Artesia (Waco, Texas) Vol. 8 No. 27, Sunday, July 3, 1898

              vol. vm. WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1898. No. 27
July Clearing Sale:
Every month from January to July 1st our sales are way ahead of previous years, and we propose to keep it up. July
is a month that we overlook costs and profits, Summer goods must be moved out of our house if prices must Dewey it.
Every department in our house has been gone through and goods marked down so they will sell for thamselves. All we
ask is for you to come in our store every day and you will find new drives. It will pay you to buy some summer goods,
even if you don’t need them at presant. Remember our merchandise is sold to you under a guarantee and if goods don’t
suit, your money is cheerfully returned. We have no old shelfworn goods brought from crosstown roads which you have
to pay the same as you would buy from us guaranteed and reliable merchandise.
Ladies’
Ribbed Underwear and Waists
Ladies’ silk vests in ribbed worth
75 cents and $1.00, this week at
49c
New arrival of beautiful white
lawn waists, elegantly tucked and
embroidered, worth $2.50, this week
1.75
Fifty dozen white ribbed vests,
worth 15 cents, at
10c
Boys’ fine white percal waists in
all sizes, 4 to 16 years, sold at 25c,
35c, 50c and
75c
A saving of fully 33 per cent on
everyone.
Odds and Ends
TO CLOSE OUT
Boys’ and girls’ blazer waists,
werth up to $1.00, at
I9c
Thirtythree per cent off on all
Ladies’ Waists from $2.00 up this
week, that means you can buy 2
waists from us this week for what
you have to pay for one elsewhere.
HousBfumisRjng Goons Wash Goods Ten pieces 60 inch red Damask,
worth 40 cents, at and White Goods.
25c
Ten pieces cream and white damask,
62 inenes wide, worth 65 and
75 cents. This week at
Fifty pieces fine Shear white
Lawn, 40 inch, worth 12)4c, at
9c
49c 50 pieces extra fine 40 inch White
Lawn, worth 15 and 20c, at
One lot assorted towels, odds and
ends, worth 25, 30 and 35 cents, to
close out at
I8c
l£c
A pretty line of light colored
dress Pique Duck, worth 12)4 and
15c, at a yard
Fifty extra size counterpanes,
worth $2.00 and $2.50; this week at
1.39
lie
Brown Crash Skirting, 31 inches
wide, worth 12)4c, at a yard
Ten pieces 18 inch fancy Scarf
Scrim, worth 20 cents, at a yard lie
lie
Five pieces 36 inch curtain Swiss
worth 20 cents, this week at a yard
A 34 inch Colored Wool finish
Skirting, worth 15c; this week, at
a yard
10c
IBC
Fifty dozen, bookfold napkins,
worth $2.00 a dozen; this week at a
dozen
1.39
6x4 Chenille table covers, worth
$1.50, this week only
89c
A line of dark colors Lapet Cloth
worth 20c; this week, at a yard
10c
39c a yard, worth 65c—a nice line
of all wool checks and mixed skirting,
elegant values, at
39c
25 pieces all wool double fold suiting,
worth 25c, all go at a yard
Mail Orders I6c
Filled the same day as received and
express charges paid on all goods
amounting’ to $5.00 or over.
Samples sent on application.
Money refunded if goods don’t
suit.
Be sure to look at our grand
trunk display in our show window.
The finest trunks in the state at the
lowest prices. We guarantee every
trunk over $10.00.
Staples
Fifty pieces nice yard wide Percal,
good styles for dresses and
waists; Monday only at a yard
5c
100 assorted fine Zephyr Ginghams,
the kind that sells regularly
at 10 and 12)4 cents a yard; for this
week at a yard
6c
Fifty pieces figured Dimity, elegant
styles, fast colors, worth 8)4
and 10c, for Monday and Tuesday
at a yard (limit)
4c
Ladies here is your chance, 200
beautiful Percal waist prtterns in
all the latest style checks and
plaids, regular prices on them rre
15 and 20 cents a yard. We will
sell a waist pattern of 2)4 yards for
I9c
Only two to a customer.
MILLINERY
at half price.
To close out. Our Milliner will
leave for the east and everything
must be closed out.
