Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1898, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1898-16 PAGES. a = E . Spring Has The richness of her styles into our shelves. found lodgment here. The newest, season’s best and swellest of everything has Tuesday, Wedmesday and Thursday We shall take occasion to introduce to you the brightest fancies and highest art of the world’s great- est manufacturers. American skill and stability and Gallic taste and refinement lie side by side and give hint of their beauty at every turn. The trained ideas of our buyers have assembled the most bewildering array of all sorts of merchandise which absolute need and fashion’s caprice could suggest. - Here, under one roof, you’ll find more perfection than any two steres can offer. The past six months have given us time to feel the fullness of our dawned season, we’ve laid plans for the future which will pale the past’s enterprise. A Proud Show Of Ribbons. “The greatest Ribbon year of the decade,” trade papers are saying. We have the biggest stock that the ‘irm kas ever carried. Double as many feet of space to display the rickes of our buying. And. truly. “tis a great array of color bends and daring shade combining that the spring season has procuced. masterpieces. French cicness is written on row after row of swell imported novel‘fes. The whole gamut of Bayaderes, Checked Rtbbons in every variation of pattern—handsome Satin Ribbens, _Taffetas, Plaids, Quuzes and re, lcires mingle their warm colorings In an frre- sistible temptation to fancy. Quant.ty buying Is apparent in the price of every from the most exclusive high-grade impor- tation to staple Unes. 33 and 43-inck All Silk Fancy Taffetas. Worth 35¢. Opening price... Sasa. SCs 7-inch Double-face Black Satin Sash. Worth $1.00. Opening price Here one firds the finest looms" Gloves. Easter breathes in the air about our glove counter. The styles vannt themselves from every available inch of space cept what's proper and fitting for immediate wenr has heen removed from sight. The cew gray ad soft-finish hand coverings are worthy of the bighest This Is one of “our infant industries which is rapidly itself. Embroideries and Trimmings. We're Ing now on three of the most important factors In quality and newness. Ne department ever made the it these have. Our Lace stock is now overtopped It contains the very finest makes—gonds so delicate and neeived that one wonders if human fingers could handle ries. Our Embroideries have been augmented by fine s. til now thelr s ed, and the finest Won displ: © most wonderful change of all ne Trimming Department. The old stock of, and a line every portion of which Is ay awaits your criticism tomorrow in the Black Braid Garniture, all new conceits. Worth $1.49. Opening price Silk and Mehkair Braid Trimmings. 29c. Opening prrice 1o-inch Cambric Embroidered Flouncings. Opening price 15c. and 18c. Fine Swiss zings. Opening 934Ac. _ $1.39 Craquilie Net, 45 inch Opening ptice Point de Paris and Valenciennes Laces. : Worth 39c. Opening price want to know whatts the proper sunshade to carry ‘an see all the White Silk China, with 5-inch ruffle, white par- agon frame and white enameled stick. $2.00 value. Opening price $1.25 é White and Black India Silk Parasols; bedecked with five rows of deep ruffles; very swell. Worth $5.00. Opening price x Upholstery and Mattings. It’s most time to take down heavy winter draperies and curtain stuffs und make Lome cheerful and bright looking. Let a neat, clean matting replace your carpet. Lots of other things which you'll need that tomorrow's opening may suggest to you. Big spring preparations are those we've made. Iu Mattings espectally—such a line us only the best efforts of the oriental and the quick-witted American makers could assemble. Of course we'll duplicate the success our light drapery stock met with last spring—hundreds of handsome, natty novelties ready for showing. A hundred rolls of bright, neat, firmly- woven China Matting. Worth 15¢c. ing price Jewelry and Leather Goods. Were never so profuse in va- rlety, so catchy in style and so Well put together as the skill & intelligent labor render them today. "Twould surprise you to see what a fetching stock We've assembled ‘at our counter. Hundreds of little knick-knacks of sterling worth and low priced can be picked up at © mere song. Nicer lines, of cuurse. Combination Seal Purses... 5 19. 