The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-10-29

iihiioeS OF SNSi vi Noo oeNh
counter in the store and get a
bit Of a notion Of things in gen
eral.
Skip the Partisan novelties.
Minutes count for nothing there.
If we begin to look we sha'n't
get away. You know they are
multitudinous, gorgeous with
color and beauty. You know
how bulky some Of them are.
See the long rows of shelving
full, the piled up tops and the
counters thick with lockers and
heavy with chaos of wonderful
things.
Southeast OF the center.
Skip black. Whatever there
is not-black is also black if it
can be, and many stuffs besides.
Take black for granted.
| Southeast Of the center.
Begin at the bottom. Only
a minute. Can't see much in a
minute. 1t would take us a
week. And yet we shall get a
notion not only of what there is
here but how it comes and gets
away.
This forty-foot counter is full
of a hundred stuffs like these {:
all-wool yard-wide homespun,
25c; camel s-hair homespun, AZ
inch, 37Hc; cotton-warp armure
with pin-stripe Of silk all over,
substantial and pretty, 34-inch,
| 37Hc. How would a dear
dress-stuff feel in such COM
pany?
Southeast OF the center.
Right across the aisle on a
longer stretch of shelves are an
other hundred stuffs. See these:
camers-hair twill with boucle
border, 44-inch, 6oc; flannel and
serge overlaid with clustering
pin-stripes of bobbins and color,
44-inch, 65c; plain soft-wool
large-yarn closely woven canvas,
42-inch, SOC. Cheviot large-yarn
pin-stripe with mild illumination
by bobbins Of warmer color,
42-inch, soc. This counter ap-
pears to be full Of things at half
value or thereabouts but it isn't
the remnant and odd-lot counter.
Not a remnant or odd dress
stuff here. Half-value never
theless. We wonder as much
as you.
southeast Of the center.
| Next aisle southeast-Englisf
dress-cloths ought to skip
them--Can't stop-lf we should
begin we'd spend the day here
Mostly S2.5o, 56-inch, and
rich with all sorts of richness
and beauty that man has learned
to put into cloths. There are
plain coarse serges, 4S-inch
ISI.25. There are exquisite fan
cies, 56-inch, So. There are
many between besides the S2.5
Two-hundred in all perhaps
Let's gol
Southeast of the center.
Across the aisle to the east
ward, not straight across
American dress-cloths. Fol
want of anything clear to say o
them, like the English but tina
might be misunderstood. The,
are not but what can we say O
a hundred, no two alike and al
like nothing? 81 to 81 /; two
thirds of the English prices.
Southeast ofthe center, towards Thirteenth stree
Stright across the aisle arr
the plaids. The word is enough
Southeast of the center towards Thirteenth street
Now across the aisle arr
those English checks and stripe
and Observation-Disclosures fin
wool serges, diagonals, otto
mans, camel s-hairs, herring
; bones, cheviots. Need w
, struggle to hang them up in tn
paper. You have seen them
thousand times; and you haven't
,, The year brings its change
even in these.
Southeast OF the center, towards Chestnut stree
, The cashmere counter change
less from year to year than an
: other perhaps. A hundre'
years hence, we presume, tn
principal item there will still b
= Lupin's cashmeres. There ar
other cashmeres. Why others
; No time for reasons today
Silk-warp henriettas other tina
;, black, 4o-inch, SI.25. Ora
d d'ete, 46-inch, 81. Evening
: colors of numberless stufs ii
Guiding cashmeres etc, Thi
counter would be the resort fo
y evening dress ifthere were n
cashmeres if there were notf
ing but cashmeres. Such richie
/ of cream and the lighter shade
o are there! But we mustn
a linger.
y Northeast from the center by the Thirteen
N street door,
e Flannels-They are easil
e looked at-did you say that
+ See this circling row of shelve
IT two hundred feet long? TIL;
st row is full of hannels, no tw