Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners I 1 asked him how in the wo world r id it happened it was one of the most astonishing transformations 1 I ever saw well I 1 cant quite explain it he said somehow I 1 got an idea or the idea got me it got under my skin and began to work there and I 1 get rid of it it was touched off by the coming of that new management to take over the old ahm thompson apson store that little dinky store had always been dirty and slow and a kind of scab on the community but it looked good enough to me and I 1 seen anything wrong with it it was limping farther into the red every day but I 1 know it that new came in and went through it like a d dose os so of physic they dumped out the old broken down furniture they scrapped the old methods they cleaned out the dirt and repaired and painted put on a new roof I 1 and added a warehouse it just set me right back on my any haunches with surprise I 1 quit thinking about it and looking at it there was something in it which was mighty vital in a way continued on page 2 the old settler continued from page 1 I 1 explain you see theat store had been right there and had been running in just that same way ever sine since I 1 was a little kid I 1 had it fixed in my mind as a permanent monument and its ways as the only ways to do business busine sg the whole snarl of my slovenly philosophy was tangled up around it well when that new management just chewed it up and spit it out and took a fresh bite it just left me flawing in space a kind of a vacuum in a little world where my mv thoughts had been moping around n a sleepy circle something just had to seep into that vacuum and it was the new management i idea d e a the streamlined business the pie picture t re of a slow ugly caterpillar soaring off of as a beautiful butte butterfly my way of living and doing and thinking was condemned beyond pardon in the withering contrast I 1 saw what a slovenly dinky little life I 1 had been living and that it never would get me anywhere I 1 decided to clein house take stock discard a whole constipation sti of rubbish I 1 had ben considering si my furniture and start from the ground my habits my methods my ambitions I 1 wanted to forget them and I 1 wanted nobody else to them and then a as you know here came caine jennie I 1 got sight of her just as my resolution was getting ready to wiggle out of its chrysalis she had arrived at the verv time when I 1 needed her most 1 I i figured she had been sent by some game kind providence to help me ma be born when I 1 had succeeded in convincing her that she was on the job for that particular reason T had really arrived at first base the rest was easy and a heap more fun than anything I 1 had ever vot pot into before building the brand new is more fun than anything else in the world and I 1 aint done yet I 1 mean we aint done yet were working out a a magnificent sy system stern more new furniture new stock more spacious warehouses more profitable ti table business than ever before its wonderful were already hoping to declare the first bl bi dividend on our capitol stocia stock what were expecting were expecting about the fifteenth of may albert R laynan |