni,l
| To Nstrt0R, May Co or Egaa
(who's bildin him a store where he can
| show his goods to all who call in;)
To Bar & Brother, Riley, Alien;
To CoIIsy, ShHstsr, Taylor + HEtehiasonj
| To PsTTy'S new store, which Is one
| or the Leading wonders Of washinl,ton.
(rhe Star described IL when twas done.)
Day Goops, &c, ON SEVENTH ST.
| Dear Josh, spose you've no idee
| How things hev changed out 7th-st. way.
faint long ago there wernt house,
Twuz jest range fer pigs and cows
Neow,-from Pages wharf tew Pages villa,
| That's eenamost beyond the hill
bovs the tolls ate,) buildins stretch
| Ih one straight line as thick a. pitch.
| The articles that yeou can't buy at
The store Of Bxrdsns, date X. Hyatt,)
OF Bontz y Griffith or r. B. Hall,
, | l scace tew git guess at all.
Out 7th near X, Matthews 4 Gore
Hev q cute sign, The Cheapest store !"
FURs.
Yer Nance, take II, won't demur
| Tew git hansum suit of furs;
Hopkins, Daeis, B. II. Stinsnlstz
Hev fer sale sum speshul fine sets.
GRNrLEMEN's FURNISHING STORES.
Before yeou take that weddiR bender,
Yeoud better git sum French suspenders,
Scarfs and gloves and stylish neck-ties,
Fitted right, lest the kor-rect size;-
Val 4 Stephens, Hopkins, Steer,
TssI + Hinton, keep 'em here.
TOYS AND FANCY ARrIcLEs.
The toy-stores make brilliant sight,
Espeshully when lit at night
The children Jest surround the shops;
There's bat and footballs, humming tops,
Toy games, crackers, automatons,
Targets, fsh-poles, trumpets, wagons,
Battledores and toy planners, r.
Soldiers caps, and flags, and banners,
Pistols, baskets, ritiu-cases,
Pocket knives, and paper-faces,
ie Picter blocks, and music boxes,
Arks, with dogs, and sheep, and foxes,
Camels, tigers, bears, and so forth,
That out with Noah and household 70 forth.
| MeLaHghIin'S stock 10 wondrous fine,
And Lammoad'S too, in The same line "a
Francis and RUPERT, more or lea,
Deal in toys and keep the best.
UPHoLs7xRY, PAPKRHAssINes, &c.
4 sple ndid store has John Markyifey,
Nowhere you'll see purifier or neater,
With hangings, picters, winder shades,
AL sorts and sizes, prices, grades,
And everything tew please the ladies'
4 In fact, that's wot he says his trade Ii
Jest set IL down that he Markritsr)
Has q stock that's hard 70 beat, or
Yeou kin call on Alsxasder,
Blax, or Clayk, or FfassSs WslHsr;
They ali kin be relied on
Per any Job OF work theS>, re tried on.
cARpErs, &c.
do'no jistly how It's done, s
Bot strangers say that Washington
Beats any other market r-.rs
Tew buy good cheap carpet