The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1896, Page 23

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JA RY 26, 1896 2 23 EAP YEAR balls and entertain- | ments continue in_high favor, es- | vecially with the debutantes, al- | . i though they very guardedly avail the ves of the privileges which are presumably correct this year, and the young beaux are are mod- esty and d. The past week has not been so dull as its predecessor, and the coming one promises to be fairly gay, leap vear domino barty at the Presidio being much dis- scd and an enjoyable time is predicted. eed, there is something especially cozy ttractive about that particular hop- E success of a Pre- iio dance a foregone conclusion. How- the cotillons here the dancing have a decidedly dull time, matter of surprise to strangers the numerous nd commodious homes in this 1 remain closed from one vear’s end to the o 1 2 modest little home i nt, warm and elegant hospitality. Indeed, our most successful and perfect hostesses are not by any manner of means to be found only in the spacious houses. ery one says the living pictures were a success on Thursday evening. | Chiromancy is quite a fad everywhere | present, and some of our belles and young matrons are remarkably clever. | One sweet-looki young woman es- ecially so, and not only does she excel in | her set every one else in chiromancy, but | ber predictions by means of cards are quite | unusual. It relate only pleasant facts or fancies. All the disagreeable ones must be stated as well if the seer expects to be believed, and y one smiles whether informed that may expect a fortune in two months or that next summer they may be drowned while out yachting; and does the smile s the i o denote a luck of faith? Why, not in the least. At the New Year’s reception at the e House Mrs. Cleveiand looked un- vally han e and as happy as ever. Bhe was atuired in a dress of sf end violet silk, adorned with ped ivory sable. At the dinner given last month by the Bricesin Washington their service of gold was used, but it received but a passing glance, says one who wes present, on ac- count of the number of beautiful girls who were there, and among them were Miss Bonaparte, Miss Alice Belknap and Miss Hays, who has beautiful eye: daughters of the house, who ar more lovely d them. than Carolus Duran 0 are being much more d in the East, and it is predicted i 1l rapidly gain in favor here. " is much in vogue, d for two large af- ing of Mrs. Oliver said “‘she was the di- am K. Vanderbilt.” . some distinction should be made wing whether a woman was divorced by her husband, or whether she divorced him, and the sooner this is done the bet- ter, seeing that divorces occur with such deplorable frequency. At a very swell wedding down South a few weeks ago the bride and groox on a rug of white roses. It may have been ctive, but could not have been espe- v comfortable. Apropos of weddings, when Mlle. Hercia Jllman married M. Marc Froment-Meu- rice many representative Parisians were present who pronounced the jewels worn the handsomest seen in Paris in years. Many of the ladies wore aigrettes of bril- liants in their hair. The aigrettes were at- tached by means of invisible wires that mingled with the aigrette. The lower por- tion of these ornaments were in fern- shaped Persian and Indian designs. Other aigrettes worn were in the form of pea- cock’s feathers in diamonds, with a single topaz or emerald eye. Others com posed of d'amond sprays of lilies of the valley bound together by diamond buds were much admired. A round collar of jewels appeared asa favorite form of necz: ornament in geo- metrical design; for instance, crossbars of diamonds had brilliants or _colored stones at the intersections, the brilliants forming squares and conventional arrangements of foiiage. The design in precious stones was in some instances so mounted that a velvet ribbon was inserted between the jeweled pattern to its foundation. Jeweled rings through which a chiffon scarf is drawn are novelties as are also jet rings used in the same way. To better explain let me describe a gown worn at an im- portant dinner this season: 1t is of white miroir moire with jet belt. There are deli- cate chiffon scarfs drawn through jet rings hanging from the waist to the hem at the back. At this same dinner an at- tractive costume was of a chine pattern of delicate rosebuds with