Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1925, Page 49

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, . FLORIDA FEVE By Kenneth L. Roberts In 1925, two-and-a-half million seekers after sunshine, and color, and warmth—and wealth—poured i%to a state whose normal popula- tion has been only about a million. WASHINGTON, D. (., DECEMBER 3. 1925. . N to sandwiches, from a night’s lodg- ing to a palace—that our old stand- ards of business judgment totter. But the man who buys real estate blindly will be burned just as surely in Florida as elsewhere. Read Mr. Roberts’ articles begin- ning in the Christmas Post, Now On Sale, five cents! So tremendous an influx of settlers and tourists has created such vast demands for every- thing—from real estate WiTH OR WiTHO ' T > A*2002 ) v CurisTMAS PRESENT for®2 By Fanny Heaslip Lea For seven years the Devlins had lived, and loved, and squabbled, about like other married couples—and then, just at the top of a bouncing fine row, they found that they never had been legally married! What did they do . ... well, what would you do yourself under equally devastating circumstances? 25 SpLENDID STORIES & ARTICLES MAKE Tuis THE Best Curistmas Post Ever PuBLisaED Here are just a few of them. The Last of the Hoopwells, 7 John P. Marquand; the first of a new Plupy Shute series, by Henry A. Shute; a most timely and authoritative article by Captain Conrad Westervelt, on Flyers and Storms. DeWolf Hopper writes on How Not to Act; and Sousa’s Keeping Time has all the dash and spirit of one of his own marches. And then you’ll enjoy Endurance Vile, by Octavus Roy Cohen; The Moto Car, by Stewart Edward White; Good Old Grandpa, by William Hazlett Upson; Bohemians De Luxe, by Maude Parker Child; and sixteen other stories and articles—twenty-five in all, in the best of Christmas Posts. Now on sale—all for five cents! What other possible gift can compare to 1. Last year there appeared in The Post: 21 Full Length Novels 11 Shorter Novels 339 Short Stories 413 Articles _-t Features in All . Next year there will be even more. . Last year 39 books were pub- lished which had previously appeared in The Post. These 39 books retailed for $97.00. . These 39 books contained less than half the total ma- terial that appeared in The Post. Here’s your chance to make a wonderful Christmas present— a $200 Christmas present—to somebody; perhaps to yourself. Just slip $2 in an envelope with the name and address to which you wish The Post sent, and mail it to The Saturday Evening Post, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa. Then, in the Christmas mail, the friend you have remembered will receive a charming announce- ment of the gift subscription in your name—a beautiful repro- duction in full color, 7x11 inches, cardboard protected, suitable for framing, of an orig- inal oil painting by Maxfield Parrish, entitled “A Florentine Féte.” And thereafter, every week throughout the year, your friend will recall your ’kind thoughtfulness. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, a year of The Post for only two dollars? 976 Independence Square, Philadciphia, Pa. So easy, no shopping in crowded stores; no packages to wrap and send. If the recipient of one of your gift subscriptions should happen to be already a subscriber, we will extend the subscripiion a year. Please send THE SATURDAY EVENING POST for one year to each of those whose names and addresses are given in ‘he attached list. I enclose Two Dollars for cach. Mail your Christ- mas Gift Announcement in my name. A\ Street...... Stater......iol, ———— ] . THE SATURDAY |, 2. EVENING POST -~ “AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION” You can subscribe through any newsdealer or authorized agent, or send your order direct to THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania