The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-12-20

Eastern tales of magnificent Oriental
bazars fill many page of descriptive his
tories written by Eastern travellers, dazzling
the ideas of young and old. Ma9Difed by
these unseen splendors, exaggeration might
have been the term applied to many Of
their stories. for the paintings seemed to
be the creation of the enthusiasts brain
rather than realities found upon the sur
face of this everyday world. These
thoughts may have thrust themselves into
the hind of the less modern philosopher to
be referred TO only in cynical-pshaw! but
to day the young mind has discovered
the fact that there is world of fairy vision
almost equal to the celebrated Alladin
owe in the beauty and richness of its
surroundings. Already the young mind
10 Jersey City has discovered the Furst
Brothers Aladdin cave, while many of them
have examined the wonderful sights within
its portals, signing even in their slumbers
for still another view Of that which even
equals the ancient fables of the East.
The Christmas explorers for something
entirely new and appropriate with which to
testify to their affections and friendships
of the season, have also found this
cave, and, on entering within its portals,
oneis Immediately confronted with a great
difficulty, namely, that of selection. What
shall l purchase? Is the query, and the
further one penetrates into the mysteries
OF the cave, the more bewildering is the
effect, the more anxious does the beholder
become at the possibilities of proper selec-
zion for purchase. If they are bewildered
by this elegant display, this great variety.
how much more troubled should the
describer of this Eastern bazaar be in
attempting to note the many beauties of
the great Christmas Palace, this home of
Santa Claus Here are presents for
infants. children, youths, maidens, lovers,
fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, uncles
and aunts valuable bric-a-brac In every
conceivable style of ware, at every range of
price, capable of fitting the purse of either
poor or rich the immensely of stock suits
all, allows all the opportunity to express the
sentiments most prominent at this season.
When we pause to contemplate the great
wealth here diplayed, one does not hest
tate to give credit to the business enter
prise which amassed this beauty. Every
pert of the globe contributes its wealth to
please every part of the globe would be
pleased with It's Paris dolls, Vienna bron-
yes. Swiss music-boxes, Sevres, Dresden.
Jersey and Statfordshire china and pot
terry, plush, bronze, laces, leather, brass.
celluloid, wood, silk and other goods too
innumerable to mention, all can be found,
forming only part of this great collection.
Fhe plush, bronze and leather goods are
great money-extractors they seem ready to
shake hands with The many purchasers, and
only desire slight invitation to separate
themselves from their neighbors and accept
positions in new homes. But the toy
department No srinster, father or
mother, can for an instant hold back from
the temptation of making Charley or
Susie heppy again in the fullnes OF
their stockings on Christmas morning !;
and no father or mother would attempt to
leave this establishment without first in
vesting in q part of its great wealth OF
novelties. Christmas GENES but once I
year, but when it does come old Santa
Claus injects new feelings, new views, new
ideas into the mind, most prominent of
them all being the desire to make all our
friends happy once more with the remem-
brance that another year of strife or toll
has not yet blotted out that love Of fellow
man SO much in consonance With the
great words, " Peace on earth and good
will to all.