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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
Nee Plaid Blankets
~ Ready for Giving

Pretty we'll In tan and white, blue and
white, gray and white.
Woven of fine wool and especially priced at $50 a
pair size 72x84 inches.
Others of dierent grade, in pink and white and gray
and white SIS pair in size 60xs4 inches and SIG in
size 70xs0 inches
Plentiful choice of other blankets at special prices
from SO pair for white cotton blankets, 70xS2 inches
to $40 each for wool camp blankets, light gray color
with dark borders, 66X84 inches.
Good choice in between of blankets at $780, $780,
and SO pair, and at So each.
(sixth Floor, CentrsD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
4 $40 Gift That Any
IL W0man nil Prize

is a fine envelope handbag really fine one
We have some envelope books at this price that
delight the eye at first glance and look still better on
close acquaintance They so beautifully made so
correct in every detail
They are made of shiny black auto leather and fine
seals in black, navy, sand taupe and brown and are
lined with rich moire silk
Price $40.
Main Floor, Chestnut
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
Come Very Excebtional
- Table Cloths and NAPKINS

They are really the best in possession at the.
prices and don't believe there any similarly priced
cloths and napkins in Philadelphia that quite equal them
They are Irish goods-heavy, fu-heached, double
damask in fine grade in ustrous satiny finish and
in choice of four handsome circular patterns, as
come only on high grado linens.
Where is the housekeeper who would not appreciate
a set of these Christmas gift?
Table cloths, 2x3 yards $12 each
Matching napkins, 24x24 inches, $l2 dozen.
(Eirst Floor, ChestnuD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
4 Wonderland of Gifts in Furniture

Whole fleets of tea wagons-seventy-fve kinds
between $l160 and $40.
They rolling out in all directions, for you must
know that tea wagon is very popular gift and
people to know where to find the longest choice
of the good kinds
The wagon at $115O is in brown English oak Will
liam and Mary style, with rubber r-tred front wheels
and ball-bearing rear wheels shod with composition
tires. Every one has a removable glass tray,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07

The tea wagon at $40 is handsome equipage, an
excellent Chippendale reproduction in beautifully
figured mahogany, with Gabrielle legs and ball and
claw feet resting on large shelf The top has drop
leaves and rope edge, and when open 2sxSs
inches Front and rear wheels rubber-tired.
1t takes probably thousand other different kinds
of novel and attractive things to make up this won
derland of furniture
(Fifth FIsss,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
Tre0 Elastic
4 GYdIeS

Much liked by college girls because they suit
able for gym work for negligee.
Those of flesh coor.or white IL inches long and
cost $780, and those 16 inches long, designed for tall
women are $45O still others flesh colored Ia inches
long, and priced at So and $3.50.
A heavy model is of flesh color, 16 inches long, in
tended for full figures and priced at SO; extra sizes $3.50
(rbIrd Floor. chestput)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
Nomen's Gift
~ UmbreUas

They have lustrous silk colored usually, and
the fashionable hues purple, green blue-and there
is black, of course
They have leather loops baketc handles in white
coors to harmonze and finished in all sorts of
and novel fashions. Some even have tips to match.
IS Prices $5 to s12
MAIN Floor, Market
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
CHRISTMAS GOSSIP


