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trtT 1 jyWey 3r5 ff THE WASHINGTON POST SUNDAY OCTOBER 7 1917 7 Drapery Department Made to Order Draperies We wish to call your attention to our unexcelled facilities for carrying out successfully your individual ideas in interior decoration No matter how complex your drapery problem may be we are prepared to give you satisfactory results We shall be glad to confer with you and furnish estimates Lace Curtains IRISH POINT LACE CURTAINS 22 3 32 and 4 yard long in neat design or in the more showy patterns 3 95 to 25 00 pr REAL BRUSSELS CURTAINS 3 and Vi yards long These are becoming very scarce 750 to 7500 pair RENAISSANCE LACE CURTAINS White and ecru neat edge designs or with edge and insertion 5 00 to 65 00 pair CLUNY LACE CURTAINS White and ecru 2J2 3 and 3 yard long 350 to 15 pair QUAKER LACE CURTAINS Novelty designs suitable for use in various rooms white cream or ecru 150 to 750 pair Portieres ARMURE PORTIERES 22 yards long Olive Brown and Green oveTlocked edges all over design 700 pair FINE UNCUT VELOUR PORTIERES Has beautiful sheen Rose Green Mulberry Brown and Claret finished with sillc cord 2000 pair DUPLEX VELVET CURTAINS 22 yards long in combinations of Rose Blue Green Tan Mulberry and Olive 2750 pair Couch Covers REVERSIBLE TAPESTRY COUCH COVERS Full length and widths Oriental designs 6 00 each HEAVY TAPESTRY COUCH COVERS Very closely woven material in verdure designs beautiful colorings 9 00 each VELOUR COUCH COVERS Oriental designs Rose Blue and Gold 1200 each Cretonne REPRODUCTIONS OF ENGLISH LINENS In an immense assortment of colorings and designs printed on a cloth made specially for the purpose At 60c 75c and 100 per yard Plain Silks FOR DRAPERIES AND LAMP SHADES In all colors and in vanou qualities 32 and 36 inches vide 1 00 1 25 and 1 50 per yard Figured Silks In a large assortment of designs suitable for all purposes 75c 100 and 125 per yard ytloss Sons art6 Eleventh Sts Carpets and Rugs We Can Interest You in Rugs and Carpets High Grade Wilton Rubs In a wonderful variety of designs and colorings embradnf French Wilton Empress Bigelow Ardebfl Bundhar Herati Karnak Etc AD sizes from 22J4x36 inches to 113x15 Prices from 600 to 14800 Plain Color Carpets Will give a suggestion of taste and elegance to your floors and your home We offer over 300 different shades of color in so extensive an assortment of qualities that practically any requirement can be satisfied from this stock The widths range all the way from 27 inches to 30 feet and the prices are as low as 155 These Very Special Rug Values Will interest the prudent buyer TAPESTRY BRUSSELS 9x12 1950 SEAMLESS VELVET 9x12 2450 AXMINSTER 9x12 2950 WILTON 9x12 4350 A good assortment of all over and medallion designs in each quality Wiltone Rugs The new designs and colorings in this attractive rug are well worth your inspection The rug is made with a very heavy pile of good quality worsted and for hard service will prove unusually desirable Size from 27x36 inches to 113x15 feet Prices from 350 to 9500 Oriental Rugs Unusual sizes rare designs and colorings and our usual moderate prices go to make this display the most attractive in Washington A new shipment of Herez Carpets very much like fine Saronks in colors and designs but much less in price will prove very interesting to Oriental Rug lovers A splendid lot of fine Mosuls Irans Kurds Kazaks Etc At the special low price of 47 so The Linen Shop EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS Art Needlework Salon EXCLUSIVE GIFTS This department is receiving daily shipments of novelties exclusive in character and design Stamped articles for all lines of needlework and popular wool yarns needles and findings Individual attention given beginners and the latest designs knitting crocheting embroidering and lace making by Miss Warner INSTRUCTION FREE Classes Daily 9 A to 545 JOIN OUR