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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1905
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop announces a superb display of fine apparel fabrics and art objects across departments. The store promotes early Christmas shopping, custom embroidery, marking linens, engraving silverware, painting miniatures, and other pre holiday services to avoid crowds and ensure timely delivery.
A description of fashionable winter dress fabrics highlighting smooth surfaces rich colors and subtle interwoven shades. The store touts wide windows, abundant light, spacious aisles, and ample seating to enhance shopping. Broadcloth and chiffon cloths are presented as premier choices with superior texture and luster.
A local book seller promotes a large department with books for all ages and descriptions. They pledge quick access to technical or foreign titles upon request and announce new releases appear promptly after publication. Several titles are highlighted as recently received.
A catalog of new illustrated books including Russia by Theophile Gautier translated by Florence M. Tyson with photogravures priced at $4.00 a two volume set Japan in Pictures by Douglass Sladen with color illustrations, Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson in color by Jesse Wilcox Smith, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt, and other titles with cloth bindings and prices. Also includes What Is Home Without a Cook Book and The Original Buckeye Cook Book bound in cloth.
Mrs Evans selects luxury garments including dainty French muslins with hand lace and embroidery, silk and Valenciennes trims, and Marguerite style sleeves. Corsets are highlighted by a specialist, with health in mind, plus a sapphire silk bodice, brocade girdle corset, and hand painted satin bows. Children’s cloaks, fur coats, and a blue broadcloth garment with squirrel fur trim are showcased, along with a christening robe and a poke bonnet with rosebuds and lace edging.
The twenty first annual horse chow opens in New York today, likely drawing high society attendance despite past outcry. Out of town guests Prince Louis of Battenberg and Miss Alice Roosevelt may spark renewed interest, with Russian Embassy figures M Wilenkin and family returning to America later this month. The Washington scene follows with Larz Anderson and Mrs Anderson entertaining at Weld near Boston, and a roster of weddings, visits, and house openings across the capital.
Special to The Washington Post from New York reports Mr and Mrs John R Drexel hosted an informal luncheon for Prince Louis of Battenberg at their East Sixty second Street home. Notables including Walter Beaupre Townley Lady Susan Townley and others attended the Drexel social gathering ahead of the ball and horse show. Prince Alexander of the fleet will visit from Tuesday to Saturday with the Drexels.
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