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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1920)
THE SUNDAY OlCEUOSiAX, i'UiiXLAXD, JANUAUV 18, 1U20 CAKE CREME OIL SOAP FREE WITH EVERY PURCHASE OF 3 CAKES AT 25 MAIN FLOOR " " N Your Efficiency Tom Skeyhill Soldier, Speaker and poet, will give a lecture at the Municipal Auditorium tomorrow night, subject "Rebuilding the World." this being the second number of the Port land Lyceum CouTse. Tickets for the lecture are on sale at a special booth on our Main Floor at 50c, 75c and Jl. Foot Ills Vanish 2 Pounds Homemade Candy GjJ "1 . 00 During 1920 will depend" largely on the condition of your eyes, your ability to distin guish between physical objects and their characteristics, as well as make clear mental Judgments. If your eyes are not 100 per cent efficient, have them made so. Consult our opto metrists. Mezzanine. before the expert ministration of Dr. Carl Loven, our expert chiropodist, crraduate of the New York College of Chiropody and Orthopedics. He can be consulted at any time. His office adjoins the hair dressing ind manicuring parlors. .Meier & Frank's: Fifth floor. The Candy Shop wants you to know how many good candies it is making. Therefore, it has arranged boxes filled with pieces of many of its most popular kinds which sell usually at 60c to 90c a pound. Every piece is filled with nuts or chocolate covered. These boxes, holding two pounds, special at $1. Meier & Frank's: Ninth Floor and Other Candy Sections. EiUUIjM m 1887 Tme- QualittT Store Portland riTOv, iixih. Hnriwv AJdtr Ota. -I Manufacturers' Prices Are in Many Instances Higher Than Meier & Frank's Prices for the 1 See Also Page 13 I I ! Bring Down Living Costs anuairy saies To SECOND ANNUAL DRIVE IN ALL DEPTS. NOW! Down! Down! Down! Prices on Men's and Women's Shoes w1 fE set the fashion months ago with a shoe sale which has been widely imi tated but nowhere equaled, and we propose to establish a new standard of shoe values with this incisive effort to bring shoe costs .tumbling down. Sale begins tomorrow and continues for three days while quantities remain, although these are larga to start off the sale heavy buying is sure to deplete lots with unwonted rapidity. The season's new est styles are included and every pair of shoes in the sale is good through and through. MEN'S $6.45 Serviceable tan and black leather shoes taken from regular stock. Lace and button styles. Eng lish and medium toes. A splendid opportunity for men who wear the narrow widths. Sizes 5 to 11. MEN'S $9.45 High-grade tan and black English and medium toe style shoes at a price that is less than re placement cost. Broken sizes but nearly all sizes in the lot. WOMEN'S $5.45 Black kid lace and button shoes with French or military heels. Black kid shoes with gray cloth tops. Black and tan English walking shoes. Other short and discontinued lines. WOMEN'S $9.45 Black, brown and maple kid shoes with Cuban or French leather heels. Some have cloth tops. All sizes in the lot, but not every size in each style. Limited number in this remarkable group. NO PHONE ORDERS, C. O. D.'S, APPROVALS OR EXCHANGES Meier & Frank's: Shoe Shop, Third Floor. White Sale Goes On Merrily Embroideries 19c and 49c Such embroideries are not plentiful and we are glad to be able to offer 800 yards at these low prices. 1Q yard for 23c and 35c X27C grades of Swiss, nainsook and c a m b n i c embroideries, in cluding: flouncingrs and edges; 6 to 17-inch widths. Good to trim underclothes. yard for very special em IC broideries such as 17 and 27-inch skirtings, 36 - inch voile and batiste embroider ies for dresses, including colored effects; also 36-inch organdies with floral patterns and scalloped edges for dredes. Laces 7c A thousand yards of our 10c and 10c laces to start spring- sew ing:. French and Plat Valen ciennes, Point de Paris and shadow lace insertions. NEW! Some of the new printed chiffon crepes and voiles are be ing shown as well as exquisite metal cloths for spring dances or weddings. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor, Fifth Street. Women all over the city are talking about it. It is the once-in-six-months chance to save on white things. White Sale Night Gowns Special at $2.29, $2.98 Soft nainsook gowns with low round necks and short sleeves edged with embroidery have beading threaded with ribbon at the waistline to give the Empire silhouette, $2.29. Square neck night gowns of tops in front and ribbon, $2.29. nainsook have embroidery Y-neck gowns with tucked yoke and long sleeves, trimmed with dotted embroidery, are of good materials at $2.98. White Sale Envelope Chemises $2.29 Particularly pretty ones with square tops, fluffy with Valenciennes lace and lovely with pale blue or pink satin ribbon. Still more elaborate styles have lace front and back and ribbon threaded embroidery at the waistline. White Sale Corsets $1 and $1.95 American Lady corsets of finer quality now specially priced because there are not all sizes in each group. White and a few of pink. Meier & Frank's: Underclothes Shop, Third Floor. Children's Corset Waists 79 Were $1 to $1.50 Little soft corsets with cording or light weight bon ing, generally with shoulder straps. Not all sizes in every style. Eiderdown Robes Special $8.95 Wonderfully nice ones. Anyone who wishes warmth without weight will like them. Pink, blue, purple, red. Usually trimmed rather elaborate ly with satin. Some break fast coat styles. 10 New Special Groups in Baby's White Sale Adorable Mr. Infant and Miss Baby are being treated very well by 1920. The Baby's White Sale started last. Monday and so far everything imaginable to dress baby warmly and happily has been offered at special prices. Tomorrow will be another important day. Ten new special groups have been added. Mostly necessities which are not often lowered in price. Vanta Vests, $1.27 Were $2.20 All wool. Sizes 3 and 4 only. Double breasted, fastened with twistless tape. Vanta Vests, 27 Were 85c to 95c Fine combed cotton for in fants and to 3 years. $1.00 Silk Hose Down to 59 Pure white ribbed silk stock ings with reinforced feet. Sizes 5, 5Vi and 6. Vanta Teething Bands 65d Were $1 Seamless garments fasten ing on shoulders with twistless tape. Easy to slip on and a great protection for baby. Pure Australian wool bands sizes 1 and 2. Light weight merino (wool and cotton) bands, sizes 2 and 3. Pillow Cases 59 to $1.98 Were 79c to $2.50 Soft lingerie slips for day or night. Some with dainty ruf fles or embroidery. Sizes 14x 16 inches. American made for American babies. Flannelette Sacques Special, 59 Heavy white flannelette, but tonholed or blanket stitched in pink or blue. Ribbon tied; Id- mono sleeves. Wrappers and Gowns $1.22 Were $1.75 to $1.98 Heavy quality Daisy cloth with hand crochet or braid trimming in pink, blue and white. Easy to launder and with sufficient warmth. Infants' Long Skirts 59 to $1.98 Were 89c to $3.50 Infants' long skirts with and without waists. Soft nainsook or lawn with lace, embroidery, tucking or ruffles. Long Dresses and Slips 59 to $1.95 Were 90c to $2.95 Lawn, nainsook or batiste with yokes of lace or embroid ery, some with feather stitch ing, tucking or hemstitching. Hemmed or ruffled skirts. A Few Lovely Hand Made Dresses remain from our last week's sale. $2.98 to $18 for dresses of exquisite white materials sewn by hand and delicately embroidered. Some are lux urious with creamy laces. Silk Underwear $2.95.. Odds and ends, styles to be discontinued and remainders from special purchases. Knickers in white silk only, vests in em broidered pink silk or plain white silk with band tops. Practically all sizes, although perhaps not in each style. Only about 175 garments. First choice, best choice, because all the values are at the one price and $2.95 is away below the market rate. Meier & Frank's: Underwear Shop, Main Floor. Extra Fine Quality Pure Thread Silk Hose $2.89 This price is a full THIRD less than today's regular sell ing; price for hose of this quality, which is quite EXCEP TIONAL. 