Sailors
35 cent Sailors at............................ 15c
50 cent Sailors at............................ 25c
75 cent Sailors at............................ 35c
$1.00 Sailors at................................. 50c
All our trimmed hats at nearly
onehalf price. Come and get a
new hat cheap.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednedsay
Three days grace—We will give our customers three days grace so they can get the benefit of our grand 20 per cent
discount sale in our Shoe Department. Remember Wednesday at 6:30 p. m sale closes, so come and get two pair of shoes
for what you have to pay for one pair elsewhere
GRENADINES
AND SILKS
33J off from regular prices—
$8.50 pattern, 4 off.........,.,...$ 5.35
$12.50 patterns, 4 off................... 8.65'
$15.00 patterns, J off................... 10.00
$17.00 patterns, 4 off................... 12.40
SILKS
Twenty pieces Wash Silks, new
patterns, worth 50c, at a yard
25c
Three pieces silk fish net, worth
$1.00, at a yard
67c
250 dozen val laces, worth 5 cents
a yard, at a dozen
35c
Hair Curlers, pearl kid, large
size, per dozen
10c
Skirt supporters, all kinds, at
each
5c
Eight pieces elegant black brocadedbiadere
stripes, just the thing
for skirts, worth* $1.25, this week,
at a yard
92c
Twenty pieces colored veiling,
regular price 15 cents. This week,
at a yard 5c
The grandest offer in laces this
season will be this week, 200 pieces
all kinds, of laces to close out this
week, worth up to 25c a yard, at
7k
250 dozen Val Laces, by the dozen
only, onehalf to three forth
inch, worth 4c a yard, at a dozen
25c
NOTIONS
Afternoon dinner coffee cups,
worth 15c, at 6 for
49c
White cloud soap, 3 cakes for
25c
and three tea spoons free.
Feather duster, worth 25 and 50c,
our prices 15 and
25c
Tan shoe posish, worth 20c, at
10c
Extra fine feather stitched braid,
worth 20 cents, at
10c
pporter
50c
Silk Hose Supporters, Satin belt,
per pair
Shirt waist buttons, white ename
at a set
25c
Shirt waist sets in white pearl
and “Old Glory” designs, at a set
25c
Garter Webbing, plain and fancy
frill, a yard, 5c
I0<
Pretty Silk Garters, all colors,
per pair
I9c
Feather stitched braid, worth 10
cents, at
5c
Black shoe polish, worth 20c, at
10c
At Less Than
HALF PRICE
Ladies’ White Ties, worth 20
cents, at
10c
Children’s Embroidered Yokes,
worth 75 tents, at
35<
Ladies’ Silk Mitts with Cuffs,
worth 35c, colors only at
10c
100 Ladies’ Serge Umbrellas,
worth 75 cents, a
35c
White and black ruffling for
trimming wash dresses, worth 50
cents, at
20c
half h<
at
I5c
buttoi
s
10c
Infants’ onehalf hose in black,
worth 25 cents, Brown pants buttons, worth 20
cents, at a gross
GOLDSTEIN & MIGEL.
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(All Items of a Social and Personal Nature will please be sent to Ninth and
Columbus Streets. Telephone Artesia 167. No items received later than 9
o’clock Saturday morning, and to insure attention, should be received Friday.)
WOMAN’S WEAPON.
“What is a woman’s weapon?”
I asked a charming girl;
She dropped her lashes shyly
And stroked a vagrant curl;
Then consciously she murmured—
This rosebud newly out—
“I have a strong suspicion
Her weapon is a pout.”
“What is a woman,s weapon?”
I asked a lover true.
He turned him to a maiden
With eyes of heavenly blue,
Her velvet lips were parted,
All innocent of guile,
And eagerly he answered:
“Her weapon is a smile.”
“What is a woman’s weapon?”
I asked a poet then.
With sudden inspiration
He seized upon his pen.
“Oh! I could name a thousand,”
He cried in accents clear,
“But woman’s surest weapon
I grant you, is a tear.”
—St. Louis Republic.
J*
TYTHEN the mad whir of midwinter
gayety is on, Madam Grundy’s
observant eye peers into many things,
and Madam Grundy’s mental digestion
sometimes brings about terrible nightmares
over the enormity of some evils
that exist right here at home. But,
lest she offend, the madam "keeps her
own counsel and says nothing until
there comes a time when she may
speak out, and that time has now come.
There is nothing transpiring, so the
social blunders here recorded cannot be
those of Miss Debutante or of Madame
WouldbeSomething. They are rather
impressions which have taken material
shape, or subjects thrust into the notice
of the perceptive madame, accompanied
by the request that she bring
her pencil to its keenest point, and attack
some of the social evils that exist.
These requests have come from time
to time and they have been preserved
until the accumulation makes a formidable
list.
Upon the whole, we are a very nice
set of folks. We are kind and hospitable,
up to date and progressive, but
once in a while we do forget ourselves
and do that which offends the aspirant
for a social Utopia. And then what a
mighty Bedlam we do create. Everybody,
like the quack doctor, is there
with his lotion or powder to set the pa
tient right, and everybody in his own
imagination does smooth the ruffles
and oil the roughness.