bodice and drapery of pale pink and light yellow chiffon. From Paris comes the description of a reception toilet of shot moire, made en rincess, ,the upper part and the sleeves ing of yellow satin, covered with pink accordion” pleated chiffon. Puffings of yellow satin ribbon finished the sleeves and neck, which were cut below the shoul- ders and held over the shoulders by a bandeau of colored stones and pearls for: ing a bow. The trained skirt was beauti- fully jeweled to match the waist. The Louis XIII coat is the favorite of Worth, Paquin and Doucet; as a result never have such coats been seen; they are &riistic triumphs, dreams of delight. They 8% made in the loveliest shades of satin, With embossed flowers in deeper tints, snd in printed velvets of the most ex- quisite quality, Some in pistache green, with bunches of crimson or pink roses, others in silvery gray, covered with trail- ing nasturtiums in pale yellows and the deepest shades of orange.” Again, others are to be seen in blues of many tones, from the ciel to the bleu de France, with raised floral designs in contrasting colors. All are cut with short fronts, and the re- veres are of one frequently or even two gone out of fashion to | besides the | said to be | | o s il SR | A VISITING GOWN. shades of plain satin, which perfectly har- | monize. . The undulating basque starts | from the hips. Louis XV coatsarealso in great vogue in | black velvet. They are a great deal longer | than the Louis XVI ones, and are worn | with very full skirts of black satin or | velvet, or even with very handsome glossy | broadcloth. A correspondent says: “They | have revers of white satin bordered flatly | along the edge with black velvet on whi is an overlying vine of the finest white | point appligue lace. Miniature buttons in | porcelain outline the waist in back and front. The broad back effect, without a | | seam down the middle, is preserved in | such coats. Lyons tulle, of creamy white- | ness, is in high pleatings on each side of the satin stock collar of many folds, while in the back is a large knot of white satin covered with tulle. The sleeves of this coat are of gigots of the velvet, with cuffs | matching the revers of white satin and The calling’ gown illustrated this week has a skirt of green-face cloth, the coat being of green velvet, shot with pink. The waist coat is of pompadour brocade, flow- ered in pink and green. The buttons are | of exquisite pink and green enamel on an ivory ground. Fine lace composes the yoke. The toque isof shot velvet, green and pink, and the feathers dark green. ’l‘lx§ ornament in front is handsomely jew- eled. The house dress is composed of a skirt of soft brown cashmere, the sleeves being of the same, The waist is very tasteful, the front being of a pretty figured chine silk, with crimson flowers on a light- brown ground; the rest of it is of crimson velvet, with an artistic little galon around it. This dress commends itself to% tasteful women, who have many such gowns made at home, and who understand combinations. It is posi- tively wonderful to see how one woman will sgend exactly the same sum of money on a dress as her sister, and it will look like a patchwork quilt, and her sister’s like a g‘rench creation, but then people void of taste never realize what gnys they are. They are regarded with much ap- bridesmaid is attired in a rose taffeta; the vest of ivory silkis covered with dainty een Dresden figures. The togue is of pink velvet roses with a large black igette—dehightfully Frenchy. Gloves of cream-white snede complete it. Somebody is_always having an opera- cloak made, so I will describe one of the very latest. It is in the loose coat style, with a collar and facing of sable and a lining of pale blue satin, the exterior being of a light gray printed velvet cov- Sid ’{&A\\\J 7 L% i A House Dress. proval b{ many dressmakers, who can successfully palm off on them marvelous toilettes. Buch unforturates when blessed with means should hire a reliable woman who will give them advice. o = The rest of the room was in keeping with this beginning, Sheraton chairs next neighbors to rickety hgilded French affairs upholstered in plush, and the owner of this nightmare room has lucre galore. I found it a positive relief later to let my eyes wonder over a wee bit of a tea room furpished in wicker. There was a dull Persian rug on the floor, and on a divan cushions