4 styles im Jereled Belts: .23¢, KIURST EXPOSITION OF SPRING HATS. The mode-creating milliners of London and Paris join with us in requesting your attendance at this, the premier hat showing of the Washington season. No opening in America was ever held with more beautiful surroundings. Our entire second floor has been transformed into one vast rustic wil- derness arched with brilliantly tinted flowers; cupolas of smilax and roses are garlanded from the ceil- ing and a wonderful electric fountain sprays its kaleidoscopic waters in a ceaseless play of colors. Every corner and recess is embowered with ferns and blossoms, and in each are set exquisitely designed pattern hats and bonnets. Broad Shadowing Picture Hats, with curling downy plumes, Chic Imported Creations, decked with a myriad of brilliant flowers and garnished with ribbons, all blending into one harmonious whole; Dainty Toques, a glitter with jet and with quivering aigrettes: Swell Carriage Hats from Vienna, wonderfully managed Theater Bonnets, things of filmy chiffon and delicately tinted velvets. 3 No season ever generated such a color wealth; The most liberal use of bright hu es characterizes the adornment of a Il the new creations. The work of Virot, Boyer, Pouyanne, Reboux, Eugenie, Lamcier, Faulkner, Colombe, show to what heights this art can be carried. Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday we invite you to the most preten- tions millinery display ever held in the south. Ali pattern Hats and the triumphs of our own workrooms will be presented for the first time. Our Showing of Exclusive 98 Suits and Wraps Is a triumph of taste and style——knowledge. The whole department is a-bustle with tailored excellence. You'll find that the name tags of all the fashion makers of the world dangle from examples of their sartorial skill. No such possibility 2s not being pleased with a stock so generously varied as this. More like a metropolitan department than any in the town. I THIS IS A SEASON OF SUITS And the natty shape-hugging garments here give hints of the highest art of the men tailors. Hundreds of styles in the department. There’s a-world’s choice in exclusive effects, Natty Eton Jackets, Swell Coat Suits, Russian Blouses of every degree of fullness are crowded in uncounted num- bers along the racks. Every possible material has been used in their making. * Cheviots in plain and every fan ‘onceit, Covert Cloths in a score of gray and brown shades, English Whipcords, Imported Venetians, Fine and Rough Serges and Broadcloths are a few of the textures which the tailors have em- ployed. There’s a double advantage in buying a suit here (mind you, we're naming that of price’ and style), the department hasn't a single garment but what's the newest. Besides we bought first of all in Washington, and secured the cream assortment. Separate Skirt and Silk Waist Newmness Ought to sound attractive to you. And there's newness in these two lines, in every way. New stuffs in their making; new patterns and color combinings; new modes and cuts, kirts Especially Rich And elegant will receive their Initial showing tomorrow. The new Bayaderes in handsome black patternings, the most lustrous Satins and Duchesses of every sort. Motre Stripes of every kind and the newest of the recent Black Taffeta Skirts, slik Mned, liberally flounced. with rows of tucks all down their fronts. These Skirts embody all the inventive ingenuity of the tailoring art! They are perfect in fit and detail. Many are silk lined, with double dust ruffie. The Newest Silk Waist Is made like a boys’ sallor blouse. They’re cut from satin striped taffetas of the most excellent grade. Some are orange and black, some old Tose and black, some cocq rouche and black. The stripes are exactly matched, giving a biased effect in the back. Instead of 2 neckband cach waist 1s made with white silk, pleated chemisette and collar. There is uo cuff, the plain sleeves being touched off with a small rufite. During the Three Days of the Opening Our Prices Will Be $10.00. ~ TTen Thousand Bolts Of Silks and Woolens lift their combined voices in a mighty chorus of welcome. No such colossal array was ever before brought together for you. The miils have spun their finest and poured forth their most charming con- ceits to render this a department of woven perfection. And such perfect color blendings and wonderful pattern schemes as we can show ycu! There are Silks from India and China and Japan—Silks from France and Austria and England—Silks from all the renownéd American makers. Colors run riot in so great an assortment. There are qualities so rich and heavy that the fabric can almost stand alone. Street Silks, of every hue commingling; Evening Silks, lustrous and exclusive; Black Silks, of a hundred kinds. And then that stock of Dress Goods! You wonder at the vastnessof the assortment in sight, but could you see through the