Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19
IN THE STORES

THE PALAIS ROYAL page today will
be read with delight by the wise housekeep-
er. the one who always has few dollars
reserved for good investments and whose
home Is the wonder and envy of less wise
neighbors. Curtains, it Is announced. can
be bought for very nearly half the usual
prices, IL not more than two to four pairs
of pattern are required. Rugs can be Sc
cured at saving; SO can tapestry portieres
and table covers. Brass beds and bedding,
dressing tables, chairs, desks, colonial
clocks and furniture are among the other
bargains to be found on the fourth floor.
The housekeeper will learn, of ridiculously
little prices for odd pieces of furniture, just
the pieces that SO materially help to bright
en- the home and the wonder and admiration
Of ones visitors. So with pictures.
Table linen and bedding. supposing that
new patterns will be introduced later in the
autumn, are likely to be no more attractive
In looks. and equal qualities will be very
much greater in price. And the wise house
keeper will buy blankets and other bedding
now If the promises held out in the Palais
Royal page are fulilled-and the firm prom
1ses that they will be.
PARKER, BRIDGET & co. are calling
especial attention to the after-inventory
clearance sale now going on in the wom-
ems sections of their store. All the choice
styles of the season will be sold with a dis
regard to original prices; manufacturers
samples of women's walking skirts of silk
and wolfe, accordion pleated, tailor-made
styles and newest effects in black, blue and
brown; linen tailor-made suits and linen
dresses, waists at great reductions, hand
embroidered suits and dresses, and all the
dainty and ultra-stylish accessories in the
way Of belts. handkerchiefs and neckwear,
for which this house is famed.
ID Wy rrxync . w ~ -
ing undone to provide Washington custom
ers with the much-wanted and hard-to-get
long Isle gloves These gloves are de-
clared to be of the very best qualities and
are shown in the most popular and fashion
able effects. An additional attraction con-
sists in their being lower priced than at
any time during the season. This store is
also closing out its linen SUITS waists and
black and white skirts at half price.
LANsBURGH & BRO. are clearing decks
for the fall and winter campaign. New
suits and wraps are coming to the front
must be retired to the wardrobes Of women
who are wise enough to buy at the prices
offered. These must-go bargains include
women's white shirt-waist suits of lawn,
back or front, are trimmed with lace OR
embroidery; the skirts trimmed to CORE
spond. Then there are wash skirts of India
linen, rep and cannon cloth, trimmed with
almost the proverbial song and shrunken
white suits at little more than the asking.
The week will also include sale Of black
silks.
CLARK, DAVENPORT & CO. announce
their clearance sale of carpets and rugs,
when every weave, from the cheapest to
the most exclusive, will be drastically re-
duced in prices.
The stock of mattings will also be offered
at the same unusual reductions. In furni-
ture, drapery and upholstery, similar bar
gains can be had. Altogether the sale offers
the unusual opportunity of securing high
grade merchandise at very low prices
This house was recently awarded a con-
tract by the government for 10000 yards of
carpet. BY reason of the purchasing power
thus conferred, the members of the firm
have been enabled to buy cheaper, and con-
sequently will be able to sell at lower than
their regular prices.
MAYER & co. are continuing their price
cutting so strenuously that they are keep
ing over busy even in these dull days of the
mercantile year. The house is featuring the
special Byrne piano, which is sold on terms
to suit the buyer. is guaranteed for ten
years. and a scarf and tuning furnished
free. Other bargains include reed go-carts
with she'll shaped bodies and rubber tires.
and q large line of refrigerators, chief
among them the Bowen, Lenox and
Progress.
HUB FURNITURE co. announces the ar
rival Of the first shipment of another big
purchase of couches. The extent of this
company's order. it is stated enabled the
manufacturers to grant most desirable
price concessions and, as a result, patrons
may look for even greater bargains than
are usually to be found at this store. These
couches are full length with solid oak
frames and legs, best springs, padded felt
tops and are upholstered in French cut
verona or velour.
HOUSE & HERMANN are cutting
prices on all pieces of furniture of which
they have but one pattern, and of all pat
terms that they have not reordered. These
bargains represent white enameled beds,
oak bed room suites, oak and bird's-eye
maple dressers, mahogany chinoniers oak
buffets and sideboards, arm chairs, extern
sion tables. china closets and couches OF
velour and other popular upholsteries.