The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-26

las 2.25 $50
1885 $50 3.75
all cachemire, which means
hne-grain not gros-grain.
1t is refreshing to speak of
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.
Wed like to make it true if
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-stuh 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
unfortunate wordsworth more
than tsprice. Itisn't safe to buy
scarcely anything wooden, no
matter how cheap, without con.
sulting the market.
Strictly speaking, sta pie
wooden stuffs are steady.
Everything else there's moth
ing certain about. The store
abounds in wooden dress-stuffs
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 {
good one for soc a yard Il
might have been homespun
We haven't sold a homespur
for anything like its value foi
weeks. 1t might have been ;
canvas. We have in mind ;
canvas for soc that held it
own for $I.25 all through tn,
season. And so all through
the stufs not strictly staple a
to texture. Fashion is an i'm
t perial mistress. She make
and unmakes. If she but TAX
:, her eyes off a stuff for an in
b stant, down it goes And ye
/ nine-tenths of you, ninety-nin
d hundredths of you, wear 70
g months the stuffs you pity 70
s having dropped in the store
n That is, the imperial mistres
!. hasn't SO much 10 say abou
h what you actually wear as W
Q sometimes think but she's tel
. q ribly hard on merchant VIII
d has the stuffs she has smile
Ie on.
AT every one of the woole
,e dress-stuf counters, bla c k
e e cream, light colors, dark, wha
ever you seek, look out &c
# surprises.
d Southeast and Southwest from the center
p It's a seersucker year; an
yet in the thick of buying tim
Sc the seersuckers tumble. Thos
$. at the bottom awhile ago al
y out Of sight &C they were
lg but who will buy them at 6 wit
n n fine and light ones I2X
Sc Light colors went down frol
a At I8c to I2H and lace-strir
$. 25c seersuckers dropped t
P ?, I6c. The seersucker mark,
IS is all awry. 1t doesn't 90 /
y fneness or lightness or beaut
til 1t goes by somebody's freak
e., en- not ours. 1t isn't our doing.
ed It's a seersucker year, ar
rs Is yet in the thick of buying tin
IT. the seersuckers tumble. l.
as as en- tumble.
So Northwest from tho center
it Next year is going to be
he crazy-cotton year. The era
en- cottons are going to have the
TT TT, turn. Can't get it this year
he b. not enough of them. You mi
We We have noticed, the styles a
le- comparatively few. There a
ny ny styles enough, but ugly. "
dy picked out the pretty ones al
left the rest. American crazi
to we are speaking of. II
for FOR Scotch are pretty; but tn
Of belong to extravagant cottor
Ut Not SO with American. /,
ne and SOC.
Northwest from the center
. Bastistes are as dainty