Middletown transcript., 1900-03-31
WANAMAKER'S.

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Downs, Pierce Alrich.
WANAMAKER'S.
Philadelphia, Monday, March 26. 1900.
The Big Easter Egg
There is a great big Easter
egg in the basement that'll
give the children a lot of
pleasure-don't let them miss
it.
The shell is broken; you
can see what's inside; a theat-
rical scene with a waterfall
and rocks, and green, and all.
sorts of Easter animals, SOBER
gay, and comical; but they are.
really candy boxes.
Two motherly looking rab.
bits preside over the show,
and you notice the animals are.
all very quiet and well-be-I
haved.
There is a golden sky with
little fairy lights in it: and
everything is lovely in Egg
N'17Ii This is just a meager sug-
gestion of the wonderful va,
riety of Easter novelties we
have at the candy-store near
by-as big show as the egg.
Summer Silks
About all our summer silks
are in-which means that the
variety is at least as good as
it will be any time this year.
Take it for granted that we
don't sacrifice quality for
beauty; there is no temptation
| this year. The silks are beau
tiful enough without.
Printed pongee, blue and white; daisies.
| stars, fecks, clover, honeysuckle, 4Oc.
Printed Japanese silks, blue and white:
dots, dashes, scrolls, leaves, flowers. SOC.
Printed Shanghai, blue and white;
French printing and French patterns, 60c.
Printed foulard, blue and white; French
printing, 75c.
Printed foulards-rare colorings; rich
designs in white on old-rose, purple, gar
net, navy, gray, brown, 85c.
Printed taffeta mousseline; white stripes
of satin over leaves and vines; all in
pastel tints, S5c.
Printed foulards, new blue and white;
all dots from pin-heads to pennies S5c.
Printed foulard with printed double
color, black and white on old rose, beige
brown, gray, Napoleon blue, 9Oc.
Double twill foulards, blue and white;
pin dots to size of quarter; also flower.
fern, palm, stripes and twigs, 81.
Foulard and fancy Liberty satins, in all
the dainty prevailing tints; new green,
blues, purple, old rose, old blue garnet, ST.
New Liberty satin with dots of silk and
serpentine rivulets in white, with fiecks
of colored flowers; old rose, old blue, Law
ender, gray, tan, new green, brown.
bisque, purple, navy; nearly hundred
kinds, 81.
Amerlcan Silk SAlyt1ngs-
These women's shirt silks are
copied from the French shirt
ings in the same delicate col
orinps. The French Shirtinos
are $3.50; the American fac
smile is 6oc a yard-all color
ings.
White waist silks in cords
and figures and dots7 entirely
new styles in the pur est white
silk that washes like linen, soc.
The Japanese corded silks |
limitations of Fren nch fancy |
silks that sell at ST., so a yard |
the Japanese are 45c and |
there are thousands.
$40 Hair Mattresses, Sis
Made in our own factory, of |
good curled South American |
horse-hair.
Couldn't sell them for SO lit
tie if we didn't make so many
-usedu half q million pounds
of hair lastyear; or if we hadn't
bought such a big lot of this
grade of hair-6o,ooo pounds.
One or two parts; fancy
striped or the old fashioned
blue and white ticking. Forty
pounds weight.
Black mixed hair mattresses
with pair of feather pillows
and bolster to match in same
ticking, $40 a set-worth a
third more.
Feothers- Thorougbly,l
steamed and cold-blast-dried
live geese feathers of the ooc
grade, for 75c a pound.
2OxsO pillows. 2sk lbs; .s1.SS each.
2Ox56 holsters. lbs.; $S.75 each.
A good bed is your best
friend; a bad one your worst
enemy.
Cant buybad bedding here,
but you can buy good, better,
and best.
John Wanamaker.