CURRIERS' don't like to bother with foot mufs hence
there any too many in the market. As
the Mems Hat Store takes interest in eXtremtes it has
foot mufs made of hardy furs for $s to $40 ai Floor
Mdrket)
T EATHER HAT BOXES for the man who is apt to
go out of town to dress affairs who travels with
many belongings Some of the boxes hold or two
others entire family of hats. $40 to $42.5o (Iain
Floor, Market)
MANY pair of women's pretty silk pajamas goes
'A into Christmas box japanese embroidered and lots
of other kinds in the Little Nghtgown Salon (Third
Floor, Central)
JAPANESE quilted jackets to under coats are
$1.25 without sleeves and 1926 with These prices
for silk jackets of satin 1926 and $475,
spectivey. French Room Third Floor, Chestnut.)
LNOMENS novel coat sweaters Of brushed wool
w back-andwhite and an-and purple, with black and
suede leather trimmings. Price $45. First Floor
Market)
DAINTY HOSE SUPPORTERS of pink or blue satin
~ 75c and 81 pair others of pink satin en-
brodered with ribbon flowers $3.50 (Third Floor
Chestnut.)
CAMERAS should be in readiness to snap the boys
~ when they marching home Brownies are 81
to SIS; folding Pocket Kodaks $3.50 to $50. Albums
films and supplies in plenty (Aiatn Floor, Chesut.)
IT'S great comfort for all of glasses have
duplicate pair in of accident Shelrim glasses
incidentally mishaps We grind prescription
lenses and know how to fit them (Nfai, GaUerH
CheAtnut.)
WE ARE fortunate enough to have received limited
w number Of opera and tourist glasses Lemares
famous for their lenses Nothing makes finer gift for
the right person. 81 to $25 (lfan Gallery, Chestnut)
THE Silk Pettcoat is filled with delightful silk
pettcoats for gifts. Pettcoats in changeable coors
light coors, dark coors petticoats in evening colors
mostly flesh and white and really enchanting, with laces
frils ribbons and rosebuds-and petticoats in dark
colors. Prices start at $25 Third Floor, Centrally
DHILIPPlNE eyelet embroidered pettcoas with rib
bons in wonderfully good for Christmas
presents and cost only $3.50 (Thrd Floor CENTRALLY
pLOOMERS for large women are of batiste at ST. 25;
- sateen at $3.50 and silk at 1885, (Third Floor
Centrally
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07

One of rough coating has a
big racoon collar and off-skirt
front pockets. The price is
S67.5O.
A wrap-coat of velour delaine
clinging little below the knees
and having big collar of dyed
nutria or nearseal and gay
fancy lining is $S5.
A velour coat with fullness
over the hips and big wolf col
lar is $95.
Velour delaine with straight
back, novel pockets, no belt and
a big nutria collar, 500.
The foregoing coats may be
had in colors, as deer, taupe,
brown, navy and black.
A silvertone cloth with bands
of nutria, a close fitting body
and full skirt. Colors are bur-
gundy, Pekin green, brown and
taupe. $95.
st Floor. CentraD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
Plain but Good Handkerchiefs
for Men

Good Irish kinds, of pure fax, well made and
hemstitched, at SO, $780, $4.20, So and So Dozen
They're all ready to slip into Christmas boxes.
And these are good kinds to have embroidered
we do machine work very well, initials 75c dozen
names $l25 dozen.
fMaip Floor, CentrsD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
These LoUely'NeW
Evening Dresses

Imagine turquoise blue chif-
fon velvet cut with extreme Sc
verify, the edges relieved by sill
YER ribbon and the girdle of
dahlia-colored Velvet.
Or a crinkly chiffon of flesh
color with very long bell sleeves
and a broad velvet girdle.
Or a black chiffon velvet gown
with a spangled tulle tunic and
a blue satin girdle with big or
child and metal leaves.
Or a pale blue chiffon velvet
cut on Greek lines, the bodice
embroidered in silver.
Or a white satin with cerise
tunic-also of Greek type.
Or a brown satin slip with a
tunic of brown net embroidered
with jet.
Or a dark blue chiffon velvet
with jacket of gold and blue
brocade-absolutely severe and
simple.
Besides a group of exquisitely
colored low cut gowns of chiffon
velvet with nothing but silver
cloth for relief.
Prices are $62.5o to 1925.
Crirst Floor. Ce
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
X/e Gould Wr1te q Chab-.
" ter About Crepe Geor-
gette BIOuSeS

They in white in flesh pink, in delicate
bisque color for women who want light shades and
there are plenty of darker suit coors too
Some are beaded, some embroidered, some braided
with lusrous soutache and others have lace hand
work to make them charming " \
There ever many styles and prices all the
way from $3.50 to $45.
~ (rhrd KIoer. Central
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
Fur Caps and Gloves to Match
for Motorists
Something to Wear That
He WILL Wear