CLASSES The Linen Shop Our stock of Pure Linen Damask Cloths and Napkins is unrivaled in assortment and qualities are priced very considerate as these were purchased months ago You Benefit at These Savings 10 to 50 Saved 10 to 50 Sartd CLOTHS 2x2 yards 500 00 75 875 and 1030 Each CLOTHS 2x24 yards 600 700 825 1100 and 1300 Each CLOTHS 2x3 yards 700 800 975 1325 and 15 JO Each CLOTHS 2x32 rrd 00 t92S 1175 1450 sad 1725 Each CLOTHS 2x4 yards 925 1050 1325 150 and 1975 Each CLOTHS 24x2J yards 800 900 and 975 Each CLOTHS 2K2x2 yards 875 950 1025 130 and 1175 Each CLOTHS 2j2x3 yards 1100 1175 12L50 1100 aad 1875 Each CLOTHS 22x3y2 yard R50 1900 and 2200 Each CLOTHS 22X4 7rd 11630 2175 and 2500 Each CLOTHE 22x5 yards 2725 and 3150 Each CLOTHS 3x3 yard 2500 aad 2630 Each NAPKINS to match in 22 to 27 inches square 625 733 730 930 975 1200 1275 aad 1800 dozen Thirty designs also plain satin and band border Joha Brown Sons Shamrock Linen Towels at about todays cost Special 130 each John Brown Sons Shamrock Linen Tea Napkins beautiful pure linen flax Special 830 doxen Htmititched Part Lima Pfllow Cues Special 300 330 425 aad 475 per pair Hemstitched Pare Linen Tray Goths Special 65c each Hemstitched Pare Linen Tea Cloths 36 and 45 inches square satin damask or para flax Special 400 and 450 each Hemstitched Pare Linen Sheets round thread linen spoke hemstitch Size 90x108 inches 1975 2375 and 2430 pair Size 90x96 1730 2100 and 2230 pair Scalloped Edge Pure Linen Table Corers heavy satin damask circular designs and cloths 72 inch diameter Special 950 and 1150 each Hemstitched Pare Linen Guest Towels plain Huckaback also spaced designs for monograms Special 39c 50c 60c and 65c each Meadow Bleach Pare Linen for art work Case and sheets pure linen ready shrunken 20 inches wide special 70c yard 22 inches wide special 80c yard 24 inches wide special 85c yard 27 inches wide special 90c yard 42 inches wide special 130 yard 54 inches wide special 185 yard 90 inches wide special 360 yard Pure Linen Crash Toweling special 20c 25c 28c 30c and 39c yard Bleached Turkish Bath Towels Special 25c 39c 45c 50c 65c 85c 100 110 Regularly 35c 45c 60c 75c 89c 1 25 1 50 1 60 Turkish Bath Mats Plain white pink blue tan green and gold floral tile and monogram effects Special 125 150 165 175 185 200 each Turkish Wash Cloths Special 8c 10c 12Jc 15c 35c and 50c For 6c 8c 10c 12V2c 29c and 39c each ELITE COTTON SHEETS AND CASES Torn size before hemming 90x108 inches Special 135 Torn size before hemming 90x99 inches Special 125 Tom size before hemming 81x90 inches Special 109 Torn size before hemming 45x36 inches Special 28c Solid Mahogany Tea Wagon With Removable Glass Tray 1500 Solid Mahogany Martha Washington Serving Table Cowan Make 1500 This Fine 10 Piece Mahogany Dining Room Suite of Adam Design Consisting of Buffet China Case Serving Table 54 inch 8 foot Extension Table 5 Side Chairs and one Armchair 10 Pieces Complete 32500 Quality finish and construction the best Note the design of each piece same being oval which gives this suite individuality seldom seen in a suite at this price The Lenox Armchair or Arm Rocker Large seat broad back well balanced armchair or arm rocker Built of solid mahogany uphol stered in fine selection of tapestries and other materials suitable for living room or library An excellent alue SPECIAL SLE PRICE 19 SO The Stockbridge Armchair or Arm Rocker This fine old reproduction famous for its graceful lines and real comfort Built of solid mahogany upholstered in a fine selection of tapestries velours and other coverings suitable for living room or library Armchair or arm rocker Regular price jioo SPECIAL SALE PRICE 17 SO Jj NEWS OF THE CLUB WORLD Columbia Heights rt Club On Thursday Oc ober 4 the Colum bla Height Art Club held the first meeting of the season at the heme ot the president Mrs A olhaupter Under the topic Summer Reminis cences the members told of