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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
15
Items on the Main Floor at G Street include Christmas carols booklets calendars and diaries presented as seasonal merchandise for shoppers seeking seasonal gifts and keepsakes.
A Fifth Floor section of the store showcases a wide range of gifts including AINTY china, cut glass, rich gold glassware, imported baskets, and modern house furnishings. The bright display spaces, broad aisles, and systematic stock arrangement promise a grand Christmas bazaar with reasonable prices and ample gift ideas.
Attractive cut glass items are advertised with prices starting at $1.00 for bonbon dishes and $2.75 for fruit dishes. The copy extols the allure of brilliant American cut glassware including pitchers bowls vases and cruets with a focus on sparkle iridescence and desirability for womankind.
A new direct importation offers Dresden pattern plates and fancy pieces with prices close to the originals. Creeden Ware also available. Gift purposes favored. Viates 1.25 up, Flower Vases 1.00 up, Nut Bowls 1.76 up, Almond Dishes 0.50 up, Bonbon Dishes 1.76 up, Fruit Dishes 2.50 up, Footed Comports 2.75, Cake Plate 1.28.
The Japanese Department presents a rich assortment of gift favors and home decorations with many items in a uniform price range. Highlights include Japanese China Nut Sets, Plates, Vases, Bowls, and Cups with prices from cents to a dollar, plus a series of tables displaying numerous uniform-price items for easy selection.
A practical gift roundup titled Gifts for Men features tobacco accessories and comestible odds and ends. The listing includes Vine Racks Tobacco Jars Inspiders Match Haters Fifth floor G st. 36e up Stems Brass Ash Trays Smoking Sets Cara Boxer Cigar Jara with prices noted.
Auctioneer style catalog lists chafing dishes coffee percolators tea kettles and metal wares. Items include full size chafing dishes adjustable hump nickel copper brass ware and prices from 2.88 to 4.25 plus coffee machines and electric stoves with cords for home use. Also trays crumb trays and miscellaneous nickel brass copper pieces offered at Fifth Depr Eleventh Street.
A large assortment of Bamboo Utility Boxes from small shoe boxes to window seats, built of kiln dried lumber and finished with Japanese matting. Cedar Boxes in natural and piano finish range from $5 to $20, with special prices $2.50. Also presented are Bamboo and Shirt Boxes, many fitted with casters, suitable for window seats and storage on the second floor Fat.
A high society gathering at the embassy featured guests including Mrs Zanghlin and Captain Butt with German ambassador and counts in attendance. Mrs Bernatortt hosted a dinner for Mr and Mrs Guest of New York and Lady Johnstone. Attire included hyacinth tones and white orchids, with Miss Southerland Mary Southerland Elisabeth Parker assisting in the dining room as the ballad of the evening played.
Debutante Miss Ha sora Claver, daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Richardson Claver, marked her social inauguration with a grand reception at her Breeste home. Guests included A and Leut. Von Bruening, Baron Rosen, Baroness Rosen, and numerous diplomats, navy officers, and society figures from Europe and America. The event featured lavish floral displays, a five-cluster bouquet from her friends, and a tea reception with family and debutantes assisting. Baroness Rosen and the Rosen party plan a few days in New York before returning to Washington.
Advice from Allen on typhoid fever diet emphasizes nonirritating easily digested nourishing foods. Recommend rice with cream bananas with cream pineapples and concord grapes in small quantities. A glass of fresh buttermilk may be taken in the evening but sweet milk is avoided during fever.
A grand coming out for Katharina Britton at Rauscher's featured exquisite decorations, hanging baskets, and a pink ballroom setting. Notables including Dowager Jess de Sibour and Mrs. A. E. Britton attended. Miss Britton wore emerald green with black chiffon. A tea and later a luncheon hosted by Miss Martha Bowers honored guests and debutantes from the season.
Presented in Washington society Admiral Clover as naval attaché. Admiral and Mrs Clover to lead winter hospitalities. Debutante Britton hosted with guests Miss Mary Frazee of Louisville Kentucky Mr Russell Lord of Chicago and Mr William Snyder of Pittsburgh. The article notes arrangements for a cotillion and mentions Lieut Robert Talston of the engineer corps US Army marrying Miss.
A leading maker presents rich Sterling Silverware pieces for men women and children. Emphasizes choosing gifts early to allow engraving before Christmas.
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