Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-07
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.
Facilities Afforded by Woodward a
LothrOp's Department Store.

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Christmas shopping in this day of the
great department store has been robbed of
practically all of it's inconvenience and
the task of holiday buying is now antici-
rated more with pleasure than apprehen-
sion, as was formerly the case. In the
days gone by the mere mention of Christ
mas purchases brought visions of endless
tramping all over the city, it being neces-
sary to visit store after store to secure the
variety of goods that go to make up
holiday total. With the advent of the de-
partment store however. all of this was
changed. Holiday buying became comfort
able was accomplished with ease and in
single store so replete and conveniently ar
ranged that not the slightest difficulty was
experienced.
Washington has In Woodward & 10th
rops magnificent establishment at 10th,
18th and F streets a store the equal of any
in the country in every detail of trade con-
venience and facility A city within itself.
this store forms mart where Christmas
buying, and in fact purchasing all the year
round becomes a pleasure. In variety,
quality and quantity their stock Is abso-
iuiely replete. And the arrangements made
for waiting upon customers are so thor
ough and thoughtful an entire day might
be spent in the store without the fatigue
that usually follows extensive buying:
The holiday announcements of Woodward
& Lothrop have come to be eagerly awaited
by the people This year plans made months
ago have brought the establishment and
the stocks into the greatest condition of
fitness and completeness for the holidays
the firm has known in Its successful his
tory. Each years lessons have been but as
stepping to better doing, higher achieve
ment and broader more liberal trading in
every department of the business. Each
stock is now in harmony with the new con-
ditions and the promise is of a wonderful
season. With the idea of securing the
worlds best products for their customers,
Woodward & Lothrop sent abroad the
heads of a number of departments with in
structions to visit every style center of
the old world and to buy freely of the
best. AS a result between $50 and 400 cases
OF foreign goods have been received through
the Georgetown custom house. the contents
having now been distributed through the
different stocks. And while these tons of
foreign merchandise were coming in. the
American buyers of the firm were in New
York securing the latest products as they
reached that market. Europe and America
have been searched for newness and beauty,
and whenever possible, eXclusiveness, the
exclusive goods being priced on the same
bass as the rest.
| At the familiar Boston House there are
all desirable kinds Of gift things-some-
thing suitable for every age and condition.
for amusement, individual needs, family re-
QufrementS and home adornment. Assert
ments comprehensive and magnificent in
every line, 1t would be impossible to go
| into the details of this vast emporium; but
in addition to the usual and eyer-popular
gifts displayed in every department, men,
| ton might be made of the Paris, Berlin
and Vienna novelties in bric-a-brac, the
| Italian marble statuary, foreign pottery.
etc. OF silver. gilt leather and china goods
| there Is a plethora: toilet articles and every
| thing the imagination might conjure. A
1 trip through the Boston House will suggest
| appropriate gifts, the selection of which
is now causing some annoyance to so many
people of both sexes. II there is to be a
| practical side to the gift, there are mems.
| women's and children's furnishings, wraps.
1 suits, dress goods, silks, table linens or
| other practical everyday articles for per-
| sonal or home use. The firm adheres this
| year to the custom of former seasons of
| engraving free silverware and jewelry pur-
| chased of 1t, and embroidering initials on
| handkerchiefs and other linen.
The great Christmas toy bazaar COM
/ pletely fills the half acre OF space on the
! fourth floor and Is teeming with playthings
| from every toy center of the world. many
/ being direct importations end having no
| counterparts In this section. Every sort OF
toy fbarring the thrown-together. trashy
ktnd) that can be seen In Washington or
elsewhere Is to be found In this bazaar and
IN liberal assortment. a point Is made by
Woodward 4 Lothrop of collecting toys
that cannot be seen anywhere else. There
are musical toys. kittens, funny people,
horses. carriages. mimic werkthinEz, forts,
drums, uniforms and the Hike and scores
OF things that go" from the clowns that
turn somersauits to the locomotives that
draw long trains OF cars The toys are