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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
SCHOOL CLOTHES.

TN spite of the high cost of laundry
work it is still most economical
- for you to dress your little chill
dron in wash things as much as pos
sible, even in winter. And you will
find that if you start the school year
off with a good supply of plain cot
ton froclls or suits you will be able
later on to get dong with the mini
mum OF woollen things. SO great is
the demand for cotton things for
school children these days that the
merchants have been having, or are
to have, an autumn Bingham week.
when they would make a point of sell
ing at reasonable prices good quality
ginghams that are especially adapted
to making school children's apparel.
You yourself may prefer to wear
summer undertakings all winter long
and increase the warmth providing
qualities of your clothes by wearing
heavier froclSs, but 1t is by far the
better plan TO dress your children in
warm underclothes In winter and con-
tinue washable frocks as long as pos
sible. There is always poor economy
in putting anything on your children
that cannot be tubbed, for of course it
is just as grimy, even though it may
not show 1t.
The question of coats and outer
wraps for school children is one that
is sure to bring CONSERVATION and dis
couragement to the mother this year.
For prices are really, If possible, more
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will tell you in a frank manner that
they regret the low prices to Ameri-
cans in other days; that 1t took the
appearance of our 100000 men and
our thousands of welfare workers to
convince them they had charged us
one-third what we deserved. Now we
pay for it, From just point Of view
they are right.
The effect that this change will
have on America Is greatly diminished
tourist travel. Millionaires will come
here and those who are sufficiently
we'll to do to afford an expensive vaca-
ton, but It is wise for the great class
of people who have a small income in
America to know that Paris is too
great a luxury for them until condi-
lions change The school teacher who
saved $500 for a summer In Europe
and saw the worth while places won't
get far beyond her landing port these
days on that amount. The passenger
rate on the steamers is double and
sometimes triple what 1t was, and one
must not only pay an unusually large
price for a berth, but one has to per-
nit three other people to share the
cabin. These are not the luxuries OF
peace as we once knew peace.
Sightseeing an Extravagance.
The woman on small income who
comes here for sightseeing win not be
able 10 accomplish one sector Of the
battlefield on the amount of money
that would have given her a month In
Paris In other days. The small hotels
in the centres of interest charge large
prices for everything and the motor
cars which are necessary for trips to
the front are luxurles beyond the am
bition of the average person.
In Belgium, as in England. the prices
arc much lower than IN France. A
meal in Southampton. for example,
which costs shillings viii cost IL
| francs in Paris. OF course the depre-
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500 at Worth's IL you buy it at the
end of July when few women want new
clothes and you buy a model that has
been copied since February There are
many American women who do not
care. They like a big name In the
gown. But IL they go on this prin-
ciple they cannot get q model that has
a chance to serve as fashionable dur
ing the coming season.
1t is difficult to find any standard OF
prices In Paris this summer, especially
in clothes Each house has its own
price list and these prices are altered
to suit the customer. Nothing Is
cheap. 1t can't be under existing con-
ditions. Velvet, for instance, of a
certain weave has been raised three
times it's pre-war price. Satin is $40
instead of So yard.
Labor is as fun of'unrest here as in
America, and no one will work for the
salary that existed before 1914. The
new salaries must be taken into ac-
count, therefore, by those who make
up this sumer's list of prices. and the
result is bewildering to the American
who was familiar with Paris in the
years that preceded the war.
Naturally the French think that all
the Americans are millionaires; they
thought so in other days, but the
strength, resources, equipment and
methods of spending money shown by
our army has ntterly driven any idea
out of the French head that a poor
person exists on our continent. They
charge according to this belief. They
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AT THE TELEPHONE,

