New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1917, Page 11

OUR STORE WILL NOW BE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS Now Gomes “Ghristmas” Hurry Gall But Three Shopping Days Left Time in its swift Might is bringing the Eventful day very closc. .Taking out Sunday you have but three days in which to finish your Christmas Shopping.” They will be hwry days, is that very reason we would advso you to come during the morning hours and avoid the later rush though with our immense main floor space to which the new section hag just been added we have room for all whenever you come.. We bid you welcome onc and all to Hartford’s Xmas store, Fine White Ivory Toilet Articles of French or Do- mestic make offer chance for quick choosing from the largest stock in town. Hair Receivers and Puft Boxes at 75c, 98c, $1.50, $1.98 each. Hair Brushes, solid backs, priced at $1.98, $2.50, $2.98 each. heavy plate, long or ring handles, $1.98, $2.98, $3.98. Toilet Sets, comb, brush, mirror, selling at $4.98, $5.98, $6.98. " . Manicure and Toilet Sets, from $8.98 up to $29.50. Roll Up Leather Manicure Sets, sell for 98c to $10.98. - Xmas Perfumes And Toillet Waters. Nicely put up in boxes for gift giving, range in price from 25c to $6.50. Good choice given in Djer Kiss, Hudnuts, Browns, Bath Mats Choice of a most complete line is offered at our Towel Counter in new section. They are in light and dark effects priced at 79c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00 each, and would make a most prac- tical Gift, Note These At our Embroidery Depart- ment Children’s ready to make Dresses of embroidered French Lawn and pique, sizes 20 in and 24 -fh,. imported from Switzerland and selling from Fine Silk Stocki ine ings Have You Thought of These? You cannot g0, amiss': them to any woman you ‘have in mind and though tbofl gone up on this class of goods, we will offer you the specials for less than the manufacturer asks for thei ‘With Oméw Tipping we offer our special all silk stock inter-lining of lidle thread through the sole, heel and toe: double garter welt. These orange tipped stockings wesr lon Price $1.50 pair. considerably heavy w.lsl\:‘ priced any other silk stocklng we know of. with kelly green tlpmnz are of $2.00, LA o] Véry*Acceptable Gifts Found at Notion Counter.| for For instance there is’ Fancy 4711, Mavis and: Luxor Perfume !e'.s priced from $1.60 to $6.00. See Our Book Dept. These Books in Sets: \ “Kipling,” cloth (10 vols.) $3.98 set. ‘“Shake- speare,” -‘leather (10 vols.) $11.50. “Dickens,” cloth (15 vols.) $11.75. “Dickens,” leather (40 vols.), $29.00. “Thackeray;” cloth (10 .vols.) $8.75. ‘“Hugoe,” leather (10 vols.) $12.50. ‘‘Hawthorne,” half leather (10 vols.) Same in cloth for $7.50. cloth (20 vols.) $14.75. “Emerson,” half leather (6 vols.) . $6.50. “Fielding,” leather (6 vols.) $3.98. ‘“Lossings History U. 8. (8 wols.) cloth $6.25. New Century Dictionary (12 vols.) $2450. See Our Aprons Fine for Gifts. - We are offering a very large variety of ‘White Aprons made of nice lawn, trimmed with lace . or embroidery as well as plain hem- stitched. Fancy Tea Aprons, give great scope for choice at 25¢, 39¢, 50c, 59¢, 15¢, 98c, $1.60 and up. © Bretelle Aprons are pretty styles at 39¢c, 50c,. 5%c¢, $1.98 each.’ Long Band Aprons for 38c, 59¢c, 75¢, 98c and $1.50 each. Nurse “Aprong of cambric, gath- ered, or gored bib on band :tyley 59¢, 75c and 98c each. Pretty Styles of colored dress Anrom, 75¢, 98c, $1.50, $1.98. Make This « Red Cross Christmas 89c, 78c, 95c, $1.50 up to 50c, PRESIDENT' BABST | the sugar is refined and exported the duty is paid back to the refiner. is called a drawback. Indian Blankets In a wonderful assortment of glowing colors and striking patterns. Fime for Couch Covers or An Ex- tra Bed Throw. Would make dandy gifts costing $7.00, $8.00, $9.00 and $10.00 each. Lunch Cloths Here is chance to secure a Useful Article for an inexpensive gift. Regular $2.00 and $2.25. Lune¢h- Cloths, size 36x36 inches, specially priced at $1.50 ea. Oalendar Mounts for Camera Pictures, universal