Artesia (Waco, Texas) Vol. 8 No. 31, Sunday, July 31, 1898

              VOL. VHL WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1898. No. 31
Ladies’ Gloria Umbrellas
We have captured another lot of
astonishing bargains in steel rod
black Gloria Umbrellas', lovely
novelty handles, worth $1.50 to $2
each. Come tomorrow and see
them rush away at only
$1 each
Free Monday
We have taken the agency in Waco for the leading Fashion
Journal of America.
Xe (Bostume 1Ro\>al
And as sample copies we will give away to our customers tomorrow
one hundred August numbers FREE—to ladies only. Ee Costume
Royal sells regularly at 35 cents a copy, but our price for future
numbers will be only 15 cents. No lady who wishes to dress uptodate
can be with out it.
Children's Hose
We are showing a new line of misses’, children’s,
boys and girls Fast Black Ribbed
Hose, such as sell usually at 25 cents a pair.
All sizes 5 to go at only
15 cents a pair
We will give a new pair for any that do not
give entire satisfaction.
Ladies' Neckwear
If you want to freshen up your stock of pretty
neckwear here is a good opportunity.
Tomorrow we show some nice Embroidered
Yokes or Collars in handsome designs worth $1 to
$1.50 each, and give you choice at only
75 cents
Ladies' Chamois Gloves
Tomorrow we throw out our entire
line of real Chamois Gloves in
natural and white, worth $1 and
$1.25 a pair, and make the special
price only
75 cents
Every pair warranted to wash.
Solid Lawns
We have received ten pieces solid blue and
red Lawns, of nice gauge, but which do not
come up to our standard of quality. They are
just such goods as sell at 15c a yard in other
stores, but as stated above, they are not up to
our high quality mark, and we give them away
this week at only
4 cents a yard
Towels
Some hundred odds and ends in
Linen Damask and Huck Towels,
regular values at 25c, 30c and 35c
each. This week we run IQ.
them out at only........................ IOC
Table Linen
Pretty Red Damask, 60 inches wide
worth 35 cents a yard, at Oil
only.................................................
Cream and White Damask, 62 inch
wide, worth 65 cents a yard A Q _
at only.......................................... 40C
Remnants
Short pieces in White and Red
Table Damask, in cuts 2, 2j4 and 3
yard lengths; all go now at about
Half Price
Great Dress Goods Smash
Sixty pieces pretty prime and perfect Wash Fabrics closed out at
fraction of cost. We are clearing for battle, our fall goods will soon
be coming in, and we will want counter room. Summer goods must
go at any sacrifice. Here is one of the best bargains of the season;
20 Pieces lovely French Organdies, in choicest
colors and most delicate patterns, worth 25 cents to JA
50 cents a yard............................................................................... HH
20 Pieces fine fancy Lawns and colored dotted H I
Swisses, worth 25 to 35 cents a yard................................... ™ ™
20 Pieces Striped Linen and colored Piques, ,
worth 25 to 50 cents a yard...................................................... " *^**D
Every piece of this lovely, stylish and seasonable goods worth 25 to
50 cents a yard, will be offered this week at only 11 cents a yard. If
r every yard is not sdld out in a hurry then Waco ladies do not want
s anything in this line. No duplicates when these sixty pieces are gone.
Sheets
Fine Hemstitched Sheets, sizes 81
by 90, sell at 90 cents each in the
run of stores, our present
prices only.................................. Q9G
Covers
Chenille Table Covers, full six
quarter size, worth $1.50 QC.
each, at only.............................. OvG
Feathers
We will supply you with Feather
Pillows, in plain or fancy tick, at
less price than you can buy the
feathers. Some good values “TC*
at only a pair............................ f 9C
Anyone can use a pretty Sofa
Cushion at pleasant prices. Come
and see us this week.
Half Price Silks
This week will be a merry one to Silk buyers.
Note these prices and be sure to see the
goods.
Black Brocaded Taffeta, just right for summer
skirts, worth 80c a yard, at only
40 cents a yard
Dress Skirts
Tomorrow we show on second
floor some half hundred ladies’ and
misses’ colored and fancy Dress
Skirts in pretty colors, plain,checks
and stripes, worth $1.50 to $2 each.
