1 i TIIE MORNING' OltEG ONIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1920 11 ONLY 15 SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS NO MATTER WHERE YOU SHOP, SHOP EARLYMORNING HOURS ARE BEST Send a Box of tOregon Apples to Your Eastern Friends Meter & Frank's special apple service not only enables you to have your Eastern friend3 enjoy this treat but enables you also to SAVE MONEY oit the finest Oregon eating apples and we relieve you of all trouble. Please note carefully these lower-than-elsewhere prices which include delivery in Greater New York (express cost of ?2.95 per box is saved you in this way). Delicious box $5 Winter Bananas $5 Spitzenbergs $4.75 Winesaps $4.50. -Simply give orders to our Grocery Department, Ninth Floor. o The- Quality' Store- or- Portland I Mis Ob See Other Meier & Frank Ads on Page 20 and Back Page '" They, too, exhibit excellent reasons why "It Always Pays to Shop at Meier & Frank's" the Store of Quality, the Store of Value, the Store of Service.' COMPARISONS 1 ells a ory Exceptional Brushed Wool Scarfs $3.95 and "$4.95 Comparison here will disclose the fact that we are selling women's and misses' pft warm comfy scarfs of brushed wool at lower than elsewhere prices. Sizes 18x72 and 20x78. Won derful color combinations. Lower-than-elsewhere at ?3.95 and ?4.95. Meier & Frank'.s: Main. Floor. Which Will Impress Every Impartial Investigator as Being All in Favor of MEIER & FRANK'S "IT ALWAYS PAYS TO SHOP AT MEIER & FRANK'S" w 'E hear a good deal about comparisons these days ". . . and, rightly used, they are an excellent thing-, as every one knows and practices many times daily by consciously or uncon sciously drawing distinctions, appraising, referring toa standard and gauging by it. TmVstore thrives on comparisons. We propose to show here as far as space will permit that on merchandise for gifts and every day utility Meier & Frank Prices- are today, quality for quality, lowest in the city. Here is the proof in part: to 1 M at Meier & Frank's" : H undreds of NE W B Regular Values are $7.00 to $15.00 This price $5.55 is less than the regular wholesale cost of many, and is, of course, lower than blouses of this character can be bought for outside of Meier & Frank's. ' . " ! ' ' ' - i i ; 1 . b .uses Compare . . . (and You Will Choose From These Crepes de Chine Satins Georgettes Taffetas Newest light and dark shades. '. Many stun ning overblouses in this sale. Long and short sleeves. All sizes in the lot, but not all sizes, in every style. (See illustration). s Meier & Frank's; Blouse Shop. Fourth Floor." Further Comparisons ' , that prove "It Always Pays to Shop at Meier & Frank's.", Women's 'Mercerized Lisle Stockings . 45 c A lower-than-elsewhere price for these fine light weight mer cerized lisle hose from regular stock. Made with seamed legs, seamless feet and with reinforced tops, heels and toes. Black in all sizes; white in 9 only. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. , Children's Mercerized 1 A Qv Lisle Stockings ... . ,J -- Substandards of regular $1 quality at HALF the price. Three- . quarter length stockings in dark heather effects, also in plain black and mahogany. Made with Toll cuff tops. Sizes 7 to 9. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. 3 to 9-Inch Laces Specially Priced . 15c Included in these laces suitable for making uj gifts are Colonial, Valenciennes, shadow, cluny and -jet top edges and bands. We offer large assortments of these laces at the lower-than-elsewhere price of 15c yard. Women will appreciate this exceptional value-giving. , ; Meier & Frank's: Main Floor, APRONS Fancy Aprons 79 Maids' Aprons $1.98 Regular ?2.B0 Values. Band Aprons 98 1.25 to ?1.G0 Values. Gift Aprons 98, 1.59 $1.25 and.$2-2.25 Values' . Respectively, Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. For Baby These at lower-than-elsewhere prices. Dainty and useful gifts. RIBBON ROSETTES, pink and blue, pair.4J3. TURKISH FEEDING BIBS, plain border in pink or blue 330 PIQUE BIBS, hand-embroidered, Bcalloped edges 59 BOOTEES, all wool crocheted, short and knee length 600 BLANKETS in pink, white or blue nursery designs 690 MITTENS, hand-knitted, all wool white only .490 RATTLES In pink, blue or white plain or painted animal &e signs..390 DRAWER LEGGINGS, white only I. . .980 BEACON BLANKETS, special .". $1 Meier &Jrank': Second Floor. Little Ones' Baking Sets Special . ... . 59c- Little housewives' baking seta that looks Just like mother's. Sack of flour, shaker salt, package of baking soda, rolling pin and baking board, 6hiny pans and other necessaries. Also recipe books full of useful bints for little bakers. Meier & Frank's: Fifth Floor. MEN The Biggest Values in Town is more than a phrase at Meier & Frank's it is a day-in-and-day-out policy as our patrons know. Here are offerings fur ther evidencing the truth that "It Always Pays to Shop at Meier & Frank's." Buy for gifts ! Sale of Pajamas Values that cannot be-equalled, as comparisons will show, filled stock. Best makes. Re- $6.50 Values for $3.75 Fine soisette pajamas of a make famous for careful tailoring and liberal size. These have double silk f rog trimming and are to be had in white, pink, heliotrope, blue, tan. All sizes at the lower-than-elsewhere price of $3.75. $7.50 Values for $4.75 The yery finest of woven madras paj amas, many imported cloths, at the lower-than-elsewhere price of $4.75. Fiber Silk Pajamas $6.50 Some are half the former value. Pajamas of standard excellence made of finely serviceable fiber silk in striped and jacquarded patterns a wide "assort ment. All sizes at the lower-than-elsewhere price of $6.50. Silk Mixed Pajamas $6.75 ' Were $10. Plain silk-mixed pajamas in pink, helio, light and dark tan. Sizes i5 to, 18. Lower-than-elsewhere at $6.75. Silk Pajamas $8.50 . Half the former value for a limited number of men's fine imported white habutai silk pajamas in sizes 17 and 18 only. Self-frog trimmed. Lower-than-elsewhere at $8.50. 6000 Splendid Shirts $ 9. .75 Knit Ties 2.75 3 Ties for $8 'Formerly $4, $4.50 and $5. " We offer 1200 of these fine hand frame fashioned knife ties at this lower-than.- elsewhere price. " Excellent for Christmas gifts especially ire threes at $8. 3 Shirts for $8 A lower-than-elsewhere price for better-than-elsewhere shirts in wider-than-else-where assortments. The lot includes: Fine madras silk-striped madras im ported madras Russian cord silk-striped pebble cloth mercerized poplin and oxford cloth. Shirts from America's finest makers. Former prices were $4.50, $4.75, $5, $5.50 and $6.50, the great majority being $5 to $6.50 values. . Sizes 14 to 17V inclusive, and sleeve lengths 33 to 35 inclusive. 2000 Fine Silk and Silk Mixed Shirts 8O.00 Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men, Main Floor. Tax 30c i Formerly $10, $12.50, $13.50 and $15 now offered at the lower-than-elsewhere price of $6. Excellent wearing clothes. Tasteful patterns. Fast colors. Sizes 14, I412, 15, 16 and to 17V2. n n