Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-18
IanamakEr's.

Illd manage OuT business
we know the country
s ours.
Big! big! big! big! big
bigger yet-biggestl Bigger
Than biggest It'll stay big
gest There!
A stunning 25-cent cotton
dress-stuff for 10 cents a yard!
Is it stunning? 1t is very
marked. Not everybody wants
to wear it. But they who do
like it, like it very much in
deed.
No, it isn't stunning-it's
breezy; it's bright: it's light
in look, and stout in fact; it's
a dashing rough-and-tumble
stuff for the sea and noun
tain, where the air is strong
and cool, where the spirits are
free and unconstrained, where
manners are easy, where real
propriety rules as rigidly as
ever but Mrs. Grundy's power
is gone and forgotten.
It's as bright and easy and
proper dress-stuff as any
that skips the sands or climbs
the cliffs-It's Tennis stripes
inch-wide and three-quarter-
inch-wide; these colors:
garnet and cream
| cardinal and cream
brown and cream
| black and cream
A bit of history. When
Tennis stripes began, they
came from Scotland at fifty
to seventy-fve cents a yard.
Then the Yankees made them
at twenty-fve-not exactly
the same-the Yankees beat
the Scotch. Now Tennis
stripes are as nice and jaunty
as ever. They haven't gone
down in favor but one par
ticular Yankee mill the other
day had a little lot of as
pretty and perfect Tennis
stripes as ever you saw; and
nobody happened to want
them, Perhaps it was late.
We We're just in the nick of
time. Isn't it odd that mer-
chandise tumbles out of the
sky so?
New, fresh, perfect Tennis
stripes that nobody dreams of
getting for less than twenty
five cents u yard for ten cents!
Enough for several days at
least.
Northwest from the centre.
Cashmere shawls, at $l.50;
, not SO coarse as you think;
cream, peach, sky blue, navy
blue, cardinal, crimson, drab,
gray. Finer, of course, up
to s.: and French chud,la, So
to S..
1903 Chestnut, second floor Take car.
Dusters.-The buster for
least money just now is of
+ gingham, gray chambray, rs
cents. The price is too little
! by half. We have but few
= and shall have no more for the
!, money. Linen are next, 81
to "a; but linen are not so
popular lately. Mohair are
better, 81 to IS; unless money
, is plenty, then pongee, IS and
$l0.s
: 1901 Chestnut.
! Girls dresses and coats are
/, down a quarter or more; about
! two thirds of all we have are
! down. We had our choice
: stop selling as others do, or
put the prices down. If we
stop, we keep some thousand
S of garments over. If we put
] the prices down, we double
our trade, begin another sea
son when everybody else is
A stopped. We can buy the
i manufacturers leftover things
sell double the quantity,
? new and fresh clothing.
: Thousands of people want
A these very things and money
, is scarce with them. They ale
glad to save a quarter of it.
l'h5 ant { Chestnut
A common trick in the fur
+ nitue business is to have an
/ "xtra-good he'd room suite
r at popular price. We've been
I trying it. A while ago we
bought 2200 ash and cherry
c suites and sold them for $25
y II suite. They We're considered
l. worth about $35. It isn't
E common to buy so many. That
j, was the secret of price.
We have the first of 1000
/ better suites ($5 better), these
! also of ash and cherry (the
: ash are here and the cherry
e will be shortly; and these we
t sell for $25-a forty dollar
suite for twenty-five dollars !
t Now there's a trick in our
{ furniture trick that isn't in the
| trick of the average furniture