counters and behold the surplus stock stored there then you would marvel. Never before have we carried such a line. The finest weaves haye found liberal lodgment—imported novelties loom up everywhere. The newest fabrics—Poplins, Bayaderes, Illuminated Cheviots, Broadcloths, Tail- or Suitings, Vigeroux, Silk Warp Lansdowne, Imported: Grepons and Cheviots, mixtures and novelties —are here in profuse assortment. No qualities so finé“afd exclusive—no prices so graded as here. 1) 9 Cheney’s Finest Foulards Silks,24 inches wide--worth $1.09. Opening price, 75c. Richly Patterned 44-inch Black Grenading--worth $1.25. Opening Price, 89c. Fancy Striped Taffetas, iri Cannelle effects«-worth $1.00. Opening Price, 69c. The choicest styles in Bayadere Taffetas--iorth 89c. Opening Price = 59c. Illuminated Cheviots, sold eve: here at 79c; Opening Price = = = = 59c. Colored Twill Black Broadcloth--worth 89c:,; Opening Price =--- = = 69c. All that’s new in Vigeroux Suitings--worth 69c.. Opening Price - - = 49c, Travers’ Fine pp hag ap la $1.69. Opeiiing Price - - - = = = = $1.25 Finest French Silk Bayadere Novelties--worth $5.69. Opening Price = $3.98 48-inch Wire Twist Black Storm Serge--worth 75c. ning Price = = 49c. 48-inch Fine Black Whipcord--worth $1.39, Opening Price - - - = 98c. 44-inch Imported Black Crepon--worth $1.49.. Opening Price- - - = $1.19 power. We know it now, and, confident in the newly- Wash Goods and Domestics. From time to tine we have given bint of how able fortunate Yash Gocds. But these preliminary talks f a firecracker before it bursts. The stock will Burst upon you tomorrow vf dainty Cottons never teok Its place behind a» has sent ite best to eur stere. The art of of Scotin’s milis, the de. supreme efforts of do- atest stock of any time were moeh like full strength of shown, Orga: end Lawns, as deiieate as spider web, head the liet of a thousand styles. Finest Imported Dimities. Opening price. ... 19¢. Imported Organdie No s. Opening price2 Ic, Ready-made Bleached, Cohasset, Hemstitched Pillow Cases, 45x36. Opening price 9-4 Bleaciied Sheeting, as good as Cohasset .]] 134c. Hosiery. slab * only shelf room be ING PRIC FANCY COTTON HC KINDS. WORTH 35c. OPE FINE IMPORTED SILK H¢ $3- Linens and White Goods. (ORE OF PRICE The rapid growth of traffic in oar Linen corner has rendered direct importation a matter of the greatest advantage. Early in the sum- mer our buyer visited the centers of industry in Iveland and the German principalities; placed his orders for immediate delivery; much finer qualities than we have hitherto sold, Thus, by the payment of the advanced duties and through our con- with the Linen makers instead of their American agents. our ing will be prolific in opportunities for buying qualitied Linens at extremely reasonable prices. Heavy’ Double Satin Damask, 68 inches wide. Worth &5c. Opening Price 10 yards of Bird's-eye Diaper, 20 inches wide. Worth 50c. Opening Price 35c. 123c. Colored Border Glass Toweling. Opening .--. WiAc. 8c. Check and Plaid Nainsook. Opening F rice4 34C. English Nainsook. Worth 15¢. Opening Price. 10c. Sheer Imported India Linon. Worth 25¢. Opening Price Chiffons and Neck Fixings. Tomorrow wili give you a first glimpse of what the style creators have been doing for you in the way of dainty neck fixings and filmy chiffons, liberty silks and the sike delicate fabrics. Spring fashion sheds Justify their most Mberal usc. We've augmented our assortment from a dozen famous sources—pretty of all sorts here— 69c. Black and White Pleated Opening Price. 355 45-inch Satin Finish Worth 75¢. Opening PnCesc..c oe se wes wcey eee 55c. The Melba Neck Scarf—new idea. Opening Liberty Salk. Price ag Lace Neck Scarfs. Opening Price Corsets and ; Ladies’ Wear. Corsets, Muslin Underwear, Skirts and Infants’ Wear are now all grouped in one place. You'll find that spot most attractive Curing the three days of the opening. Som2 of the cleverest ideas eyer shown there. And we've billeted them with prices which imtensify the values on display. The finest qualities in Uberal array, though by no means the costliest— Our entire new Line of $1.00 Corsets, representing every sta- ple make—so'd throughout the United States—in all colors and 7c sizes. Opening price... wa Ladies’ Good Musli yoke band—25e. value for 6c. One lot of Drawers, Gowns, Chemise, Corset Covers—goods which sold - for 98e., $1.25 and $1.48—in cambric and muslin. Gowns claborately trimmed with emrokdery; Corset Covers, in square, round and V-necks, trimmed with lace and 2 Umbrella Drawers, neatly trimmed with embroidery and lace. Chemise im square and round neck, extra length, with cambric and NG PRICE 18c.