The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-02
BEHIND PLATE GLASS.
A Glimpse at Wich1ta's Brilliant Show
Windows.

windows.
Wichita is distinctly a city of Satur-
day nights. Our streets may be ever so
quiet through the other evenings, but on
k Saturday evening, it is never too cold or
/ too warm, to decimate the prominade that
I finds occasion for festival of recreation
and good cheer on the night of the last
l day in the week The ice-cream saloons
are in full blast-a thirsty mass of white
{ dresses and immaculate shirt fronts swarm
around every soda fountain, but above all
attractions the numerous show windows
stand paramount, with crowd OF observ-
ers and sight-seers that from to 10 O'Clock
in the evening, are always changing but
never diminishing. The jewelry store
glistens in silver and sparkles in
gem; the dry goods store in fabrics
and laces and silk; the shoe stores
in polished foot-gear The fruit stores IN
the fragrance of tropical fruits and the
hats and coats in the clothiers coax every
man to be nosby.
Wichita's show windows are a great
sight, this city possessing some OF the best
draperers and decorators in the west, to
whom the passing multitude does homage.
There is Biting Brothers windows which
are always central for their uniqueness
and cleverness, Last night they were IA
diant in summer wear Of all kind: flannel
shirts. straw hats, light. neckties, light
clothing.
The enterprise window was white with
chiIdrens underwear while in another were
sundries of every use and description.
On east Douglas avenue, one of the
mots attractive windows was II. /.
Sbober's& Co.'S shoe house, with
dainty feminine footwear in one
window and the more masculine, but not
less trim shoes of the sterner sex in
another.
The Arcade had a very beautiful win
dow of white embroidered and polka dot
skirts, and on the floor of the same win
dow bewilderment Of white baby caps.
In another window was a rick array of
neckties.
Braitch's shoe store windows are always
a marvel of neatness and taste and last
night they were even more brilliant than
ever, each window being touched off
artistically with a dainty Cinderella
shipper holding a bunch of waven roses.
The Wichita Book company had very
complete window in tennis and base ball
outfits: nets, base ball bats, tennis balls,
racquets, markers, mingled with taste and
design.
Cash Henderson's windows, which are
always characteristic and surprise the
passer-by with something he did not eX-
pect to see, were last night respondent IN
charming draperies o. lace. In another
window was an army of silver spoons and
scissors, while opposite was another liter
oil Sso1,r fr,lf Of
The City Shoe stores windows were the
center of a large crowd who gazed on foot
wear in black and russell, in high and low
cuts, to their hearts content.
Munson & McNamara's windows were
truly artistic and showed skill in arrange
ment. One window held the variegated
challies, another French ginghams, and
another the delightfully."- cool swisses and
nainsooks.
The deep recesses in the Famous cloth
ing house windows revealed carefully dis
plays of white shirts and half hundred
nobby suits and head-gear.
The Globes windows held a large and
bright assortment of captivating neck
ware in tints and white, and large dis
play of black hosiery.
Swab & Glosser's capacious plate-glass
front revealed a line of cbeviots, worsteds,
Scoth and Blarneys that would not fail to
provide any taste.
The Boston stores windows are never
without some peculiar attraction, either
due TO the goods themselves or the skill
with which they are arranged or both.
One window holds pretty display of gay
parasols; another a tasty arrangement of
summer ginghams; the next bewilder-
ment of hats; the next shoes, all making a
superior display.
There are so many more windows that it
would take little less than a volume to
describe them as they deserve, suffice TO
Say, that all are marked with the pro-
gressiveness and spirit of the Peerless
Princess