Evening star., 1925-10-18

when a customer begins to weaken.
MIR. Moops Is a man of personality.
He makes us feel rather small. His
whole attitude bespeaks the thought:
What? Hesitating? Well. of course
you are the sort of person who would
hesitate'
He picks up where the first man
left off. Here" he says, pointing to
the map. 'is good buy for you. I'd
like to have it myself. 1t faces this
S4,000,000 sanitarium. which is going
up right here. You get off the street
car here. for instance. and on your
way home you pass the house of DR..
Cuttem, one of the greatest living
surgeons, who will be chief surgeon
at this hospital. He will erect a
100000 house here. and you pass In
front of it going home in the evening
from Miami Think of that
We do think of 1t and wonder
whether we want to live facing the
hospital, or whether 1t wouldn't be
little better to live few blocks
away. even If we didn't have the priv
ilege of passing DIR. Cuttem's home.
But we decide the salesman probably
knows.
This lot he continues, SIS $500
If you buy it before the 18th of next
month you get a 10 per cent discount.
L just had wire from a friend of
mine-brother-in-law in fact-who
said he was rushing down here to
get some more lots before they took
the 10 per cent discount off. I'd hate
to see you miss this
Can Buy on Terms.
He explains that the lot can be
bought on terms Of one-fourth down
and the balance payable quarterly or
semi-annually, plus the interest at Z
per cent The ocean is about one
mile and a half away.
They call this Il gamble our
friend continues. but it is no gamble
| wouldn't advise anybody to gamble.
But here is what I'll guarantee You
buy that lot now. and by Christmas
it will double in value. Do this. Here's
the way to work this game. Buy ii
now and go away. Forget about it,
Then come down around Christmas
and sell it for twice what you paid for
it. Then put your original payment
away in the bank and buy another lot
with the profit you've made. Do that
and you can make enough on the side
to retire on"
We dimly remember somewhere hav-
ing seen the same system pla yed with
dice in game where the players kept
saying, Come on, bones-papa must
buy baby some new shoes" and the
police. at least, called 1t gambling
But our salesman says it's not, so It's
probably not.
Lots of people will live here all the
time" says the salesman ''Of course,
l don't advise anybody to live in one
place. Take me, l have a place in
California. but l go there only because
my relatives live there. My Aunt Jane.
now. she went to Egypt in Midsum-
mer. was took with pneumonia and
pretty near died in Damascus, the
oldest city in the world"
We wonder what Aunt Jane has to
do with our lot, but the salesman
co1tinueS-"when you get tired of it
down here you can run up to North
Carolina or somewhere for q change"
We venture to say, In a thin, small
voice. that maybe we better look il
over q little more carefully, anyhow,
as we want TO see some other proper
ties around here. The salesman SAYS he
doesn't want to stop us. but he'd hate
20 see us lose the thing for our own
sake, not that il means anything to
him, and we feel within us a deep
sincere gratitude toward this man
who has treated us, poor strangers,
the uay la has