Palatka daily news., 1922-08-14
MAKING CITY PROPERTY
MORE VALUABLE.

Home making oilers quite chance
to make a profit as the result of the
improvement of a property. Many
houses are sold much below their
real value because they have been
allowed to get into an unattractive
condition. They may be substantial
ly built, but the lack of superficial
repairs makes them fail to show for
what they are worth.
An enterprising and Industrious
owner can make money on a place
like that. If he is skillful with tools
he can make some improvements for
himself. And then he can make the
property much more attractive by
cultivating grass and setting out
young trees and shrubbery.
Many houses that are really quite
good, look dingy and disreputable
because they have no we'll cared for
lawn and they lack adornment. Any
industrious owner can supply these
lacks, and in a year or two have a
pretty home Trees and shrubs draw
attention from many defects.
The result of such an effect is usu-
ally to induce the neighbors to clean
up and improve their property also.
The location begins to take on new
style and spirit, and property grows
more valuable without much money
having been spent
The movement for civic improve
ment has in this way led to advance
in value of great deal of real es-
tate Neighbors that formerly were
disorderly have caught the spirit of
improvement, and are beautifying
their places. Every home owner on
such street profits by this develop
ment, and if he wants to sell he finds
that he has made gain far greater
than if he had put his money out at
interest.
A home owner could do a clever
stroke of business by buying such
rundown home, tuning it up with re-
pairs and decoration, inducing his
sneighbors to join the march of i'm
provement, and then selling out. But
most people who thus improve prop
erty become so in love with it that
the possession of the place means
more to them than the dollars they
could turn over on the deal.
When in doubt, take your foot off
the accelerator.
The soul of the crouch is simply
n morgue where his dead hopes are.
The difference between cuteness
and impudence in a child is about
three years.
Unless something is done soon, the
dye industry won't be the only dying
industry.
Poverty is a curse. The poor still
are playing Casey Jones" on their
monographs.
At times you get just what you
want, and at other times a good
salesman waits on you.
It's easy to believe in the descent
of man from monkeys when you see
a gay old sport Of eighty descending
to monkeyshines.
Seven parts of popularity are de-
rived from the ability to tickle the
other fellows vanity.
1t isn't the pretty stenographer
the wife fears, but the one that feels
sorry for her husband.
A cynic is one who never believes
what a senator says unless he is call
ing another senator a liar,
People who read subtitles aloud
may be trying to demonstrates that
they are not as ignorant as they
look
The purchaser of German marks
is beginning to wonder if "mark"
isn't one-hafl of a description that
fits him.
Old age is the quality that makes
you think it advisable to drown about
half the youngsters of your acquain-
tance
There's something about a pretty
mans attitude that confesses his be-
lief that his wife ought to be very
grateful.
Watch the traffic cops signals
and you will be safe, provided the