Artesia (Waco, Texas) Vol. 9 No. 13, Sunday, March 26, 1899

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VOL IX. WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1899 NO. 13
Social anb (Current ^Events.
EVERYTHING UNDERthlSUN
That Waco Man, Women and Children Wear.
At Prices to Please the Rich and Poor, Young and Old, the Economical or Liberal Buyer.
Quick Selling Styles, and Quick Selling Prices, small Profits and Sure Sales The Newest
and Best of Everything. All Goods Guaranteed.
That is the Way.
Dress Goods
Of every Kind from every Clime.
15c
Solid Color Piques, in blacks, blues, and Reds,
so popular now for skirts, at per yard, 1 Kn
35 cents, 25 cents, and................................. lvJU
A Pretty Line of Dotted and Striped
Piques, the newest thing out, at only___
Beautifully Colored Plaid Grenadines, dark
grounds illuminated with bright colored stripes,
very attractive and serviceable, at per Q Rp
Black Crepon Skirtings, only one skirt of a
kind, new and beautiful puffed effects, lustrious
finish, at per pattern, $4.00, CD1 H OH
15.00, $6.00, $7.50 to........................... CpIU.UU
Lovely Line of Printed Stripe and Dotted Silk
Tissues. The latest dress novelty of the RRp
season, at only, per yard........................... UvJU
Solid Color Self Polk? Dotted Venetians, very
dressy for in door or street wear, in (pi OR
suit or seperate skirt, at only per yard Cpl. <uU
Sil^s
From all the Wide World Over.
These goods must be seen. Words cannot
describe their wealth of color, fineness and
beauty. We only mention a few lots. Come
and let us show you the others.
Seventy different shades of Taffeta Silk, for
waists and linings, a good one dollar value, and
often sold elsewhere at $1.25 a yard. OQp
Our price now only, per yard .................. OOC
The newest and handsomest lot of All Silk
Grenadines, cream grounds with colored flower
sprays, worth $15.00 a pattern, ml fi HA
at only, a dress................. ................... (p±U.UU
All the newest things in Waist Silks, in stripes,
plaids, polka dots, checks, brocades, and rich
color combinations, the choicest and CD Q Q R
finest of all, at peryard, 85c to ........ CpCi.iiJ
New Black Silk Grenadines, in small or large
checks and designs, from $8.50 to $25.00 a dress.
CurtaiQS
The pretty kinds and right kinds at
Low Prices.
One hundred pairs nice Nottingham Cur RQp
tains, worth $1.00 a pair, at only, a pair.. vvb
Handsome extra Size Nottingham Cur (PI 1 R
tains, worth $1.50 a pair, at only, a pair QI • 1U
The newest designs in Nottingham Lace Curtains,
pretty styles and delicate pat (pi OR
tern s, worth $2.00 a pair, at only a piar 1. Q vJ
Lovely Brussel Effect Curtains, 3)4 yards long,
new and artistic, worth $3.00, this (DO OR
week at only, a pair............................. Cpm.mU
New Irish Point Brussel and Bobinet Curtains,
the prettiest things out, worth $4.00 (PQ bk
a pair, at only, a pair........................... Cpzj./U
Extra fine white and cream Irish Point Curtains
worth $6.50 a pair, go in this
sale at only, a pair................................. $4.75
Organdies
Lovely Colored Berber, Ettanie and
Mohair Cloths, worth 65 AQc
cents a yard, at only............
We show an immense line of
Fine White Organdies, and offer
them at ten to 20 per cent less than.
regular prices. Our line runs from
40 cents a yard, to 50, 60,75 cents
and $1.00 a yard.
pine Parasols
We show every new thing in
1899 Parasol Styles.
Lovely check and stripe Parasols
in all colors, at $2.00, $5.00
White Silk Parasols, with the ncv
ruffle trimming, at $1.60, (DQ RA
$2.00 and............................. CpO.UU
Chiffon and Ribbon Ruffled Parasols,
in white, black and (MR flfl
colors, at $5.00, $7.50 to 'Pld.UU
Elegant Ladies’ Black Parasols, in
ruffled, tuck or plain finish (P ’7 RA
at $1.50 to............................... ' •'“'U
Pretty Novelties in Child (PQ AA
rens Parasols, at 25c to.... . UU
We show the handsomest
handles in Ladies’ Fine
Black Silk Umbrellas.
