Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07
HUNTING BARGAINS.
Every Department in the Big Shops
Has Plenty.

Christmas buyers have now become par
gain hunters-and the entire shopping DIS
trict is their field.
Before the holidays a woman Will buy
the most extravagant gifts without regard
to price. With the new year comes the
reaction of her generous impulses, ana
economy, in very black letters, heavily I'M
derscored, is the first resolution entered on
her new leaf. By way of beginning, she
takes advantage of the "marked-doWn'
season and makes the rounds, from store
to store, In the always fascinating at
tempt to get something for nothing. And,
the nks to the bargain counter, she soLle-
times succeeds.
After the yuletide rush is over our me-
chants put winter behind them and begin
in the height of the ice kings reign, to
make room for the fabrics of spring. This
means getting rid of remnants and the
thousand and one left-overs from the
Christmas trade. Hence the bargain
counter.
priced silks and satns there is table
heaped with ODDS and ends. The table is
small and the heap is not high. but the
remnants are exquisite and their prices
ridiculously low. Some of the bits would
make a vanity bag, others are large enough
for an evening waist, and some again are
merely strips fit for patchwork. Each
piece, however, Is of rich, light brocade
lowered in bright colors, shimmering
satin, in most Of the pastel shades. This
sale is attracting eager customers one OF
whom said yesterday that she made 1t a
yearly practice to be on hand to buy at
least a half dozen varieties. which she made
up, through the year, into Christmas gifts
for those friends whom she liked to re-
member in some trifling but pretty way
In another department in the same store
there Is larger and more varied stock
of short-end laces, some hand made and
others woven, but all of them beautifully
fine. By the yard they cost what our Brit
ash sister calls pretty penny, but by the
remnant they are within the reach of any
woman who aspfres to dress at all.
Another store Is showing bargains in its
annual sale of white goods. The display OF
underwear Is remarkable both for the ex-
eeiience of the garments and their unusual
reduction in price. The material Is the
product of the best looms and each niece
Is made by leading manufacturers of Amer
!ca ana France. That the bargain hunter
Is more dignifed parsonage than the
comic supplements imply Is evidenced nv
the women Of prominence and even wealth
VINO bank the sides of the tables where
these attractions are displayed each mo-
n.a,y strenuous in her efforts to get a fine
eampric something, trimmed with Iane and
threaded with ribbon. below the price or
cost" o piiee W
The sale also includes napery ana An.
pea Anen ana towels, and. as nice woman
always needs these essentials to mar nica
meme, many take advantage of this annnaI
marx down to replenish supplies for the en-
tire year. In keeping with the white
SALE. another department shows white
china service for dining and bed rooms and
imported glassware in the most desirable
shapes, and such variety of designs that
almost any broken sets at home NAV ha
matched by the bargain samples shown.
A popular house makes q specially this
week Of a clearance sale Of embroideries
hundreds Of designs and apparently miles
OF yards, all at marked-down prices. There
Is really no cause for the sharp reduction,
for such goods are always in demand. The
up-to-date merchant has keen eye to BUSH
ness, however, and It may be that In this
and similar instances It Is reasoned that
ilrst-class goods at low prices win bring