The Newtown bee., 1899-12-22
With The Holiday Shoppers.
A STROLL THROUGH LARGE AND BAN
SOME NEW HAVEN STORE.


SOME NEW HAVEN STORE.
The sll-sbsorbing thing nowadays is
shopping and, IS a natural sequence, the
big department stores. They are brim
full of interesting things from basement
to the last floor. Whether one wants to
buy Christmas gifts or not, one finds ones
self wandering about. peering into the
brilliant cases, stopping to look at some
especially novel thing, wondering what
thissor that is intended for; wondering
what this or that person going to buy !;
wondering to whom he will give the thing
after he has bought it; wondering about
everything in fact, and ending, finally,
by buying an armful of gee-gaws, things
| one simply could not resist buying. A
reporter of The BEE went into The Gam
ble-DesmOnd Co.'s handsome store yes
| terdsy afternoon and saw enough that
was interesting to furnish column Of
| Instructive reading for the thinking man
or woman. Down in the basement were
hundreds of all kinds OF toys. One was
impressed by the corteous mannt r Of the
| saleFpeople. Happy children came in
droves to see the clever things and al
most as many grown-up people were ab-
| sorbed in the playthings. What differ
ence the re is in the toys of to-day as COM
pared to those of q decade ago. Every
thing, and The Gamble Desmond Co., has
marvellous display, one of the best New
Haven has ever had. Everything Ia made
to instruc5 "a well as to entertain. New
games, new book games and books that
require Just enough of thought to make
tn m instructive and just enough OF play
to make them entertaining. Never has
| this firm made 80 delightful a display.
Across in the east store ba ement was the
china deps rsment, where lamps, bric-a.
brac, silver and cut glass was on sale.
The handkerchief department Is besuti-
| fnlly decorated; arches OF handkerchiefs,
held In place by white doves. The coun-
ter was crowded with an eager throng Of
shoppers so that it was hard for man to
get near the snowy layers of lace and
EN- broidered linen squares. They were
giving away pretty souvenir boxes with
each purchase of $3.50, and nearly every
body who turned away carried square
package. The salesman In charge showed
the reporter few OF the novel umbrellas,
with rich handsome handles, showing
and describing them with the same court
esy that he gave to the well-dressed
women that stood about, buying the Inn
ported vel groomed thipgs. At the
glove department, where people with the
leanest of purses can get good gloves,
and where only warranted gloves are
toe, they told the reporter that one of the
pretty souvenir glove boxes was given
with every three pairs. The Peerless
Trefousse glove 10 sold exclusively at the
Gamble-Desmond CO.. g department store,
and ever ything ever heard of in the glove
world is on sals. All low priced too.
One entire side OF the handsome, we'll
| lighted, well-yentilated store was given
over to the department OF mems goods
| Neckwet +, gloves, shirts. Of all kinds,
bath robes, and go ON, TO the e. Of the
mems line. Then the bewildering dis
play of jewelry, fancy boxes, silver and
ebony trif1 ss, SO beloved of women in all
he kinds and conditions of life. One
could never ename rate the countless
things one saw during the stroll through
The Gamble Desmond store. Over In
the east store were the jackets and the
coats and the handsome furs so many sets
OF which 60 for Christmas gifts. Then
the picture gallery upstairs. A high,
large, airy room, beautifully adapted to
show the beautiful pictures, and all
marked cut at such low prices. Large
| handsome rugs on sale, lined the walls Of
Jbe .Ig department., where pretty white
| be- ., bedding, Morris chairs, mating
| and curtains were shown. Indeed, this
upholstery department is perhaps the lar
gest 10 the state as we'll as the best
equipped, although the store is through
out, one of the most attractive in the
county, in point of elegance, ventilation,
| width Of aisles, good arrangement and all
tboSe qualities that go to make an abso'
! 'ly perfect, up-tc-date, modern depart
ment store.