of mellow artistic shades. Noth- ing jarred. The odd Japanese teaset was very simple, being of egg-shell china on the crimson ground of which were many mandarins, the shape of the cups and tea- pot only being unusual, but the effect was charming, even if all the furniture was not worth half so much as that dear lovely old Chippendale cabinet. I trust it may be in better company one of these days. But really 1 had no intention of leaving the subject of gowns just vet awhile, so to return abruptly. The wedding dress depicted is, as you see, simple in general effect, but the lace should be costly if used at all. It 1s just the gown for a tall, slender maiden; in- dmf it would become most figures. The [ Riding Habit of Irish Frieze, tersall Waistcoat. ‘With Tat- ered with pink roses. Few can afford such a cloak, but_even the simplest wrap should be selected with much_ discrimina- tion, and 1 speak from experience. Very beautiful cloaks can be made at home at small cost by the bright little dressmaker. At the present moment, ‘when printed velvets have displaced plain ones, large stores here have been selling at $115 a ard plain silk-backed velvets, rich and autiful in color. To confess the truth I doubted about the silk backs, so I paid the store a visit, and was sorely tempted to order enough of a sapphine blue for just such a cloak as 1 bave been taiking about. Now the ffinmd velvets are a passing fash- ion and silk velvet. even if plain, isalways handsome and so becoming. The French designers are effusively wel- coming back the princess dress, as they de- clare it is the only style which shounld be worn by short women with a tendency to be overplump. Bat to confess the trutn I have never fancied them, as they will fre- quently look like tea gowns when made for the house and like cloaks when of tapestry cloth and trimmed with fur or velvet. The Marie Antoinette fichns continue in great vogue, being made with either long or short ends to wear with either low or high bodices, and they can be made in many fabrics. Muslin, chiffon, taffetas and rich glace taffeta silk are all used, as wall as velvet, jetted or spangled with steel and finished with a narrow fur border or pinked out ruches or vlisses. The fichu is sometimes made rather large, lined with silk and tied at the back with long ends, The Ilrfi collars are also popular, being a sort of Medicis collar, made of a ruche of black satin, from which arise numerous small black feathers, reaching as high as the ears, and well protecting the back of the neck. Some are of colored veivet, fin- ished in front with two ends of cream guipure, Then there is the collar fichu, made of Thibet goat fur, which crosses in front and falls at the back in long ends almost to the hem of the skirt. In Paris every one is speaking of Re- Hne’s beautiful gowns worn in “Viveurs.” ne,‘a toilette de ville,” is of pinkish helio- trope cloth,embroidered with Parma violets | in relief; lace chemisette, red velvet band | such as wedding receptions, ete. ! and gray leaves in relief, the skirt ground length with godets, blouse bodice of violet lawn and masses of lace; violet velvet band, collet of dark Parma violet velvet, embroidered with jet and a large lace scarf in front, sable collar and Watteaa hat. Crepon to every one’s surprise is still fashionable, one gown haviug just been completed in Paris by a famous house of this fabric. It is of white crepon em- broidered with roses and wild convolyulus embroidered with jewels, gigot sleeves of ray moire velvet falling over the hands; gor;uet of shaded chrysanthemums with little white wings starting up. This con- ception would have to be seen to be appre- ciated, as from the description I should not | care for it in the least. « Last week I spoke of evening costumes with entire fronts of fur, and in the copy of Vogue received to- day there is given a truly elegant toilette intended fora bride’s visiting gown. Itis | of royal blue velvet, straight gored skirt walking length, which has two wide grad- uated front panels of white ermine. The bodice 1s round and seamless with a front of ermine, girdled with a costly jeweled belt. The large full sleeves are of the vel- vet with ermine epaulettes and rolling cuffs, the Marie Antoinette muifs and high collar are of the ermine, and this new model shows how correct Iam in saying that plain velvets are not to be despised. Skirts