New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1924, Page 5

Aew Britains Shopping Center I L SJORE mmmsm: p oewbhirriam( o/e 6/1 /u’/"/fiodq' Very fine grade of Tweed in tan and grey Sizes 14 to 44. Reg. $3.98 value. | z : ‘ M ; 347 Winter Coats to Be Sacrificed at Below . 4 Manufacturers Prices at This Sture Tomorrow Children’s 32-inch Fine Ribbed Dress Ho Ginghams se 1 50 Pair 19¢ vau Just received for Beautiful new tomorrow—another Spring patterns in lot of 25 dozen— plaids, checks, very excellent qual- stripes and plain ity fine ribbed, reg- colors. Reg. 29c¢ yd. ular 25¢ pair. - e 39c Percale l;/:ls:ts}? g::!t Tea Aprons 170 Pair 290 Fine lisle with 15 dozen for to- white split foot,— morrow special; fine “Beacon” make, — percale with neat sizes up to 11143, figures and stripes, black and colors, double yoke, trim- guaranteed to be med with rickrack. fast. Reg. 25¢ pair. 72x90 Starchless Sheets 69c Special tomorrow only—heavy quality, regular $1.00. 25% off on all Girls’ Winter Dresses Tomorrow Sizes 6 to 14 years. and Boston Bags 95¢ Bags of all description in this assortment—pouch bags, kodak folding purses, strap back purses, small purses and large purses—black, brown, tan, beige, blue and other popular colors—all genuine leather with solid frames, many fitted inside with toilet requisites. THE =22 y80 10 580 Maint Children’s Panty Dresses 79¢ Of Gingham and Chambray, with bind- ings, pockets and sleeves of contrasting ma- terial, neatly made and attractively embroid- ered with kiddy characters. Sises 2 to 6 years. Regular va]u‘ $1.25, Tweed Skating Knickers $2.79 mixtures. 25% Off on all Children’s Winter Coats No Hold Backs Every Winter Coat in Stock Included $1.50 Corsets 98¢ Wrap-around, elastic top and long skirt mod- els, plain or fancy, all sizes. Other good Corset values to be had tomor- row at our Corset dept. AN EXCELLENT SELECTION FUR TRIMMED Coats $ 1 9.95 Coats of splendid deep pile fabrics—with big fur collars—and. some with fur cuffs, in new side-tie or pleated back styles. The coats in this selec- tion are really beautiful for the money—big fluffy fur collars—rich stitching and tassel trimmings, bias bind- ing, etc., all copies of coats far in excess of the very low price asked. Special for Tomorrow UP TO $65—EXCLUSIVE FUR TRIMMED Coats $35.00 From tke Choicest Coat Stocks For Quick Clearance Rich, soft, silky materials— the kind used only in the most expensive garments—are fash- ioned into beautiful styles, plain and sumptuously fur trimmed. Marvella, Bryantonia, Delysia and Amolaira, in black, brown and grey. Also deep pile sealine plush coast with big shawl col- lars of Raccoon, Fox, Squirrel, Beaver and Wolf, Remember $65 values CHOICE FUR TRIMMED Coats 324.50 $35 to $50 choice best selling Coats tomorrow at this very low price. Fine quality coatings include Amochina, Excella, Bryantonia, Bolivia, ete., with luxurious col- lars—even cuffs and other trim- mings—of such splendid furs as Manchurian Wolf. Beaverette, Squirrelette, Skunk Opossum and Mufflon, All of these are superior coats at drastic reductions. Each coat fully lined with Satin, English Sateen or Ling- ette, Girls' High Cut Tan Shoes $l -98 Pair Sizes up to 2, in broad toe style, lace with per- forated tip, value $2.98. Special tomorrow at $1.98. Boys’ Heavy High Cut Shoes $2.49 v Regular $3.50 value, double soles, waterproof with two Dbuckles and straps at top. Sizes up to 6. Novelty Sport Hose 870 Pair Checks, blocks, stripes and plaids in novelty combinations, very desirable now for the wearer of sport oxfords, hegular $1.25 pr. Ladies’ $1.00 Pure Silk Hose 59¢ Slight irregulars hardly noticeable, no holes, fashioned, in all the desirable shades, including black, grey and beige. All sizes. Odd Voile and Dimity Waists $1.00 Also Overblouses, actual $1.98 Waists slightly soiled, trimmed with fine lace, embroidery and medal- lions, All sizes, but not all sizes of each styie. Windsor Crepe Bloomers 79¢ _Very fine quality Windsor Crepe, in flesh and white, with plain or fine lace trimmed ruffle. Regu- lar 98c. Special tomorrow only. 7/ Lace Trimmed Envelope Chemise $1.29 An assortment of $1.98 Chemnise reduced to $1.29, including a number of fine Val. lace and embroidery trim- med chemise of sheer nainsook, rib- bon trimmed. All sizes. VARIED MODES IN WOMEN’S and MISSES' Dresses $ 1 2.00 Plain and faney styled Dress- es, many being duplicates of much higher-priced modes. In- cluded in the sale are a wide se- lection of styles, colors and trim- ming effects that will appeal to every woman and miss who wants a good dress at a sacrific price. Chiffon Velvets Velour Checks Crepe de Chine Poiret Twills Canton Crepes Crepe Satins At Our Toilet Goods Counter Special Tomorrow Laco Castile Shampoo .. Regular 50¢ size Mavis Face Powder ...... Kolynos Tooth Paste ..... %gg 19¢ . 