sizes, 10c each, 3 for 25¢c. “ RADIOLITE WRIST WATCHES, guaranteed, $3.98 each. i Xmas Handkerchiefs Perfect billows of them from Ireland, France, Switzerland and ‘We never had such a large display, ‘we able to show quite s0o many pretty designs, never had so many in kinds for the little folks, in fact never had such a Handkerchief American made. - assortment as we ‘have now. Ireland has sent plain or em- broidered Handkerchie big showing at 12 1-2¢ to $1.50. Appenzell ‘Handkerchiefs please by their beauty and are priced from 50c to $3.00 each. Handkerchiefs Read. kerchiefs, for 35¢ to $3.00 box. Initial Handkerchiefs for women 235c to $3.00. .Men’s Colored Bordered Handkerchiefs 10c to 50c each. Initial Handkerchiefs for Men, six in a box, 50c to $3.00 box. ‘We Have Children’s Handkerchiefs in boxes 12 1-2c to 75¢ box. l kind and quality 50c to $2.00. Japanese Silk Handkerchiefs make gifts that please anyone and cost 25¢ to $1.50. y. Boxed for Christmas * Giving there are embroidered Hand- Choose Umbrellas They make a useful gift to anyone and every new thing that has been brought out is to be found at our Umbrella department. - We call atten- tion to Plain Colored Silks in blue, greens, reds, purples, browns, grays, with Club. and Ivory Ferule ‘and Ivory Tips on Ribs. Also Bacolite ferule to match the color of the silk. The handles are Ivory Posts with law light top and fancy-vertical or hori- zontal stripes. There are also Ivory and Tortoise Shell Combinations. Fancy bordered-effects striped with striped handles or borders of coin dots. These are the newest and mOst up-to- -date’ styles, priced $6.50 to $12.98 each. Other Umbrellas in big variety for man, woman, or child in extensive rarnge from 98c-each upwards. For Xmas All Wool white Scotch Blan- kets with pink and blue bor- ders that we are offering for $8.00 pr., are without doubt the Best Blankets in America at the Price. How about a pair for Xmas? For $4.50 Each We offer full size Comfortables filled with pure white cotton, covered with silk. . in pink, . blue, old rose, yellow and lavender effects $4.50. One of those exquisite and warm Silk Mull covered Com- fortables would make a fine Christmas Gift. never were there beautiful are in Is Your Street on the Red Cross Homor Roll ’ $1.50 to $3.50 each. At Art Dept. Are Knitting Bags in big va- riety 98¢ to '$10.00 cach.. Knit- ting Needles, silver mounted, 50c and $1.00 pair. How About 5 Cane? Or a Swagger Stick. We have a full line at our Um- brella department. Some of the Canes have Sterl- ing or Gold Trimmings. Others gold or silver mounts with choice of Prince of Wales, straight and Mission styles, selling from 50c up to $10.98 ea. Swagger Sticks offered in all the newest designs such as flag emblems, soldier emblems, plain sterl- ing trimmed, etc. from 15c to $2.98 each. Leather Goods. " Make Fine Gifts. There are ready Music Folios and Brief Cases in Crepe and Morocco, black and tan, 50c-to $10.00. Collar Bags of India Goat leather, neatly lined, and draw string, 50¢ to $5.00. Fitted Sewing Cases of Saffron Leather in colors, 98c to $1.50. .Wicker Sewing Baskets with < saffron leather covers, satin lined, well fitted, $1.50 to $5.00. Writing Folios, leather lined, fitted with address book, paper and envelopes. Letter or lap writing cases with ink well and compartments for stationery, $1.98 to $5.00. Red Cross Xmas Is a National Affair. Everything in Swagger Sticks: Elasfic in all colors for nrtora and arm bands 25c yard up. Work Bag BEssentials lueh as Emeries, Scissors, Bodkins, Needles, Sewing ‘Wax, Pin Cusbions, Silks, Threads, etc. s There Are Needle:. Booln, & splendid variety to choose froln fillea with the best Engjlsh neefiies, priced 25¢ to $4.50 each. 3 “Lady. Dainty” Novelties phit up for Sewing Sets, alsa one wklr cellulold’ shoe horn and ‘button hook, special 25c set. . o A " Finest Lingerie The Hand Embroidered Kind, bought direct from - ° the makers in France and we claim to give you the best possible value for your money. French Gowns of exquisite styles at $2.98, $3.98, , $4.98 