ut IFE has few disturbing th'ns'
for me-" says const'u
tionally tranquil man. pu.
there is one thing that will adnl,.
does irritate me a little and that Is
the speech I sometimes hear over NV
telephone from somebody VINO n"S
called me and found he had the Wrohs
number.
when the bell rings and tt"e ~
the receiver I hear that voice lio'''
the other end saying:
lis this number so-and-so' ah' !
answer politely: go,
"'No, this is number thus-aha-s.
TO hear him say then, quick and CRU"
Ring off! Wrong number
Really he has put me 10 an a.
convenience; slight 20 be sure nN' o.
inconvenience, and yet ne treats j"
as II I had put him out, -,
at is very pleasant after t'''
have somebody who had called W 1,'
found It not the number wanted say
ing politely, IT is the wrong nlu'o.,
I am sorry to have DISTURBED You p".
still ! can't help feeling irri'a'eGn
little by the man who says run
Ring on! Wrong number as
were the offending party.
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per tones. and her small head with its
great waves of chestnut colored hair
was bound in gold and black turban.
On her bare feet were Greek sandals
of black satin. Could anything go fur
Their than this in the way of dinner
costume? She was probably pleasing
herself by an extraordinary bit of
freallishness, but she was so sensa-
tional that It was difficult for an
American to eat for watching her. =
Afternoon Gowns Are Bathing
Suits.
She wasn't the only woman who
wore a bathing suit at the table. This
form of garment might be considered
the chief midsummer costume of
Paris, All the young women and far
too many of the middle aged ones
haye taken up this midsummer mad
ness in dressing to a degree that
causes one to stop and wonder If 1t
is not a phase OF hysteria. There are
no boomers with this costume, nor
knickerbockers visible, but the gown
is actually cut on the model of a
DaLnlHS suit WIFI COloTeu sIllnB
girdle of satin or silk jersey tied
around the waist. Thee is no attempt
at ornament. That would detract from
their beach appearance.
So popular is this frock that the mil
liners have introduced a bathing cap
of satin, or velvet, to go with It, 1t is
just the shape of the colored rubber
caps that are plentifully displayed in
the department shops during Ameri-
can summers.
/ have seen shop window with
these caps hanging on stands, without
shape or form, their coet from $40 up.
They are of tulle superbly embroidered
with metallic threads and colored
crystals. They make the gorgeous
l.rcte IN the costume. Conservative
women, however, choose the bathing
cap of dark blue, gray or black satin
to match the costume. They pull II
down over the hair just as one puts
on a bathing cap. twisting and pull
ing the shapeless crown in and out
up and down, ct any angle they wish.
And the costume does not end with
the cap and gown. There are double
| faced peignoirs to so over the frock
tho VcIv kind worn on the beaches ri
Deauville. Trouville and Etretat. They
are OF satin or rough cloth and are
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discuss when it comes to prices. The
subject has become an obsession.
Wherever one sees three people fore
gathered they are comparing expendi-
lures. No one boasts about how cheap
an article is, but how expensive it
is Every one reviles the schedule of
prices in Paris, forgetting that they
are practically the same as exist in
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
But one always expects to get any
thing in Paris at half the price of
New York, and now that the prices of
Paris are on par with those of the
great American cities there Is bitter
disappointment among Americans. who
raise an outcry against the fact.
There is no doubt that the mass Of
tourists who expected to come to Paris
this summer would have been sorely
disillusioned had the Government per-
United them passports. They could
not have afforded much OF a stay in
France unless they brought a huge
letter OF credit or filled their pockets
with bank notes. The vast array Of
working people in America who have
looked forward to a summer in Franco
as their chief ambition and who have
known something of the prices such
summers cost before the war would
have gone bankrupt here in three
weeks If they had arranged their pro-
posed expenditures on tho old sched-
ules.
The Gown You Get for 800.
1t is unfair to say that Paris is the
most expensive place in the world; but
1t is fair to say that money goes here
at about the same rate 1t goes in New
York. One can find food In small New
York restaurants for q less price than
one can find it at the same type of res
taurant here, and ono can buy gowns
at smart New York houses for less
than the well known houses ask here
Tor new model.
True, you can get u gown for say
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14

an enormous price. but when you see
how little Is needed to make coat
and compare that with the amount
that you would have TO pay for a
coat, you will see that you will rea!lz.
something worth while on your own
labor. However, one would hardly al,
tempt TO make a garment of this sort
unless a fairly successful home dress
maker.
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coats less expensive is to make them
yourself, They are not extremely diff
ficuh If you have a good paper pat
tern and then take them to the local
tailor to be pressed after you have
maze them. Chinchilla is an ideal
fabric for the little boys or girls
coat and this may be bought in splen-
did quality for three and half or
four dollars u yard. This seems like
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PARIS, Sept. 4.

