Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-11

choice. We sold the sateens
that year.
Every year we have differed
with the rest of the world of
sateens, though never, per-
haps, SO sharply again. It's a
matter of guess-work. There
must be something new every
year. There isn't beauty
enough to go around and give
SO constant a fabric every year
a beautiful style SO crisp that
a phrase can single it out.
We don't know yet what is
in the market elsewhere. Here
are a hundred styles or two,
all new but the inevitable dots
and rings and little checks; not
only new but new in a differ
ent way from new before. 1t
isn't easy, though, to put their
newness into words.
Take a pretty example
ground of light brown half
covered with kernels of barley
sprinkled over it singly, in
twos, in threes, as if sown by
the farmer-you see no twos
or threes-they are helter-
SHELTER, just as barley falls
from the sewers hand. The
barley kernels are tinged
with morningredon the shades
of twilight.
But what Of a single picture
out of a gallery
The figures are simple, the
colors slight; the grounds are
important, the figures second
airy. Character not so strongly
marked, or rather not SO uni
form. Variety all the easier.
The price is 37Hc a yard.
Northwest from the centre
American printed sateens
in the styles Of our last years
| French IoKc
Northwest from theoentre.
| We filled two big windows
the other day with crinkled
seersuckers-more than a
hundred different stripes and
plaids-and women are asking
what they are-"Are they
fiannels3" "Are they velvets?"
"Are they cloths 2"
| Well well the seersucker
makers have cheated you into
asking such questions, we
must put a card in those
windows.
| But wouldn't you like to
look at the seersuckers taken
for flannels and cloths and
velvets at wearing distance! !
Is and 25c.
Northwest from the centre.
The first spring dress-cloth:
a mixture Of colors, a dozen
different combinations, most
OF them light; a simple basket
wool; yarns well apart in
pairs; an abundantnap pressed
into the texture filling the
open spaces; soft wool, a little
hairy; the fabric rough in look
and smooth to the touch. 49,
inch, soc.
Southeast from the centre.
Plain gros-grain silk of
twenty acceptable colors of
quality such as you look for
at halfa-dollar higher, $1.25. :
East Transept.
Black surah for summer,
light, not overdose in the
weaving, frail-feeling, substan-
tial, durable, clean, dust flies
Oft from it, practical, useful,
economical one of the pleas
ATTEST summer dress. stuhs-
24-inch black surah IS cents
to- TO- S.; not a penny higher.
Writing-papers, envelopes,
engraving for social and fes-
tive occasions, go over among
the Books.
The record of this part of
our business is one of continu-
Gus 81 Improvement and growth.
The stationery business be-
gan in the early days of the
store with little stock of COM
mo.,npapers, envelopes, school
chlldren's supplies, etc. Not
long after Books were added,
beginning with almost nothing.
Miscellaneous stationervnaxt
"A little later the little beginning
IN books has grown to be one
Of the largest of bookstores
and decidedly the leading one,
the little slate-and-pencil-and-
school-bag counter has grown
to be probably quite the lar
gest miscellaneous family sta
tionery business, the paper
and-envelope and social-and-
iiestlve-engraving business has
become be c, not only the largest in
Philadelphia but has made it's
mark on the trade by selling
at ream and thousand prices
whatever the quantity.
The cause of these three