The Newtown bee., 1904-03-25
FAIR WEEK AT READS.

doesn't make any difference what the weather may be outside, the interior is cheerful; the birds sing, the flowers bloom, and the tea room is a bower. Everything indicates spring, from the basement to the furniture department of the D. M. Read Company's store, in decorations and in stock. In every spring, the new things for the delight of the ladies are being shown. Mo- where is this more noticeable than in the ladies own department, where lingerie and negligee garments are dis played in all the beauty of their priS- tine newness. Light and dainty with a ruffle here and bit of lace there, feminity should be delighted with the display and possessed of desire to have some of it for her very own. In ] show case in front of the main en- Hattie Hinckley, consisting of large egg drawn by rabbits. In the case are also shown the latest ideas in women's collars dainty and chic. The store has in it's women's department, bridal outfits and other exclusive gar ments. In the baby's department are many pretty bonnets, caps, booties, jackets, etc., which are equal to any thing obtainable in New York. Much of it is hand work. The real Mecca of the visitors is the tea room, one sec tion of the furniture department transformed. Vines bearing wistaria blossoms and bushes abloom with lilacs form the scenic background. The trunk of an ancient apple tree, still showing the woodpecker's borings, is mendation. A program of 16 numbers
 is rendered every afternoon from un- til 5.3O o'clock by Jerome Mays banjo orchestra, and from 10 until 11.30 o'clock a. m., a piano player recital is given. Tea is served every afternoon
 from until 5.3O o'clock. ''If it comes from Reads it is all right" most
 true saying.
 Just arrived, all the new styles o1
 ladies' and mems shoes. Come to us.
 we can supply you with your new
 shoes for Foster. Also large stock O1
 school shoes for boys and girls, the
 kind that wear.-[Sandy Hook Shoe
 Store.
 DIN. Clark, the hardware man o Shelton, is telling about paint in his
 adv. Look it up.
 H. Senior, the lumber dealer of Beth
 ell, has a new advertisement in thi' , weeks BEE which will interest any
 who are thinking of building. The friends of Miss Rebecca Wun derlich were pleased to see her in the Methodist church, last Sunday. Sh, | was the guest of Mrs Emily A. Ben
 nett, returning to her school in Mon roe on Monday morning.
 |. Mrs Eliza Fairchild spent Sunday ir Sandy Hook, returning to Danbury ol l 1ou hn hn
 of MT and Mrs Brott.
 Mrs Charles Hawley has been in yer . poor health the past week, much t
 the regret of her friends.
 Next Sunday wifi be the last of tn n conference year. Preaching mornin e and evening by the Methodist pastor
 Rev MT Ross.
 d In the history of hatdom there ha r. never been hat placed upon the mar
 ket that is the equal of the Blackma } $2 Spring hat. Everything that me ,r chanical ingenuity, money and brain
 can produce has been brought to bea in the manufacture of this famous hat h The quality is there, the style is there
 Talking about styles brings to min l. the fact that Blackman hats are a ! ways year in advance of all others
 Take for instance the very hats tha L. are now considered stylish and con y pare them with the Blackmans of !, year ago and you will find that the o are identical in shape and styl
 Blackman hats for the spring of l9( C. are in advance of them all again. I'll is designer of Blackman's is so far ahea k, of other designers that every hat mal
 ufacturer in the country is trying .h obtain his services. It will ever is thus. Of course if you desire to ps D. only S1.5O you can get the best hat f.
 mind they are not Blackmans. If it e, a s3 hat you want you can purcha D, them also of the Un-x-ld Hat & Sh' st Co.,, Arcade, Bridgeport, and you al re guaranteed a hat that is the superi Id of any agency hat selling for either at or S5. Blackman Spring blocks a ce now in stock.