are shrinking in size in Paris, and the swellest of cloth dresses are of the very best qualivy of ladies’ cloth, which should be lined with cherry, blue, crimson or purple silk. Black is used, but is not in the least chic. MarceLLA. oS SR FOR MEN. Frock coats are silk faced and never bound, that fashion went out many years ago. For morning and afternoon wear mother of pearl studs are suitable. Morning cutaway coats are made not un- like shooting-coats; thev are not abruptly cut away, but more like a sack coat. They have three buttons, the pockets have flaps, they are single breasted with a notched collar and may be made of vicuna or any mixed goods. ‘When traveling with your valet he acts BAB TALKS ABDUT WIVES, Those Who Talk and Know When to Keep a Discreet _ Silence. BUT THERE ARE OTHER KINDS, The Difference Between American and French Politeness to Women. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 21, 1896.— The cleverest thing that very clever man, Benjamin Harrison, ever said, was in praise of a certain lady. Of her he is credited with saying: ‘‘She knows how to talk when you want to talk, and she knows how to keep quiet when you want to think.” There have been books writ- ten on “How to Be Happy Though Mar ried,” on *“How to Keep a Husband,” on “How to Get a Home and How to Keep It,” on “The Art of Living.” Indeed, there have been books written with all sorts of titles, to tell women how to keep their husbands at home and in love with them, but there has never beena book that summed up the whole situation as well as that sentence does. Mr. James Banker comes bome from ‘Wall street, tosses off his business clothes, dresses for dinner and then chats and en- joys the chat of a charming woman. Possibly, after dinner, he remembers something, his sentences grow shorter, and wise Mrs. Banker ceases to speak and permits him to think. If he raises his eyes he sees a preity woman who has tact encugh to seem employed about something—a book or a bit of needle- BRIDAL AND BRlDi‘:SM_\lD’S GOWN. 8 bright speech with an indifferent stare or a short answer, and proposes that he shall think alt his time. The ¥oman who can talk when you want to talk and keep quiet when you want to think is the woman to be looking out for, infasmuch 2s she is the proper one for you to marry. If a talkative woman is_married to an Englishman, he coolly and calmly, either by indifference or brutality, gives her to understand that he don’t wantto listen to er. A Frenchman will endure as long as | he can and then depart to his club, and, if } he desires to think for any length of time, he is perfectly capable of finding some lady sufficiently congenial to permit him to indulge in thoughts while in her pres- ence, An American—well, an Amerlcan is always polite, and if a woman will talk, | will persist in talking, and never allows even the thought of the thinking-cap, it dawns on him how easily divorce may be got in some States. Speaking of French people reminds me that the voliteness usually credited them is rather exaggerated. A Krenchman’s politeness is like the icing on a plum cake—there is no great depth fo it, and it is by no means the | est portion. An Englishman is more or | less polite, as he chooses to be, to the woman in whom he is interested, but to | the worla at large he is an unmitigated | boor. It is true that if onefell into the | river an Englishman would rescue one | without making any row about it, but one | can’t go tumbling -into rivers every day, and it does seem to me that a little less ex- traordinary bravery and a little more con- sideration about trifles would make all life smoother. An American is polite to a woman be- cause she is a woman, and not, as a Frenchman suiposes, becanse he expects favors from her in return. She is a woman, and he, stronger in every way, can afford to cater to her whims, respect her | likes, and make himself her obedient servant. I often think he is too obedient; | but still he is very nice. It doesn’t hurt | women, indeed it is very good for them, | quite as fattening as sweets, and much | more efficacious in keeping wrinkles off | their face than any well-advertised cos- | metic, to feel that they have théir own | way. Enthusiastic? Yes, Iam once in a | while, when I compare our men with for- eigners. You know the old saying, “When he dies, a good New Yorker goes to Paris.” ‘Well, if that is so, when she