The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-13
y. II. q ladding and Company.


stock Of Christmas goods is so big as TO
be bewildering and one scarcely knows
where to begin. The preparations Tor
the holiday season has been extensive In
every department. Especially is this
true In the cloak. fur. silk and dress
goods departments. In the dress goods
department. there are several hundred
dress patterns cut of in dress lengths.
bargains are offered everywhere. Fine
wool goods are offered at about hall
price. The art department., with It's
fancy goods, bright table covers and eis-
CANT down quilts, looks like fairyland.
complete aud In fans and pocketbookss
the stock In q leader, both In style and
price.
umbrellas for ladies and gentlemen
which was manufactured specially Tor IL
Fhe iine of embroidered and other fancy
styles OF handkerchief for ladies aud
gentlemen is very fine. In the exhibition
room there is such a variety OF novelties
that il would be useless TO attempt an
enumeration of them. IL is worth going
miles to see even IL without the Thought
of purchasing. But sight OF 1t means
purchase.
The silk, dress goods. umbrella, hand
kerchief, silver ware. toilet article. pockes-
book, fan and novelty department Is on
the first floor. The art department and
cloak room is on the second hoor. The
carpet room, rug and chair departments
are on the third floor. The upholstery
department 10 also on this hoor. In the
chair department there are two or three
hundred new reception chairs, and a hne
assortment of willow rockers and boudoir
chairs. The stock of brackets, book
racks, medicine cabinets. easels, screens,
etc, is on the third floor too. In every
department the stock of goods Is COM
plete. =,
Even good old Kris Kringle himself.
used as he is to Christmas and to the
preparations made for IL, would be sur
prised il he visited Is. IL. Giadding q
of appropriate gifts. He would feel
rivalled and perhaps outdone. lie cant
possibly have as fine stock or leather
novelties as may be found at Gladdings.
The stock includes all the new shapes
and shades in lizard, French pebble, alli-
gator and real seal combination pocket
books, writing tablets, chatelaine bags,
children's purses, gentlemen's travelling
cases, card cases, Doodle books, bill
books, travelling bags. etc.
style Of chairs with which the Osborne
House is furnished. The designs rare
pretty and novel. Among the new and
choice articles offered by the firm is the
Cleopatra rug. 1t also has large as
sortment of imported Eastern Moquette,
II you want to 20 to Herr Kringles s
headquarters 60 to B. II. Gladding q
Company.
The John p. Hunt Co.
The John =. Hunt Co.'s shoe store al
1917 Westminster street is very centrally
daily on the street cannot get past the
vtt,An at
the beautiful line Of Christmas slippers
displayed In so artistic manner.
To stop and look in that win
dow is to go in and purchase
and the customer must be dificuit
TO please indeed If nothing within
the store will suit. There are all kinds
of slippers, Russia calf, velvet, vesting,
morocco and many others. Slippers are
very common Christmas present and
always have been so, they are appropri
may combine the beautiful with the use
full so that nothing is more acceptable to
many. There Is also a large assortment
of other holiday presents, to be found al
the store of the John L. Hunt Co., anc
intending purchasers would do well tC
lust drop in and examine the same after
getting an idea from outside the window
The clerks under the charge OF the
genial Mr. Arnold take pleasure in show
Ing goods and they will tell why 1t is fol
Rainbows at the white Shoe Store.
An endless variety of mems, women
and childrens' slippers is to be seen at th
cosy boot and shoe store Of II. S. Horton
well-known as the White Shoe Store
Slippers are all the way from 75 cents {,
So per pair and Mr.. Horton says that
he had been told five years ago that the.
would ever be so low lie would hav
thought his informant was crazy. Blu
Velvet beautifully worked, Russian calf
French and American goat, alligator an,
imitation alligator. All colors of tn
rainbow are found in the tasteful arrange
ment, so that 1t is an extremely difficult
matter to choose.
The different styles are Opera, Everett,
Harvard and Tourist. For useful n
we'll as as ornamental present that is no
too expensive, what Is better than a pal
OF beautiful velvet or alligator slipper
feet all dayf The handsomest style l
probably the Tourist, which is somethin
comparatively new, while many woul
prefer some of the more common ones.
There is also TO be found a complete as
sortment of boots and shoes for the ger
eral trade, and the White Shoe Store
the general agent for tbe sale of the Hy
pienic felt inner soles which may
worn without rubbers.
Blanding a. Blanding.
One OF the oldest and most reliab
firms in Providence is that Of Blandin
g. Blanding, the wholesale aud reta
dealers in drugs, chemical and all th;
pertains to the apothecary's art. AT tn
season most temptiGgly arrayed in the
retail department is an assortment
Christmas or holiday goods OF standar
quality and exceptiouable worth.
The young man who is not daunted
the size Of his lean purse and who Is d
sirous of bestowine upon some fa