That is the secret of satisfactory gift for
man. All men like to get fine things to wear, but
unless they the kinds of things that they them
selves would select they have use for them.
That is why there is so much satisfaction and
safety in choosing mems gifts in the WanamakeS
Mems Wear Store. Here are things that years of
experience in supplying many of the best-dressed
men of Philadelphia have shown to be desirable.
Choose from great stocks of
Shirts, $1.65 to $40.
Necktes, Soc to $3.50.
House coats, $3.50 to $50.
Dressing gowns, SIS to SOS.
Bath robes, 81 to SIS. sY
Sweaters, SIS to $25.
And many other handsome things.
(Main Floor, Market
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
WANAMAKER'S
hristmas Is Good Time to Forget Old Differences
The Writer .
Remembers Quite w ell
Charles Dickens

reception in Philadelphia at Concert
Hall, Chestnut above Twelfth, many
years ago.
He came in late and stayed long
after reading part of "The Old
Curiosity Shop" and other pieces and
then shook the hands of all who were
presented to him. We could hardly
forgive him for his american Notes."
but he was sorry for them afterward,
and it was the fault of the snobs who
were near him and misrepresented
America.
Let us forget what we do not like
and remember him for Little Nell's'
sake, and for this verse attributed to
him:
"The timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need;
The kindly word in grief's dark hour,
That proves friend indeed;
The plea for mercy, softly breathed,
When justice threatens high;
The sorrow of cOntrite heart
These things must never die"
Christmas time is a good time to
forget old differences, and prove it by
something you can easily say or do.
Don't think it over too long. Just do
something that puts things right.
IS. .! !':,:::' : nee: iii 0%D@A<
Dec. 7, 1918. II
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
Mems Underwear and Socks
From Staple Cottons to
Luxurious Silks

Warm underwear for the men who want it right
now and all kinds of underwear for people who
want it for gifts. M
While we are enthusiastic advocates Of the com
Portable union suit, we have all the best kinds of
shirts and drawers for those who prefer them, and
large stocks Of wool and merino goods.
We also have abdominal bands, and many a re-
turned soldier or sailor who has used them will
continue to do
Underwear from America, England, Scotland
and Japan.
Half hose from America, England and France
tMaiu Floor Market,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
WOmen's Wool Sweaters
Special at $5.75

A clearaway of brushed wool sweaters in coors,
some with sashes, others with belts.
Under ordinary circumstances you would pay
half as much again for these garments.
(First Floor, MarkeD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
THE Millinery Salons Announce
IL NelU $40 and SI2 Hats.
here Never Mas Such
Il ~Giving Of Silks


thinking to what is really practical and acceptable
gift for women, and gifts of silk the result. Women
like to get things they to advantage.
Silk is the advantageous gift.
Silk is the practical and fashionable gift because
silk is the fabric of the day.
Men buying silks for their mothers and that il
sure sign that silk is mighty good gift
Silk is economic gift. Our silk prices are now
moderate and fine silks likely rule very high
this coming season.
1t pays to buy silk now and that in itself is good
reason why there is such buying of silks.
We are glad to have such fine new shipments to offer
Literally thousands of yards of Christmas silks are
coming in daily.
The latest lots comprise:
New foulcrds, 40 inches wide, in black and white
conservative and large patterns $3.50 $275
and So yard
New satns for dresses and linings S175 to SO yard
the latter goods being of remarkably good value.
large new lot of tub silks for sports wear mems
shirts and womens waists and dresses, $15O, S175 s2
$210 and SO yard broad awning stripes included
New Chinese wash satins to combine with the sports
silks and for wash skirts extraordinary value at.
So yard
large shipment of Chinese Shantung pongee SO
inches wide, Toe yard.
First Floor, Chestnu)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
A Word About Longcloth
at $2.S5 a Piece

1t is quality which ordinarily costs 4Oc more
for each piece.
Particularly useful for undcrmuslins, and ten
yards in each piece.
(First Floor Chestnut)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07

Many people call them blankets and some them
robes Woven Of cotton. Attractvey colored in
and white delft and white tan and white pink and white
light blue and white, gold and white. Six designs,
floral centers, others border patterns and large
block effects, all bound around with silk ribbon.
Specially priced at $3.50 EACH size 72x9O inches.
Others in size 70xs4 inches, without binding, in all
desirable coors SIS each.
(Sixth Floor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
NEWPORT CAMPAIGN OPENS