SPECIAL GOOD THINGS. And too Good to stay with us Long,
come and buy early in the week.
So
Purchaseof two hundred piecesof Lovely Lawns f7 i
in
at
nice
only.
sheer quality, worth 15 cents a yard, 7;c
One hundred Nickle Alarm Clocks, the kind r~r\
you pay $1.00 for, while tne lot lasts they go HmU
(limit to each customer) at.
One case Fine English Long Cloth,
cent kind, in this sale at only,
peryard ................................................................
usual \2'/z 8iC
7iC
8iC
$1.50
Gloves
The finest Kid Gloves Made.
The Genuine Foster’s Jeweled Hook
and Plain White Kid Gloves, with
fancy stitching in all colors. The
tiptop of style and elegance.
$1.50 TO $2.50 A PAIR
Our one dollar Kid Glove is the
best in the city, and warranted.
Hose
Ladies’ Tan Lisle Hose, clock
work stitching, and Laidies Plain
Silk Hose, worth $1.00 a y Rn
pair, at only.................................>
Ladies’ Black Lisle Hose, Richelieu
ribbod, fancy tops, at 25c
Ladies’ Finest Fancy and Plain
Silk Hose, at $1.25, $1.50 $2.50 a pair
Infants Pink and Blue Lisle Thread
Hose and Sox, in very fine quality,
worth 50 cents a pair, QRn
at only...........................................
TruoKs
We show the best make and
handsomest line of Trunks that
come to Waco. They are warranted
throughout. Riveted fastenings,
clamped and covered.
Your name painted free on trunks
and traveling bags. As we are very
crowded for room, we offer extra
special inducements to immediate
buyers of trunks.
Two thousand yards Egyptian Grass Cloth in
beautiful linen effects, with delicate lines of
green, red or white, worth 15c a yard, at oniy...
Onethousand Cakes Soaps, Ivory, Colgate, Castile,
Olive and Fine Toilet Soaps, worth lO to 15c
; a cake, at three cakes for 25c or one cake for ..
Newest and prettiest Ladies’ and Misses Low
Quarter Shoes at $1.50 a pair. These are
i the handsomest ever seen at the price............
Boys’ Knee Pants Suits,two pieces, or “Vestee” three !
piece suits, at $2.00 a suit. We have them
at $1 OO to $5.00 a suit, but come and see
I this handsomest boys’ suit ever sold at only
I We show full five hundred handsome Ladies’ r"rv
; Shirt Waists, in elegant new styles, such as sell ■)( 1(7
regularly at 75c each, which go at only..................
Embroidery
Do not forget that we carry the
prettiest and Largest assortment of
Embroideries in Texas.
We undersell all other prices no
matter where or by whom.
Our Lace and Embroidery lines
are not alone the largest and most
varied, but the handsomest.
We are and have been for years,
headquarters in Waco for Embroideries.
Patterns
We sell Paper Patterns at 10
cents and 15 cents each. None
higher.
Patterns for all garments worn
by ladies, men or children.
No use to pay 25 cents to 50 cents
for a pattern that we will sell you
for 10 or 15 cents.
April Fashion Sheets now ready
and free to anybody.
MAIL ORDERS “ filled promptly the same day as received,
on orders amounting to $4.00 or over
goods. Samples of Out Goods
sent free to any address........
tention and are
We pay delivery charges
except staples and heavy
SAMPLES FREE
OurSpring Millinery
Is the Prettiest and Most Stylish of the season.
All the newest shapes in French Pattern Hats
and Ladies’ Sailors. f
Potieres
We show a handsome line of
fine Damask Portieres, elegant, at
$4.95, $3.95, and $1.95 a pair. They
are worth 50 cents to $1.00 each
more than our prices.
Rods
White Enamel Cottage Rods,
with trimmings to match, QRp
all complete, at only............ udu
Brass Extension Rods, reach 30 to
54 inches extension, with ends
and brackets complete, 0 R o
at only............................ <RnJu
121c
only
Brass Extension Sash and
Door Rods, at each, only ..
Easter Wear
Fancy Fringe Ribbon Sashes,
in all colors, 3% to 4 yards long,
worth $2 00 to $5.00, at <hJ
only $1.50 to...................... Qm.UU
All the new colors in the popular
Moire Ribbons, in all widths.
