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WOMEN' AN'D THEIR DRESS
TV HAT THEY CAN DO WHEN
CRITICS DISAGREE.
7he Influence of Wool tn Summer Fash
ion*—Novelties in Material aurl Cos
tume-summer Stylos—The Newest lu
ltlsch Toilets—Japanese Fans.
New York, June s.—Probably there
never was so much written on the subject
of clothes as now. Women may well be
distracted by the variety of opinions, all
cf which are agreed upon one point—to
disagree with each ether—and very few
of which contribute anything of value to
the solution of the problem, if the subject
presents any problem that is not explain,
able by trades and competition and the
natural differences in the formation of
men and women.
It is to be expected that art in its rela.
lions to common life will take cognizance
of dress, and therefore “studies” of form,
“studies” of color, and “studies” of dra
pery, while interesting as such and sug
gestive to the more intelligent minds
among women, do not excite a disturbing
influence; but when old and dignified re
views like the yorth American thinks the
matter worthy of a “symposium,” and se
lects fit is to be presumed) five of the
ablest contributors it can find to the litera
ture of the subject, it is rather disappoint
ing to find no clearer light thrown upon
any of the vexed questions concerning it,
nor in fact any suggestions made which
have practical value or claim to origi
nality.
The best article of the group is bv
Charles Dudley Warner, who makes a true
and subtle remark (for a man) when he
says “Thesubjectof woman’sdress has a
peculiar fascination, because the sudden,
continuous and extreme changes in it are
related to no physiological fact, and can
be traced to no known or regular opera
tion of the mind.”
The next best article is by Surgeon Gen
eral Hammond, and bis is principally good
because it is fair, not dictatorial, and does
not pretend to know too much.
Mrs. Helen Jackson is the only one
who gives the actual fashion and influences
in fashions for the past twenty years
credit for the number of good ideas and
sensible sanitary articles of dress which
have been introduced, and assisted to
maintain their ground against the efforts
of capricious and exclusive social and
trade influences.
The w riter of the leading article, Mrs.
E. M. King, starts otf with the platform
laid down by Lady Habgrton’s dress re
form movement, and which was given in
letters trom England to this country by
myself four years ago the present sum
mer. The ideas are good, but not new,
and when she goes on to say that woman's
dress “unregulated by the necessary con
ditions of progress has proceeded from
bad to worse, now (the italic is mine) in
juring her body and degrading her mind,”
she at least says more tbau is true. The
dress of women has had its seasons of
tirocression and retrogression; but it is
to-day. for comfort and convenience, for
wholesomeness and health, and even for
lovely possibilities, far in advance of any
period since the days of such simple forms
of covering as gave the free opportunity
to natural grace of movement, but was at
the same time less compact and quite un
lit lor the rapid movement and business
and social complexities of modern life.
Fifty years ago the corset was an in
strument of torture (see Mme. Genlis), In
which the young form was compressed as
in a vice, of metal and boue. It is now a
mere waist, shaped to the form, and use
iul in holding in place the soft flesh that
falls below the line of the bust, and in
preventing also the bands ot under gar
ments from cutting into it. Fashion is re
sponsible for much exaggeration and
many silly whims and fancies, but it
could not restore the towering headdress,
the powdered flour and cosmetic era, the
“cages” and the padded hips any more
than the rigid iron-banded corset.
It permitted the introduction of the
short walking dress twenty-five years ago,
and though various efforts have been
made to get rid of it, and bring the street
sweeping skirts back again, they have
proved futile. The common sense and in
telligence of American women are in the
majority among fashionable women as
well as among women who make no pre
tensions to fashion, qnd they are learning
to keep last hold of essentials,leaving the
details, as they can very well, to take care
M themselves.
DIVIDING THE SKIRT.
It iB useless to preach trousers to the
civilized woman under the name of the
iivided skirt or auy other. She will have
none of them, unless they are put out of
’ight. The “divided’' dues not present
any just claims to the suffrages of women,
apart from the prejudice existing against
trousers in place of skirts. It is simply an
ugly and shapeless kind of drawers, and
,-u it tins to he pretty, it is by adding
)utiles, piling on weakness, the lust effort
ot imbecility. Mrs. King, the present
representative apostle of the divided skirt
movement, was invited to a meeting ot
ladies in New York, which she attended
in a divided dress made after her
own most approved style. The wide
divisions of tile skirt were long and
very much ruffled; the skirt was very
short, and ruffled also, and the loose
jacket part much trimmed. It was a
dress requiring much labor, and very
easily and irremediably soiled. It bad it
1 atchy appearance, was devoid of grace
and dignity, and attracted the attention
ot boys in the street. These are all real
ami valid objections. Probably every
woman has some objection to make to Iter
dress, as every person in the world- oh
.'sots more or less to tin l (acts of their en
vironment, whatever they may he; but
"“tone of the 2<iO(more or less) present,
on that occasion would have exchanged
taeir style or form of clothing with Mrs.