Newport, Pa, May 17.-Newport's
for pledge week in the
War Savings Stamp cam
paign opened with a bang last even
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
FIVE GENERATIONS IN FAMILY

ficiary, and in influencing young men
to enlist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

this borough. Mrs. Barnhart is only
eighty-nine, yet she is great great
grandmother. Not only that, one of
these, Raymond Sechrist, of East
Yoe, expects to be called to the col
ors within the next two weeks. Mrs.
Barnhart lives with her daughter.
Mrs. David Stine, and despite her age
is still in the best of health.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
able Pants E. OHeFO

These pants are good and
strong: materials are worsteds,
cassimeres and cheviots. Save
dollar.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

auditorium last evening. Mrs. Will
liam l. Laubenstein presided at the
meeting and was chosen chairman. IT
is hoped by next Monday night to
have 100 members in the corps.
The work the organization will be
asked to do will be to assist in ex-
terminating German propaganda, aid
patriotic demonstrations, Red Cross
campaigns and other campaigns
which will help some great bene-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
MAY II, 1918.

ing, when big parade was held. The
brilliant pageant was headed by the
Citizens band. All Newport children
participated in the event.
The Rev. w. c. Ney, pastor of the
st. Pauls Lutheran Church. is chair
man of the committee in charge of
the sale of w. S. S. in Newport. He
has divided Newport into six dis
tricts
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

Why not save dollar on
your new Straw tomorrow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

A magnificent assortment, consisting
of over three hundred white and fancy
striped voile waists; fancy trimmed and
tailor made; all with the newest collars;
assorted in sizes, SO to 46
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
TO PENBROOK RED CROSS

Members of the Penbrook Red
Cross Society will meet tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock at their head
quarters instead of at as was pre-
viously announced. Wells will be
furnished to thove who have not al
ready secured them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
Loyal Order of Moose
Buy War Saving Stamps

William Bristol, of the John
Heathcote Agency. spoke before
Lodge No. lot, Loyal Order of Moose
last evening and as result the
Moose purchased $1,000 worth of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
Girls Enroll to Boost
Helps to Win the War

Twenty-seven women enrolled as
charter members in the Girls Re-
cruiting Corps at the women's pa
trtotic meeting held under the au-
spices OF the Harrisburg Recruiting
party at the Technical High school
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

Red Lion, Pa, May 17.-There is
no evidence of any race suicide in a
family where five generations exist
Between the age sof eighty-nine and
three years, as does in the family of
Mrs. Leah Barnhart, resident of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

War Savings Stamps. The Moose
have been engaged in all manner of
patriotic work.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-09

Cut the weeds which are such trees which will never grow to size or quality suitable for numbering. Ex- amples of these are the iron wood. horn beam, alders, dog wood and in some cases, beach, biHch, some of the oaks, naples and similar woods. In the natural woods these varieties serve a purpose for they are of value as a soil protection, but in an improved wood lot they should be replaced with better species such as pine, red and white oak, ash, hickory, tulip or white wood, aspin or poplar, hemlock and other trees of value for lumber and other uses which call for a wood of good size and quality.
 Thin out the valuable species and give each tree an opportunity for max imum growth. Conditions are best when each tree has direct sunlight on the top of the crown and where there is sufficient side crowding to make heighth without side limbs. When thinning do not make the openings
 between trees larger than will fill in
 within five to ten years. Select the
 trees to form the crop which have the best form and remove those interfer- ing with them. Aim to produce tall clean cut trees. Too often in thinning the tendency is to cut the largest trees letting the smaller ones grow. The mC>* valuable lumber is in the large tree Grow big trees.
 Remove all "cripples." In ali stands of timber there are trees of the good species that are crippled having beer ! broken by ice or logging operations ,ol are naturally croopked. These should be taken out and their places filled with others of value
 By thus using extra labor this win l ter, intelligently, to produce cord wooi | at a profit and at the same time to i'm prove the wood lots, double gain i. possible. By taking out a part of tn. timber the wood lot will be left in bet | ter condition. The farm will be nor,
 valuable from the standpoint of flu
 ture growth and at the same time /; l profit will be. had on it this year. The Connecticut Agricultural Ex
 pertinent Station at New Haven i l prepared to assist in the planning 0
 a system for handling the wood lot The state forester will send a maj from there with no charge other thai | the travelling expenses for the e1 .pert.-A. E. Moss, Connecticut Agri cultural College
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-09
RoeeAAeE FOR HOGS.
How the Cost of Wintering Can Be Materially Redueed.

