The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-26

beaded nets, grenadines and
~laces; crochet gimps. Colored
passementerics Of braids and
cords, narrow and wide-the
widest 3I-inch, for dress-fronts
and panel.
Braided balls, black and
colors.
Feather trimming, Ameri-
can and f~oreign-American are
much the richer and finer; the
foreign excelin thelowergrades
and in extreme combinations.
Braids: Black, white and col
ors-plain colors and mixed;
cotton, worsted, mohair, silk,
tinsel and mixed; shaped braid
trimming.
This by no means exhausts
the trimming resources; but
most of the materials are here
grouped together. Thenames
alone convey a better notion of
what is going to be worn than
we could otherwise put in
words, however many we nigh
use. The difficulty is in the
endless variety of forms the
various trimmings take. 1t
isn't possible to touch them.
You wouldn't read a hundredth
part.
Oh buttons another day.
Northwest from the centre.
Everybody knows that Faille
Franchise is crowding hard
upon gros-grain silk-has
crowded it out of favor in
strictly fashionable dress. On
the whole, though, we shall sell
more gross-grain than of heav-
ier cord in spite Of fashion.
There's no difference but the
size of the cord and the lustre.
We have the new silk from
Guinet at $I.75 and 81. We
divide the colors. Those that
ninety-nine in a hundred will
buy are at $I.75; a few rare
colors that very few buyers
will care for, 81.
Black cotton-back velvets of
more than market fullncss for
So to $3.75; but weshall have to
keep those above $3.50 till the
all-silk velvet at 81 is out of the
way. Those at 81 and 81 are
supposed to be the cheapest
velvets are hard to measure
accurately.
South from the centre.
The best time to get furs
made over is now.
1903 Chestnut.
Black spun-silk hose with
stout Balbriggan soles 81. We
had ncarlyas good last year
can get them only now and
then.
1905 Chestnut, ninth counter.
Thick skirts for neXt-to-noth-
ing. Gray canton-h annel,
Farmers satin quilting at bot
tom, IS cents for the whole
skirt; plaid canton-hannel, IS:
melton, IS; stout twilled black
cotton with a BIT of color, ST..
1919 and 81 CheStuC:. EHter from Arcade by
mnbre,l,s and hosiery.
1t is a mystery to us why
we don't sell tl,ree-quarters Of
all the shoes you wear. We
don't. We could sell five times
as many. We should want
more room; but there's room
enough to be got we make it
by building stsight up in the
air where land is cheap.
When we think Of shoes
alone it seems that we ought
to sell five times as many.
There are t~wo-million people,
big and little, within what we
think of as our local trading
circuit. They must wear as
many as five-million pair of
shoes a year. But they WHO
buy the worst shoes buy the
most: and we don't sell them
any-thousands of poorpcople
and thousands not poor but
mistaken people.
There's the difficulty. Halt
the people think they save
money by buying poor shoes,
We must teach them better.
We keep the poorest shoes
anybody ought to buy. We
give them the benefit of the
doubt. We rarely speak OF
them. We sell as few as We
can. We'd rather sell the
shoes you ought to wear.
BY the middle Marke ~t-street door.
IoHN WANAMAKER,
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets,
and City-hall square.