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FOR you men and women who commune with the Out-of-Doors, the season of seasons has come. Quail and ruffed grouse are challenging your Purdy. Back and Quarter-Back, of the Gridiron Tribe, are in full war paint. The fox is ready for the hounds, the rabbit for the beagle, and the Greatest Sporting Goods Store in the World for its host of sportsmen friends. Nature is doing her best to supply the healthful roughage which she puts into human character through the tempting outdoor sports of Autumn. She is painting her forests, unleashing her winds, flooding the countrvsid'* with the cool sunshine of Fall?making woods and motor way, bridle path and moor, irresistible. Thus does she woo the rosy cheek to the bronzing breeze and temper the tonic which makes more C^LOTHES as the gentlefolk of English counties J know them, with thorough simplicity of line and finish -trim, purposeful looking, characteristic of the outdoor man and woman. To supply this type is the particular province of the Abercrombie & Fitch departments devoted to this great branch of their business ? a province whose frontiers even are hardly trespassed bv others. Meeting the Growing American Tendency to wear city-and-coun try clothes in town in the offices, on the avenue and in the hotels and restaurants during the day. Playing North or South?in Scotland or California Golf suits from the Abercrombie & Fitch shops enjoy recognized fellowship in the fastest company The cotter's handlooms of Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales hare furnished tne fabrics. stalwart men and boys, women and girls who enter the lists as sportsmen. And thus does she regularly replenish the enthusiasm in the Abercrombie & Fitch store?ever renewing the atmosphere of pine needles and tweeds, birch-bark and homespuns, which pervades the house from its latch-string to the Davy Crockett log cabin on the roof. We greet you, this bracing October day, with larger assortments than ever, whether it be guns and forestry cloth clothes, Dunhill pipes and duck decoys, town and country suits and hats and foot' wear, or an outfit for a Winter trip abroad, for a voyage to the far South Seas and an adventure on the island of your dreams. nrOPCOATS with the swinge and free -*? dorn demanded by sport?tweed suits and shapely walking boots topped with gaiters?these are the clothes for both men and women one meets more and more in the smartest places. Defying the Worst That November Has to Offer ? /f%r '?'??? l%f*j ~h^ ''Vn. raincoats and storm >A'4't- ?< W??*S? W lX? coats, imported tweed Abercrombie & Fitch raincoats and storm SHf-vT" ^ coats, impt <Jr? 0 n^-U7/'. ?'? ''sKii; knock-about hats and '?,'/ ' -il'^C^wL- c*'^/^-^ damp-proof shoes ? ?~r?'?",-'"'vi'r'\'|! iff for the country lame '. T-1 ^ ?fr VtS?L and the city street. Coats of Leather and of Heather-?of Camel's Flair, Plaids and Fleeces Women's city-and-country suits, in variety unlimited, in tweeds, homepuns, and many exclusive fabrics ? with hais, boots, gloves, shirts and stockings for every outfit. Riding clothes and all accessories. For Roadster, Closed Car"or the Steamer Deck Topcoats, slip-ons, greatcoats ? made here of English fabrics, or London made. Sutts, boots, caps and haberdashery comfortably at home on the world's great highway. ~"-7--:S? ... ? 'T'HE man that travels by sleeper or steamer?the busines* ** man motoring or commuting from his Connecticut estate? the woman that golfs and rides and shoots ? the sportsman planning his moose hunt or trip to Montana?all these find the clothing resources of the Abercrombie &. Fitch establish? ment greater than those of any house in Europe?quite unique ia America. EZRA H. FITCH, President Madison Avenue and Forty-fifth Street, New York THE hunter knows where to go tor his gun and his clothes* his ammunition and sporting impedimenta. Among the guides in Maine and Wvoming, the shooting pals in Carolina oriars and Louisiana canebrakes and in the duck-blinds of Maryland, die name of Abercrombie &. Fitch is a pass-word. For years the most famous hunters in the world, as well as the explorers, have been outfirtcrd by this house, judging from the number of parties now outfitting for the Big Woods, it will be a record hunting season. THE GREATEST SPORTING GOODS S E IN THE WORLD