King.
ut l.ady IJabcrton in her original idea
had the genn of a good thing. Skirts,
especially in their varying quantity, pre
*e,it difficulties which might be remedied.
Ihe even suit of line summer gati/.o or
heavier wool; the corset bodice which
shapes init does not necessarily compress
the waist; the silk, linen or cotton combi
nation- ail these have been accomplished
'actsfor the past ten years at least, thus
providing for all who chose to avail of
them garments which do not unduly re
strain, and which distribute the warmth
over the surface ol the body. Add to these
drawers reselling barely to the tops of the
hoots made of the material of the dress
a| id lined or millited, according to the
season and the weight ot material, ami a
strt In addition to a lined or heavy
woolen dress would be entirely ui.neces
sary. The drawers in this ease would be
out of sight. They would be as protec
tive and save the weight of skirts as well
'■* the divided skirt; but they would not
present an ohuoxlous appearance, would
hot flap about the legs, or lauve an tin
necessary amount of material lying aitout
ions,, and In the way. Much a dress as
'his would not he adapted to the tlrawing
'®°m, where the long gown is an element
'•essential grace and beauty; butlt would
greatly facilitate many kinds of work and
outdoor exercise, and render school and
oustnoss dress more easy and adaptable.
sanitary influence of dress.
vast amount of rubbish is and always
'll bo written, doubtless, in regard to tne
healthful Mud malevolent influences of
*•> *nd the harsh judgments are largely
“A don the absence of fixed laws, Are
A ,IV ot the laws fixed that govern our
hi life and environment!* Is medl*
• t science fixed? Were any two doctors
]'' *■ known to agree!' Could not phytri
hns long have gotten rid of all corsets
•om semblance ol ccrsets, if skirts also,
oiu substituted trouser* bsd Ibelr
1 hnee laugh* them all, and all alike.
that these were positive hinrances to the
nf h <> a ltby bodlt by women?
i, r ,VI " 01,S fact is tbn the average
11 o, wornen > s as goodfr better than
I luai ot men, whose dress iliot criticised
! ;f om a sanitary point r view. The
i tnousands of women whonw occupy im
! ].’ or ,t positions, who wot in shops atql
| J a °tories, who support iemsolves and
i anulies, all wear the ordiarv dress of
j women and maintain a startard of health
superior, to that ot male euhioyes.
The apparently splendid bvsical condi
tion of women in New YorUml elsewhere
is a constant subject of renij-k, and is due
undoubtedly to good air ancplenty of it,
to good tood, and to a dies which does
not severely restrain or tortve them. As
tor the necessity for a unifon weight of
covering, covering at all is aaere matter
ot habit, and If every par should be
evenly covered, why not fee, wrists,
hands, throat, ears, and everypart of the
body. The best thing about ie dress of
J women is that they can and o change it
j —not the fashion of it, but itelf. Men
■ would do well to pay a little mre atten
j tion to their own dress and nstore the
i linen summer clothing, or at leat substi
j tute something that can be wasbd. Flan-
I suits ana the like, cleaned o thrown
aside, may meet the requiremets of a
tew; but the majority do not spfld their
days in playing lavn tennis. Thy go to
work. They wear dark clothes, reeking
with perspiration, and they are content
with a frequent or infrequent cange of
shirt,
SOLVING THE FKOBLEM
j Book discussions do little to tear up
■ J-ko muddle in regard to what to year and
how to wear it, but sensible wnmm solve
the problem tor themselves by bsng their
own dressmakers. Clothes are i6t a bur
den to women when they hive onee
learned what to get rid of. There9iduum
is generally what they want, iet rid of
adulteration of material; get rilof whale
bone in dresses, which does n* improve
the form and only wears on th' stuff ; get
rid ot movable dress-ox panties, and de
signs that cut the material up into frag
ments. There are many othe things to
get rid of, but the list would bs too long,
and every woman can fill it urfor herself.
