Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS.



those who have neglected up 10 this time TO
attend to Santa Claus commissions Those
who have purchases TO make will save much
time and bother by consulting the advertising
columns Of TIE stan before starting out on
their expeditions To further assist intending
purchasers The SrAl continues to publish no
tees Of mercantile establishments where one
can find satisfactory goods and prices.
Give your friend . cane. That il good ad-
vice for Christmas present and you can get
CHAsE's, All llth street You will also find q
few very choice umbrellas made by Mr.. CHASE
himself
Wines for the holidays Of superior quality
and at lowest prices is what they advertise to
giye you at ZIG and 91s 5th street northwest,
where Mr.. MuEHLEIsES has been successfully
conducting the establishment for many years.
Whoever 10 in doubt to what would make
q nice present for boy should call on CHAs. T.
site Metropolitan hotel. They have full stock
OF parlor rifles, skates, penknives and savings
banks; also for the older once carving sets, hut
picks, nut-crackers, razors, scissors knives
and full line Of table cutlery livery low prices
Wool-knit jackets are great convenience and
luxury. C. AurRBAcH's, Domestic sewing ma
chine agency, 9TH and H streets, has a full
$L49, formerly S150. All other goods Of
similar nature are going at like reduction.
FUssELL's ice cream is always popular and
will be an important element in many a Christ
mas dinner. Kirsch ice cream is a new flavor
and is sure to please. RUSSELL, 1925 New York
avenue.
1913 street is place TO look for wall paper,
window shades and all such articles. JAMES b.
HENDERSON is well known as q leader In this
line Of goods.
Orchid flowers, Alpine rose. lilies of France,
white violets, pear blossoms, imported per-
fumes are to be obtained of Miss LULA LEHMAN,
sSl street. The store is open until 10 pm,
and you can call and get samples.
A sewing machine is q useful affair to have
around a house, and writing desk also adds
to the comfort OF family, but when you can
get the two combined the affair is more than a
comfort-more than useful-it is a necessity.
Call at VIM. STIEBELISGs, l751 Pennsylvania
avenue. and look at one Of the Household"
sewing machines and writing desks combined.
LAWRENCE 4 CAMALIER's F street china store
is at 1910 street, and 1t is worth every ones
while to drop in and look at the splendid pres
ents to be obtained at exceedingly low prices.
Water colors are all the rage just now, and
what makes . better present? yEERHoFF's,
l22l Pennsylvania avenue and GIG It'll street,
are headquarters for water colors and pastels,
either framed or unframed.
STRAUSS 4 Co., florists Center market, who
have extensive hot houses on the Bladensburg
road, make specially Of fine roses. They clip
daily from 5000 to 10000 roses. Their hot
houses cover five acres Of ground. Persons de-
string to purchase flowers at Wholesale or re-
tail Will hnd their prices reasonable.
There is yet time to look at those pretty
styles of misses and children's slippers for
dancing or evening wear, and just suited for
holiday presents, at JOHN E. LIrrLE's, 422 9Th
street very complete stock Of everything in
the line Of foot wear.
The shoppers holiday rounds would be in
complete without visit to GoLDscHNID's, 1907
1908 street northwest. In the china depart
ment will be found every conceivable design in
dinner or toilet sets. The bric-a-brac depart
ment includes the finest imported and domestic
wares; the jewelry department is very COM
plete; the perfumery and stationery depart
ments have some of the best and prettiest ar
ticles in those lines; the doll department is all
that Santa Claus could ask. and in lamps, UNI
brellas. leather and plush goods. clocks, house
furnishing goods, and a store full of nameless
notions suited to the holiday trade Orders by
mail promptly filed.
If you buy q pair of gloves of the Louvre
Glove company, 5l4 9Th street northwest, for a
Christmas present, and 1t should prove that
they are not just the size wanted you may eX-
change them without any difficulty any time
after Christmas, and if you wish to buy half
dozen pairs you will receive Special discount.
The Louvre company has a full line of ladies'
and gentlemen's gloves of every grade and
every price, from boys one-button kids up to
twenty-button best suede mousquetaires
Small profits and quick sales insure you bar
gains IN every line.
The elegant line of plush goods at
THE TEMPLE DRus STORE, corner of 9Th and
F streets, including everything in toilet arti-
ia bainO M 10 h. al 4
out during the holidays. Pretty odor cases.
comb and brush cases, manicure SETS and
everything desired in the dressing room and
boudoir. A stock of 10000 bottles must be
sold. Hand mirrors, card cases, pocket books,
smokers sets, toilet pitchers, perfumeries per-
fumery bottles and other innumerable articles
such as the season demands
At MERrz DRUG STORE 1014 F street north
west, can be found a myriad of holiday nov elites
very appropriate for holiday gifts. Manicure
goods. razors, shaving cases in latest STYLES at
lowest prices. Quadruple extracts in pretty
bottles handsomely boxed, Queen Anne
cologne violet water and all the delicate per-
fumes. Large assortment of rose Jars in very
beautiful designs. Fancy bottles of every de-
scription at lowest prices in the city. Articles
dainty enough for Christmas presents in fairy
land.
Nothing makes q more suitable or useful
present for your wife, mother sister or friend
tnau new nome sewing machine. IL is a
simple easy running and in every way salts
factory machine. 1t does the most exquisite
embroidery work without the use of any attach
ment and does fine and coarse work equally
as WELL OPPENHEIMER's decorative art store
is the agency in this city for the New Home.
They also carry q full line of other articles
suitable for ladies' holiday presents Adjustable
dress forms, fancy baskets, decorated tables
and towel racks and handsome whisk holders
are few of their novelties.
Washington Whisky FOO Strong for Him.
81 can't do this when am at home" said an
intoxicated man at the first precinct station
yesterday. lifelong down in Maryland, where
am scho oil teacher, and if the people were to
see me full they would never stop talking about
it i came up here on the steamer Wakefield
yesterday, and how got drunk I can't tell.
The whisky had q peculiar effect on me-" A
cab was sent for and he was sent to the house
of friend in South Washington.
EDITOR WEST FOUND GUILTY.
He IL Sentenced to Five Years In the
Penitentiary.
Editor James J. West who, with Private Sec
Rotary Graham, has been on trial for the past
week before Judge Jameson for over issuing
the stock Of the Chicago Times company to the
amount of over 10000, was last night found
guilty and sentenced to five years imprison-