The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-14

WyCliff estate 10 cause young betty
| Wvcliff serious anxiety she decided
that the most sensible thing To do
was TO sell the old home Itself and
take I'D her abode In the stable
commonly called the barn. The new
owners were 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 10 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 10 Onthemap.
So Betty's old barn stood like
veritahle lighthouse in its promi-
nenr position on High street and its
three great sides gaZed fatty at
anyone approaching from any OF
three directions.
The prowling foOtpads OF the
wolf were roo close for Betty to
have done much except install
bathroom and kitchen and hard
wood floors in her barn. She want
ed 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 Wyclln
taught dancing and elocution.
II was between a dance and an
elocution lesson that Betty watched
the approach of 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, 81 will pay you $500 down
and another $500 chen the signs
finished if you will rent out that
east wall of your barn to me for
advertising purposes-it's swell
site 10 catch the eye and IL need not
be Observation-Disclosures it were.
What do yo6 say? 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 year would
mean an awful lot to me. Do you
think-that is-could ii be done
without a lot of printing!"
IF have my artist chap consult
you before beginning-will that do?
And II Onthemap grows as It's
bound TO and takes my store along
with il, 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.
ures in the way of rental.
But simply couldn't stand IL 10
have pictures of sausages and those
sides of lamb and beef rinting 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
state 10 her little kitchen 10 brew
herself a cup OF tea. Certainly hav-
ing walls to ones barn was great
er asset than having brain in
ones head for the teaching Of
dancing and elocution.
So while Betty slipped her COM
forting cup of tea the owners of
the department store. the butcher
shop and the baker shop were one
by one dickering with the only
artist that Onthemap had ever
known. He was bur visitor.
His efforts to secure fame and
fortune in miniature painting had
so far failed. and IL was with ex-
treme Joy that ne welcomed the or
ders Ia 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
her." laughed the artist. 1--WE will
simply paint crowds OF we'll
dressed people rushing toward the
open doors of the shops OF you
three good gentlemen. II will be
subtle and attractive way of do
| ing the trick"
And because Betty had brain
in her mead she promptly started a
tea and coffee room in conjunction
with elocution and dancing Young
| Martin Wells. swinging on his
painting scaffold. thought the world
lovely place and wondered why
he had ever pudded about with lit
! tie dabs of p3i3t when he could
! splash il in bucketfuls on the barn