to $6.98 each. French Chemisé, 98c, $1.25, i $1.50, $1.98 to $3.98 each. Frenc hCorset Covers and Drawers at 98c, $1.25, $1.50, $1.98 . to. $4.50. French Skirts, $2.98, $3.98, $4.98 and $5.98 each,— Extra values. For Little Folks You will find in Babyland pretty lttle Bath Robes, 1 to 6 year sizes, white and colored, glain and fig- ured, some ss&tin ‘trimmed, priced $1.25 and $2.50. each. " Sleeping Bags of eiderdown in plain $1.69 and $2.00 each. embroidered. Warm Knitted Leggings, colors1 ones with choice, of blue, green and rose, with caps and lmr(tn & match. At our Infants’ department. e Help New Britain. Do Its Bit Hartford colorings at Others of Japanese Silk, It If the duty THOSE GIRLS. If They Can’t Wear Jewelry They Can THE MOVIES. These Pictures Are Shown locally is the provision of a suitable hall. The staff comprises driver, elce- trician, pianist and movie operator, for SERIOUS CONDITIONS. TAKE BELILS. § TELLS OF SHORTAGE ‘Head of American Sngat Refining Company Gives Out Smtement : ‘Washington, Dec. 20, 1917.—Earl D. Blbn, president of the American BSugar Refining company, made public. today s report on the sugar shortage, " $which has just been sent to'stock- holders of ‘the company. The repart shows that with one- third of the world’s sugar production within the present battle lines, Eng- Jand, Francé and other foreign coun- tries have turned to Cuba and other . Ympources which ordinarily supply the United Sflt,a It is &4lso shown that ,the ijmmediate causes of the present ' ghortage are increasd consumption, too inadequate a supply and delayed distribution, Barly in 1917 there were serious strikes in nearly all the eastern re- fineries. This caused’ public appre- hension. Sensatidnal . sugar. famine | ptories began to appear in the papers . later, and the public fears were still Further excited by stories of the de- struction of cane irf‘the Clban insur- réction. .A desire by the trade to mvold excise taxes proposed in Con- press aded to the call. This demand among dealers, manufacturers and pugar consumers continued all the 5 pear and was accompanied by hoard- ing. A great midsummer canning and preserving campaign urged by the Government, furthered by the trade, ! By the canning clubs,’and women's magasines, and by thé press gener- ally followed, so that by November fhe copsumption was shown to be ore than' ohe thousand 'tons a day han the year before. ~ It Rmounted to’mearly - nine hundred million pounds more than for the same - perfod in 1916.- So much for demand. ; { Now as to the supply and distri- jution. Java had plesty.of. . sugar, §ut it is so far that:ships took other trade channels. . The harvesting of were not thus refunded the refiner would have to add the amount of the duty ‘to his price to the foreign cus- tomer. This would have the same ef- fect as placing an export duty of over one and a half cents a pound on all refined sugar sold abroad. Neither this nor any other great com- mercial country imposes export taxes, because they tend to discourage for- eign trade. ‘When the Senate Finance Commit- tee made these propositions the sugar industry urged that the higher prices to foreign customers would so dis- turb the world’s sugar market as to create a troublesome situation for the United States. Seemingly to fore- stall the expected higher prices, for- eign buyers went into the Cuba mar- ket and bought heavily, thus reducing the supply available for America. Our imports from Cuba were about the same as in previous years, but so great was our consumption that these imports were not nearly enough. The proposition to repeal the drawback failed in the Senate three months later by 69 to 11, but the damage had already been done. Cuba's extra- ordinary shipments to Europe had reduced our availabje supply for the fall months by nearly 450,000,000 Pounds. The sugar shortage in the Eastern States will be relieved when the new Cuban crop begins to arrive in large ‘volume, early in the new year. The report also explains the operation of the United States food administra- tion as it affects