dies a good | English woman in paradise gets an Amer- | ican husband. These awfully cold days people have | been snyins how sorry they are for the | poor, but I don’t feel so very sorry for the | awful poor, who can go to missions, and all the other wonderful places, and haye things given to them. I do feel sorry for such poverty as I heard of the other day. Two gentlewomen, mother and daughter, who used to give French lessons, but be- cause of the hard times have lost their scholars, were discovered sitting on the floor, because they were burning the last chair they possessed. And they had had nothing to eat for forty-eight hours! The mother was over 70 and the daughter over 50. They were refined, well-bred women, not ashamed to work, but ashamed to beg. How many more are there like them? God help the genteel poor! Help that household where there are three or four little tots, a father out of work, and a mother helpless, because the youngest of the babies is only four weeks old. God help the poor gentlewoman, who has to support somebody else, and yet must look genteel, and so during that freezing weather annoyed one of het wealthy scholars because she shivered so. That girl would have shivered, too, if her under- wear had been the kind that she usually dedicates only to summer days. And pity is wanted for those households where there | has to be an effort made to keep up a 200 | appearance. | The Bible says it is hard for a rich man | to get to heaven. If that istrueit must | be because the sins committed by the poor | are forgiven them, for it is poverty that is demorzlizing. The people to be pitied are those of the immense army of the shabby genteel, and the woman to be pitied is that young one with every capability for en- joyisent, with a feminine love for pretty clothes, with a liking for all dainty things | that belong by rigbt to pretty women, | and who is truly woman enough to sigh out her wants all by herself and look | when the loving cup is cheerful. It is hard to know that you are better looking than your rich cousin, but that you can’t have a fresh drock or a fresh pair of gloves. It is hard to know that you would enjoy a book -or a picture, Or a visit to the theater, but that you can’t have it because the money must go for sensible things, I can perfectly sympa- thize with the people, the genteel poor, who loathe semsible Christmas_gifts, and who maintain that that is the time to give them some of the luxuries of life. Always there comes before me when I talk this way, fair-haired, green-eyed, smart-figured little Becky Sharp, who summed it all up when she said: “It isso easy to be good on ten thousand a year.” ‘With leap year there has, of course, coma in some new 1deas in the way of entertain- ing. The most amusing, and the lat the ‘widows’ luncheon. It was given ex- clusively to young widows. The flowers on the table were violets, pansies and lilacs, with their natural leaves, and great quantities of ferns, for green is the color of hope. Candles were in their sticks, and made the proper soft light. The bouquets were violets, tied with long mauve ribbors, and the menus of mauve satin ribbon, with the belongings, that is the coquettish trappings of widowhood—the tiny cap, the jet brooch and bracelets and the black gauze fan, painted in one corner. Glace fruits were in dishes, with musical boxes underneath; one, suggestively enough, | played Should auld acquaintance be forgot, while another one took up that rollicking song which tells a man, It for widows yon sigh, Learn to kiss, not 1o cry. As far as possible the guests wore white, black or mauve. The quotations on the name cards were appropriate, One was: Widow, 5o T say, be your own friend: Your husband ieft you wealthy, aye, and wise: Continue 30, sweet duck—Continte so. One woman, whose widowhood was the kind best represented by a bunch of ferns and arranged for in Dakota, had upon hers Lady Teazle’s inimitable request, ‘“You made mea wife, for which Iam much obliged to you; and if you have a wish to make me more gratefal still, make me a widow.” Anotherone announced that ‘A widow has to assume all the innocence of a young girl without her ignorance. A clever woman can get up an affair like this and make no end of fun of it because g assed around it can be drunk standing and in silence, and “To the men, God rest them.” Bas. GIRLS OF TO-DAY. Girls of to-day! Give