480 pairs of women's extra fine quality ALL PURE THREAD SILK hose secured in a very special purchase from a famous manufacturer of high-grade silk stockings. FULL FASHIONED, reinforced at garter welt and foot: Colors include cordovan, navy, gray, champagne, etc., be sides black and white. $2.89 pair (9c war tax). Meier & Frank's: Hosiery Shop, Main Floor. RING Millinery Shown for the First Time . Our first collections from well-known New York designers will be shown Monday. Hats with the bewitching cellophane that is like some fairy tissue Hats of the new "hair-cloth" but not made of hair Basket straw and lisere often combined with satin or taffeta for immediate wear Dark sailors with colored facings to bring out the beauty of the complexion Silk and satin with raffia Silk hats with flowers Hats with lacquered pheasant feathers. They are in the new small shapes which fashion advocates warmly. Mefer & Frank's: Millinery Shop, Fourth Floor. All-Silk Taffeta $1.98 The regular $2.50 and $3 qualities at this price while any of 1000 yards remain. Taffeta silk, . by all indications, will be a favored weave for spring and summer 1920. .Yard-wide, all-silk taffeta in the following shades: Navy, brown, tan, sand, green, copper, corn and pale blue limited selection in some colors. This sale will be a distinct service to women planning spring and summer costumes of this ever-popular silk. Meier & Frank's: Silk Shop. Second Floor. Meier & Frank's: Baby Shop, Second Floor. $2.37 a Wonder Price for These Gloves The-best MAKES of the best QUALITIES capeskin gloves are offered at this reduced price tomorrow. Every pair perfect. This season's styles. Well-dressed women will buy these for street and general utility wear. Medium and light weights. One and two clasp styles.' P. K. and P. X. M. seams. Plain and fancy embroidered backs. Self and contrasting stitchings. Good shades of gray, beaver, brown, covert, khaki, tan and white. These gloves will WASH perfectly. Meier &. Frank's: Glove Shop, Main Floor. FANS Like These Beauties at Vz Less Huge ostrich fans are so fash ionable in New York that at the Metropolitan Opera sometimes the whole house seems to be a waving sea of ostrich. Both wide spread and lyre shape or Cleo patra fans are included in this new reduction. Among the colors are cerise, American Beauty, yellow, tur quoise, coral, tangerine and pink. Former prices were $17.50 up to $32.50. Tomorrow, $11.66 to $21.66. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Firth S-treet. All Our Velvet Handbags $8.50 bags at $4.25; $10 bags at $5; $12 bags at $6; $20 bags at $10; $22 bags at $11; $45 bags at $22.50; $75 bags at $37.50. Only a limited number remains from the amazing collection gath ered for this season. Usually one of a kind. Black, taupe, brown and navy, many with immensely decorative frames. All miser bags are also half price for this Monday sale $12.50, $22.50 and $37.50. Meier & Frank's: Hand Bag Shop, Main Floor. Sterling Bar Pins and Brooches 25c Our own 75c kinds of barpins with imitation stones to represent amethyst, topaz, tourmaline, sap phire, emerald and ruby. Also at tractive enameled barpins and brooches in different colors. Meier & Frank's:'Main Floor. 