Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-02-25
WANAMARER'S
PnIlApMrurA, Monday FEB. %

PnaADAruIA, Monday. Feb. %. lxs.
Hundreds - thousands per.
haps--are talking Of the beauty
Of the White Occasion. But it
won't last long. Other inter-
ests will crowd 1t out. II you
care for it, come now.
St. Martins, Westmoreland,
England. II you have looked
through the February Century
your eye has been caught by
the illustrations of Mr.. Albert
Flemming's interesting article,
"Hand Spinning and Weaving
in Westmoreland."
Reading it gives you a bit Of
the history and literature Of
Flax and Linen. Ovid, Plato
and Catulus Shakespeare,
Wordsworth and Ruskin are
all In the symposium. And
there is an account OF a noble
effort to restore the venerable
art" Of all handmade Linen.
The French, however, have a
chapter to add, for the ancient
town OF Lille, In the north of
France, has not allowed the art
to die. MIR. Flemming's article
set us hunting, and right here
in our own stock we find some
pieces of handmade Linen
Sheeting grand enough in rug
ged strength and sturdy hon.
esty to crafty Ruskin or Car.
lyle.
The stuff is not handsome,
but it bleaches beautifully with
repeated. washings, and present
roughness gives way to future
smoothness, and the dignifed
humility Of hand work is alb
sorbed In aristocratic pride as
1t becomes the Linen heirloom
OF the family. 95 inches wide,
81 a yard.
All the profits on all this stuff
we now own will not pay the
printers for putting this in the
papers. Two reasons for the
printing.
First. Do you want hand
made natural bleached Linens !?
Second. We want you to
know that this is par excellence
the Linen Store Of America.
The Bleaching of Linen, like
the dyeing OF silk, is affected
by climate and water. Lime
stone water and a damp climate
assist the Irish bleacher to make
Linens peerless in snowy white
ness. His close pursuer is the
German.
Therefore, il you want white
ness in Linen Sheeting buy our
Irish, 90 inches at 90 cents, or
1t you want a durable stuff
fairly bleached which is not
hand made but yet suggests il,
buy the Scotch. All 90 inches,
Soc, 81, SI.Io and SI.2o.
Linens of the finer sorts are
In mind to-day. There are dry
goods tales that cease to be
worth telling if all told. Some
OF the princely bargains scatter
largess incog. And thus it Is
that the Damask table stuffs
named herein must go in the
no.name SERIES But it's
worth IS per cent to you that
we don't tell the name. It's the
old story. A certain great firm
lacked single element Of periec-
ton in Damasks. A competitor
surpassed them. They were
intensely anxious to place their
goods here, but no-one point
was lacking. At last, by a
strong effort, they placed their
products in the first rank at all
points. Then they sought an
introduction. But we charge
for that-always in your inter-
est-and that's why you may
compare all the goods in the
following list with standard
value, and find them at least a
quarter of. This is for the be-
ginning-good for the present,
impossible for the future.
Twelve designs In Doub's Dama.k Tsb'e
cloLhs-Qnarter nnd.r price. stXsa
S' Is %. % TaSis, 80 - ID ~ S'' ~s0. e'O. ~oa
s.1I,s Al 4, .Io,6' g! At" %. Gso. s 50. 500. CO.
s!IiI Cloths. 60 50. 0,o. s Is, usOo.
sI..ls. 3 q Cloths, q 81 So u 20, 1870
W a, W W e9 80
90 %. sis 50. sis %, sis Co w"
i0Sa.st .,1. =, T1oiss; e q "a s.so asS. $3.50
y . s. %sSs ~ g. a. 4 = = Z: ssS :sts Il ss''