A great help in solving the poblem is in
adhering to a few rules in regard to
fabrics, the most important ofwhich is to
get them of pure quality whether
silk, wool or cotton. Miny inex
pensive materials are now st exquisite
in texture and quality, and • 6olt and
lovely in color, tnat one canmt bear to
give them up. Tbeir daintiness: becomes
a nart of our lives, and we wan: them to
live with us forever. Women mss much
who do not make themselves acquainted
with the best things, the softest voois, the
all-through silks, the daintiest cottons,
and stick to them. They are economy
lrom the first and can never be worn out,
though they be spoiled by i/1 treatment.
If one wished to express oiesell through
one’s dress, it would be found necessary
to keep the stiff rustling slk for cross in
stead of company days, fhe soft white
wool for the sympathetic days, the gray
dress tor the sad days, th pink dress for
toe joyous days, aud the old china blue
for the holidays.
SUMMER WilOL.
It is to English and German influence
we owe thejprestige acquired (luring late
years by woolen dress materials, aided of
course oy the great advance in the art of
their manufacture ami the wide range it
covers in weight, texture and design.
There was a time when the woolen dress
was the almost universal dress of both
men and women, and the differences in
cost aud quality Vere marked more by
the hand-work put Ipon the stuff, and the
interweaving of ttue gold and silver
threads than by difference of texture and
quality in the originU fabric. As late as
tbe beginning of tie present centurv
cotton lor dresses wa* dearer than wool,
and the chintz cottdi gown was the
luxury of the poor, as filken fabrics were
the luxury of the rich. American cotton
made cotton cheap to Ul the world, and
Chinese silk made silk if not cheap, at
least cheaper than it hal been, and every
woman wanted silk, I'd- the generations
had been deprived of It and a silk dress
to many meant the realisation of the wild
est dream of ambition.
We are only just now recovering from
that exaggerated sense *f the value of
silk, and it is quite natural, and as it
should be, that the reactiona-y movement,
the strongest feeling in favrf of tbe early
fabric, should te found atong the rich
and well-to-do classes. Tiiose who have
no illusions about silk are intimately
acquainted with its charm and possibili
ties, and give to it its proper place and
value.
Art, too, has done sometbicg to elevate
wool by showing its susceptibility to pic
turesque and graceful arrangement; and
this influence has done more than aught
eise to maintain the ascendancy acquired
by soft textures to tbe exclieion of the
stiff stuffs and wiry alpacas o' a previous
era. There is a subtle fascimtion in the
texture of pure wool that is sbsentfrom
silk, linen or cotton. One would say it
had leeling and a vital qualitythat brings
it into mppor with human reeds. It is
botii warm and light; it is bota light and
cool; it in sympathetic and restful unless
made otherwise by tbe iitroduction
of a foreign element or the
destructive art. of the had modiste. Silk
and satin have been subservient to it in
the cloth dress for walking in the bows
ami belts and sashes ustxl in trimming for
it in the evening, its grades and degrees
cover the distance between cloth with a
thickness and weight, of wool in It that
would burden a strong man,and tissue so
light that enough to make a dress may be
passed through a ring. As underwear in
this climate it is invaluable, for its soft,
warm or gauzy textures adapt themselves
to every change and variety of climate, -
while it so readily absorbs perspiration,
is so easily, with "uuderveatform,changed
and washed, and is so inexpensive that
every one can provide enough for an
abundant supply, and for a daily change
it m ccssaty, at a cost of less than s•’>.
Wools deserve much more care in their
selection than It has been the habit to be
stow upon them, certain woolen materials
being always set apart by reHlly distin
guished and fashionable women tor cer- •
tain definite ami well dcllucd purposes;
and tbev are bought for tltssu purposes
year after year, each manutactory having
a character of Its own as easily recog
nizable us Huvilanrl, Copeland, Wedgc
wooil or Worcester ware inCbina.
SUMMER DESIGNS AND PRICKS.
There is a marvelous reduction In tbe
cost of all materials in hulk at the same
time that there Na great Improvement in
texture and in the beauty of the designs.
