Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-12
Betty and Her Barn
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS
q by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU Service

Wycllr serious anxiety she decided
that the most sensible thing to do
was to sell the old home Itself and
take up her abode In the stable
commonly called the barn. The new
owners we're quite willing that she
should keep the barn since they
would be putting up modern ga
RACES.
Its position was In direct line of
the railway approach to the glow
Ing little suburb. which. before Its
tendency to sprout, was justly
called Ofthemap. But with a gen.
erous supply of the fertilizers
builders, estate office. butchers, etc.
the growth began and they wise
ly changed the name to Onthemap
SO Betty's old barn stood like a
veritable lighthouse In Its promi'
nent position on High street and Its
three great sides gazed fatty at
anyone approaching from any or
three directions.
The prowling footpads of the
wolf were TOO close for Betty to
have done much except Install a
bathroom and kitchen and hard.
wood floors In her barn. She want
I'd very much to make good In the
little village In which all her fore
fathers had been reared. An at.
~tractive sign down at the rustic
gate leading to the barn Informed
the passerby that Miss Wyclin
taught dancing and %elocution.
1t was between a dance and an
~elocutlon lesson that Betty watched
the approach OF a young man.
Betty soon learned that he was
the owner of the new department
store that was even then nearing
completion In the heart of Onthe-
maps shopping district.
Miss Wycliff," he jumped
straightway into his reason for In
truding. Il will pay you $500 down
and another $500 when the signs
finished If you will rent out that
east wall of your barn to me for
advertising purposes-it's a swell
site to catch the eye and II need not
be Observation-Disclosures IL yer
What do you sayi I'll get an artist
that knows his job"
"Wait a moment" cried Betty,
until my brain regains its poise. |
never see the outside of my barn
at least not on that side and-a
thousand dollars a year would
mean an awful lot to me. Do you
thInk-that is-could 1t be done
without a lot of printing!"
IF | have my artist chap consult
you before beginnlng-will that do?
And If Onthemap grows as It's
bound to and takes my store along
with 1t, you shall have double that
rental in another year."
He had not been gone an hour
when the owner Of the new butcher
shop came up the path with the self
same dreams of an advertisement
In his head and the exact same fig
In the way of rental.
"But | simply couldn't stand 1t TO
have pictures of sausages and those
sides of lamb and beef rioting on
my barn walls" cried Betty.
"The decorative scheme shall be
left entirely to you," said the young
butcher, quite overjoyed at the site
he had secured.
The town baker secured the third
and remaining wall and Betty knew
that the old prowling wolf was
gone.
She retired in a somewhat wilted
to her little kitchen to brew
herself a cup of tea. Certainly hav-
Ing walls to ones barn was a great
err asset than having a brain in
ones head for the teaching of
dancing and %elocution.
SO while Betty slipped her com
cup of tea the owners of
the department store. the butcher
shop and the baker shop were one
by n ~dickering with the only
artist that Onthemap had ever
He was but a visitor.
His efforts to secure fame and
fortune In miniature painting had
30 far failed. and 1t was with ex.
IRENE Joy that he welcomed the Dr.
ders to take up his brushes In the
interest of advertising.
"But you must consult the owner
Of the barn." each had warned him.
II have a scheme that will suit
laughed the artist I'VE will
paint crowds of well
dressed people rushing toward the
open doors of the shops of you
good gentlemen. II will be
4 subtle and attractive way of do
.ng the trick"
And because Betty had a brain
her head she promptly started a
.ea and coffee In conjunction
With ~elocution and dancing. Young
Wells, swinging on his
painting scafrold. thought the world
/ lovely place and wondered why
.
he had eyer puddled about with liz.
lie dahs of paint when he could
,plash II In bucketfuls on the barn
walls OF the most lovely girl that
.ither town or suburb had ever pro