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A WONDERLAND FOR EVERYBODY
[Welland Tribune, 13 December 1889]
At this season of the year a visit to Thos. Griffith’s China Hall is a pleasant event. His store is a perfect wonderland of all that is new and beautiful in design, rich in quality, useful and cheap. Your reporter dropped in yesterday, but will not attempt to tell one-half of the beauties there to be seen. Every reader should see for himself. We can honestly say that it will pay you to come many miles to have a look through China Hall. The west window contains an assortment of Bohemian glassware in fruit bowls, water sets, baskets, vases, etc., and the display would be a credit to any city store. The east window is made beautiful by a grand show of everything that is pretty in vases-and you have no idea how pretty they are until you examine them-and quality considered, they are cheap. One of the most attractive lines is that of lamps, and in this China Hall surpasses everything heretofore attempted in Welland. You no longer have to leave town to get something really elegant in bronze stand lamps, library and hall lamps, etc., and the decorations are loveliness itself. Parlor hanging lamps from $2.75 to $12.00. German china, too, calls for special inspection. The goods in this line consist of cabarets, salad dishes, porridge bowls and oatmeal sets, dessert sets, fruit sets, pickle dishes, biscuit jars, bone plates, flower pots, cuspidors, and scores of similar articles. Majolica ware is very odd and in it are some novelties in cake plates, teapot sets, pitchers, salmon boxes and the like. Bisque figures are both artistic and comical this year, and are always fashionable and popular. Fancy cups and saucers are legion-there seems to be no limit to the display; everyone can get just what he wants in this line. Some very taking patterns in china tea sets are shown, and a cask of beauties will be added next week. Dinner sets in twenty-five different varieties, from $6 to $30, include everything from the ordinary printed set to the finest decorated porcelain. Printed toilet ware-sets from $2.25 upwards. The glassware department is full to completion. Children’s tea sets at almost any price. Great value on the 25¢ table. The grocery department is fresh and full for the season…Mr. Griffith’s business enterprise will no doubt be rewarded with a rushing holiday trade. It should be so. You will have no trouble in making your selections if you go to the right place-and that place unmistakably is Griffith’s China Hall, Welland.
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