The common feeding practice in Connecticut is to give hogs for win ter feed ration made up entirely of grain. For mature ;anina1s that are being carried evers without gain of flesh, only "a very small ration is re- quired, and the bulk of the rich con- centrates which are commonly fed is so small that it fails to distend the stomach sufficiently to keep the ami malls from feeling sensations of hnn- ger. The result is that the hogs are restless and discontented and as would result with a person in a similar case, the physical we'll being of the animal is harmfully affected. The constant uneasy movements of the hog, though they do not have the beneficial effects
 of normal exercise, uses the energy which should go toward the upkeep, and the small volume of need in the stomach seems to hinder digestion so that more feed is required than would be the case if the volume of the feed was sufficient for the hog to be entire l ly contented. If the grain ration is | increased to the point where it's vol une Is sufficient to cause content the hog will beome too fat and at the ! same time high price of grain makes the ration very costly for animals whose value is not materially increas- ed and sometimes is even decreased
 as is often the case with breeding ! stock by gain in flesh. For the man who is wlntering mature hogs for breeding purposes it Is important to
 know how to give the desired bulk to
 the ration without undufy increasing the cost, and without causing the an final to become fat enough to interfere with breeding.
 The eastern farmer has long over Hooked in large measure the value
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-09
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS

erwise it would not be used and no saving would be made.
 The cards signed were classified ac- cording to whether the rations used were bought ready mixed, whether either grain or mash were home mixed or all home mixed. There were. -135 cards signed by poultry men feeding ready mixed ratfons keeping a total of 1S,657 hens at ans average cost of 284 cents per hen per month.
 The poultry men feeding part ready mixed rations numbering 49 with to- tai of 6,S4s hens at an average cost of 27.2 cents per hen per month. There were 112 poultry men feeding home mixed rations to s30,S4O, hens at a cost lof 25.0 cents per hen per month. The total number of hens represented was 1 50,840 hens which :. cost to feed $13,- 320.53 or ah average of 26.2 cents per hen per month. .'rE t
 The advised rations worked out and accepted at the meetin gs, would feed | the same number, total of 50,S40 hens for sf1,01s.S6 per month which shows a saving of s2,30f.67, which is equal to 17.3 per cent of the feed bills, or 54 cents per hen per year if present grain prices continue The poultry men using home mixed rations fed l skIidus' Ulu those feeding ready tASTed: rations Those feeding part Ysa1st mixed ra- tions fed much more economically than l those using ready mixed fations. 1 There are some small ficc4s which can undoubtedly be fed to better ad vantage on ready mixed rations but feed for fiocks of over fifty hens can well be mixed at home. The average number of hens in ffocks where ready mixed ratiOns were fed was 101 hens; part ready mixed rations ts9 hens; and home mixed rations 27f hens.
 The possible saving of 17.3 per cent
 was figured on retail quotation and that on a, rising market while many o1
 the poultry men were buying whole sale and several had grain held over
 which was bought on lower market At meeting in Windham county one man with 8 flock of $50 hens was
 shown where he could save $40 De. month and make up an equally goot
 ration by simply buying differen feeds.
 At nearly every meeting the days
 egg production was asked of those present. Some very interesting fact. were brought out While the ayerag,
 production was much lower than i
 should be there were one or two poul try men at each meeting who wer. getting 40 CT 50 per cent. egg produc
 tion. December production of 40 or 5 per cent. means profit in spite of higl \ priced grain. If one or twt men il
 each community can get eggs in De cember why can't more men get higi
 production. We must learn to be bet ter poultrymen as we'll as more carefu buyers of feed. Present grain price are bound to weed out the poor potiltr, men because even with the best ra tions they can't live and stay in bus
 mess.
 The following ration based on retai quotation January 1. 1918, is consid
 cred most economical: