Artesia (Waco, Texas) Vol. 8 No. 14, Sunday, April 3, 1898

              VOL. VIIL WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1898. No. 14
Monday Only
Bordered gingham aprons, not made,
worth 15 cents each, for Monday C _
only, at................................................. Uw
Manchester Linen Crash, beautifully
printed linen effects, in colors, suitable
for Summer skirts and dress *T1 «
es, worth 15c a yard, at a yard. 12w
One case unbleached cotton flannel,
the 8c kind, at a yard............ 9G
Good quality Spring Ginghams, in
nice delicate patterns, suitable for
waists and children’s school dresses,
worth 10c a yard, at only a
yard.............................................
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Our handsomest goods all go to the front this week.
We have our best, prettiest, most stylish on exhibition
and we illustrate the moral of our selling—LOWEST
PRICES ALWAYS. You can afford style if you buy
from us. You can afford the best if you buy from us.
Why? Read the facts here and on every counter in
our store.
THE BEST
Kid Gloves I
Is the Cheapest.
| If you buy them from us it cost no
: more to wear the best Kid Glove made.
I We are sole agents in Waco for the
lie
Monday and
Tuesday only
Crash skirting in dark colors,^mper =
fectly finished, worth 10 cents a 4. [
yard, at a yard................................. UW l
A few tin jacketed glass oil cans IE.
worth 25 cents each, at only.... Iwv i
Best quality Liberty silks, in all col [
ors, 50 inches wide, sell a $1.00 a yard [
elsewhere. For Monday and EQu [
Tuesday only, at a yard........ Vfa2W |
One hundred dozen checked glass =
towels, worth 50 cents a dozen
at only a dozen........................... UUV
Red Tokenabi Jardinieres with heavy
raised decorations, worth 25c |E.
each, at only................................... 1511*
Four for 50 Cents
The I “Genuine”
Latest I Fosters
We are showing the newest
things in parasols, and one
should go with every ladies Easter
outfit. Come and see them
and we promise to please you in
the style and price.
$1.50, $2.50, $5.00,
$10 00, $15.00
i Kid Gloves, and we guarantee every
5 pair. Our $1.00 Kids in black and all
I colors is as good as any other $1.50
I glove made. Other pairs are $1.50,
i $2.00 to $2.50 a pair.
| SPECIAL—Complimentary to our
f Easter sale this week we well sell
[ Foster’s Jeweled Gloves, finest quality
§ in latest shades, regular price I QC
= $2.50 a pair, at only.................. liUU
Millinery
Le Costume
Royal
This is the finest fashion journal
published in America. Each number
contains—besides six handsome colored
plates—a diagram of the latest cut
of skirt, coat, bodice or jacket. The
regular price is 35 cents a copy. We
have the May number now on our
county and make a special price of
Only 15 Cents
Our opening last week demonstrated
the fact that we are in the lead as to the
latest styles in millinery. Our department
is thoroughly uptodate with French
Models, fine Ribbons, imported Flowers,
and Feathers.
We invite inspection, comparison and
purchases. We will show you as fine
workmanship and as handsome hats as
can be seen anywhere, and we will save
you fully onehalf in price.
Silk Sashes
I See our “latest'’in fancy silk sashes
[ silk fringed, 31 yards long, at only
| $1.95 to $3.00 each. They are the
§ newest things out.
I Our Easter line of neckwear for
I ladies’ and children is now complete
I with the prettiest new ties, scarfs,
[ fronts and novelties of every kind.
 I,,#K v lace silk chiffon and lawn
| fronts at $1.00, $2.00, $3.00 each.
I We continue this week our special
[ sale of Easter handkerchiefs and hosi
iery. Elegant novelties at 25 cents,
[ 50 cents, 75 cents to $1.50, worth fully
i onehalf more.
Silk Specials for Easter LADIES' AND
CHILDREN'S
Latest Out
We are showing the newest styles in
jeweled belts and Chatelaine bags.
You will find them no where slse in
the city. They are entirely different
from all others. Come and see them.
Prices 50 cts, 75 cts,
$1.00, $1.50 to $5 each.
Be with Fashion’s Leaders
—wear the latest.
Moire Velours in Black and Blue, the very thing for pretty
skirts. We show this week a line of good $1.25 and $1.50
a yard values, and sell them at only.............................................
Here is another one—Black Satin Duchesse, 25 inches wide, all
silk front and back, extra heavy, worth $1.25 a yard, at _
Do not think to get these again at these prices. We expect to
close out every yard by Tuesday at the futherest.
Fine Fans
We want to sell you a real nice
one—the Easter kind. No ten cent
or 25 cent fan, but a beauty at $1.00 ^
to $5.00, or even more. We show,
however, a pretty line of elegant
Empire Fans at 50 cents to $1.00, in
silk and gauze.
All colors—any style.