In the uew wide wools, so supple, so light,
so strong, so pliable, so adaptable to all
women's uses, there Is, it must be repeat
ed, an absolute fascination. Due wishes
for a purse that could buy and hands that
could make lovely dressing for all the
women ill the world, to take the place of
their shreds and patches, of the In Unite
pain* expended in spoiling the good things
skill and industry furnishes.
There arc beautiful cashmeres with a
saline finish and figure* which are slight
ly sunken or executed in a duller twill
and huvo not the effect of brocade, but
more of tapestry designs, which can be
bought, forty-four Inches wide, for 11 O't
per yard. Ten yard* ol this would make
an in-door gown that would last a llle
time.
“Crazy’’ cloth Is rca’lv an etamlno or
canvas cloth—all wool ami as wide as the
cashmere—at only sixty cents per yard,
it is most durable and excellent lor ocean
travel or mountain suits.
Fine sand colored doth costume* for
walking and seaside wear, made with
clustered ami box pleated skirt*. *101(11
habit-basque and no drapery, arc orna
mented with panels and military vest
Iront with ladder* ol close straps of nar
now silk braid, embroidered in feather
stitch upon tbe points at the end*, toe
shades oi silk and braid exactlr matching
the doth. The cot of uub a suit, finish
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1885,
ed in this manner, which was formerly
from s.j() to $75, is no .v from $25 to s3o—in
stock,of course, not made toorder.
It is an unusual thing, however, to find
new designs in any ready-made depart
ment. The “slock” of ready-made suits,
cloaks, jackets, costumes and the like, is
made up by great lactory firms before
Jan. I for the following spring and sum
mer, and by July lor the succeeding au
tumn. Naturally, they are cut from an
cient patterns and follow all the old ideas
in regard to “drapery.” Later designs—
imported, home-made and adapted—are
made up to order or lor special exhibition,
and double, treble, or quadruple the price
charged for the “railroad” suits, which
are generally of coarse material coarsely
made. Ladies who can do their own
dressmaking, who can put on a touch of
hand embroidery, and who have intelli
gence and aptitude enough to guide tfiera
in color and to a proper selection of de
signs and patterns, have an immeasurable
advantage over other women, for they can
always lead in the matter of fashion, at
the same time that they caa adapt and in
dividualize their own dress at less than
half its cost to less skillful, less fortunate,
or less industrious individuals.
This season the points of difference in
formation and construction are very de
cided, and a dress of last year, or made
after last year’s styles, can'be detected at
once by an experienced eye. The features
this year are the straight skirt, the short
habit basque, the absence of drapery or
its massing high at the top of tbe skirt,
the short outdoor garment, and the revi
val of a number of features which distin
guish the dress of thirty to fifty years ago.
One of these is the reintroduction of the
cap placed over the top or used in place
of a sleeve. Another, the shoulder trim
ming known as bretelles, which extend
down the back as well as the front of the
bodice. A third is the restoration of the
long, wide sash, bowed at the back, and a
fourth the short sleeve with high French
waist full at the belt, plain on the shoulder
for young girls.
completeness in costume.
The moat obvious and most decided
characteristic of the different kinds of
costumes is the care with which the de
tails of each are arranged to suit the
genera! tone and purpose of the entire
dress. The newest hat to wear with cloth
suits, tailor made and finished in high
military style, is “Amazone.” It is high in
the crown but not pointed, with a brim
turned up on each side and sloping off at
the back, but straight in front, where it
projects a little over the forehead. The
trimming usually consists of soft silk
with pompons, dark-blue with wine
colored red, or a twine shade with brown.
The Lotta hat is a Manila straw with high
crown sloped up and brim projecting in
front but tapering off to nothing in the
back. This is trimmed with a striped
canvas scarf and an aigrette, and is suit
able with combination walking dress.
The “Fedora” dress is mastic wool with
full skirt front in satin and ornamentation
of narrow gold braid, is accompanied by
a Tam O’Blianter made oi ruby satin cov
ered with Tuscan lace braid and orna
mented with two straight quill leathers
in shades ot mastic to brown.
Another dress in the same style is made
in two shades ot brown, with brown satin
lor the foundation of the bat.
THE NEWEST IN BLACK TOILETS.