25¢ New Spring Slip-On Sweaters $2.98 Bright colors with new designs for Spring wear—rich combinations and pretty styles, blouse effects, low necks, open collars, ete. A big variety at $2.98. WOMEN’S and MISSES' MODELS IN NEW SPRING Dresses $ 1 5.00 NOVELTY CHECKS CANTON CREPE A GENUINE OLD-FASHIONED BARGAIN _ Dresses $ 1 0.00 Exact copies of dresses that sell for two and three times ten dollars. FLANNELS SATIN CANTONS WOOL PLAIDS POIRET TWILL POIRET SHEEN TAFFETA Values all up to $27.50 More than 75 styles in this exceptional group of Dresses -— all portraying the newest fashion notes in Spring apparel. Models for afternoon, street, business and sports wear, Cleverly trim- med with drapes, panels, beads, fine tucks, pleats, lace and fancy buckles. Some have linen collars and cuffs; fancy leather or shoe string belts. Colors are black, cocoa, navy, lanvin green, nat- tier blue, grey, rust, moss green and combina- Listerine oo c Palm and Olive Soap Short dresses for the baby, trim- med with very narrow Val. lace with embroidered yokes, or embroidered turn-down collar.Very cute. Reg, 69¢ New Fine Percale Bungalow Aprons 79¢ A big assortment, extra fuil cut, in tie-back, loose or fitted waist-line styles, neatly trimmed, in prei.y coi- ors, figures and combinations. — Reg. 98¢ — Silk Dresses, Cloth Dresses, Stieet, Afternoon and Business Dresses, Satin, Canton Crepe, Wool Crepe, Poiret Twill, Crepe de Chine and Novelty Checks, in plainly tailored or dressy styles, Exceptional Vdlues Each One of the Lot arks with great succesa y to ¥ s before a doubting con- unharmed, which '* or| Berlin Doubts Its Blind, Kind of hemp or grass rope which dial of Ahaz was mentioned in 'hv} GLOCK’S EVOLUTION INTERESTING STORY Many Forms of Time-Telling Devices Have Been Used Washington, Feb, 1. == A 24-hour day, beginning at midnight, is so uni- versally accepted by landsmen that the recent announcement that the systerm would be extended to ships, which mow begin their day at noon, was surprising. “However, land time and ship time e only two of a number of ways which men bave marked the fleeting moments, and various other ways sur- ive even now,” mays a bulictin from the Washington, D, C., 1 quarters of the Nationa! Geographic society. Aifred the Great had wax candles, 12 inches high, marked in notches to tell off the four hours they burned. He later covered them with thin white horn, lantern fashion, to pro- tect them from drafis, but he was far hehind his times in comparison with other portions of the world, and his timeplece was crude in the extreme compared with other inventions before 900 A. D, Ancient Sun Dials “Primitive peoples, before the dawn of history, fixed a pole or stick in the | ground and drew a line about it rep- resenting the course of the shadow it cast from sunrise to sunset. We may | suppose that when Mr. Cave Man started out in the foraging expedition, he led Mrs. Cave Man out and notched the shadow line 10 Show her when she could expeet him home. Some of his fellow mor- tals in other parts of the world in the sume stage of decviopment made & morning on a) they dampened and knotted in regular spaces. When this was lighted, the slowly and regularly creeping spark told of the flight of time. It is said that these primitive time markers are used In parts of Choscn (Korea) to- day “Though some students believe that the early Japanese hiad no method of reckoning time, others claim that primitive Japanese and Chinese used almost the same thing as the rope, though their device more nearly re- sembled a wick which had been so treated that it smouldered out the hours. One now in a museum in Paris. “Even before 3800 B. C. the spark ling stars over castern deserts had made astronomers of begun to reckon time by the cycles of the plancts. No onc knows when they first divided the time from sun to sun inte 24 parts. ner when the hours were first divided into minutes, but Ptolemy adopted the method in the second century and gave it to his worid A Time “Sinker™ “Some of the Malays even today use a crude apparatus for measuring time which has probably been in vogue in the Far Bast for almost 5,000 years. It is called the water clock and is simply a small dish or the round bowl with a small hole in the bottom. When this is placed In a tub of water it gradually becomes full