Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-13
BROAD ST. A DREA NJ
STORES ARE FILLED WITH MANY
BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS THINGS.
GREAT TEMPTATION TO BUY
Good Impulses to Make Presents
Awakened in the Most SELFISH
prohI.m of What TO Get solved for
one-Chenp, Beautiful Books, %c'

Broad street, from Ninth up IS one
lovely temptation now.
Many people are yielding, too. Go on
that popular and magnificent thorough
fare any hour, from early morning I'LL
or at o'clock in the evening, per-
feet army Of shoppers surge this way and
that. The sidewalk IS crowded all tho
time. Men, women, and children jostle
each other and no ones bad nature IS
stirred.
sboppers are everywhere. And they
have got good reason. The splendid stores
of Broad street never looked brighter
prettier. or more alluring than at pres
ent. Little wonder that good impulses
aud unselfsh desires 10 tighten some
bodv's burden of life by q present are
aroused It is like a sermon 10 man
TO make a visit to the stores OF tiils s'lee'
and see the wonderfully pretty thllsa
they contain, as one IS 50 tempted 10 uo
good by getting friend something ina .,
is useful and pretty ana VIII priis sinle
OF gladness to tired race
EVERYTHING LIKE \ NEW PIN
one attractive feature OF the stores Is
the newness Of everything. Livery COLI
every toy Of any sort, every ware lha'
IS conceivable, is there, ana everything
looks as bright and new as JUST
secured from the hands OF the mahuldc-
turcr The windows may not DC "ec'-
rated for Christmas now, indeed, some
Of them may be changed several times De-
fore Christmas comes, but surely exquisite
taste has been exercised in the TRIM
mings that greeted one yesterday.
n e impossible TO describe with JUS
tice all the pretty things IN the windows
one window will contain the pretties'
rugs TO look upon them you THINK Oh q
cosev room. before the open crate oil
which is one Of these rugs. Then a 1T
lie further up the street, q handsome
furniture store IL found. At this place
Won pick out a rocking chair that seems
To stretch out velvety arms ana invite
Won to come and rest. Yet little iurthei
on is a great department store Many
very many. beautiful books are found
and ,Imost everything else that heart
can wish for.
ALI, THAT Is NEEDED IS THERE.
Tho wants are satisfied. There Is the
picture for 4 December evening; bright
Tre a COSY ROOM richly carpeted; q
soft. comfort-g Giving chair, and a beauti'
ful book. Everybody has felt Ike the
nroverbial fish out OF water. not knowing
what to buy for a present. The problem
Is solved by delightful stroll up Broad
I street. Like 1t is in everything else
however. as soon an one trouble is re-
moved. another arises. There are Sc
many nice thlngs. he is perpleXed u
know which he likes best.
The display OF books this year Is un
usually large, and books were never Sc
cheap before. There are cloth-bount
books At 5 and cents, and handsome
! books can be gotten for Is, -, ana 2
cents.
The assortment Of ohinaware Is also
particularly fine. The display OF dress
goods and cloaks and hats is Ike wo
mans dream.
IL would seem that everything thai
money can buy Is there, and th'
wish alone remains is for the
money to buy It all. which, for at The
moment. seem alike needed and beautiful
A great deal OF shopping is being done
now. 1t is really Christmas shopping
too. the mstrons reasoning that they
will buy now TO get out OF the crush thai
Is sure TO come later on.