For handsome black toilets, anew and
effective Lacuna I figured grenadine is
used in combination with the plain all
fabric in armure patterns. The figures are
large and arranged so that there is neither
“up” nor “down,” an advantageous feat
ure, as the fabric is costly and waste
should be avoided. The heavy outlines
are precisely the same as the home-made
Escurial lace,and the effects are obtained
by difference in the size and formation of
the mesh, which gives lact-like designs in
the soft, semi-transparent fabric. Eseu
rial grenadine is $5 to per yard, and is
used for fronts or panels of dresses, and
lor the body part of the small wrap or
mantle, which is otherwise trimmed with
Escurial lace, or with a mixture of ball
fringe and point D’Orleans.
Lace is not at all so much used on fine
costumes as last year, embroidery having
largely taken its place, and Ihe contrast
of plain with figured material Yak laces
are an exception, but their reign will be
short in a popular sense, because they are
not desirable in the coarse patterns, in
which alone they are attainable by the
majority. Fine woolen Jace is beautiful
but not effective upon wool, and out of
place as a trimming tor anything but
woolen costumes. It is therefore bard to
do anything with it that will repay its
cost in additional beauty or appearance
ot value. It is very delicate and pretty
upon tine nun’s veiling and thin wooled
tissues, but it is also costly, and the flat
trimming are more in vogue, have ob
tained the lead, and look newer.
Woolen lace is sometimes effectively
used to cover a contrasting color com
bined with cream or mastic, and the re
sult is lovelv if lace and material are tine,
and the effect repealed in a bonnet or Tam
O’Shanter cap.
Last winter a very novel and beautiful
ball dress, an invention of Worth, wti9
described. It consisted of silk tulle into
which were woven small silver loops over
satin, the loops serving as holders for
myriads of tiny violets. There were no
flounces and no drapery. Only the show
ers of delicate little blossoms upon the
still more delicate fabric, which was still
beautiful when the flowers were removed,
the silver links looking like a small cres
cent design upon tulle. Recently Im
ported dresses In Mack, cream-white,
and ecru and white, are a strong re
minder of the lovely covered ball
dress. They consist of a complete
skirt and bodice of beaded lace
over silk, quite plain with the exception
of a narrow pleating round the bottom,
over which the scalloped edge is fastened.
There is no ribbon or trimming lacc
needed, aud untiling ot the kind is used.
They arc literal showers of light, larger
beads outlining the torm of the bodice
and edging the narrow open collar, which
is thrown back. Simpler dresses of the
same kind are of tbe loveliest white and
ecru embroidery, the embroidery covering
tbe entire depth of the skirt above a nur
row pleating, forming the sleeves and
forming a jacket upon the bodice which is
beautifully tucked both back and front.
.1 Ai'ANKHE FANS
take the place of painted satin anil feather
fans when warm weather approaches, but
they are not confined to the stiff, gaudily
decorated paper styles which are sold any
where lrom ft to Ml cents. Tbe tine Japan
ese Inns are painted by hand on silk, and
ure miracles of delicate color and natural
object grouping.
Whatever tbe motive Is—flowers, sky,
water or foliage It Is delicate, exquisite,
original to treatment, yet instinct with
life and full of out-of-door*.
Modest-looking tans ot this kind are
only appreciated by connoisseurs, and the
S2O asked tor them would be thrown
away on the average owner of Japanese
fans.
A novelty this season is a large leal
shaped fan of plaited straw. It is the
same as the braid of which bonnets are
made, that is bcgluulug to find a market
lu this country, the weaving being some
thing like tbe’“Panama," but the color
different, a sort of greenish cream—a
very esthetic tint which trim* well with
solt muslin only fastened with small gold
pins. Some of the straw-leal (Ning-po)
fans are decorated with outlines of Orien
tal color. JennvJune.
Being entirely vegetable, no particular
care is required while usiug Dr. Fierce’s
"Pleasant Purgative Pellets." They ope
rale without disturbance to the .•oustUu
tlou, diet, or occupation. For sick head
ache. constipation, Impute blood, dizzi
ness, sour eructations from the stomach,
had taste in mouth, bilious attack*, pain
in region of kidneys, internal fever, bloat
ed feeling about the stomach, rush of blood
to bead, tala Dr Pkna’i “Pellet*.” My
druggists
A TERRIBLE EXAMPLE.
The Scheme it gainst Free I.unch Raiders
Aag>l>te<l by a Saloonkeeper and the Re
sult.
From the I’lorchnd Plaindtaltr.