They go as a hummer at only
99 cents
Limit one to a customer. Remember
these are in both ladies’ and
misses’ sizes.
Ladies' Wrappers
This week we close out broken lots
of ladies’ Wrappers worth |{A.
$1 and $1.2S, at only............... UwG
Another good line of real pretty
and well made Wrappers, which
have been selling at $1.50 QA.
each, will go at only............. W«f G
Half Price Silks
Fish Nets are always goods. We close out
three pieces this week in Pink, Canary and Nile
Green. Worth anybody’s 40c a yard, but this
week we want only
20 cents a yard
Half Price Silks
Iron Frame Grenadines worth 75c a
yard, go this week at only.......................
Small lot of Silk Mulls, regular 40c
goods, given away this week at...............
Tinsel Gauze in a few shades, but
good shades, worth 65c a yard, at only
37^
20c
33c
An Event of Events
This week we eclipse anything ever attempted in Waco of \
its kind. We will make a 1 Wonderful Waist Sale |
That will be the talk of the town for months to come. Lven custom \
ers who are well acquainted with our famous slaughter of prices will 4
be astonished at this utter annihilation of values and sacrifice of profits. $
39c 3 On front counters on first floor we will show hundreds of ladies’ 3
j lovely Waists in many styles and in every color, worth 75c to $1.75 i
s each, and they all go at 39c each. Limit to each customer. Remember s
£ the Waists will be there Monday and how long* they remain there 3
£ depends upon your appreciation of the bigest bargains of the year. >
Ladies' Underwear
This week we offer one of our best
values in ladies’ fine Muslin and
Cambric Underwear at
89 cents
Embroidered and Lace trimmed
Gowns, Skirts, Chemise, Drawers
and Corset Covers, worth $1 and
$1.25 each. Take your choice at
89 cents
Children's Dresses
Some pretty white and colored
children’s Dresses, a little line we
want to close out. Prices yesterday
75c and $1 each. Tomorrow
and until closed they go at only
49 cents
Surely at this price you can use one
or two, and we will not sell you
more than two. Stop and think,
woith $1 go at only 49 cents.
Boys' Waists
Only a few Boys’ Patriotic Waists, made in
handsome and novel styles, worth $1.50
each, closed out at.......................................... f QG
Ladies' Waists
All our finest ladies’ white and col’d I Cft
Pique Waists, worth $2.50 each, at ... . liWU
These are very nobby.
Mexican Drawn Work
Wisely supply yourself with these lovely [goods
now. Mr. Granat left his stock with us while he
made a flying trip to the City of Mexico. He
will return to the state, and as soon as he does,
the balance of these goods will be shipped to him.
Better buy at once. No such lovely pieces were
ever seen in Waco or sold so cheap.
Ladies' Sailors
We are closing out all our present stock
of Millinery.
Any $1 Ladies’ Straw Sailor goes now at 50c
All our pretty 50c Straw Sailors go at 25c
If you can use any fancy Ribbons we will
sell them to you now at much below regular
price.
Cheap Reading
500 volumes popular fiction, story
and song, by the best authors, the
regular 25 cent edition for only
8 Cents
Small Things
Novelty Stick Pins, worth 10 C*
to 15 cents, at.................................... Jll
Pretty Flag, Button and Ribbon
Badges, worth 10 cents each, L
at only................................................. JU
Belt Holders and Skirt Suppor C a
ters, worth 10 cents, at............... Ju
Large 10 cent bottle Bicycle or C.
Sewing Machine Oil at............... JU
Japanese Umbrellas, pretty for
house or lawn decorations, |f|n
worth 25c, at.................................... IUU
Moth Ball Destroyer, worth 10 Cp
cents a box, at.................................. JU
&2. lO
We will distribute this number of the finest Ladies’ Shoes in Waco
among our customers this week. This can hardly be called a sale for
practically we give them away.
Ladies’ Southern Button Oxfords, Ladies’ Hand
Turns at only............................ ...................................................
