Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-06-24
#auxs.ssker,s.
Here arc the fifteen different
weights in dollars and cents:

dill NuIiiShhhSt WhNaa
.6ne-grain not gros-grain.
1t is refreshing to speak Of
a silk again by weight and to
know it is silk. The ooc is as
fine as the 1915.
But it isn't the silk Of the \
poor. There are silks of twice
the weight for the money!
We'd like to make it true in
we could that the poor can
afford to buy it. But there are
better things than fine silks
that they can have.
West Transept
We don't believe it is safe
just now to buy a very cheap
wooden dress-stuff of any sort
whatever without consulting
the market-the market is
very shaky. And what we
mean by cheap is what we al
ways mean when we use that
unfortunateword--worth more
than its price. 1t isn't safe to
buy scarcely anything wooden,
no matter how cheap, without
consulting the market.
Strictly speaking, staple
wooden stufs are steady.
Everything else there's moth
ing certain about. The store
abounds in wooden dress-stufs
slightly off from the staple
forms that have tumbled a
quarter, third, or half, or more
than half. Why, the other day
! there appeared an advertise
ment telling how fashionable
, lace-cloths are. We have a
: good one for 3oc a yard 1t
might have been homespun.
d Wehaven'tsoldah omespunfor
: anythinglikeitsv lueforweeks.
!, 1t might have been a canvas.
: We have in mind a canvas for.
5 soc that held its own for $I.25
4 all through the season. And
4 so all through the stuffs not
4 strictly staple as to texture.
Fashion is an imperial mis-
n tress. She makes and I'M
makes. II she but take her
g eyes off a stuff for an instant,
= down it goes And yet nine
:, tenths of you, ninety-nine hun
n dredths of you, wear for
IS months the stuffs you pity for
Z + having dropped in the store.
: That is, the imperial mistress
N hasn't SO much to say about
10 what you actually wear as we
b sometimes think; but she's
terribly hard on a merchant
f. f. who has the stuhs she has
to smiled on.
p pr AT every one of the wooden
dress stuff counters, black
cream, light colors, dark, what
ever you seek, look out fol
IN surprises.
he Southeast and southwest from II g centre.
a It's a seersucker year; ano
aS yet in the thick ofbuying tint
or the seersuckers tumble. Thos,
mo- at the bottom awhile ago are
out of sight; &c they were; bu
who will buy them at 6 witt
a.. fine and light ones at I2H
Light colors went down from
b; ISc to I2H; and lace-strip'
ID 25c seersuckers dropped tt
M M Ioc. The seersucker marke
m. is all awry. 1t doesn't go b,
60 20 fneness or lightness or beauty
~; 1t goes by somebody's freaks
,n not ours. 1t isn't our doing
SEES It's seersucker year, ant
,ns yet in the thick of buying tim
nd the seersuckers tumble. lie
n ans 'em tumble.
ma Northwest from the centre.
vas Next year is going to be
me. crazy-cotton year. The Graz
ar cottons are going to have thei
by by turn. Can't get it this year
ley not enough of them. Yo
i lics may have noticed, the style
for for are comparatively few. Their
$50, are styles enough, but ugly
rg;, We picked out the pretty one
me and left the rest. America
ike ike crates we are speaking o
ga. The Scotch are pretty; bu
ole; old they belong to extravagar
be cottons. Not so with Amer
oe can. Ioc and soc.
~ ~ Northwest from the centre.
oil, Batistes are as dainty a
n no. ever; I6c. They have drive
i to out linen lawns entirely.
her Nor Invest of the centre.
tiS: Cheese-cloth is anothe
/ of favorite cotton for dresse.
' ! os cotton nuns yelling we hear
!, it called; 6, 10 and IL &c a yarc
SieS "a, SO and 81 inch; the mic
ete. die quality guaranteed by til
fa &C. maker fast colors-we don
'ere know ourselves-we'd tax
III the risk on the I2H, perhap
l. because it's pretty--a yer
/ e Of bad reason. The colors, b
the way, are many, includin
navy-blue and Turkey-red.
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