He was a free lunch raider and he had
the “route” down fine. Ho knew the
saloons where the best “lay out” was to
be had, but very soon the saloons com
menced to know him. He was very
easily recognized; his style of dress was
somewhat negligee; in fact, too much
abandon was noticeable about his every
day wardrobe. There was fringe ou
has pants and his laundering had evi
dently not come home for several weeks.
His chin was innocent of the touch of a
razor for a month at least, and there was
a cadaverous expression about his mouth.
About noon he nearly always managed to
have a uickel, and it'was at this hour that
he sauntered with unruffled demeanor
into the place where free lunches are a
specialty on the public square.
“A glass ot beer,” he said with the air
of a millionaire; and then, as if uncon
sciously, he stepped toward the f. 1. coun
ter. With some gratification he noticed
that new vegetables were in, and picking
up a lork he was deep in the recesses of a
dish ot beans and a tempting plate ot let
tuce. There was tripe, too, he noticed
with greedy gusto, and soon three
or four pieces were speared on the
tork and disappeared like a
(lash behind his molars. The
barkeeper, who had watched the proceed
ings closely, now smiled a fiendish smile.
The raider stopped in his work ot destruc
tion. A tear trembled on his storm
beaten cheeks, another followed, and soon
there was an expression of intense won
der combined with pain. Great heavens,
he thought, could tne tripe be seasoned
with vitriol or dynamite. Ills mouth
burned and his throat felt as if he had
swallowed a red-hot coal. Rushing to
the bar he gasped for lager while
he attempted to disguise his feel
ings. The barkeeper was slow—very
slow, and attended to other customers
leisurely. The raider’s eyes were start
ing lrom their sockets. He could stand it
no longer, and with a dash and a yell he
flew out of the place in the direction of
the public square fountain, into which he
plunged his head and rinsed his burning
lips ana throat. He rolled on the grass
and cried with agony. He called for a
doctor and shouted he had been poisoned,
but the barkeeper crossed the road and
merely remarked:
“He’s a lunch raider, and I guess he
ain’t used to eatin’ cayenne pepper by the
pound.”
The crowd tumbled.
goatrttrr’* jUtttrra.
Hostetter’s
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and it i highly
Pkv. ncrvic cable to
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OO ’jrafi andiadiomndfl
" ™ H icate health. It
is, moreover, a useful medicine to lake with
one on long journeys, anti counteracts the
effects of mental exhaustion. For gale by all
Druggist* and Dealers generally.
(Slottiing,
HALLOO• HALLOO! HALLOO!
139 Congress Street!
How is Clothing now? Clothing Is
all right, and prices are down, down,
down! The bottom has dropped out.
There never was a time when purchasers
could get as much for their money as now.
The spirit of the times seems to be to al
most give Clothiug away, and we just
want the public to understand we can go
just as far in that line as any firm in the
city, and so we are in the race.
Clothing for Men, Youths, Boys and
Children, and prices are way dawn.
We still claim, and also will perform it
by giving you as much, if not more, lor
your money than any house in the city.
Straw Hats. Underwear,
• Neckwear, San Umbrellas.
Come in, all you that lire in need of
anything in our line.
Clias. Logan & Cos.
THE SAVANNAH
Clothingand Hat Store
18!) Congress Street.
U>oui poniDrr.
To Sportsmen!
We have received another auppTf of
WOOD POWDER.
A superior Mrllcle for
PIGEON SHOOTING
No amoke or recoil.
PALMER BROTHERS.
(Fhuraltottajl.
gti.< <> Institute. JClltaott City. Md.
r I'HK S*d Annual ***lon will tin remmnl
I SKI’TKAtIIKK. ISAS, with a full n>! eltl
cin®t cnrii* of PrcfsMor* sod Tntwhnr# In
ovsry depart meat. Mias A. M ATOHETT,
I’rin.-icst: Mi- Roberta li Archer, the
Principal, Circular*s * Mdlon iksiiii*,
BklliDioie, Md., until July 1.
jDru GGooko.
IT IS NOMYSTERY!
Hut a fact known to Everybody in or about Savannah, that at
Weistisiii’s PopnlarDn Goods Honsc
Everybody gets the Very Best Goods at the Lowest Prices, and always receives
courteous attention. It is well known that we never deceive the public, never mis
represent goods, and always oome up to our advertisements. The Spring season is
about ended, and we have ''determined to close out our entire stock of seasonable
goods, and to acoomplish the result, we have made such immense reductions in prices
that it is absolutely necessary for you to see it, for we admit it almost looks Impossi
ble. Yet we have made these heavy reductions and mean to stick to it, as we are
tully determined to sell off the bulk of our immense stock.