sugar. NEVER SAY DIE! Peking, Dec. 20, (Correspondence)— Erroneous death announcements are extremely dangerous in China. The Jih Pao, one of the leading daily pa- pers printed in Chinese in Peking, was completely wrecked because of an an- nouncement it printed of the death of General Chiang Kuei-ti of Jehol. General Chiang was not dead, and thirty of his soldiers’ who happened to be in Peking, visited the newspaper office and demolished it completely charging that the paper had endeav- ored to ruin the political career of their leader. The sildiers smashed the premises, pied all the type, broke the windows in the jportant, car :ghortsges and " trafhic ‘alwm Dreyantnd the free move- ment of. these erops to the Atlantic ard. 1 in; June of the Senate omiméftee to repeal = the ~of over one cent a pound nea sugar ®old abroad, ‘and Cinj of an eéXcise tax of one- l"wrund "When raw sugar Tefin ays a duty on it. When and demolished the office furniture. BOSS LUNCH BISCUIT Fancy Shoe Laces. London, Dec. 20, (Correspondence)) —Girl workers in the danger buildings at Woolwich arsenal are not allowed to wear jewelry. They have therefore, hit on the idea of syearing colored shoe laces. The Cap Shop girls appeared one morning with bright emerald green ribbons on their shoes much to the envy of other departments. The next morning the whole factory was In the fashion, says Doctor A. K. Foxwell the principal supervisor. = Shoes were tied with ‘blue, pink, red, white ribbons; with any thing but the Government boot lace of untanned leather. The fashion spread to the ofico and women clerks paraded the platform during the dinner hour with resplendent shoe laces. ‘WILL TUNNEL. Tokio, Dec. 20, (Correspondence)— The Government Railway Board has decided to tunnel the Siumonoseki Straits, the western outlet of the In- land Sea, says an announcement. The tidal current through the straits is unusually rapid making ' navigation difficult and at times impossible to all but the most powerful steamships. The length of the tunnel will be six and & half miles, It will be operated by electricity and will cost 14,000,000 yen. Sm—— LADIES! LOOK YOUNG, DARKEN GRAY HAIR Use Grandma’s Sage Teca and Sulphur Recipe and Nobody Can Tell. Brush It Through Hair, Gray hair, however handsome, de- notes advancing age. We ‘all know the advantages of a youthful appear- ance. Your hair is your cnarm. It makes or mars the face. When it fades, turns gray and looks streaked, just a few applications of Sage Tea and Sulphur enhances its appearance a hundred-fold. Don’t stay grap! Look young! Either prepare the recipe at home or get from any drug stare a bottle of “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Com- pound” which is merely the old-time recipe improved by the addition of other ingredients. Thousands of folks | recommend this ready-to-use prepara- tion, because it darkens the hair beau- titully besides, no one can possibly tell, as it darkens so naturally and evenly. You moisten a sponge or soft brush it, drawing this through the hair, taking one small strand at a time, By morning the gray hair disappears; after another application or two f{ts natural color is restored and it be- comes thick glossy and lustrous, and you appear years younger. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com- pound is a delightful toflet requisite. It is not intended for the cure, miti- gntion or prevention of disease. l l \ ; From a Travelling Auto. - Rotterdam, Netherlands, Dec. .20, (Correspondence)—A. travelling mov- ing picture show, in the form of a speclally built automobile, is“the lat- est acquisition of the Netherlands sol- dier. It has been invented with a view to bringing cheer into the mon- otonous and hard life of the troops engaged in guarding the frontiers in the forthcoming winter. A cyelist } theatricul company was already in ex- istence, pedalling from one _detach- ment to the other to give its perform- ances, The new movic car resembles an ordinary military freight automobile. Arrived on the spot where the per- formance is to be given, the automo- bile is stationed in front of the hall, | into which electric power is 'con- | veyed by means of & long wire that is carried with all other requisites in the car. All that has to be seen to whom comfprtable accommodation is provided in the car. RETENTION OF STERLING. London, Dec. 20, (Correspondence) —Retention of the pound sterling as the monetary unit and its division into 1,000 parts or mills has been agreed upon by the Institute of Bankers, the i Assoclation of Chambers of Commerce and the Decimal Association. 