Elegant Silk, Satin and Gauze Fans,
the richest and most' artistic designs,
at $1.00, $1.50, $2.50
Ladies’ Fine Handkerchiefs, exelusive
imported pure linen
patterns, at each, 50 cents (J^ QQ
We show lovely novelties in all
kinds of Ladies’ Neckwear, Bows,
Scarfs, String Ties, and Lace Ties.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK^MOVEMENTS
OF PEOPLE YOU KNOW,
(Allitems of social and personal nature win please be sent to 924 Columbus street.
Telephone Artbsia 167. No items received later than 9 o’clock Saturday morning, and to msure
attention, should he received Friday,)
Small
Necessities
Fine Perfumed Talcum Powder
in patent sifter top tins, at 10c
(Three for 25 cents).
Handsome Glass Stoppered Perfumeries,
large bottle worth QRn
50 cents, at............................... ndb
Ladies' Satin Belt Hose Sup  RA„
porters, at................................ vJUU
A Nice Line of Cloth Brushes QRn
good solid backs, at.............. mUU
Tooth Brushes, in pretty assorted
handles, at5 cents, 10 cents'
A Good Cheap Hair Brush, 1 An
atonly......................................... 1UU
Camphor Balls at, per box Rn
only .......................................... uu
Bread Knives, worth 25 cents Rn
each, at......................................... 00
Large Sponges, for bath, sta ] H n
ble or house use...........................IU0
Good Feather Dusters, the 1 m
15c kind, at only...................... IU0
A DOUBTFUL WELCOME.
Oh, bitter, biting, blustering March,
So savagely severe,
Few have a kindly word for you,
Rough outcast of the year.
Perchance the doctors love you well,
Just for the work you do;
The druggists can your merits tell,
The undertakers, too.
But if there be another soul.
That greets you with acclaim,
Or feels regret when yon are gone,
I haven’t heard the name!
LENT is about over—now what will
we all do to break the social fast?
It is difficult to predict,since everyone
has been too quiet to even discuss the
probabilities. For the club women, it
is the excitement of the Federation;
and, by the way, Mrs. J. W. Hale as
corresponding secretary, ventures the
assertion that the Federation is grow 
ing in popularity, and that Waco’will
furnish a large delegation in addition
to her regular accredited delegates
Mrs. Rotan insists that this meeting
ends her public service, but it is hardly
probable that her most urgent protest
will prevent her reelection. At
all events the outcome will be watched
with keen interest. The reduced rates
may take a number to Galveston who
have no personal interest in the
Federation.
The summer tourists are announcing
their plans much earlier than usual.
Already Mrs. William Hefley is planning
her Colorado trip; Mrs. Rounsavail,
her passage to Kentucky; Mrs.
M. A. Cooper,her sojourn in Arkansas;
Mrs. W. W. Davis, her return visit to
Canada; Mrs. Rotan, a sojourn East;
Misses Katherine Bower and Annie
Kinnard, a summer course in the
Chicago University. If this be the advance
guard, even before the bleak
winds of March have blustered by,
what may we expect when the summer
heat is on? Generally at this
season of the year everybody is full of
good resolutions to stay at home, and
thus they continue, until mosquitoes
and malaria make life miserable.
Whatever else may come, Waco is
to have something new for her Easter
celebration—the Golf links. These are
just in readiness, and promise within
the next week or two to be a rendez
vous for the ladies. Just at present it
is a little dangerous for them to venture
out, for Col. Hamilton, Mr.
Walter Fort, Mr. Ramsay and Mr.
Eikel are practicing, and the report
has come in that an area of fifty acres
is in danger of their unruly balls, and
that a woman’s Easter bonnet would
be in the greatest possible peril. But
that will all adjust itself,and the ladies
may close in, to within four blocks of
the place. It is hoped that the ladies
will take an interest in the game and
that the summer will develop some
experts. It may come to this—a non
de script passing along the boulevard
is espied by a bootblack who exclaims,
“Say, be you a woman a going a biking
or a man a going a golfing?”