25c While Outing 19c Full bolt lengths. Good quality fleeced white outing flannel for nightwear, etc. 27 inches wide. Meter & Frank's: Second Floor. Don't Hurry! JUST BE HERE ON TIME TOMORROW FOR THESE Women's $55 to $85 Suits $32.50 Sale starts 9:15 o'clock Only 50 suits all told. They will not stay here long. Majority of poiret twill in navy blue, black or brown in sizes 36 to 55 these are extra useful because they are plainly tailored, with self collars, and can be worn late into the spring. Odd one and t,wo of a kind suits in the lot are of velveteen, ve lour. and tweeds with and without fur collars. It is only fair to say that our collection of winter suits is nearly exhausted and that such "buys" as these can hardly be duplicated. Just 50 Women's Dresses Were $39.50, $42, $47.50, $55 $29.50 $10 to $25.50 saved on a single dress. Wool jersey, serge, trico tine, beautiful satin or velveteen. Only one or two of a kind. Im possible to describe them. Black, brown, navy mostly. Broken size assortments, but something to fit almost any woman. Meier & Frank's: Apparel Shop, Fourth Floor. Women Who Already Have Many Blouses Will Want These Long Blouses for Dress Occasions at Exactly Half $18.00 Blouses $ 9.00 I $32.50 Blouses $16.25 mm $22.50 Blouses $11.25 $25.90 Blouses $12.50 $27.50 Blouses $13.75 $40.00 Blouses $2U.OO $55.00 Blouses $27.50 $67.50 Blouses $33.75 $75.00 Blouses $37.50 The "grand" sorts of blouses which one combines with satin, velvet or white cloth skirts in order to make a beautiful costume for home, theater, restaurant or the southland. Paris and New York are creating casa-jue blouses like these as quickly as their artists can devise new originalities. It would be difficult to wish for more irresistible models, than can be had here bright and early tomorrow at half our former prices. No two are alike. Each one, therefore, is delightfully exclusive. Georgette crepe with black velvet. Pale gray georgette tying on the shoulder in the newest fash- L ion. Georgette with rope girdle. Charmeuse, like the picture, with knitted braid trimming, from the foremost maker in America. Georgette with brightly colored embroidery and twisted wool sash. Great bizarre plaids composed of many checks with deep black tassel. Lovely sheer lace em broidered with gold. It is an enchanting company. Sizes for almost everyone. Meier & Frank's: Blouse Shop. Fourth Floor. FURS at New Low Prices Two very special lots of every -day furs for year round use. $12.50-$15 Motoring Scarfs $8.85 Extra large durable shoulder scarfs of brown marmot, taupe and black coney, taupe and black Manchurian wolf dog and white Iceland fox (Thibet), lined with satin. $30 and $35 Animal Scarfs $19.85 Soft, good-looking, well-shaped scarfs of dyed skunk, taupe fox, black wolf and natural lynx cat furs. Suitable for all kinds of weather and for motoring. Meier & Frank's: Fur Shop, Fourth Floor. Art Needlework Savings Here, there and everywhere the Art Needlework Shop has been searched for oddments and the following sales are announced to open tomorrow : $5-00 50 winter hats that have been $12.50 to $20. Dress and tailored styles. Black and colored velvet. Enough said! Meier & Frank's: Hat Shop. Fourth Floor. SI- 100 children's stamped dresses, were $2.25. White lawn, pique, substantial cotton and colored chambray dresses with sewn seams, stamped ready for embroidery. Sizes for infants and up to 10 years. Mothers will want a plentiful supply. 39c 500 linen centerpieces, were 50c to 65c. Pure white linens stamped for embroidery. Good for the idle minutes between dark and dinner time. 5c American Maid crochet cotton, was 15c ball. Women who crochet know the satisfactory quality of this trade-marked crochet cotton and will lay in a supply at this extra special price. Blue, pink. rose, white, yellow and ecru. Sizes 3 to 5t. 9c CO SILK Umbrellas $3.50. The $5 to $7.50 Kinds GOOD plain silks which will make another interesting color note on rainy days. Others in plain colors with contrasting plain borders. Ivory-like or plain tips. Bakelite ring, wood or cord handles. 100 only. Some are slightly imperfect. No exchanges. Meter & Frank's: Umbrella Shop, Main Floor. Columbia six-strand cot ton, was 15c ball. Black, blue, pink, rose, yellow and lavender embroidery cotton. Meier & Frank's: . Art Needlework Shop, Second Floor. 2 i 15