The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-03-27
WANAMAKERS

scotch linens are by no means an
alike There is a sort of linen
character which one may look for
in Scotland There are phases of
it There is a best Scotch linen,
Our buyers business is to find it.
He has got to know what to
look for there. If he looks
in Scotland for such as Ireland
makes he viii look in vain Ifhe
doesn't know the linens Of differ
ent countries, what to look for,
what to avoid, their local virtues
and vices, he isn't fit to go abroad
in the world and gather linens.
We are trying to give you a
notion of what a puzzle it is to
find the best things in the world.
If Scotland makes the poorest
linens, why do we buy in Scotland
at all? That's a fair question.
It shall have a fair answer. Money
goes further in Scotland. That's
the answer. But shortly we shall
be saying that money goes further
yet in Germany. So it does.
Every statement one can make
must take account of local pecu-
liarities. For brilliant low-grade
linens we go to Scotland; for
homely low-grade linens to Ger
many. They who look to appear
ance prefer the Scotch; they who
care only for money and linen
prefer the German.
We are speaking roughly Of
linen characteristics by countries.
Every word must be taken with
limitations.
Barnsley is a famous linen town
in England. No word in all the
linen world stands higher than
Barnsley No shams in Barnsley
There are many linen-weavers
and bleachers there. Not one Of
them all has furnished the ancient
name. 1t stands for the most sub
stantial virtues Of linen-the very
ones to be looked for in sheetings
But we have no English liner
sheeting-no Barnsley Why
not? Too famous. Costs toe
much. Costs more than it's worth
We shouldn't be making good us'
of your money in buying Barns
ley linen sheeting.
Flemish beats Barnsley th,
minute you look at the costs 0
the two.
And French beats Flemish. /
you want to see in a sheeting sub
stantial fibre of flax in almost it
natural state, look at French. Tn,
{ fibre is true, not overtime; tn,
} thread whether large or small il
round and full the weaving don,
by hand-no better or worse fo
that's firm and close; the bleacl
is a natural bleach. Good fla,
to begin with, made at every stag,
, with a practical homely skill, anC
! finished not at all, not even it
! round threads pressed to fatness
One must indeed be hard to pleas
who isn't satisfied to sleep on goo,
French sheeting.
l What of Irish? Extravagant
. but with a different sort of extrav
y agance from that of Barnsley. Ire
/ land grows the finest flax in tn
d world, so far as the world has bee
tried. The Irish climate does it
n part of bleaching better than an
: other climate. Irish skill in ever
a sort of linen work is ahead {
' other skill. With a single exceT
e ton (the sheerest linen handkel
: chiefs spun and woven by han
!, in Franco the finest, most artist,
most elaborate, perfect of line
It work is done in Ireland.
: There are splendid damask
l. from Dresden, pure in fibre, cz
;. qusitely fine, wrought with SUI
o prising skill and bleached to pei
IS lection. Linen facilities, scienc,
y arts, skill, production, are GROWN
v out OF the primitive stage in a
y the linen countries. Ireland aOc
4, the pioneer she is the leader
e linen luxury. All the belonging
d of linen industry grow there MOI
sr luxuriantly than anywhere else.
at We are told, a piano factory hG
n i. its habit Of making the parts
le that delicate instrument; MAKE
a. them well Or i'll persists in NAL
s. ing just so well or just so i'll
n doesn't change its habit; resis
- all effort to change it. The worl
. men are schooled IN fboir tael,