Garden chairs, lawn benches and
hammocks are coming from the attic,
and the next few days will find them
in position, the beacon to draw the
home folks out of doors. By and by
will come the lawn fetes, tennis teas
and all such pleasant adjuncts to summer
life. One of the most pleasant
and picturesque happenings of the
whole of last season was the tennis tea
given by Mrs. John Sleeper to Miss
Mitchell of St. Louis.
We will not go to the theatre much
more, neither will we spend our evenings
in the concert hall where we have
been entertained so often within the
past six months. Our clubs will all
disband soon, and we will give ourselves
over to summer goasyouplease
pastimes. The Euterpeans
have already announced that they
close with a May concert.
The Woman’s Club year book provides
for its annual basket lunch. The
Literary Club holds its final session in
some manner, to be determined by the
program committee.
The Press Club has not yet committed
itself as to its final session.
The other night at the Maccabee
banquet, the toast was given to an excongressman
from Michican, “Any
Old Thing,” whereupon he rose and
let forth a flow of eloquence which
convulsed his audience with his wit,
and set everyone’s mirth wrinkles into
play. Would that we were all congressman
from Michigan, or would
that we could catch this man’s inspiration
from “Any Old Thing” and thus
form a succession of Sunday paragraphs,
a delight to the reader.
Quadratics may break the barriers of
one’s obtuseness, and squaring the
circle may banish one’s perceptive
powers, but the riddle is yet to be
solved, how something can be made
of nothing. If you never tried it, just
do so in some newspaper colums, and
see what a mighty volcano bursts. On
the other hand, dare to leave out
something that might have been
mentioned in regard to Mrs. Blank’s
new gown or Mrs. Dash’s cute baby,
and the volcanic eruptions of wrath
will not be a circumstance. Verily,
this world goes by contraries, and
somehow the contraries invariably fall
to the reporter’s lot.
Mrs. M. Lehr and Miss Bess Herndon
entertained very pleasantly with
euche on Tuesday night in honor of
Messrs. Lindsey of Hillsboro and Murdock
of Ennis.
§§
One likes to roam out doors these
days. The first breath of spring is
most refreshing, and the pleasure of
solitude is most agreeable, or rather it
would be, were not everyone in the
same mood. The country drives, especially
on Sunday ar» one continuous
boulevard; sweethearts full of fancy;
granddames holding sweet communion
with nature; baby toddlers, released
from their vehicles to hunt for the
first spring posy; the poor workman
out for his weekly holiday—all enjoy
the bursting of nature’s greenery.
Here is the one realm in which dollars
and cents cannot buy,and here the millionaire
seeks the level of the humblest
menial. Just the other day a
paragraph was scanned, descriptive of
the Newport villa in which Mr. and
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt (the bride elect
Miss Virginia Fair) have chosen to
spend their post Easter honeymoon.
It is said that they selected this spot
because it was the nearest to caroling
birds, budding trees and all the environments
which attune so harmoniously
with love’s ideal dream. Their
villa is secluded, and its views are all
picturesque bits of woodland. Perhaps
not all, but many will recall Miss Mary
Davis, the bright, impressive little
body who at one time presided over
the art department of the Waco
Female College, and who, by the way,
is now a teacher in the Art League of
New York City. A young gentleman
friend drove her in early spring to
Lover’s Leap, the highest bit of
nature’s art to be found for many
miles. This little woman sighed in
admiration; her wondering eyes first
looked, then tears welled, the tears
from a heart in unison with the
grandeur and beauty of nature’s handiwork.
Such are the women that
leave their impressions.
Are we going to bare our arms and
face to the summer’s sun, and go in
for outdoor sport? If so, we will all
go to the mountains. A good, long
tramp in heavy boots, short skirt and
broadbrimmed hat is a Doctor
Never Fail, a fact which the woman
realize today as they never have before.
There are women, and Waco
women, too, who close their homes
and go, nervous and fretted, for their
summer rest. And how do they spend
it? Sitting around some hotel piazza
or curled up with a novel in some two
by four room? It were well that cabs
and tramways were to stop their motion,
and that these inert bundles of
femininity should be forced into a
good, brisk walk and into rosy cheeks
and sparkling eyes. That the majority
do get all that the exhilaration of
exercise gives them is assured by the
perceptible decrease in the indoor
diversions of summer resorts. Less
than a decade back it was morning
dances for the grownup folks, matinee
parties for the children, and even eotillions
every day in the week. The
summer sheets scarcely mentioned
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