Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
Claims as a Shopping
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Star refunds you fifty miles of it, leaving
the cost of only twenty miles to you, or
If you buy more than $1,000 worth we
will prorate the cost.
Ask the first merchant you visit for The
Stars refund card (Which every merchant
advertising in this section will give you).
1T Is good for the amount of your fare
within a radius of fifty miles on $50 pur-
chase, twenty-five miles on SO purchase,
ten miles on $40 purchase or five miles
or farther on So purchase.
NOTICE-Buy a return ticket at your
ticket office. Ask the first merchant of
whom you purchase of those advertising
in this section to enter total amount OF
purchase made in The Stars refund card
and countersign it. If you wish to make
a purchase at any other stores advertis-
ing in this section show coupon and ask
them for The Stars refund card and have
them enter amount you purchase from
them only on the refund card. Then bring
the refund cards to The Star, PennSyi-
vana avenue and 18th street, together
with your railroad ticket and get your
fare refunded. You must make applica-
ton for refund card when purchases are
made.
EVERY LINE OF MERCHANDISE is
REPRESENTED. The Stars list in
cludes the representative retail stores OF
the city, and covers practically every line
of merchandise needed for personal or
home use. You may spend $500 at one
store $1,000 at another, $500 at another
and $500 in miscellaneous purchase-there
is $500 expended-for which your fare
will be refunded.
This ticket is valid only when such pur-
chases are made by persons living outside
the District of Columbia from an adver--
tiser in this section. and will be redeemed
until January /, 1909.
Surprise Is in Store.
Any one who thinks that Washington is
merely the seat of government will have
the most pleasant kind of a surprise
when he or she shops around a bit and
learns what Washington stores have to
offer. Why, it stands to reason that the
seat of government, which for century
has been a home for people from every
corner of the globe, would have to offer
the very biggest kind of variety OF mer-
chandise. Isn't that go? Certainly!
Senator's and representatives from the
Pacific coast want to find the things they
learned to like west of the Sierras-and
they find them, too. So it is with that
great big army of men and women who
are employed by the government and who
come here from pretty nearly every
county in the United States. There are
so many of them, and they have such
| wide sweep when ir comes to tastes ana
| incomes. that a Washington store simply
| has to step right out of the rut that ordl-
nary stores get into and become regular
cosmopolitan emporium.
Meaning of Emporium.
| That's word frequently misused, too
emporium. Every little crossroads combi-
nation village store and post office calls
| itself an emporium. but according to the
| dictionary it means IAN important trad
| ing place" and is applied to stores the
! trade of which covers tremendous ter
ritory.
| So there YOU are! If Washington stores
do not cover the needs of the whole
| United States, then some OF the plggest
! business men have missed their guess,
| which is not at all likely. And, In addl-
| ton, remember that there is not nation
that can afford even single nattieship
that has not a big houSeful OF diplomatic
representatives here. From Europe, ASA,
Africa and South America they nave
come-and they have to be satlshed py
the stores. When a visit is made here on
invitation of The Star. and before railroad
fare is returned, ask the clerk pehinu
the counter and he can probably rattie
off the whole diplomatic list as his Gus
toners And the diplomatic list is so Dig
it has to be bound in book form, tco.
Chance of Lifetime.
Therefore The Star thinks out-of-town
BUYERS ought to know they are missing
the chance of their lives if they wlllfully
persist in staying away from washington
stores If persons from the biggest cities
in the world can be satisfied here, then
others can be not only satisfied but de-
lighted.
Here's word for the ladies. especially.
They spend the money and generally try
to show the men that there can be just a S
much foresight and management i'll buy
ing things as there is used III earning
salary or running up figures on the right
side of the balance sheet. Now, woudn
the ladies of the nearby states like TO
take a peep into the Washington stores
some afternoon when the automobiles and
carriages from the homes of senators and
representatives and foreign ministers are
lined up in front" Wouldn't they like to
see Just what kind Of hats those folks
are buying, or what kind of dress goods
they have gone in 10 look at, or what
kind of wedding presents they are select
ing for the happy pair whose pictures Will
be In every society column in the land?
And aside from getting a glimpse OF a
shopping crowd which has no equal for
taste visitors will find that IL they can't
pay hundred dollars for a dress they
can get one for ten dollars right at the
same counter.
Washington's Shopping District.
| Washington's store district is not spread
over such big territory that shoppers
| are worn out trotting around, either.
Shoppers get from one place to another