and sinks, which always happens in the same perfod of time. On the Ma- ‘l.y junks it is the customary thing to |see a cocoanut shell floating in a bowl of water to tell off the time away |from the home port. water-clock too, and the British Mu- seum possesses one inscribed with the name of Alexander the Great “The Greeks claimed that the sun- Elizabeth wore the first one about the | threatened same time she introduced silk nock-| dial was invented by a pupll of Thailes of Miletus, but the great sun- | way to Rome of these ancient wicks is men who had _ “The anclent Egyptians knew the | Bible when God promised the sick Hezekiah to deliver his city out of the hands of the king of Assyria. His- torians have fixed this date as being about 713 B. . “From Greece the sun-dial made its the first one being set up in the temple of Quirinus. Reo- man citizens evidently suffered from that universal failing of orators, for n 61 B ompey which he publicly announced was to limit the long-windedness of speakers. “No one knows how old the sand. glass is. It may have been suggested by the water-clock and probably orig- inated in one of the desert countries Egypt or Babylonia—where water s at a premium. We cannot tell exactly of what substances they were made, but they were shown on Greek sculpture before the Christian ora, The sand-glass or water-glass has two uscx all its own at the present time- for boiling eggs, and in the English house of commons to time the bells that ring to netify members that a livision is at hand. “Water-clocks and sun-dials reach- ed high perfection and elaborateness during the ninth ceatury, the master- pieces exchanged by Harown al Ras- chid and Charlemagne being two of most famous of history. The first portable astrolabe artived from Ara- hia about 700 A. D. and from that time clocks of various kinds and classes made their appearance until Peter Lightfoot in 1335 made ‘the carliest real clock worthy of our mod- ern definition.” This old hand-maiden of Father Time still Is ‘going’ in the | Science Museum at South Kensing- ton. “The wrist watch s usually consid- ered a modern development of the watch and clock industry, but Queen ings.” \ the Great set up | |in the forum a valuable water-clock | PIIIANS ESTABLISH A Commercialism Has Invaded Island of Fiji and Shrewdness Secms to Fill Natives Suva, Fiji Islands, 1e 1.—Com mercialism has invaded even this re- wmote region. The ives at a recent ceremonial not or booth for the sale of refresh but charged visitors three shillings each for the catching the event fire walking,’ and the sh Lecome a charac was evineed i came to view 1t ted to travel mans land, and then elim nearly a the phitheater or payment was m The “fire teresting cer. tives. Little of the fact t are impers as ohserve tain, the p and unharmed on & virtually red hot, having for hours in a fire pit leaves, brush i bits of thrown ov rocks, th the latter b evide smoke or flame which | bursts forth. The native versior the cerémony is that in t {past a Fijlan traveling in | met an elf, whom he suspec |ing an evll spirit. The native cap- tured thie natural creature and him. To save himself the It offered as a ®ift any power the way to Afterward wood are immedia of the origin of ; hav sative chose. The Fijian chose and | to members of his day EVIL IN GIVING AID General Booth of Salvation Sees Great Misfortune in the Aid- ° g of the Unemployed London, Fet the social wor Army, Genera effects of the Booth do’ ployed 1 am wonder w ed somet dole—ti . of mon quired i quite against ever receivers life idleness are incre is more or less a m is turned into a mora not hesitate to say that people e istands * & felearning &t This t work and this isaster o tens of thousands of tearncd very time, to for the young people especially distant |18 & most disastrous experience.” Removable Corke A little glycerine rubbed over the surface will keep the corks from sticking in boft glue, cement and other sticky substances. Army denly shouted inte the that he was not blind and t accuser with alert Police- the imposter es- store where he expensive eigar indignant publie pursued dragged him from the shop and yund beating while the Testing Suspicious Ones ear Biind L e public has begur r affliction and is puttir a test. One “blind ma was mobbed in the 1923, the Rochleder sisters celebrated a double One became Mrs. Nat Wells (left) The other day they again eeles Mrs. Wells’ On Jan. 7, wedding in New York city. and the other Mrs. Henry Tewel. brated a double event, each becoming a mother. ibaby is a girl and Mrs. Tewel's a boy.