The finest Black, Green, Purple and Chocolate that can be made
eiither in patent tip or the new stock tip. All sizes and any width.
Regular values, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 a pair.
Your choice this w^ek at only $2.10 a pair. Romember you get $4.00
worth of the finest footwear for only half price.
A Fine Dress
Every piece of our finest imported
fancy Organdies, lovely colorings,
and designs, worth 50 to 75 cents
a yard, go now at only a Q/I «
yard................................................... tHu
Silk Sashes
Fancy Silk Sashes, very handsome
worth $3.50 and $4.00 each, 0 Cfl
closed out at only..................... 4iJu
Ladies' Gloves
Kid Gauntlets, all colors and Cfjn
any size, at only......................... JUU
Val Laces
We are showing several hundred
pieces of new patterns Valencienne
Laces at 5 cents and 25 cents a
yard. Very handsome.
Social anb Current ^Events.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEKMOVEMENTS
OF PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
(All items of a social and personal nature will please be sent to 924 Columbus street. Telephone
Artesia 167. No itsms received later than 9 o’clock Saturday morning, and to insure
attention, should be received Friday.
Y trophy door! Trash, nonsense,
i T 1 call it what you will, it still remains
a most agreeable subject for
maiden mediation. Yet, I have not a
trophy door, but a trophy screen which
sits before my fire place and greets
every comer into my parlor, and I often
see eyes wandering towards its
motley hangings. Simple little bits of
cardboard, quaint little designs, and
only patches of color, yet the reminder
of many gay hours and the acceptable
companion to as many hours of agreeable
retrospection. Even the screen
itself brings to mind the beautiful
mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee
whose hardy settlers have furnished
the material upon which Charles
Egbert Craddock and others have
built their literary fame. And again
mountains whose resorts have so often
harbored our Waeo refugees from a
summer heat. Here nature’s beauties
are without end, and here art treasures
have exhausted themselves in the
palatial pile that represents the world
famed possessions of George Vanderbilt
at Asheville. When in their pristine
beauty, these hills were glorious
in their wealth of the rhododendron
after whose roots the mountaineer trod
many a mile, and from them he fashioned
mystic designs to beguile the
fancy and to extract the dollar from
the tourist. Such is my screen—a
frame of knots and gnarls, polished
and latticed and stretched with the
trophies of other days. The center
spot is covered by a beautiful valentine,
with Cupid perched with pointed
arrow, a dainty marine sketch and the
acrostic:
Kings might walk in ermine robes
And envy thy estate
Thy hand unlocks ‘Aktesia’s’ door
Enter we elate.”
I am a woman, therefore I am curious,
and many a time have I wondered
who could have given me anonymously
so much that was beautiful and
a trophy so much appreciated.
The Texas flag, small to be sure,
waves over my trophy screen, a pleasant
reminder of Mrs. R. M. Russell’s
exceedinlgy pretty card party, where
the nation’s flags and the national
flowers provoked so much admiration.
There was the harp of Erin and the
lone star, done in natural flowers, the
beginning and the end of the tables
with tulip, rose and windmill boxes to
hold the neapolitan ice. Of course I
chose the Texas flag, so it remains a
sentinel just by the Cupid’s bow which
sweet little Marie Clark pinned upon
me when I went to her brilliant birthday
dancing party of May ’97.
Butterflies have sought a vantage
point here and there on my trophy
screen, and I can almost see them now,
a perfect flock of all colors in brilliant
spots and gay tones with their mammoth
wings outstretched over Mrs. J.
E. Mayo’s party, the last she gave before
relinquishing her cosy little home
into other hands.
Mrs. P. H. Dean carried her butterfly
idea still further in converting her
house into a spring bower, although
the breath of winter was hovering with
out. The effect was that the whole
world of these idle loiterers had paused
paused upon the palm branches and
balustrades or had come to do homage
to the pretty scene.
A tiny stocking in crepe paper, now
what can that be? Why, that is all,
save the sweet memory that is left of
Mrs. Charles Hamilton’s Christmas
game of euchre, where everybody
caught the holiday spirit and made
merry through an afternoon.
