The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-12-24
OUR ADVERTISERS.
Holiday presents-where to Bu,

OUR ADVERTISERS.
Holiday Presenfs-Where to Buy.
The glory of the Holidays has never
been sufficiently said and sung. With the
advent OF every Merry Christmas" and
Happy New Year." the poet strings his
harp anew, and tries to Gull fresh flowers
of fancy for some object Of alteration which
he may have in his heart or in his minds
eye. But the thing which the ladies Of
Richmond adore most, after the cul-
ture of their hearts and minds.
is the magnificent display of splen-
did and costly dry goods at LEVY
| BROTHERS, 10l7 and 1919 Main street,
the largest establishment of its kind in the
State. Their silks, satins, delaines, alpacas,
merinos, empress cloths, brocade poplins,
and an endless variety of other dress goods,
to adorn and beautify women at the same
time that they protect her from the pinch
| ing cold of this inclement season, are
enough to delight the eye of an oriental
princess, with all the gorgeousness
of dress that prevails in the East.
Their store is a marvel of brilliancy and
beauty as arranged for the Holidays,
and no lady can pass the wonderful
display of goods made in their windows
without being tempted inside to make her
purchases. For they know
The Levys will sell whatever they've got,
Whatever their profits or v hatever not.
They've an army of clerks that no one can
name,
All yard-stich ed and scissored for glory and
The glory the Levys stlll glory in most,
OF selling their goods without counting the
And the fame that is fame, in these mercantile
days,
or selling their goods at profit that pays
That pays both themselves and their customers
Which accounts for the way that their store
tttakes' with you;
For it takes with the rich and takes with the
poor,
Vt the mansion of wealth and at poverty's door;
1t takes with the circles of fashion and dress
As well as the circles OF rare pottteSSe;
1t takes with the scholar the poet, the man,
And all who commend ably save what they can;
1t takes with the lawyer. who lives by his fees;
1t takes with the clergy who live at their ease;
1t takes with the doctor who lives by his 6olas,
As we'll as the sexton who lives but to hole us;
It takes with all classes, in fine, In the State,
From the great to the small, and the small to
The great,
From the rich to the poor, and the poor TO the
rich
To be served all alike, and no matter which;
For the rule is at LEvYs' to sell all they can,
And only to recognize north In The man.
BUT WE MUST not be so infatuated
with the Levy Brothers as to neglect other
and equally meritorious establishments,
and those doing bushes as admirably, if
not on as large scale as the princely
merchants we have named. There is an
other house where no reader of The Jour-
NAL should fail to 60 to get Holiday gifts
in the dry goods line. We refer, Of course,
to Il. LITCHTENsTIEN's LARGE CHEAP
STORE. Nos. l705 and 1907 Franklin
street, where the best, most extensive and
cheapest general assortment Of Dry
Goods, Ready Made Clothing, La
Dies and Gents Hats, Furnishing Goods,
Boots and Shoes etc., etc., in the city,
is to be found. His Grand Emporium
is between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets. and he offers the greatest bargains
for the Holidays. Go there by all means
to buy some Of your Christmas and New
Years presents.
For Lichtenstein's motto is always to se)l,
Whatever he buys In a way that will "tell"
That IL. at such profits that all will CONFESS,
IT'S low as the lowest, If not something less;
To sell the best goods that the market affords,
Since the best is the cheapest, NJ whatever odds;
And ALWAYS to sell them at bargains hat nav
Both buyer and seller-'tis Ltchtenstetn . ,oav.
BUT no husband, lover. or intimate and
trusted friend of o lady should let the Hol-
idays pass. after making the proper dry
goods purchases, without going to the fine
Shoe store of JOHN @. PAGE, Jr., No.
1921 Main street, Just below Fourteenth,
and getting pair or two of his splendid
balmorals for the beautiful and flashing
feet they should enclose in loving house,
hold, on promenade, in whirling dance, Or
better stll-in the sweet domestic circle
where "love is" and where no word
passes that is not freghted with deepest
affection. A woman is always two,thirds
dressed when she has spendid snoe 10
her foot, especially i her loot be small ana
beautiful, as ladies' feet 1--WE mean those OF
richmond! nvariaoiy are. iou VIII llnu
this store just to your fancy; II not, your
purchases VIII De Just 70 inc fancy OF her
Tor whom you ouy ana she VIII CONFESS
That there's nothing in nature more perfect
Than he !" flsn that page gives to fair
woman's feet.
But what more beautiful and servceable
present can husband make to his wife,
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