Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-13
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means Of making this side Of
the sea, r2H, IS and a5c. A
yard away you can'ttell where
they are made; but that we
can say of anything. The
cotton itself is not SO fine; and
the spinning. The printing
follows hard after the French.
Scotch, Anderson's, ging-
hams you know all about.
They are plenty yet. 4oc.
Crocodile cottons; spider
web, wiry, crapy stuff at the
bottom, roughened by many
devices Of texture and color;
the foundation of all the dull
shades from cream through
ecru to hardwood; the crapy
texture interspersed with lace
work, stripes, checks, loops,
Jumps, humps, with color
Examinations; seersuckerish-
rough-dry them in the sun
finer than any seersucker;
very light and very rough.
Scotch. soc.
Another similar Scotch If
regular crazy one-color stuff
with clusters of kinky and
lumpy and smooth and bunchy
stripes Of variegated candle
wicking. Colors as dainty as
the stuff itself is uncouth-it
would be uncouth if it weren't
in the tip-top of fashion-not
all of dainty colors; there are
navy-blue, brown, even black.
To combine with these illumin-
atoms, there are crazy cottons,
the same without the varie-
gated wicking. Sold in COM
bination; both soc.
Crazy spider-web wiry cot
tons printed with large figures,
cream ground, black and col
ored figures; American; r6c.
Plain open canvas with
stripes of variegated bunchy
candle-wicking; American; csc.
Tennis stripes as far re-
moved from tennis stripes of
former years as they can be ;
clusters and sprinkles of
; stripes, quiet and gorgeous,
| one or two colored and many
! colored all-cotton, IS and
soc; cotton with stripes of
, wool, Csc. Wide enough for
length of skirt, 3o-inch.
Batiste, fine, sheer, cream
with dainty figures printed in
! colors, or blue or garnet with
white figures, I6c. This is the
stuff that has largely taken
, the place of printed linen lawn.
$ Tan batiste embroidered,
IS and 81 a dress-pattern.
Curl lawn-that's the name
, it goes by-Turkish-towel
, stuff of finer and lighter spin
ming and wool; cream; zoe.
: Black mousseline d'Inde,
: fine sheer, transparent, a per-
feet black, 25c.
3 These are all the seasonable
Z finer cottons at that one
d counter, if we haven't skipped
: any.
: Northwest from the centre.
3 Seersuckers, S to soc a
! yard. The S are coarse, one
4 color and narrow. The so
. are Scotch, extravagant, only
{ a stripe of crinkle as one of
' the decorations; color and
! lace and wicking and seer
sucker.
The practical seersucker
i dress-stuff is ISc a yard. Toss
a handful Of it up in the air.
See it almost float. It's the
lightness, the fneness, the
! crinkle, the hufiness-take it
, in your hand.
We have it at IS; pretty
! but not so fluffy, cloudy, airy,
, crinkly.
I, A counterful; long rows of
shelves full of nothing but
seersuckers.
Northwest from the centre.
We have Brussels carpets
for 81 yard. So has every
other carpet-dealer. Why do
we tell of it then? Because
there's difference.
Brussels used to be Brus-
! sells. 1t isn't any more.
There's Brussels and Brus-
sells; just as there's tapestry
and tapestry-that's an old
fact. You know that Rox-
) bury tapestry costs 81 1--WE
happen to have it for 75c Just
now] and the meanest tapes
try costs but soc; and you
pay, the 81 for Roxbury will
ingly.
1t is one of the tricks of the
trade to sell soc tapestries for
75c-you can't tell the differ
ence. So it is one of the
tricks of the trade to sell ST.
Brussels for $r.25-you can't
tell the difference.