Two red, red hearts, arrow pierced,
were innocently made to suggest that
the Misses Neumegen entertained their
friends with a valentine dance, but after
details have developed the fact
that Saint Valentine was more seriously
at work as a late announcement
verifies.
An S, ribbontied and lightly traced
with maiden hair brings fresh into
memory the spring game of cards with
Mrs. W. W. Seley. How well I remember
that it was the first outing
for the summer frocks of ’97, and I can
now almost revive the fragrance of the
exquisite maiden blush carnations as
they were pinned on me for tne lone
hands. I remember, too, that Mrs.
Mayo, Mrs. George Byrne and Mrs.
Russell received the very handsome
souvenirs of the afternoon.
There is a tiny spray of forgetmenot
nestled amid this curious array, to
give the same message that sweet
Julia Gardner gave to her girl friends
when she hid the delicate spray beneath
the folds of the napkin when
she had her girls tea. She did not tell
it then, but soon it became known that
Mr. Wallace was to take her a bride
into his far away home, and she was
indulging a sweet sentiment in her tiny
favor.
“Their Majesties,
The King and Queen of Winter,
are ready
to receive their loyal subjects
in their
Cave of Ice.
Come catch betimes with joyful eyes
and clear
One radiant vista of the realm before
us.’
January 9, 1896.”
How refreshing to think of that cool
cave, wheer glittered all that could be
simulated from the realm of'old Boreas
and laid as a tribute of magnificence
upon the evening reception and cotillion
of Mrs. George Clark. Miss Katharine
Padgitt and Master Albert Clifton
were the glittering majesties in
the cave, while Miss Marshall gave the
relief picture as queen of the roses in a
spring bower where the punch was
brewed. All society was set agog over
this notable event.
“If you cannot play euchre, play
Diogenes” is another reminder of Mrs.
Clark’s unparalleled hospitality. It
reminds me, too, that I played the entire
evening with charming little Mrs.
Ralli of New York and that the .quotation
is made from the night candle
which came as my booby prize. It
was the occasion of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell’s farewell before sailing for
Europe, and each guest was requested
to write a verse for Mrs. Russell’s
souvenir booklet, presented by Mrs.
Clark. Mr. Sam Sanger was voted the
poet laureate of the evening, his verse
reading:
While you sail across the briny deep,
We’ll stay at home and ‘Russell.’ ”
Mr. Sanger’s wits seemed unusually
sharp upon this occasion, for he was
the victor of the game.
A tricolored rosette with streamers
yellow, red and black crepe tell of the
presence of the Memphis Zouaves, enroute
to the San Antonio drill. Miss
Willie Baker, the sponsor and her
bevy of maids devoted their entire day
towards entertaining the young men.
The drill at the park with the zouaves’
colors flying and the ladies quite in
evidence was a gala midsummer happening.
A glint of the Christmas berry and
a Christmas couplet is one of my coveted
souvenirs of Mrs. A1 Cowan’s
elaborate card party, the first intimation
last season that jolly Kris Knight
was on his rounds. Who can have forgotten
the glistening tree which stood
in the bay window niche of the Sturgis
home and held a card for every player
and trinkets galore for the winners of
the lone hands? Everybody was there.
The balcony landing held professional
musicians, and beautiful favors were
given Miss Pace, Mrs. Charles Hamilton
and Miss Friend.
A dainty little square of cardboard,
handdecorated in a clawhammer’s
nest, and the motto, .“Events today
are history tomorrow,” tell of the initial
session for the season of the Texas
Woman’s Press Club with Mrs. Hallie
Dunklin. With music, readings and
impromptu pictures an afternoon was
most pleasantly diverted.
A quaint bonneted head, done in ink,
peeps at me from the background, and
I wonder how it came there?—Oh, yes!
it was a favor presented by Mrs. Rounsavall
at her afternoon with the Literary
tea. I don’t think she just understood
my inquiry as to whether the
quoted lines were apropos to each
guest, else she would not have said
so promptly, “Indeed they are,” for