ear! Never since time began Has come to the race 0f man A year, a day, an hour, So'full 0f promise and power As the time that now is here! Here at the gates of gold You stand in e pride of youth, and truth, Stirred by a force kept back, ‘Through centuries long and black, Armed with a power threefold ! First: You are makersof men! Chen be the things you preach ! our own greatness teach n mo hers like Lhis you s 3en will be strong and free— “Then, and nou tili then! Second: Since Adam fell, Have you not heard it sald That men by women are led? ‘Irue is the saying—true! Bee to it what you do! See that you lead them well! Third: You have work of your own! Maid and mother and wife, Look in the face of lif - is work for you alone! Maid and mother and wife, See your own work be done! Be worthy a noble son! Help man in the upward way! “Truly & glrl of to-day 18 ihe sirongest thing in If Queer Hungarian Aversion. The Hungarians have an irreconcilable aversion to the name of Queen, and conse- quently whenever a female succeeds to the throne of Hungary she reigns with the title of King. Thus, in_1383, when Mary, tbe daughter of Charles Duras, came to the crown, she was styled King Mary. as courier, gets your tickets, checks your trunks and boxes and takes charge of your smaller belongings. He rides in the ordi- DAary car, never in the drawing-room. He should never be allowed to wear any jew- elry, not even a ring, and of course his face must be hairless. Him informs us that the very bright- est of bright walistcoats are the fashion in New York, having just reached our shores, | after being “the correct thing” for two | yearsin London, and there is a rage for white gloves, not the cape. They have been worn for a considerable time, but white kid for afternoon entertainments, This guthority has just received from his Fifth-avenue tailor a brown morning suit, which he had made after a London model. | He says: “It is a great success. The coat is sack and it fits just loosely enough, a difficulty which our best tailors now seem to bave overcome. The brown overcoat is of a darker shade, one which I can wear, it is so dark, with a top hat. This also fits loosely, but is not in the least bulky.’” Patent leather boots are suitable for afternoon wear, and should not be worn in the morning. Noman can nowadays pretend to com- prehend the meaning of good form who does not tie his own scarf, and until he has mastered the intricacies of Ascot, Derby and bow he had best keep in strict retirement. The Ascots are to be had in various widths and gradations, and maybe lined, partly lined or unlined. In Derbys come the “graduated,” the flowing end, the folded de Joinville and the straight banded affairs. In bows there are the pointed or banged ends, the straight cut and the graduated. The De Joinville will always give vhe best scarf effect. It is never lined and very handsome silk is usually employed, thus preventing this fashion from becoming common, and when order- ing one be sure to have the band wide. Ties are exceedingly popular and vary in widths from seven-eighths of an inch u to 1} inches. They are to be had at nFl good haberdashers to fit any size collar. Lawn ties are made in the same lengths and widths assilk ones. Those with em- broidered ends are not to be thought of. NO FALSE FAGES! No artificial complexion or “enameled beauty’ ought to be tolerated since the discovery of that wonderful scientific skin food, LOLA MONTEZ CREME The skin absorbs it—feeds on it—and Is purified of Blemishes, Wrinkles are filled out and healthy color restored, Naturally beautiful complexions are made proof against the Tavages of time, work and worry. MRS, HTARRISON usesit. She is 40 and looks 25, Jar, lasting three months, 75 cents. