The Cecil Whig., 1886-08-07

Till late in September the
store will close at one O clock on
Saturdays.
Two years ago we bought
thousand bedroom suites of
three pieces and sold them at
SIS a suite. Before we had
done with it we sold two-thou-
sand-two hundred of them-all
exactly alike.
Last year we got a thousand
again of another pattern, still
SIS, but a better suite than the
former one.
Now we have bought still
another thousand still better,
same price, S25.
There will be good deal of
curiosity to see a better bed
room suite than those two for
SIS. We have one to show
none to deliver for two or three
weeks yet-they have got to be
made.
The secret of the price is in
the number of course.
The suite this year is of ash
with a scroll of hand-carving
across the tops of bedstead and
bureau-mirror and bead of the
same below the scroll. Hand
carving at SIS a suite! Never
theless it is there; and proper
work it is.
One of the wonderments is
such a result of our method in
furniture. This is only one out
of many; but this is the one to
which we have bent our pur-
pose with nothing but money
in view. For the third year
now we are showing what can
be done in respect of goodness
materials, work and design
for so small a sum as SIS for
bedstead, bureau and wash
stand, by making enough at
once to give us all the advan-
tage that lies within our reach.
But you will miss the chief
lesson of this example if you
fail to notice that it is an exam
pie of what we are doing every
day.
Go through our furniture
floors. You see no sign of a
thousand suites at S25 apiece.
You see but one among some
hundreds of others. Everyone
of these hundreds stands for as
many as we think ourselves
safe in buying. The prices are
very different from what they
would have to be if only few
we're made. And yet in good
part these styles are nowhere
else to be seen.
Second floor, north of West Transept.
We are selling all we have
left of twenty of thirty styles of
moquette and wilton carpets at
SI.25 and SI.oo a yard-both
of best quality. Rare oppor-
tunity.
North 'front.' second floor. Take car.
Brussels, tapestry, ingram
and other carpets, china mat
tings and rugs as usual.
North 'front.' secono floor. Take car.
French sateens beyond all !
expectation both in supply and
demand. We have not really |
kept the best for the last, but
unlooked-for fortune has given
us the prettiest styles, the most
welcome styles, profusion be-
yond our daring a month ago.
SIX.
Northwest OF the center.
Spider-web crazies, fine. ir-
regular, open, rough, rough
dry -'em-in-the-sun, cotton prints
are down from I6 to I2Hc.
They are mostly done with.
The variety was never great;
it isn't SO great as it was.
They have been immensely
successful, We hope the max
ers will take the hint and make
them freely and well nextyear.
The printings have been sur
prisingly mean for 50 good a
fabric. Our few have been
pretty and suitable; but we had
to reject most of the styles.
All we have left are I2Hc a
yard.
Northwest of tho center.
The market for Hamburg
embroideries settles down to
the level of prices here, and is
going to.stay there.
We are selling fine embroi-
deries as usual; the common
grades at about half the usual
rates for such, as near
as we can tell. But, bear in
mind, it isn't the custom ofmer-l