§7c I Fine Hose
We show every desirable style of
plain and fancy hosiery, in cotton,
silk and Lisle thread.
25 Cents
Ie this lot we include handsome
qualities worth up to 35 cents a pair,
both for ladies’ misses’ and children.
33 Cents
We make these the three for adollar
kind. They usually sell at 50
cents a pair. Fine cotton and Lisle
thread in plain and fancy for ladies
and misses.
Our extra fine hosiery go at 50 cents
75 cents to $1.00 a pair.
Glassware | Easter Dress Goods
Brighten up your table and side
board with some pretty pieces of
cut glass. We have everything, anything,
and at very low prices.
Easter Eggs
And Novelties.
Bring' the children in and get a
an Egg, or Rabbit, or Goslin for
them. Decorated wax eggs. Fancy
colored eggs, etc., at
Spring is here and Easter Sunday will do homage to
her arrayed in a wealth of Spring fabrics.
One of the prettiest of new thing's is a line of colored stripe linen i
lawns, such as would sell at 25 cents a yard. We are mov |^Q =
I ing them rapidly at.
I French Organdies as we show them in the delicate new colorings [
E are things of beauty. This week we offer the 50 to 60 cent J J. =
= a yard kind at only.............................................................................. ®E®H*
i We show a full assortment of solid color organdies at 10 cents, |„
15 cents and 25 cents a yard.
Rhademe Plaid Skirtings, illuminated with bright color Jl. [
ed silk checks, a lovely novelty, 44 inches wide, at a yard. §
Towels
Special Easter offering of 50 dozen
fine damask and huck towels, knotted
fringe ends or hemstitched, extra large
size worth 35 cents each. This OOl^
weei they go at........................... £Sa2v
Six for $1.30
Rain hemmed huck towel, the best
thiig out for good every day use.
Wcrth, 20 cents, they go this |E.
| week at............................................... IOC
Six for 80 Cents.
I Cents Near Silk
Each and upwards.
Mail Orders
We will give prompt and careful
attention to mail orders. Samples of
cut goods free.
Have you seen it? The latest and prettiest silk finish fabric to
go under Grenadines, Organdies, Laces and other sheer goods. In
all colors and shades. Ask to see it.
The new “Worstle” a check, double fold wool finish suitting,
can be made up as a wash or a wool dress, a yard....
Handsome novelty black skirting, lovely brocaded Mohair,
worth $1.75 a yard, at only....................................................
A striped Mohair and Wool Black Crepon, worth $1.50
to $1.60, at only a yard......................................................................
Some pretty Brocaded Mohair and Wool Lustre, worth
$1.50 a yard, at only a yard..............................................................
Black Brocaded Mohair skirting, the regular 75 cent
skirting, at only a yard......................................................................
Draf D’Almas, 44 inches QQ. Pretty summer weight Emwide,
at a yard................ vub press suiting, at a yard..
125c
1.35
1.25
1.10
50c
90c
Good Things
I This lot is a little mixed in variety,
| bui it is all right in quality and price.
I Factory remnants of bleached Irish
I linen, suitable for fancy work or
§ children’s waists, worth 37 to
| 40c a yard, this week, a yard... £flG
: White fringed table cloths,
= wcrth 50c each, this week.......... WuG
1 White counter panes, good hem
| stitehed spreads, worth $1.25, Aft.
| at only............................................ 9UG
I Same in extra fine quality, I EQ
i wcrth $2.00 each, at only........ liUU
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WE BELIEVE that is a Haw'
thornesque idea that mankind
exists in an universal
brotherhood and that the
general striving towards something
better is the tie which binds this brotherhood.
This exclusive man, so very
exclusive in his daily life, seems also
exclusive in his ideas, for he says
nothing whatever about the cord of
sympathy which unites an universal
sisterhood. The Easter gown, that
subtle current which carries all femininity
up to the same plane of excitement
was untouched, when the first
half of the nineteeth century reformers
were suggesting their ideas. Nothing
daunted, however, Dame Fashion
has never weakened her influence since
the days of hoopskirt and chignon.
She moves restlessly from gown to
bonnet and back again, breaking out
in spasmodic convulsions, at one time
telling her devoted subjects that busties
are imminent; and again that
crinolines are imperative, but never
does she create such consternation as
at the Eastertide. Then, winter furs
and robes must seek the cedar chest,
and busy brains must design their suecessors.
But what must these successors
be? Happy the ingenuity that
can fashion something that has a poise
distinctive in its grace, and thrice
happy be the wearer that can excite
the envy of her sisters.
Just now there is no book so much
read as the fashion journal; no picture
so much scrutinized as the fashion
plate, and no form so much studied as
the human form. Quo Vadis was interesting
a month ago, but it is vapid
now as compared.to the latest copy of
LaMode. A Madonna is greatly to be
admired, but its colors are lifeless
when put beside the becoming shades
of the new green; the Venus of art may
excel Hogarth’s line of grace, but what
is that compared to the importance of
knowing whether the tucks should run
bias or straight upon the human form?
