The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-10
aIanamaker's.


canton-aannel, 81 a pair for a
single bed. 1t is labeled
Scotch" with the motto DIN
IA We hear the slogan?'-a
manufacturers lic-no matter.
TThesc lies are a trifle incon-
venient to us who have no use
for them. Theyrea serious IL
convenience when a sore
adopts them. Here, ofcourse,
you pay no heed to labels.
Then cotton-and-wooi from
81 to $I2 a pair-some eXtrava-
giant beautiful blankets have
cotton wrap. We ought per-
haps to say that experienced
house-keepers by no means
despisc a cotton warp; they
consider a cotton wrap blanket
better than all-woolif the wool
is such as low-price blankets
are made of. If the wool is
thoroughly prepared, Atwood
is the proper material; but this
to rather costly blank
cts. TCotton-warp blankets, re
are wool, nine-tcnths
their weight.
Atwood from $3.50 to S28.
Ifyou want our opinion as to
where a blanket begins to be
better ~all-wool, we say at $40
a pair or thereabout. Not
everybody agrees with even 50
loose a statement as that. In
terpret it very loosely. We
sometimes strongly commenda
S., So, 81, or So atwood blan-
ket.
Family blankets are: White
with boarders of stripes or fig
ures or both; pink or blue with
picked out with white
or a darker shade or both in
stripes or figures or both; scar
let and blue with boarders of
black in stripes or figures or
and figured or dotted
all over.
Figures in blankets are news
The figures are woven, same
as in dress-stuffs; but the teaz-
ling, to comb the wool into
smoothness and softness to
give it a rich and luxurious
surface, blends adjacent colors
and softens the color-lines.
Blankets for wrappers are
or figured, or dotted, or
all over, or mixtures
with or without contrasting bor-
ders Of stripes OF figures or
$3.75 to $40.
Blankets for sleeping cars,
more like rugs than blankets,
s2.2S to $40 each-not in pairs.
Blankets for cradles and
Atwood, $40 to S6.25 a
pair, If the choice depends
upon the baby-a sensible ba-
by would rather have the SI.2o
or a larger one, or
two ofthem if his sleeping room
is goingto be cold; for it's light
and open-the wind will whis-
tie through it and reach its in
most hbres and freshen them
when you bang it out to air.
But if the baby is somebody
elSe's b"abySOmebody else may
think a gift should be pretty
and rich-then Of course it's
none Of the baby's business.
Among all these are extraVa-
gantblankcts mostly American.
fifteen STYLES or so from abroad.
1--WE don't go abroad for gooc
bIankets-we go for variety.
Certain styles you wouldhtllkt
to miss can onlybcg
Car-driyers use a lap-blan
ket-75 cents a pair-theA
throw it over their horses some
times and save them a SILVER
Good, proper stable blanket.
some folks buy them fol
horses who haven't any horses
good enough for servants, they
think. TWehave a whole stool
Of horse-blankets not touchct
on here.
Good gray blankets, gooc
what ever use permits NJ
thought Of waste, for $I.5o tc
S2.aS. We have sold three
tons Of them within a week
Poor people buy them-per
fcctly proper blankets. Ricl
people buy them-and givt
them away. Asylums, hospi
tails, prisons-the government
buys item forall sorts of uses
We have kept for the last
wort
more than color OF figure. 0
hnencss of wool, or finish, o
any n0n-essential--Si2e is al
l