AXIS Dcpl- f'
r. VERIFYING is gossiped about
r. In Paris except clothes. This
- is a reversal of all former con-
ditions. In August the commercial
buyers who are here from America
find 1t necessary to discuss the APP
parel that women buy, as they were
here to select hundreds of gowns from
the thousands offered each week.
They have to arrange to have these
copied in America, to purchase the
available amount of material in this
country for that copying. and to see
to such tiresome details as shipments
and passage home; and the last effort
is the straw to the camePs back.
This was their business. Whenever
they can get away from it they dis
cuss prices Of food, apparel, taxis,
sightseeing motor cars, lodgings, laun-
dry, and even little cakes.
Nothing is too great or too small to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14

gated his new purchase and Oecom,
convinced that he had a new ana
very valuable variety of rose, WAen
he named the American Beauty ne
sold his find for $4,000, the most won.
derful result of the investment OF e.
on record. To follow his luck NIUE
further. Mr.. Field invested his eaS'N
earned $4,000 in lands near Washins,
ton, which in a little less than tnre.
years were sold for $4,000, Truth "
sometimes stranger than fiction.
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held close to the figure with the hand.
Really when you see one of these
costumes you look for the beach. 1t
gives you a topsy-turvy mental con-
dition when you find that the woman
continues to sit in a garden, and that
she is about to eat her dinner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Vhring-Ltke No,JolkSnits
~ for Young Women

Sports suits they are-jaunty new suits that young
women will find end of for because they so
comfortable and practical and becoming.
There are clear, pretty shepherd checks; black and
white and brown and white effects smart gray and
brown tweeds and attractive mixed suitings.
All made in the Norfolk style that is suited to
suits of this type; all lined throughout all carefully
tailored, and all brand new
$2750 each-and ID to 20 year sizes.
(second Floor, Chestnu)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Xelour PiWosU Covers
Special at N.I0

This is less than half price and actually less than
it would cost to buy the material and make them up
The covers are entirely made, except for the space
to slip the pillow in. The velour is very good quality
and the coors are lovelygreen, brown, blue and
(west AisIs)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Npring Bonnets and Goats
~ for Little Girls

Quainter and pretter than ever, too, they this
Spring with frls soft collars and cuffs of rufaed
Ceorgette, and many other touches.
There coats Of deep blue tafeta-one coat
has three rues of silk at the foot coats of pale blue
SERGE Of champagne-coored CLOTH of soft rose-coored
cloth and Of darker cloths too They usually lined
throughout with silk satin, and too eabor-
ate for good taste. They are $50 to $40 each.
And TO 60 with them are new straw hats-usually
Of fine white Milan, with silk facings, silk bows
crepe rufies, or ribbon streamers. So to $16.50.
And they are for little girls of 2 to years.
(Thrd Floor. Chsstnut)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
HOnfeur Toilet Articles
ina Little Sale

Everything is fresh and just down from our
own laboratories.
Violet, rose LEmpire extract 35c and 6Oc
q bottle.
Toilet water, violet LEmpire 45c and s5c
a bottle.
Face powder, violet, or L'Empre, 25c
box. Talcum powder, same odors, 1Oc box.
Cleansing cream, skin cream and Youth and
Beauty cream, each 35c jar.
Bay rum, SOC bottle.
Hair tonic 81 bottle.
Also Vegetal, for use after shavng lilac or
wistaria, Toe bottle.
Violet ammonia, zoe and 35c bottle
Witch hazel, 35c and 65c a bottle.
(west Aisie)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
H7egU Combs and Hair Orna-
~ ments-M Rhinestone Set

