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II - ! Hello! Are You ReadyFor Christmas Over There? W E are ready to serve you with finer and larger stocks beyond any that we have ever had. This store, is rich beyond precedent in rare and beautiful and useful and odd and interesting things for Christmas giving. The Christmas Spirit is in the air, and the ships have come in with carefully chosen merchandise from every part of the world for Holmes' Store lace, silks, art needlework, gloves, hosiery, handkerchiefs, perfumes, china and bronzes from France, sun bleached pure flax and house hold Linens from Scotland and Ireland, holiday books, canes, cravats, cutlery from England, marbles from Italy, brasses and desk fittings from Vienna, toys from old Nuremberg and the Leipzig Fair, dolls from Germany, furs, rugs from the Orient, vases, quilted robes, house gowns for men and women, embroidered linens Irom the Madeira Isles, novelty jewelery Irom Paris AND SO ON ALL OF THIS IM PORTED MERCHANDISE JOINING THE ZEALOUSLY CHOSEN MERCHANDISE FROM OUR OWN UNITED STATES, a thousand and one things making A world of Happy Christmas suggestions, which make it possible for you to give even more distinctive gifts than you had ever dreamed of---without hurt to your purse. Every one of us have had A at some time or other the Aside from the commer vision of an ideal Christ- cial part of it, it would mas. Yet when Christ- b e a fine satisfaction mas had come and gone for this store to be the dream was only par- THE able to assist you in tially fullflled--oftenfall- STO R E making this an ideal ing short of the ideal Christmas for everybody because the selection of OF HEand we know that we gift things was put off CH RIST AS are now t until the last moment. .are in position to do so Supposntil the lasyou Begin to do . ' better than ever before. your planning and buy- We would so like to have ing now. you give us the oppor tunity. Perhaps in your home, you may have been longing for a certain piece of furniture, the carpets and rugs are growing dingy, the linen and china need replenishing, or a chest of silver has played a big part in your Christmas dream, and so on all the way through the house Whatever it is you are thinking of for Christmas, we will try to help you well. D. H. HOLMES CO