Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-10-08
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BODY else's baby somebody
else may think q gift should
be pretty and rich--then of
course its none Of the baby's
business.
Among all these are extray-
aqant blankets, mostly Ameri-
can, fifteen styles or SO from
abroad. I'VE don't go abroad
for good blankets-we go for
variety. Certain styles you
wouldn't like to miss can only
be got abroad.
GARDENERS use a lap-blan-
ket-75 cents a Pair-they
throw it over their horses
sometimes and save them a
SILVER. Good, proper stable
blankets--some folks buy
them for horses who haven't
any horses; good enough for
servants, they think. I'VE
lhave a whole stock Of horse
blankets not touched on here.
Good gray blankets, good
for whatever use permits no
thought OF waste, for $3.50 to
$2.a5. We have sold three
tons Of them within week.
Poor people buy them-per-
fectly proper blankets. Rich
, people buy them-and give
: them away. Asylums, hospi-
tails, prisons-the government
buys them for all sorts of uses.
We have kept for the last a
bit of bed-blanket wisdom
;, worth more than color or fig
= ure, or hneness Of wool, or
!, finish, or any non-essential-
% Size is all-important. A stingy
;; blanket is any blankettoosmall
= to cover the bed and tuck in
le at the sides-no matter how
I, It rich or beautiful. The par
n n: that keeps you safe and warn
as while you sleep is the middle
but generous sides have 90
Cd to be there-wide enough tt
,or tuck in and leave you room t.
rst turn and roll about in you
Of sleep. You know the size 9
a your beds. Sheets are gen
orally wide enough. Blanket
are almost always stingy
ear ear There wouldn't be business
'wo for half the doctors, if blanket
riV- were wide enough. Undertal
tie. ing itself would have to wa
be be for people to catch up with il
ore overstock, if blankets wei
oo or wide enough. You know tt
hill hill. truth of what we are saying
well as we do. But perhaI
we're exceeding our PROVING
iers What business is it of ours,
nus you choose to put your none
- in beauty of color and fnene
of wool on the top of the b
s. to find it on the floor in Il
cts. morning-and then call Il
doctor?
at One thing more-Blanke
Or a are bought by the pound
lied merchants. First comes gu
otto ity Of wool; next the maxim
\ r These two fix the price by t
mo pound. The size and thickne
: a fix the number of pounds, a
who the price of the blanket. VIII
y'fe you compare two blanke
you weigh them-look at thei
iem. feel of the wool-but wei
, no them. Not one merchant
ten knows enough of blank
rom to know what make he
ex- selling. Wholesale deal
nave disguise them under misle;
per ing names.
need Our blankets are lower
cans price than last year all throu
they the stock. Every blanket
nket lower-lower by FIVE to tive
wool per cent. We have nea
kets two hundred different sorts
OIL is blankets. Many of them
wool exactly the same from year
but year. We know them as v
ostly as you know your childre
Dlan- faces. The blanket we S
nine last year for So ($I a poul
we are selling this year
$28. $40 eighty cents a pour
as to Another was last year
o be (eighty-fve cents a pour
$40 now is SIS Qess than sever
Not two cents a pound). .And
even all through.
that. 1t is yours to look out
We size and style. 1t is outs to
mend that the price is right
wool have done our part. TIL
may he rise in the mari
White 1t isn't unlikely. But the
5 or no occasion to think ali
blue that at present.
with JOHN WANAMAEEE
" VI Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market Streets
&c nr- and City-hall square. ,a