their ac tlvitles during the summer The club was particular Interested In the account Miss Hill gave ot her trip to Alaska and through the Olacler National park The study topic of this jear will be South America Next Thursday at the Pan Amerif an Building Mrs Wm A Raid will give a map talk Mrs a Tewksbury Mrs Frailer and Miss Josephine Wolthaup ter were present as guests The members responding to roll call were Mrs Finney Fngle Mrs Russell Bowen Mrs Clarke Mrs John Croissant Mrs Frlxxell Mrs Fred Hel ler Miss Cornelia Hill Mrs Fred Hopkins Mrs Walter Howard Mrs Amy Leeds Mrs James McKee Mrs Faber Stevenson Mrs A Tasker Mrs A Roger Trac Mrs ter Mrs James oemans retary being a very busy law student Miss Mabel Mathlew was elected A ery delightful program wag furnished bv the entertainment committee Miss McCloud Miss Elsworth and Miss Ann Scott The meeting adjourned till olhaup October 11 when the public is invited to be present riorence Crittenton Wheel Club The first meeting of the heel Club marking the beginning of Its twelfth year of wort wa a luncheon tendered at the Crittenton home on Thursday the president Mrs WJ Storj At the business meeting which followed the responses to roll call were stories Mrs Storj read a chapter from the ok Over the Top The ladles in spected the two Wheel Club rooms which have been refurbshed also the new rugs products of the club handiwork Mrs Fleming 1766 Columbia road will be hostess on October 18 Military Aid Club The regular meeting of the MUitary Aid Club was held last Thursday evening at the residence of the chairman Mrs Sharp 1625 ermont avenue noithwet Plans were made to hold a number of small affairs to collect members and funds to help the soldiers Miss Bessie Barkley resigned as sec omans Club of Sixteenth Street The Woman Club of Sixteenth street Highlands held Its first meeting of the season ednesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs Porter 1428 Madil son street Mrs Clyde Asher read an interesting paper on Spanish discoveries and settlements and Mrs Harry Claflin followed with a very Instructive one on The Origin of Our Four Military Departments Mrs Melville Ltrvdsey Mrs George Walson and Master Clarence Porter rendered several musical selections Mrs Porter was assisted by Mrs Spencer of Takoma Park Council of Jewish Women The first regular meeting of the Washington Section Council of Jewish Women will be preceded by a 1 clock luncheon and will be held at the home of Mr and Mrs Kaufman Homestead Tuesday October 9 To celebrate the harvest festival the luncheon aa well as the meeting will he enjoyed on the spacious grounds of Homestead The afternoon program will deal largeb with food conse a 1 the national food commission having asked the council to cooperate There will also be a delightful musical program endell Wolfe Chapter Wendell Wolfe Chapter A met at 112S Columbia road Tuesday I The hostesses were Mrs Dellett Miss Dellett Mrs Dinwiddle and Miss Laura Church Miss Stella Shipley of Kan I aas and Miss Edith A Lathrop of Ke braska were present The new year i book wan distributed Miss Bertha Frances olfe made a report on the women liberty loan conference Miss Ella Garlick read a paper on Germany Current events were discussed by Miss Cardwell Miss Bottorff talked on art and Mrs Allen read an account of the interdenominational religious conference at Pittsburgh Abracadabra Club The Abracadabra Club met for the first time this Season on Wednesday evening with Miss Charlotte A van Doren 647 East Capitol street Mra Euphemla Baker read a detailed account of the marriage of King James of Scotland to Madelalne of France Mrs Mcintosh read William Dudley Pelleys A Matter of Altruism Tie resignation of Mrs Mar 8tory from membership In the club was regretfully accepted The Armorer Song by De Koven was sung by Isewton Preston accompanied by Miss Gladys Walford and Mozart Vlnuet was played by Lindsay