Mo Nonsense, Solid Facts!
f)nr PRESS GOODS in low grides ire hare redurrrt per cent., tn fne grjdes to per
cent, from former orices.
Out Black DRESS SILK'' we hare reduced 2'> pei cent., our < olored DRESS SILK.s AO
per cent.
Our SATINS and BROCADES we have reduced to to SO percent.
Our I AKASOLS and UMBRELLAS we have reduced 2c to 50 per cent., according to their
desirability.
Our fine LINEN DAMASKS, fine NAPKINS, DOYLIES and TOWELS we have reduced
38 per cent.
Our StapleJ-INEN DAMASKS, NAPKINS ami TOWELS we hare reduced 15 per cent.
Our M ARSEILLES QUII.Ts and Fanny BEDSPREADS we have reduced 40 per cent.
Our SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS, PILLOWCASE COTTONS aud DIAPERS we have re
duced from 25 to 50 per cent.
Our LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS for Ladies and Gents we have reduced fully from 38 to
50 per cent.
Our LACES and EMBROIDERIES are reduced, the low grades 25 and the fine grades 50
per cent.
Our ALL OVER LACKS and EMBROIDERIES for Yokes and Sleeves we sell at any
price, almost at ore-half their former prices.
Our Ladies’, Miaser’ and Gents’ I .OSSA MER RUBBER COAT* are reduced 83 per cent.
Our Ladies’, Misses’ and Gents’ HOSE we ufl’er at extraordinary bargains, more especially
in flue goods.
Our GLOVE DEPARTMENT is uncqualed in tbe eity, and our prices are reduced to one
half.
Our FANS are new and novel, as well as staple, from the 10. Palmetto to the finest and
choicest.
Our EMBROIDERY SILKS wo continue to sell at lfic. for 25 assorted Skeins.
Our line of JERSEYS are immense, we are selling them at any price to dear the stock.
Our CORSETS are our pride. We have 75 of the beet styles iu use, and give the best for
the money.
Our INDIA LAWNS at 5c., Bc., 10c. and are beauties; onr I2U'c. LAWNS are equal
to any at 20c.
Our WHITE GOODS stock cannot be excelled in quality, nor approached in price*.
OUR PRICES ARE UNAPPROACHABLE!
We Will Rflakc a Few Quotations:
Yard wide SHEETINGS, which were Bc. now sc; WAMBUTTA - IIIRTINGS, worth 1214 c,
nowise; 0 4 If N BLEACH ED SHEETINGS, wo r if. 20c, now lie; 8-4 ItLRACHKD rtIIEET
TNGs, worth 20c, now 12V£c; Bent NtHmlard (JA LK OEN, worth Bc, now 6c; Bait Mourning
CALICOES, worth Bc, no\vsV|c; Fast Colored UNION LINEN LAWN, worth jiowSUc;
X V D , A and VICTORIA LAWNS, worth *u now sc; one job lot of perfect Geut*’ HALF
HOSE at Ic; ft large lot of Lathe*’ Fancy HOSE, worth now sc; Lutlie*' CHEMISE,
worth 25c, now 9c; Ladies’ SKIRTS, worth 60c, now 25c; Children’* OR AVV KRS, worth 40c,
now 15i : CORSETS, worth 40c, now 25c; PILLOW CASE COTTONS, worth 16c, now
CitLl’E VEILS and CREPE by the yard at one-half value.
Do Not Delay, But Secure the Bargains at Once.
David Weisbein,
158 BROUGHTON BTREF.T, SAVANNAH, HA.
goof, (Kruttha, (Hr.
E. L. NEIDLINGEK. \V. C. NEIDLINGER. J. W. RABUN.
NEIDLINGER & RABUN.
Just received a large stock or
Itiibher Hose, Spiral Cotton Hose, “MaKic” Nozzles, “Lowell’’ Nozzles,
“The Boss” Nozzles, Stop-Cock Nozzles, (.arden Sprinklers, Fountain
Sprinklers, Lawn Sprinklers, Hose Reels and Couplings.
Rubber Hose at 10c. a foot.
A full line of Lap Sheets, Horse Covers, Ear, Neck and Body Nets, Sad
dles, Harness and Belling.
Trunks, Bags and Satchels.