They make such charming ornaments for evening
it is small wonder that these rhnestoneset combs
and bandeaux are so fashionable
The combs in high and low styles, SO that they
may be worn with the different coiffures There are
many, many different designs, and prices range all the
way from $3.50 to S33 each.
New, too velvet bandeaux-narrow black velvet
bands, with rhinestone ornaments, complete with the
hairpins to keep them in place. $3.50, SO and $780,
(JeweIry Store. Chestnut Thirteenth)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
N/omen's Colorea
~ HandkerchfeG

Irish copies of French designs and very effective
they are White grounds usually they are of sheer
nen with colored dots coored borders coored blocks
in novel combinations.
Price 50c-and they'd make dainty Valentines.
tNain FIosr, CsntrsD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
To the Woman Who
Plans to Spend $16.5
to $50 on a Spring Dress

We have just placed two hundred or SO after
noon dresses in the cases-dresses Of practical
kind and as pretty as we can find in the dress
market for their prices.
There are crepes de chine, plain and plaid
taffetas, Georgette crepes, foulards combined with
Georgette. They have one-sided tunics and straight
tunics and embroidered bodices; style has a
quaint air due to its tiny frills. Colors include
grays dark and light blues, tan and black We
especially have plenty of the last.
Prices $16.75 to $50.
(First Floor. CentraD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Store Opens 9 A. M.
Lincoln Had a
Schumacher Piano in the
White House

And nobody ever lived who held sterling worth
in higher honor than this great martyred President
himself so true.
The fact that eight Presidents Of the United
States owned Schumacher pianos would be only
Of sentimental interest were it not that the Scho-
macker piano is better instrument today than
it ever was.
This great piano is product of Philadelphia
and one of which this city has good reason to be
proud 1t ranks among the foremost pianos of the
world and has tone that is always remembered
and never successfully initiated.
The Schumacher piano is sold at Wanamakers
only in Philadelphia. II you get one you get
instrument that will be equal to any musical
demands and that will give satisfaction for years
to come.
We have the Schumacher in piano, player piano
and reproducing piano forms, any style purchasable
on convenient terms.
Esypssn Hsii ssc4pd Floor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Trench Goats at
Half Price
Perfect for
Motoring

Also suitable for street wear and
storm coats, as there is nothing
exclusively military about them.
The coats are of a fine, hard-twill
gabardine, with detachable fleece
lining. With the lining out they
are a good medium-weight motor
or rain coat. With the lining in,
and with the coat buttoned up
around the neck and the straps at
the wrists pulled tight, the garment
will defy any weather a man win
meet in this latitude.
Half price at $3.50.
(Ths Military shop, The Csllerv.
Chestnuf) t ~ 7'| n
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Neso Crepe de Chine
Nv ChemiSeS

Pink, as matter Of course and charming
possibe-some with Empire tops and lace, others with
various ornamentation of hemsttchng or putting
easng with blue ribbons in. Prices $375 to s5
(rhird Essr. Cssts~i> 55
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
AoyiS0n Blue in the
III Nesv Waists

The color is pretty its name and appears in two
of the styles Of Georgete wasts-one with long
shawl collar, the other with round frled collar The
first is $3.50 and the second $575, and may have
either in white fesh-color also.
Two tailored pongee waists a style with tiniest
tucks and highow collar, and style with open collar
and many fine pleatings These 1885 and $3.50,
respectively
Third Floor, CsntraD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Ctriped Moha1
- SbectaI at 45c a Yard

We have been calling this mohair skirting because
SO many women it such, but lately number Of
entire dresses being made of it and they not
only very pretty but most practical
In this new shipment there is only the style
dark blue ground with white stripe and red dot There
are, however, two sizes Of dots SO inches is the width
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Men Should See
These Shoes
for $3.50

This price is less than such shoes
would cost us at the factory today,
and any man who knows the least
bit about footwear will appreciate
at a glance what splendid values
they are.
Dark mahogany calfskin is the
leather used, and all the shoes have
heavy soles. One style is straight
lace, made on a smart last, and
the other is blucher lace, with
somewhat wider toe.
Excellent street shoes for any
man.
Main Floor. Market)
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+ inc Lambshades
Il From France

