The Penn's Grove record., 1886-10-30

Skip the Partisan novelties.
Minutes count for nothin *
there. If We begin to look we
sIla'n't get away. You know
they are multitudinous. .gor-
gcous 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 chaos of wonderful things.
southeast ~ ths %centcr.
Skip black. Whatever there
is not black is also black if it
can be, and many stufs be-
sides, Take black for granted.
+, a.heas Of the cente4.
Begin at the bottom, Only
a minute, Can't see much in
minute, 1t would take us a
week. And set 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 stuAs like
these: Atwood yard-wide
homeSDun osc. camcl's.hair
homespun, 4:-iach, 37Hc; cot
ton-warp armurc with pin
stripe of the silk all over. sub.
stance and pretty. 3l-incfl,
SIZE. How would a dear
drcSs,stuf feel in such cont
pany?
Southeast of the center.
Right across the aisle on a
longer stretch of shelves are
another hundred stufs, See
these g.; camel s-hair twill with
boucle border, 44inch. 6oc F;
Hannel and serge overlaid with
clustering ~pin-stripes of bob
bins AID color. 44~inch, CSC /;
plain soft-wool large-yarn
closely woven canvas, 42-incll,
soc. Chcviot large-yarn PIN
stripe with mild illumination
by bobbins of warmer color.
42-inch soc. This counter
appears 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 drcss-stuif here, Half
valuc nevertheless. We Won
der as much as you.
southeast Of the confer.
Next aisle southeast-En-
glish dress-cloths-We ought
to skip thein-Can't stcp-lf
we should begin we'd spend
the day here.
Mostly $3.50, s6iNch, and
ricl, with al sorts of richness
and beauty that man has learn
ed to put iato cloths There
are plain coarse serges, 48-inch
O. Ok There are exquisite
fancies. so-inch, S., These
are many between besides the
s2.5o Two-hundred in all
perhaps. Let's go!
Southeast Of the center,
Across the aisle to the east.
ward, not straight a s.
American dress-cloths> For
want of anything clear to say of
them, like the English: but
that might be misunderstood
They are not ;but what can we
say of a huadred, no two
alike add all like nothinge 81
IL 50 !: two-thirds of the En-
glish prices
Southeast of the center, towards Thirteenth
stre't.
Straight across the aisle are
the piaids. The word is enough.
= a~tleast of the ceatrr, towards Tailteenth
street.
Now across the aisle are
those English checks and
stripes and indescribables-
French fine wool Serges, dag
onals, ottomans. camei's-hair,
herring .bones, cheviots,
Need Wi struggle to hang
them up ia the paper. You
have seen them a thousand
times {; and you haven't, The
year brings its changes even IN
these,
sou,he.s. of the center, towards uhcsinu'
street
The cashmere counter
changes less from year to year
than any. other perhaps,
A hundred years hence, we
presume, the principal item
there will still be lupin's cash
meres. Why others ? No
time for reasons to-day, Silk
warp hcnriettas other than
black. 4o-inch, Si.a5. Drap
dete, 46-inch, 81. Evening
colors of n~umberlesS stuhs in.
Guiding caslimeres etc. This
I counter would be the resort
for evening dress if there were
no cashmeres; il there were
nothing but cashmeres. Such
riches Of cream and the lighter
shades are there But we