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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1905
Page
7
Easter brings renewed gaiety with new bonnets, gowns, and bright collars. The piece notes generous gift traditions rooted in Christian memory and highlights stores’ spring assortments and welcoming appeal for all shoppers locally. It emphasizes social festivity, fashion splendor, and ready-to-serve retailers.
Easter sale highlights class and pressed glass jardinieres and imported baskets ideal for gifts and daily use. Local shop advertises rich cut glass, Japanese prints, and engraved cards with special prices from $1.25 to $5.00, inviting inspection of a wide variety and quality items suitable for Easter favors.
The store presents a complete line of White and Colored Glass Vases for Easter, with prices on various items including Tulip vases and vase sets. They also feature Easter Baskets, Paas Dyes, and a Rose Bush sale with free blooming monthly roses. Also showcased are Wood finishing materials for refinishing furniture and floors at 30 cents a can and up.
A listing of fabrics and novelties including Inba Linens French Lawns Persian Lawns Prench Naitsoaks Intia Mull French Organdies Vadoma Lawns Embroidered Swisses Embroidered Nainsooks and Cambrics sold by the yard. Prices cited range from 26c to 100 per yard with widths from 36 to 48 inches, highlighting popular textures and patterns available at Second silver Eleventh st.
The Oakdale Baking Company of Philadelphia offers Oakdale Pretzels and Twigs made from white winter wheat and pure leaf lard. They are packed immediately after baking in neat, clean packaging and are deliciously crisp and brown. Samples are invited at Fifth flour Tenth St.
Travel ing Goods Department highlights heavy cantilever trunks with iron clamps and leather straps, 28 to 36 inches priced from $5.00 to $7.00. Steamer trunks with five slats, canvas cover and brass Victor lock priced 3.75 to 5.00. Real cowhide leather hand bags in 12 to 16 inches priced 3.75 to 5.25. Basement E quitable Bldg.
Spring and Summer Upholstery Needs outlines complete lines of curtains, window screens, screens doors, portieres, couch covers, cushions, cedar chests, and related town house and summer cottage requisites. It promotes slip covers to order, fabric options with prices, ready-made window screens, and made-to-order cabinet screens and doors with free estimates.
President General at Home to Daughters of American Revolution. Mrs. Roosevelt visits Mount Vernon with children aboard the Dolphin. Baroness Moncheur arrives Saturday. Ms. Emily Greer to wed Edmund Christian of Richmond at 1309 L Street. Various notables travel, host, and attend engagements, receptions, and a Jewish Women’s progressive euchre fundraiser at the Mercantile Club.
A large audience at the National Theater yesterday heard Mme Yale describe beauty theory in four parts. She stressed correct living, breathing, walking, and facial beauty, with demonstrations of her Yale systems and practical effects for health and appearance. The piece concluded with her show of the face, hands, and neck and a note on her beauty articles.
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