violinist Dr Abbot cellist and Mrs Mabel Lindsay pianist During the evening copies of the year book were dls trlbuted The officers are as follows President Melville Lindsay first vice president Mrs Croissant second vice president Mrs Georgiana Thompson secretary and treasurer Frank Metcalf corresponding secretary Harold Warner executive committee Newton Preston Miss Flora McCreery Mrs irginia Metcalf Judge Thompson and Walter Studdiford music committee Mrs Mabel Lindsay Mrs Virginia Metcalf and Mrs Phebe Studdiford Colonial Daughters of America The district society of the Colonial Daughters of America met Tuesday night at the residence of Mra Clarence A Curtis The business Included the adoption of the proposed by laws Announcement was made of the death of the president general of the society Mrs John Barry Taylor in Newport Ky and appropriate resolutions of sympathy were passed Mrs Amos Draper was admitted to msmbarahin A musical program was given by Mrs Eleanor Preston and Master Myron Atkinson Those present Included Mrs Berryman Mrs Bertha Crane Mrs Clarence A Curtis Mrs Frederick A Fernald Mrs Sylvanus Johnson Mrs Grace Mecks Miss Maud Burr Morris Miss Mary Oursler Mrs Clement Sheriff Mrs Francis A St Clair and Judge William Adamson 16th Street Heights Sewing Circle Mrs Charles Warner entertained the Sixteenth Street Heights Sewing Circle Friday at her home in Geranium street when the election of the following of soldies scrapbook were read and de llvered to that committee to be pasted In the book The meeting adjourned after a social half hour New England Women The New England Women of Washington held a special meeting at the home of the president Mrs Charlotte Emerson Main the Wellington on the afternoon of September 24 A large number of articles were turned In for the Red Cross and for the organization under the direction of Mrs Frank CUBANS CREATE DEFENSE COUNCIL Work Includes Census of Foreigners and Food Regulation fleers took place Mrs Scott Iln Roosevelt It was voted unani president Mrs Wright vice pres ident Mrs James Dennis secretary and Mrs Selble Grove treasurer The future meetings will begin at 12 SO clock the second and fourth Tuesdays of eah month Mra Maxwell retained her position as chairman of the press committee The first fall meeting will be held at the residence of Mrs Benson 910 Rlttenhouse street northwest Takoma Civic Study Club The Takoma Civic Study Club held mously to continue the work of knit ting An Interesting feature of the meeting waa the reading of a letter front a little fatherless French girl It was voted to send the little girl a Christmas box The president reported the death of Miss Lida Tulloch Russia Expels Gem Qurko Petrograd October 8 Gen Gurko former commander on the southwestern front has been expelled from Russia by way of Archangel because ot the letter he wrote to the former em Its first meeting of the winter Tuesday Peror expressing his loyalty A tele in the Takoma library The meeting gram Archangel announces the gen was called to order by its president ral arrival and says he boarded a 1 Mra GoritorL The axtrarta tar th British raaaaL I By tfce Associate Freea Habana Oct A special decree signea oy fresident Men cal Monday creates a council of national defense composed of the secretaries of war and marine Interior agriculture commeroe and labor four advisers a legal ad viser director general and secretary A legislative committee also is created composed of the chief Justice of the supreme court and two members aaca of the senate and house The more Important subjects to be tsken up by the council Include nation al territorial defense mobilisation of land and sea forcs If necessary cen sqs of foreigners resident in Cuba identification of all foreigners arriving alt and leavlnr Cuban tarrltnr tatlon and exportation of foodstuffs regulation of food prices and better ment of telegraphic and rail eonnnnU cations.