'This ‘Wwould permit the retentioh of the ex- isting gold and silver coins down to | and including the sixpenny . plece, without any alteration in their respec- tive values. For example, the six- pence i3 represented exactly by 25 mills. In regard to coins of lower denomin- atlon, it was unanimously agreed that they shall consist of 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, and 10 mill pieces, of which the latter two would be of nickel. Many Murders in Manchuria Reeently According' to Reports Toklo, Dec. 20, (Correspondence)— Reports reaching Tokio describe the situation existing in Harbin, churia, as grave. | three months there have been 237 murders mostly in connection with robberies, and crime of every descrip- | tions oocurs daily. Many of the ruffians are dressed in the uniform of soldiers as a disguise and yet the army looks upon the matter with indifference: In- habitants of the city do not dare to g0 out of doors after sunset. As the police are not equal to their task and as the conditions are expected to grow Man- | ize a private police from their number. thorities have protested to the Russian ' authorities but with no effect: During the puc' Historic Churches Has to,, Cpnl | to War’s Horrors. P Copenhagen, .Dec. 20, (Corpespos : ence)—A. second requisition of chur@iy! bells has taken place in Austria to sorrow of the Catholic population that country, according to advices ceived . here. A limited .number, bells had been spared, thanks to ¢ vigorous representations of the Ep pal church authorities.» But. the go ernment came to the-conclusion that further requisitioning was nec with the ‘result that the church, had to ‘sacrifice ‘many. more of its ta- lar ‘and cherished bells to the. er-satisfied Moloch of war. The idea of substituting steel bel- worse with the increase of cold, for- | for bronze has not yet eventuated, ow= eign residents are planning to organ- .ins to the onerous conditions stipulat- " own |ed by bell manufacturers, who de- ‘The Japanese consular au- | manded, among other things, that the price should be patd in foodstuffs for the workmen in the factories. POST CARPET C0. 219 ASYLUM STREET, CORNER HAYNES ST. HARTFORD. Make Your Gifts Be Useful Gifts. It is at this store where you find the useful gifts. Articles that belp complete your home are the most useful without doubt. For that reason we suggest you choose from the following: Carpets Draperies Lace Curtains Rugs Hassocks Carpet Sweepers Vacuum Cleaners Upholsteries All Selections Made Now for Future Delivery. Give Flowers—That Christmas Day ,Mmmmmmmmr Among all the gifts at Christinas time flowers fill a place that nothing else, no matter how M or \valued, can usurp. They hold all the more intimate sentiment of Yuleude and express the clvtr‘h peT- sonality as no other gift. Flowers will whisper the sweetest thoughts of Xmas so softly that only the recipient can hear and all the while charm others by nature’s perfect ‘lrustry. Cyclamens Grown under the highest state of cultivation and +.$1.00 to $3.00. will blossom all winter Ardesias $1.00 to $3.00. Begonias Mrs. Peterson. $1.50 to $2.50. A modern florist service, such as Volz's, mnuliéa g Old Winter with a_magic wand and blossoming - plants and rich flowers spring up to carry out your Xmas commands. ; Poinsettias , A Xmas favorite. With rich dark green follage and blossoms of bright ‘scarlet ..8$1.50 to $3.00. Special Xmas Baskets $2.00 and up. FERNS New Britain’s Flower Store NORWOOD FERNS . .$1 to $2. HOLLY FERNS . ...75c and up. VOLZ FLORAL CO. ke