It is year since have been able to get anything
of the Sort this limited shipment is douby welcome
Some are for boudoirs and for table lamps; the
shapes are beautiful odd and the materials the
fine silks and the antique gold aces and fringe character
stic of French work of this sort
Prices from Sc to $3.50.
(Fourth Floor. CentraD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Men Who DO Not
KnOU Satir,
BrOche Shirts }

have something pleasant in fe
for them the first time tn get
some. "
Satin broche is one of the best
looking and most durable of shirt
ings. It makes up into handsome
soft-cuff negligee shirts that wear
splendidly, and is good weight for
cool weather.
We have a fine, fresh lot of satin
broche shirts in probably the
greatest variety of designs we
have ever shown.
Price, 81.
Main Floor. Markep
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
WANAMAKER'S
Grand Organ, 8, IL and 4:50
Chimes 81 stroke Of Noon
In Holding Furniture Sale N0thinq Beats HAVING
What Does True Man.
hood Require

hood Require
but to be true to yourself and true
to your duty, to do what you can
with your best endeavors, though
the best you can do is far below
what you wish it to be?
The premature REIMBURSEMENT
of the active affairs of life, when
you have done something worth
while, and the almanac reminds
you of your age, is a species of
mental bankruptcy.
This Store is yet in it's infancy.
:. :. ,,,': '''''''' T&'"A<
Feb. III, 1919.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Reautitul NesV White
DSkirts Every One q
Different Fabric

Just imagine six Spring models and two
made of the material! 1t is only of many
indications that white skirts to have things all their
way this year.
Starting with $3.50 for fine French, al-wool serge
skirts nice for seashore and mountains there wash
satns at $16.75, tussah pongees with peats down
side only and pleats in the back at $780, lovely silk
broadcoths at $1975 and at $25 soft Georgete
trimmed with of silk eyelets, baronet satins
made of the best quality of this satin
These latter are s27.5O in extra sizes up to 3sinch
wastband.
(Flrst Floor CentraD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
DHfinctive NesU Styles
Lin Beaded Handbagy

These handbags, instead of showing multitude Of
colors, taupe silk foundation with designs of jet
BEADS jet with yellow beads interspersed You
not imagine how effective they are!
Frames tortoise-shellfnsh celluoid, and fringe
adds further establishment. All beautifully silk
lined and have purse and mirror.
Price $2750.
(Main Floor. Chestnut)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
Plain Color Carpets at
One-FOurth Less


| m o n he mi
NJ cured
o a asang O when n
IAN fin imported md ddomes
|
land fee 11andS1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11

$l76 for 3-piece Queen Anne suit. Mahogany and
72-inch settee with large rocker and chair.
Choice of upholstery between tapestry and damask.
$2O for 3piece tapestry suit. 72-inch davenport,
separate cushions, pillow back. Lounge arm chair and
rocker Upholstered in excellent grade and pattern
of tapestry
1855 for 3pece alltapestry suit, including 72nch
davenport, highback wing chair and deepseated arm
chair All pieces have separate seat cushions and large
spring
$3.50 for 3-piece Louis XIV suit in danask. Very
high grade of workmanship and excellent style.
1895 for al-wool tapestry 14th century design
suit highest type workmanship and excellent design. r.
foot davenport, two lounge chairs, both of the Engsh
type -,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
About NelD Sports Hats
principally Sailors

And as sailors for this Spring are of many
shapes and sizes, that means quite wide collection.
There are new mushroom sailors of henna-
colored straw, rough and shiny, with rbbon-bound
edges and ribbon bows to match.
And there are other new sailors with high
crowns and thick brims-there's lovely blue
shade.
Very smart are some quite hgh-crowned
sailors Of pineapple straw which is fiat and shiny
and wide. These sailors in a new shape, with
very narrow brim, and finished with ribbon
band There is the new dust color blue, a royal
purple, and henna color-all with white under
brims.
$11 to $26.
(second Floor. ChestnuD