Madame Grundy has just been talking
to the girls—the dear creatures
and they have told her many things in
confidence which, as a matter of fact,
insures publicity. Now she is going to
tell the boys what the girls said. First
of all, the boys must reverse their
glasses and see from the opposite side.
Where is the young man who does not
take pride in pointing to a well dressed,
trimly groomed young woman as
the one whom he escorted? Have not
girls the same pride? Indeed they
have and yet they are forced to appear
with a carelessly appareled man, linen
coat poorly laundered, trousers to
which starch is an unknown quantity,
a wilted collar, unbuttoned vest and
sometimes no cuffs. When did the
Weather Clerk discriminate between
the sexes? Is it not just as hot for the
woman as for the man? And, if it is,
should not the man present just as trim
an appearance as he expects his companion
to do? In summer affairs this
negligence upon the part of the men is
very pronounced. If they could hear
the side remarks perhaps they would
see to it that their linen was more presentable,
and that their toilet at least
gave evidence that some little attention
had been bestowed upon it before
going into the presence of ladies. This
is something to think about.
But this is not all. There are several
partners who might be a little
more punctilious in the ball room.
What if you have danced with Miss
Dewdrop a hundred times, all
strangers do not know it, and what do
j they think when they see you walk to
a chair, grab the young lady out of it
and waltz her off without even the
courtesy of “by your leave.” It is true
that a few rounds may be lost while the
formality of a request is taking place,
but what are a few notes of music to
the compromise of a young lady’s dignity.
All honor to the old days of
Southern chivalry; may they never decay!
A ball room represents the most
composite element of society; so, no
matter what the degree of friendship,
the young woman should demand and
the young man pay the most corteous
and respectful treatment. The majority
of adverse criticisms passed upon a
young woman have their origin in the
ball room and who should guard her
more sacredly than the young men
who are there with her, professedly as
friends?
So much for masculinity; is femininity
all perfection? By no means. She
is just as thoughtless, but in her own
peculiar way. She goes to the ball
and flirts behind the curtains of some
window casement, deep in the mystery
of coquettish glances, and utterly oblivious
of the fact that she does not
appear very graceful to the gazers below..
Sometimes she laughs a little
too loud, and that makes the passer by
look up in astonishment. In a note
last week, Madame Grundy said amen
to every word of Bab’s sermon to loud
girls. They become the fast girls after
awhile, and then the girls whom every
one shuns for real, true, admired
friends. The loud girl, too, forgets
herself when riding along the street in
the stillness of night. She is going
home from her frolic all life and bubbling
spirits, and she forgets that the
world around her has been sleeping
many hours.
The other night tne telephone wires
were crossed, and there came into a
third party’s ear, “Don’t you think of
bringing a carriage for me. It is only
a short walk and such a beautiful
moonlight night.” Now there was
a sensible girl, and one that man
was bound to appreciate, and,
very likely, the amount of the hack
hire was twice spent in other attentions.
This cab system as it is indulged
during the gay season is a social
evil that sorely needs regulating. Why
are dressing rooms and attendants
provided, if not to replace the walking
boots by the satin slippers, and why
are evening cloaks the style, if not to
protect the neck and shoulders? There
is really something ridiculous about
the young woman who owns not a sign
of a vehicle, or who spends an entire
afternoon strolling among the shops,
feeling compelled to drive around the
corner to a dance. The average escort
in the South is not a millionaire, and
the abuse of this cab practice drives
him to one of two measures, to deny
himself the pleasure of the ball room,
or to leave his bills unpaid. What
girl would like to be the author of
either state of affairs? Night after
night the cabs are called out, when,
perhaps, a half dozen times a season
their use is imperative. But, some
one asks, who is to regulate the thing?
Why, the girls, to be sure, Recall the
conversation over the telephone. See
how nicely the cab was dismissed.
Let the girls once form a crusade
against the habit, as it is now abused,
and vanother season willfind escorts
more plentiful, and no inconveniences,
whatever, experienced."
The weeks of hurry and skurry over
the new in fashions has subsided, our
trunks are packed, and we are off to
seashore or mountain. The next turn
in the world of fads is to burnish a bit
upon etiquette, so that the smart affairs
of early autumn may be given
amid a dash of something new. It is
taken for granted that somebody is to
be married, for there always is in the
crisp November days. If so, in sending
wedding invitations to several
members of the same family the outside
envelope should be addressed to