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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1920)
THE MORXIXG 0REG0XIAX, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920 "SPECIAL NEMO CORSET DEMONSTRATION BY MRS. A. L. CRAIG IN OUR CORSET SHOP TODAY THIRD FLOOR awMMawwMwj 5 with the Best "Qualities" the Best "Styles," the Best "Values" and a Lifelong Reputation for "Service" CHARGES GO ON MARCH BILLS Tut QyALrrr' Store or Portland HAS. SaUTfecmvAUor Sta. 20 ' , tear MRS. C. B. SIMMONS and Dr. Esther Lovejoy will address a meeting of women in the Story Hour Room of the Public Library, 10 A. M. today (Saturday), reporting the recent convention of suffrage women in Chicago. The public is urgently invited to attend. New Georgette Blouses 6.50 White or flesh pink georgette with frillings, edges and insertion of round mesh creamy Valenciennes. Quite the prettiest $6.0 models we have seen anywhere. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) "Look at the Veils!" That is what every woman says when she sees these new chenille jeweled veils in one and two-color combinations on black. Brown and beige, brown and capucine, black and jade or cerise and so on. Try the effect and see how be coming they are. ' 5c to $2 yard. ' t-. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) New Spring Neckwear Crisp organdie embroidered with confetti-colored woolen yarns. Slender crescent moon-shaped collars and cuffs of delicately sheer corded organdie. Vestee and collar sets with nar row ruffles and hemstitching. Lace collars and sometimes lace cuffs. Organdies tinted in coffee or dyed in orchid, sea foam green, rose, blue and sunset. $1.50 to $4.25. ! Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) All the World Loves Pretty Hats and Saturday Is $10 Hat Day Perfectly scrumptious hats at ?10 this week ! Originated within the last three days by our own clever milliners. Full of spring magic Covered with flowers or fashionable grasses. Dazzling with cellophane. Aspiring with wings. Feminine with ribbons. Small and large shapes in black; brown or navy blue lisere, as well as some bright colors also a few extra-special $10 hats of the new batavia cloth. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) Girls' Serge Dresses Were $18.50 to $22 $14.95 Were $10 to $15 $6.95 How many Portland girls will set their Big Bens early and get to MEIER & FRANK'S at store opening today? How many girls of 6 to 14 years want extra nice clothes which will cost daddy a lot less than usual? Three of the styles are pictured. ' at $14.95 are fine black serge dresses with Windsor ties, perfect except that the detachable pique collars and cuffs need laundering. $12 and $12.50 Skirts $7.95 Pleated navy blue serge skirts. One style with side pockets. Both models with belts. One is pic tured. They will" be exactly right to wear with middy blouses all summer. - Wool Jersey Coats $11.50 to $19.50 New spring arrivals. Sports styles with buttoned hunting pockets or models which button close to the throat and are quite plainly tailored. Dark and bright colors. Sizes 4 to 16 years. at $6.95 are one and two of a kind blue serge regulation sailor and other one and two-piece frocks, some com bined with dark red flannel. Black Sateen Bloomers 79 Sizes 4 to 12 years in capital bloomers with elastic at knee or waist. Remarkable quality at the price. New Japanese Crepe Dresses $5.50, $6.50 Plain crepe in lovely shades of corn, nile, green, pale blue, pink and apricot. Rainbow striped crepe in ever so many colors. Made quite simply as mothers like, some of the collars and belts are embroidered. Sizes 6 to 14 years, Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) Toiletries Thoro Powdered Soap, 35c Bathasweet Bath Powder, 43c. Uradas Bath Tablets, 75c. Ipana Tooth Paste, 50c. Revelation Tooth Powder, 25c Sanitol Liquid Mouth Wash, 69c . and 4oc - S. S. White's Tooth Paste, Powder or Liquid, 25c. Williams' Talcum, assorted odors, can 18c. Squibb's Talcum, assorted odors, can 23c. Pompeiian Fragrance Talcum, 25c. Sanitol Talcum, 25c. Sanitol Shampoo, 50c. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. (Mail Orders Fined.) Kodak! These bright sunshiny days are ideal for the taking of snapshots. Have you all the requisites for good pictures? We carry at all times full as sortments of Eastman kodaks, cameras and all supplies. .We have a fresh stock of Eastman films. We do expert developing, printing and enlarging. ' Mplpr Jfr Frank's! Main Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) 26 Piece Chest of Silverware $12.15 A very spe- c i a 1 Saturday offering. A 26- piece chest of Community Par Plate silver plated table ware in the popular Prim rose pattern (ii- lustrate d). Packed ma good - looking mahogany fin ished chest. Each set con sists of the following 6 Table Spoons. 6 Tea Spoons. 6 Knives. 6 Forks. 1 Butter Knife. 1 Sugar Shell. Plus 5 war tax. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) LIMITED QUANTITY Women's "Penn" Union Suits $1.25 Fine ribbed cotton union suits with plain band tops in regular and bodice-top styles. Well reinforced. Pink and white. Regular sizes $1.25. Extra sizes $1.50. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) The Joys of Being "Sweet Sixteen" AND ALSO EIGHTEEN AND TWENTY IN THIS WONDERFUL SPRING 1920 Frills, mademoiselle ! Puffings, mademoiselle. Bouffant skirts, surplice collars, sashes, ribbons and other sartorial pleasures, mademoiselle, are ready for you in your own youthful frocks for the spring. Scores and scores of frocks! Satin or taffeta frocks with rudder-like knife pleatings each side, $29.50. Fashionable crepe de chine frocks with medieval puffings just below the waist line, $35. Taffeta with three-tier skirts ending with cording have adjust able sleeves which can be worn long or elbow length, $35. Tricotine dresses adapted from a Hickson model embroidered richly in gold and red at $47.50; other embroidered tricotines $45. Smartly Tailored Suits $39.50, $45, $52.50, $55 Slim, straight-line, rather boyish suits beautifully tailored. It is a great pleasure to own one because suits like these give the well- dressed feeling which spring demands. Navy blue serge, tweed, checked velonr and navy blue tricotine. Sizes 16 to 20 years. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) Sale $4.50-$5 Holy-Toys $2.99 Strongly-made roly-toys, 20 and 22 inches long, with seat 27 inches wide and 4-inch wheels. Natural varnish finish." Mouth automatic ally opens and closes as wheels re volve. Some have Jiorse heads, others duck heads. Limited number. Meier & Frank's: Fifth Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) A Thrilling Finish to a stirring sale will be staged this concluding day of our sale of Boys' Suits $13.75 A prize for everybody in the form of a good saving which is in some cases more than a third of the regular price. Parents who want staying quality in their boys' clothes will want these suits. Sampeck, Dubbelbilt and other good makes. Even TWO PANTS suits in this lot. All good materials, good styles, good patterns, good colors. Best workmanship. Big values ! Sizes 6 to 18 years. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) $58.50 Hartmann Wardrobes $43.85 15 only in this one-day sale. Regular-size, cushion-top Hart mann wardrobe trunks with divided top drawer that locks, deep hat drawer and shoe box. 3-ply veneer fiber-covered bodies. Meier & Frank's: Sixth Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) 2000 Pounds English Toff y 54c Our regular 90c quality. ' . Although we have 2000 pounds of this delicious English toffy to start the sale, you had better come early, as it will sell out quickly at 54c pound. None delivered at this price. Made with sugar, corn syrup, butter, almonds and honey. Dipped in vanilla chocolate and sprinkled with macaroon cocoanut. Meier & Frank's: Ninth Floor and Other Candy Sections. Great Sale of $1.00 Vacuum Hand Washers 64c 2300 of these vacuum hand washers in an extraordinary Saturday sale. - Made of heavy tin with cup for holding soap. Complete with three-foot . wood handles. These vacuum washers will thoroughly cleanse the heaviest fabrics and will not injure the finest materials. Simple so easy to operate that a child can use one. Save a third in this sale at 64c We have complete new lines of, depend- yjj I able garden tools. Included are shovels, (J I spades, rakes, hoes, cultivators, weeders, f J pruning sheers and turf edgers. Moderate jl I prices. We also nave lull stocks ot ler-'jl I tiliaer. t f Meier & Frank's: Basement. (Mail Orders Filled.) TJ a Man Really Wants to Save J-- nil Quality and Style LET HIM GIVE EAR UNTO THIS NEWS There are TWO sales of exceptional importance which hold out the assurance of certain savings on clothing of irreproachable quality and style for men and young men who come here today. Young Men's Stylish Suits $36.50 Frankly young men's clothes, designed by specialists in this branch, made to en-J hance the naturally good lines of the young man's figure. Suits in which style is uppermost but suits in which, too, the essentials of good tailoring and workman ship have received their due and full con sideration. They are set apart from the common run of clothes by the distinguish ing marks of character and good breed ing with which their creators have en-. dowed them. Save Up to a Third and yet get clothes which mate exactly with the young man's idea of fastidious attire. Single and double-breasted models. Beauties! Men's, Young Men's Suits $48.50 A little finer clothes than one is accustomed to seeing in a sale at any price and certainly the kind of clothes one would never expect to see at a $48.50 price. The term "high grade" in its proper application befits these suits, which are carefully made of selected fabrics in approved models for men and young men. Sizes 34 to 46 suits for men of regular, stout, short and tall builds. ' NEW' Spring Overcoats and Top Coats With heavy winter overcoats due to be soon outmoded and lighter garments reigning in their stead, this is an exceedingly timely shipment of spring overcoats and top coats from these master tailors, Society Brand, Adler Rochester and Louis Holtz. All wool. Smart styles for the advanced or conservative dresser. Most va ried assortment in years. $45 upward. Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men. Third Floor. (Mall Orders Filled.) News Worth Spreading! The New Manhattans for Spring . . .Here! A shirt may seem a rather prosaic article of attire to enthuse about but wait till you see the new Man hattans. They are veritable symphonies of shirt ar tistry, They express that ultra standard of designing and workmanship which the name Manhattan has come to imply in the shirt world. Headquarters takes pleasure in announcing the arrival of new Manhattan shirts in serviceable madras, versatile silk-and-cotton and luxu rious silk. All regular sizes, also EXTEA LARGE sizes and extra sleeve lengths. $4 upward. Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men. Main Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) A New Hat on a Man's Head goes far toward giving that spring tonic which clothes as well as mortals begin to require about this time. We have just the thing the doctor ordered in new spring headwear from Knox Stetson Mallory makers of national repute besides a brave array of our own M. & F. Special hats which yield precedence to none in their price class. New colors some of these will be a reve lation. Prices begin with the M. & F. Special at $5. Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men, Main Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) For the Car: Gordon Jiffy Slips They give the car an extra special air of being well groomed and they save expense by protecting the permanent leather uphol stery. A fitting background lor women's delicately colored wraps. $2.75 to $4.75. A good supply of sizes on hand. Meier & Frank's: Seventh Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) Sport News: Basehall Goods. are ready for the national game's 1920 debut. Special advantages in making selections now. Outfitting of teams a specialty. Agents Wright & Ditson baseball, golf and tennis supplies. New 1920 W. & D. Championship tennis balls have arrived. Meier & Frank's: Sporting: Goods, Sixth Floor. 5