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR Permanently removed by the only successtul means sver discovered—the Electric Needle, as operated by, Mrs, Harrison. Ladies out of town TRIAL POT. &6t s %a with 10c in stamps will_recelve a book of instructions and 12 box of Lola Montez Creme and Face Fowaer FR Comeé this week to my pariors and see what T can do for you. MRS. NETTIE HARRISON, DERMATOLOGIST, 40 and 42 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal, work—but something that can be dropped when he is ready to talk again. His younger brother is not so fortunate. He has married a wife who permits no thinking time unless he is away from the home, so called, and he has to undergo histories of the neighborhood, of ‘the household worries, of the children, of the servants and of all the other wonderful things that a woman can talk about when she possesses what might be called an un- interrupted flow of language. Another brother is quite as badly ofi—his wife meets NEW TO-DAY. Special Saving Sale. Haviland China Fine Thin Tea Cups and Saucers, beautiful hand - paint- ed decora- tion, at 25 cents per pair; also Dessert or TeaPlatesto match at 25 cents each. Just think of it— AL i Ilflatv il an2d China Tea Cups an ates at 25 cents. But don’t forget that Wed- nesday nightends it. THAT BIG CHINA STORE— A Quarter of a Block Below Shreve's. WANGENHEIM, STERNHEI[ & CO., 528 and 530 Market St., 27 and 29 Sutter St., BELOW MONTGOMERY roosoosssesess CLEARANCE SALE ron THE NEXT 60 DAYS As T have ordered direct from. the manufacturers a full and complete assortment of the la- test deslgns in SPRING and SUM-, MER GooDs, I therefore offer my entire stock of WOOLENS Dow on hand at PRICES never before offered in San Francisco. GUARANTEED GENUINE ENGLISH CASSIMERE PANTS TO ORDER : FORMERLY EEDUCED TO $10.00 $6.50 ALL WOOL SUITS TO ORDER : FORMERLY BEDUCED TO $25.00 $17.50 All other GARMENTS REDUCED 1n like proportion. You will do 2 well to avail yourself of this opportunicy, and give The a 6all betore buying elsew heres 2 o0 81 Respectfully yours, JOE POHEIM, The Tailor 201 & 203 M St cor. Bush, 724 Market St. and 1110 & 1112 Market St SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. NEW TO-DAY. W o . Lhotinuer 1LO7=109 FPOST STREET, 1220=1222=1224 MARKET STREET. onda Mark=downs on ore Mark=downs everything==-the last days of the Annual Clearance Sales--- “the final price-cutting---Many Spring Novelties at alluring prices. Market-st. store only for Dress Goods. These prices unmatch- able. Dress Goods Mark-Downs. CAMEL'S-HATR CHEVIOTS—38 inches wide and strictly all wool—the 60c kind—need a ne:‘:l‘every-dly dress? They are only 25¢ a yai FANCY PIN CHECKS—40 inches wide—neat dark _colorings—imported _goods—not many pleces left—come quick. 25¢ & yard. SCOTCH HEATHER NOVELTY SUITING— silk and wool—neat mixtvres—rough effects— 45 inches In width—very dressy and balf price. 60c a yard. NOVELTY NIGGERHEAD SUITINGS—38 inches wide—colored grounds with black effects —strictly all wool—were 75c—they are latest styles received in this city. 50ca yard. ENGLISH COVERT CLOTH—54 inches wide —genuine double-faced—ali wool—in tans, grays and mixtures—were $1. Now only 50¢ . ' Market-st. store only for Blank- || ets. If you can’t use them now buy for mext year. ' Blanket Mark=-Downs. The best Blankets In the world are made In California, Here are three CALIFORNIA WHITE WOOL BLANKETS at irresistibly low prices: goade, 0 g 64x80 inches, 36 72x80 inches, $10 grade. 68x80 inches, $6 Here are three lines of GOOD HEAVY EAST- ERN BLANKETS at unheard-of low prices: 10-4 light brown, $1 50 grade. $1 00 a pair 10-4 white, 82 grade... $125a E:u 11-4 white, 83 50 grade $2 75 & pair Flannelette o‘,’.%"f:o”r"p‘z;if;fz. = ttes. Ve it Mark-Down. g especial GOOD ENGLISH FLA PTE—*“fuzzy” oth sides—thick and warm—you usual ac—desirabie figured patterns in pink, and maize. This week only, 5¢ yard. On sale at both Handkerchief 3, %2 Mark-downs. i ot . MEN'S HEMSTITCHED HANDKER- CHIEFS—unlaundered—band-worked initials —tull size—just rceived—bought to sell at 8¢, but marked down to 10¢ each. SWISS EMBROIDERED HAND- 'S — scalloped edges — handsome patterns andlargeassoriment. Instead of 25¢, this week at 1215¢ each. HAND-DRAWN WORK HANDKER- CHIEFS—Genuine Mexican work on fine bright grass linen—ten intricate designs—would make nice table squares—a novelty received last week—should be double prices asked. 5 d T8¢ each. 5 2 g e Hosiery By tores for Mark=-Downs. 7k, Fast colors and wearing qualities CHILDREN'S WOOL HOSE—Derby ribbed— erino, heels and toes—absolutely fast black— 1263 7 to 814 —marked down from 3¢ to 25¢ & pair. LADIES' COTTON HOSE—Plain or Riche- Hiea ribbed-Tast black—with o without white feet—tw6 unusual values at prices asked. 26c and 83145¢. Either store for the best Button New Buttons ; Just Received. jisi e The stocks embrace the most unigue and novel desigus in Rhinestone, pearl, jet, bone, ete. Buy a Silk Waist this week. Such Silk offerings as we make now make Silk the cheapest fabric to wear.