The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-17
ANENT CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.
A Notable Display and Some of the
 Most Popular Gifts for 1900 Noted.

Most Popular Gifts for 1900 Noted. | This week is given over by the entire | Christian world to the preparation for
 Chrlstmas-really Christmas shopping,
 for wherever there are men and women and children and shops, the latter play an all important part in the daily cur
 riculum. Men who never go inside a
 store throughout the year can be seen
 standing irresolutely in the doorway of some large establishment gazing help lessly about until that nest useful and thoughtful of personages, the floor walker, helps him to his destination. That the Christmas spirit is at it's height one has but to go to the large handsome stores of The Gamble-Des-
 nond company as the writer did on
 Saturday. The stores throughout are very like pine grotto, for on all sides reaching to the very ceiling are great bouGhs of pine, Christmas trees really. Every post and pillar in the stores are hidden under the trees, the high side walls being similarly decorated. AL together this is one of the most artistic Christmas decorations ever seen in
 
 right kind of decoration moreover or nate and effective yet well out of the way of the passageways and so ar ranged as to in no wise affect the per- feet circulation of pure air that keep the stores of The Gamble Desmond company so perfectly ventilated. It is seldom that one finds a modern store with aisles so wide ceilings so high and general ventilation so good. This fact was impressed upon one on Satur- day when the handsome establishment was taxed to it's utmost capacity.
 The crowds were everywhere and it takes a large crowd to fill these ample aisles. Every department came in for it's share of Christmas shopping Hun dreds gathered at the glove depart ment, where probably over a thousand pairs of gloves were sold on Saturday alone, for at this season people buy from one to six and dozen pairs each. Across the aisle is another popular de- partment where dainty handkerchiefs are displayed and sold too by the dozens and half dozens
 New, lacy things called "neckWear,' is another of the sought for things at this season and The Gamble Desmond company's display of these beggars de- scription. Silk stockings are sold in great numbers for Christmas gifts as the throng that stopped at this depart ment can be taken as criterion, while across the aisle at the jeWelry depart ment, where also leather goods ger f,1, nd oil of lAc1S trinkets are sold, the passageway had to be cleared continually so great were the crowds that gathered
 The Gamble Desmond company's mems furnishing department Is noted for it's completeness and if one stopped to note the things sold most at this season one would call it a toss up in favor of house coats, bath robes, gloves hnndkerchiefs and mufflers.
 The umbrella department, though calls for more than passing mention for the showing is most remarkable i. You can get an umbrella for as little ! as 39 cents and you can get an umbrella | for as high as $15
 This is but a hint of the main floor 1 of only the west store.
 Upstairs is the picture gallery to ' which will be attahoed special signih- canoe to-day, as q big Christmas sale of manufacturers sample pictures [ starts this morning, for which exten- sive preparations have been made,
 Across the archway Is the new shoe [, department opened only two weeks ago and given over to the sale of the cele- 1rated Rumsey shoe This new depart nent is already a success and adds not | !, little to the completeness of the fine 
 Over in the east store are the furs, l greatly enlarged deparment and a argely patronized one at this season as many people are giving useful gifts of his kind now. Nearby is the depart- nent of silk and flannel waists, tailored gowns, bath robes, while across the tisle is the dainty lingerie, silk petti- oats and the department for baby ,lotheS, one of the attractive depart- nents in the store. The east store base nent is devoted to the sale of art china, ut glass and bric-a-b brac and fine rtistlc show is this The GambleDe; nond company has made
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 WAR TAX BILL PASSED.