The age-herald., 1900-03-27

nlav conid not be surpassed in this or any land. ''It surpasses great public ex- hroitjon.e a cultured woman said Earnestly. It was a thrilling lesson in the poetry ot grace; It was grand in its majesty. If is of material interest to know that this great house of Ioveman Joseph & Loeb is the development of a little store with little village stock of goods opened in little Birmingham some dozen or fifteen years ago!
 TheBurger Dry Goods company
 !, Tn one of the four large show windows of the extensive double stores of the Bur ger Dry Goods company, in Second Av- enue, there Is a most attractive conceit In checker-board formation. Against a back ground of royal purple are crossed at right angles many white ribbons, forming scores of squares. At the corners of the squares are flowers placed, forming most pleasing effect. The other windows are most richly and artistically dressed, and the handl- work of art is plainly observable in every part of this large and handsome estapllsh- ment. Rich and tasteful dress goods In in- mense variety are suspended from coros in a most beautiful manner; all of 1t being the designs of MT. I. J. Dahlman, the cap able manager of that department There is a wealthy display of rugs and won derful wealth of color.
 In the millinery department MISS May I,aFrance, the manager has worked won- ders. From the skylight above this de- partment is suspended by white and pink ribbons a great bowl remarkably wrought of brilliant flowers, and there are tastelul decorations of ivy and palms. But the hats really constitute he most beutful ana most interest tang decorations, for they arc the highest product of decorative art after all is said. And in this prosperous and progressive house art and good taste pre- vail over every other thing.
 It is apparent on all sides that extra ordinary care and skill were exercised ih | selecting the immense stock of this great 1 and widely patronized store. There is 1 something for every whdm and desire, much for every purse, light or heavy. | Neither the customer of modest wants nor 1 the customer of riches need go out through | the big doors unsa tisfied The stores are l most attractive throughout.
 Caheen Brothers
 | Throughout Birmingham and this great district there is no expression more fa- millar or greater liked than "Caneen &.
 Fen little children lisp it softly. Tester day afternoon two wee tots, promises or beautiful womanhood, were struggling through the crowd at First avenue and Twentieth street 'H5lster, are we going to Cehaan's to buy our sktrt?" No; we are trying to get to Caheen's to buy 1t, answered the elder. "Tha's right" said the smaller; i've know where we wanter go, if I didn't call it right" And so a man who heard their talk conducted them through the crowded streets to the stnl more crowded place of fashion, good taste refinement, in Second avenue, where my skint'' was purchased. The wee tots found themselves amongst bewildering displays of all that is fashionable, rich, tasteful, beautiful that could be sought by wee tots and fair children of larger growth ' ''Caheen's" is a paradise for fair folk of | fashion. Rich dress fabrics, laces, sun lcto alx laf nf every shade and hue fascinated the eye | and made tine nerves to jingle at the 1 abundance of wealth shown with marvel | ous taste. A most pleasing picture was l formed by costly rugs that dressed great l square eff railing under The central llSnt. The extraordinary attention devoted to de- tails was attractively shown by two large | conical shaped glass cases filled with ball. | silk Of every color and every shade of | color most skilfuly blended. And fronting
 the main door was a great glass case of | exquisite flowers, tempting to raphsodles | The great display of the latest concsits
 in hats were enough to challenge the praise
 of all women in Alabama.
 The great show windows required in 1 dressing all the time of an expert artist l with assistants, for more than a week. | Looking at the artists work, one could | imagine it required month to complete | it.
 l
 The IIirsch Dry Goods and Millinery | company is one of the oldest, most highly
 respected and most popular mercantile | houses in Birmingham. For ever so many | years its place of business was in First
 avenue, near Twenty-irst street; lout last | year 1t followed the drygoods movement | to the northwestward, and occupied its 1 present quarters in Second avenue, neal
 Nineteenth street; and there it is doing l the largest business it has ever enjoyed 1 Airschs is the original leader in women. | fashionable goods, and 1t is keeping up it: | well-earned reputation The millinery de | partment is exquisitey rich, full in de | tall and in extent. On sale there today i, 1 an exact reproduction of the exquisitel! | beauuful hat now worn by beautiful ana | aprisltly Anna Held in the fashionabl | New York play of "Papa's Wife" Ina
 fat is in itself a rare attraction. Yet tner,
 gre hundreds of dreamfully beautiful | crowns there for WOman's glorious head 1 And there is nothing in art entirely beau
 tiful in which woman doesn't play som, | part! To an extraordinary degree is igl,
 artistic in evidence at Hirsch's. Long ex | perience in the trade and the foreign tray
 els of the head of this firm, and his lov,
 of art for arts sake, make it easy tc
 understand the attractiveness of all tin,
 displays in that house.
 | The exhibition of dress goods was mos
 elaborate and tasteful. and the show win | doWs are extraordinarily tasteful.
 T. @ Leader
 | In the windows of The Leader in Secon( | Avenue there were designs not easy tC
 equal in attractveness, almost impossibl,
 to surpass. There was novel and lbeautifu | floral design, about which twined rich pinI
 ribbons. Many hundreds of persons lingeret
 there first and last, to admire the charm | ing general effect of the superb decora
 tions. The place where the milliners passed
 their busy day was enchanted spot
 Everything had been done to make thu
 place beautiful, and all the efforts wer
 successful The floral decors ions wer
 palms and purple. On a stand were a hal
 dozen white trimmed hats, worth alone . good journey to see. The background O this entire display was of white lace, beau tifully arranged and there were Ions
 lengths of lace hanging in festoon
 Throughout the dress goods department 4 notably handsome skirt was green, coy cred with black lace The richness of col
 bring and design on all sides was wonder
 full The entire stock of goods was evident
 ly selected to please and to sell, and il these essentials the selection was undoubt | edly successful,