Where is the woman whose whole intellectual
strength is not now centered
on spring styles? The shops, the fashion
parlors, the home sewing rooms
and the library tables all proclaim the
fact that Easter frocks are reigning sovereign
today, while last week’s millinery
displays give evidence that young
pretenders in the Easter bonnets are
contesting the throne of popularity.
Still, it is not all in the adornment
of the person. The home needs its
fresh dress. The warmth and comfort
of winter are now out of place, and
something light and airy must take
their place. The shears and lawn mowers
must be brought from the cellar;
the garden chairs must be placed, and
all made ready for the coronation of
spring.
Now, with all this before us, where
shall we turn? What a serious question
it is to determine whether a sash
end should be tucked or flounced. And
where is the arbiter who is competent
to settle so vital a point? The fashion
book, to be sure. Else, why have the
New York designers been devoting
their money and time towards European
trips? The fashion sheet is their
only mode of telling the feminine
world how it shall array itself in order
to do again what it has ever done,
ensnare the hearts of man.
The women of this southern clime
make a quick transition from fur to
muslin. The medium of a spring gown
of light wool and serge is denied
them, so the much discussed suit of today
is anxiously passed by to await
the coming of that crown to woman’s
summer beauty, the organdy, with its
billows of lace and the fresh little dimity
that makes the morning girl just
the very sweetest little creature imaginabie.
In glancing over the latest collection
of modes, some very acceptable ideas
are gleaned, all of which go to prove
that the summer girl of ninetyeight is
to be every bit as chic and fetching as
was her big sister when she smiled and
coquetted at Newportduring the season
that the word “summer girl” was
coined. But the details of what she
shall wear remain very much the same.
Of course, the girl of this season mast
have a sash, else she will not be a
ninetyeight girl at_ all. She can ruffie
or tuck it, lace it or hem it, but a
sash it must be, and it must be the fall
over the back width of a skirt, from a
waist girdle of the same material. The
majority of these sashes will be made
of the same goods as the dress, but
ribbons will also hold their own in
popular favor.
Only by way of having something to
say, the following from Mr. G. Herbert
Brown, the editor of the Galveston
Saturday Review, and the critic of
Galveston social affairs, is inserted.
That is all right about Mr. Brown’s
deploring the probable looks of the
Galveston women in their Easter gowns.
Just wait until he sees one going to the
Easter service, and we will wager he is
the first convert to her fascinating
toilet. Mr. Brown says:
If the evening gowns to be worn by
the ladies of Galveston after Easter
look anything like the fashion plates
seen in Vcg’ua, Mode, Demorest and
other publications which make a business
of telling women what to wear, I
pity them. Of all the ungainly looking'
creations the fashion dictator for
this spring has certainly found the
most unprepossessing. Did you ever
notice—but of course you have—the impossible
waists these costumers put
their styles upon? One wonders how
the circulation is maintained, and unquestionably
agood stiff norther would
blow them in twain were they caught
out of the house,
The shirt waist is again to be the
conspicuous feature of every summer
wardrobe. There will be no change of
pattern, unless it be a slightly smaller
sleeve, but the tendency of colors is towards
the solid, rather than the figured.
If white be preferred, the fabric
chosen will be linen with detachable
collar and cuffs. The girl who can
add to her swell shirt waist a nobby
tie and belt, with a stiff brim sailor,
tilted from the back is the girl to be
uptodate this summer. A new belt
supporter has at last been introduced,
and the disagreeable antagonism between
skirt and waist is about removed.
The young woman who feels herself
possessed of a summer outfit, and who
does not include several skirts of wash
fabric, stitched with a Spanish ruffle is
a young woman quite a season behind
the times.
The house wife who intends giving a
spring luncheon will bear in mind that
the last horrible freak in table fads is
perfumed better. The golden grease is
made into little pads, and then laid on
a bed of violets or roses or heliotrope
for an hour, and then the whole placed
in the ice chest to cool.
Of the modish head dress just now in
vogue, one has only to see elsewhere
what Goldstein & Migel and the Fashion
Bazar displayed at their opening
on Wednesday and Thursday. Were
there nothing else to redeem the new
styles, these millinery confections
would be sufficient.
Not to have a touch of orange somewhere
about the toilet is not to be considered
as fashionable at all.
When the summer days are fairly
here, and the wilted locks bespeak the
weather’s “melting mood,” then the
women will rejoice that it is the style
to keep the hair well rolled off the
face. Pompadour puffs will remain in
until next fall, at least.
The athletic girl has nothing new to
flaunt before the eyes of her envious
sisters, unless it be the very fortunate
miss who can ride by on her new chainless
bicycle.
Every spring gown must have some
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