The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-08
HOWE X STETsoN STORES.
New Millinery Department Opcned-
 Handsome Suit Room.

The splendid Improvements which the Schartenberg & Robinson Co, owners of the Howe X Stetson stores, have been making for some months are completed and to-day the various new departments will be ready for the great fall opening which will continue through Friday and Saturday The store entire Is very attractively deco rated with royal purple and white, and hundreds of palms are scattered about making handsome back ground for the new and fine selections of autumn goods displayed in every store. A new suit department has just been completed on the first floor opening into Pitkin street It Is a large, light room, perfectly adapted to the display of suits, gowns and coats, and the stock collected here for your inspection Is worthy of its home.
 The large space on the second floor formerly given over to this depart ment has been entirely remoleled and large number of show eases with heavy glass fronts handsome tables and shelves will be splendid to-day with the most attractive showing of the millinery art that has yet been offered you. The stock includes crea- tions from the fashionable centers of the world and also a large stock of | splendid copies and conceptions from | the work rooms of the firm. The materials and trimmings are bewilder- ing in color, and the wings, orna- ments, feathers and shapes must be seen to be appreciated There Is no question about their being admired
 Some If the very handsomest hats are made e,largely of gold cloth One blue bengalne has a crown of the gold cloth, and is trimmed with three willow plumes fastened with huge cabachou of the gold cloth and blue, and faced with blue velvet
 Another Is made entirely of the gold cloth has a facing If black vel vet and Is trimmed around the crown with marabo and ostrich feathers fin black and white A white broadeloth l hat has the brim beautifully braided l in white silk soutarhe the crown trimmed with Irish lace and willow plumes an1 is faced with black velvet. ] An exquisite creation is of white ben ! galine faced with black satin, large dircctore nat The trimming s white grapes and leaves with bunch of pink roses at the side and has strings of black satin It's a perfect beauty.
 stone grey silk and velvet hat is very plain and stunning, its only trim ming being an enormous willow plume of the same shade
 These are only a few of tho many hats prepared for your approval, and some of the palmer ones are equally attractive.
 Just a word about the suits anu wraps. Every suit that is numbered among the, new arrivals sparkles with that style dstinctiveness characterls- tic of Howe x Stetson apparel. The directoirc and semi and tight fitting models appear in the numerous ef- fccts which have been conceived by the worlds foremost designers The above models appear rich in broad cloths, neat worsteds and, serges aud stripes The coats show elaborate trimmings of novelty braljs, buttons and satin embrolderies
 Tho most stunning combination vest and sash effects appear in the di- rectoire models These are formed If rich satns or materials of contrast ing colors set off here and there with fancy buttons. Tho skirts of those suits are cut on the new gorcd cape designs an1 in notifications of the graceful sheath model. The color col lection includes all the new browns, greens and blues, also smoke wistarIa and CataWba
 A word is due to he said about the new crockery, glassware and house furnishing department, which is to bo opened in the basement of the Phkin street building in ten days, Here will be foundsa new and very large stock of these goods,
 There are splendid new things in every department All the latest pat terms and colors in silks, dress goods and ribbons, Tho leather goods, jew elry, ribbons and hosiery vie with each other for supremacy It's a stun ming occasion and should not be miss cd by q single woman In town.
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