106 ST. JULIAN & IC3 BRYAN STS., SAVANNAH, CA.
KW~ Trunks and Harness Neatly Repaired.
MiTsililii Bridles I
\ LARGE, well iclectcd assort mint for Wholesale and Retail Trade. Fine Single and
Double HARM ESS for eity use.
RUBBER and LEATHER BELTING of tbe Best Manufacture at the ]<owest Prices.
ITALIAN UKMI* AND GUM PACKING!
Thaelter’a I'ateut IJelt Fastener* at Manufacturers’ Prices.
LACK LEATHER, iu sides or strips; Belt Hooks, Copper Rivets and Bur*; Heavy, NelaoUwl
Indian dressed Buckskins fur Lacing.
GIN ROLLER LEATHER, In the Side orstripa (My w ItRUHH BRISTLES, PEGU,
etc., etc,
BOOT and SHOE UPPERS and FINDINGS; Frcne.h and American Calf and kip Skins,
Sole leather and Last*.
TRUNKS, VALISES, TKAVbLINU BAGS. SHAWL STRAPS, TRUNK STRAPS, and
everything usually kept in a well stocked Saddlery eslablishinuul.
Call aud examine our stock, or write (or price*.
W . B. M ELL & CO.,
Market Square.
ejurttilurr, carpeto, Cte.
DON’T I^OUGEST
Southern Furniture House
Will sell for Lowest possible pricoN Mailing, Window
Nliades, Parlor Suits, Dedroom Mulls, Mosquiio Not
Frames,aud everything else In our line.
N. II KH >1 AN,
170 BROUCHTON STREET.
Bakina P—fttr.
WHEAT Baking Powder
It outiUlns bo Injurious
Ingredient*.
It lesvrs no deleterious
substance, in tlm rue*d
all iuiis ifr*tie Cream
uf T.rlar *nd Alum To*,
der* do.
II restores to the Flour
th, idrhly tm eotlani cun*
•tjtueat. ret* til In th*
bran of tiln Wheat.
II make* • belter and
lighter Heeolt fhu ny
<**.■ lUktne Pnsiior.
MAhTIN KA?.RFCFINCH'* >IIXI,
Mtslnished I*)*. NEW IUBK,
For sate by all, leg,a*, gro.era.
ftrrv.
1 Pure iind lloiirsl Arllcir i* tile
Aiitasßr-Biscli Brewini Ass n
St. Louis Laier Boer.
'CHI lrg .air. tr.lify llie besrty itipport
I of an appreciative public, anil the special
branda
“Faust” and ''Anteer" Bottled Beer
Are Just the thing for tamity MM, Pirate*.
Matooaia* I’aruee, tr. lleeralwst*lce rnbi.
GEO MKYKK, Nole Agnail,
tiepnt sad Ottce. loot of Aheroore street;
Brmb i ini c, lot llay street.
gPatrtrea anD ytvtint.
WORK.
FI WITCH
AND
JEWELRY
REPAIRING,
Staying reorganized my
Work Department
| AM NOW PREPARED TO DO
FINE WATCIWIHK
IN THE
VERY BEST MANNER,
JEWELRY
Hade and repaired
AT SHORT NOTICE
ENGRAVING
BOTH PLAIN AND
ORNAMENTAL
DONE IN AN
ARTISTIC MANNER.
Special Attention
GIVEN TO
Work of All Kinds
AND—
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Your Patronage is Solicited.
SAMUEL P. HAMILTON.
Cor. Ball and Broughton Sts,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
SUltirnuarr.
Wedding Presents!
Just received anew se
lection of solid Sterling
Silverware, in elegant
cases, and novelties in
Triple-plated Silverware.
Also, Ladies’ Vest Chains
of the latest pattern.
A. L. DESBOUILLONS,
Jeweler. 21 Bull at.
Iliibn t.ilii’u.
J. il. i o
MASONIC TKMPLK, I OH. I.IBRRTY AND
WHITAKER STHKKTS.
Cratfß.
Vegetable and Fruit Crates.
\\TK hive * full slock on our yard, corner
II Liberty and East Broad streets. WiU
fiimi.li by car load direct from mill when
daaired. raCON, JOHNSON 1 00.
Tcioi) JJmifrpn'.
REX MAGNUS,
A Preparation Tor Prcerrln* Food.
C. M. GILBERT Sc CO..
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