The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-11-26

you VIII, WHAT SOTI OI business
goes on here without any furry.
The news of to-day shall be
in dress-stufs out of all proper
ton to what is going on all
around us.
Do you care to know how it
comes to pass p?
Maybe, we'll tell you another
day. In a hurry, if not in a
furry today.
A two-color homespun diago-
nal, thick and soft and substan-
tial, 42-inch and size Atwood
and highly acceptable colors,
mostly browns and grays to-
gether. One side of a vale is
brown and the other gray.
There are several browns and
several grays. A few pieces Of
other colors, gray and light
blue, for instance not enough
to mention.
The homespun has dropped
from soc to 37H. 1t was cheap
at soc. What do you think OF
it now? 1t doesn't look unlike
the costliest homespun we have !;
nor feel unlike it. Substantial,
pleasant, durable, genuine stuff.
Some ten or more American
rather heavy woolen dress-stuffs,
most of them brilliant, none en-
tirely plain, have been 81 and
SI.25 till now ; and were worth
the money 44-inch. All down
to 65c!
You want to know more
about them. Can't describe ten
styles, you know. Would you
read a description of one? Two
words will answer. If they were
entirely plain you might call
them flannel. Some are plain
in the middle with border on
edge or edges, the border slight
and sketchy or of widening
stripes. Others are speckled,
and with conspicuous stripes of
plaid or of almost Persian COM
plication of colors, not finely
mingled like Persian weaving,
but needing a little distance for
full effect, on the speckled
ground.
Ten more of large gay plaids,
on similar cloth. They are 50
inches wide. All S1.25 till now
now 75c! What do you think
Of that?
Single lines of silvery silk on
another flannel-like stuff, the
stuff of whatever color you like,
the silvery silk in lines SO small
they seem to partake of the
color blush on blue, reddish
on red, clear silver on neutral
colors only; 44-inch and 81 till
recently dropped to 75c! They
are very dainty stuffs.
Like the last in wool and silk,
but with cross-lines added, max
ing little squares Of wool and
color enclosed in tiny squares
of silk but the silk not always
silvery; gold and silver and
colors 44-inch and 81 till lately
dropped to 75c!
There's a der(5o-inch) and
heavier cloth with those same
stripes of silvery silk third OF
an inch apart all over it. 75c a
yard
Very heavy wool diagonal,
soft, substantial, springy, yield
ing a little in thickness, strong
and tough. A week or two age
one day it suddenly dropped
from 81 to 75c! 1t had been
higher-SI.25. 1t may have
been dear at SI.25. 1t wasn't
dear at 81. But what do you
think of it now at 75c? 1t is 4t
inches wide.
To illustrate this diagonal
There's another diagonal not SC
heavy and not SO pretty, nc
finer, on the whole inferior
This has kept its original price
$I.25, till now. 1t is an old 10
now. 1t might go to the rem
; nant counter; but it goes SO wei
with that diagonal next above
, that we leave 1t there at 75c.
Plain basket flannel, plair
weave and plain color, fo
dresses, 44-inch, has droppe'
,, from IS to soc.
All-wool cashmere, any colo
you want, for size You
l find it outside at soc. We shal
5 have to put it up ourselves b
and by unless some acciden
/, happens to hinder.
We've touched, we may say
one class of dress-stufs an