The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-07-13
Betty and Her Barn
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS
g. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNIl Saryica

NTHEN the wolf prowled near
w enough to the door OF the old
Wycliff estate to cause young Betty
Wycliff 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 were
quite willing that she should keep the
barn since they would be putting up
modern garages.
Its position was In direct line OF
the railway approach to the glowing
little suburb, which, before Its ten
dency to sprout. was justly called OFF,
themap. But with a generous supply
of the fertilizers-builders estate Of
flee, butchers, etc.-the growth began
and they wisely changed the name to
Onthemap.
So Betty's old barn stood like ver-
table lighthouse in Its prominent po-
sition on High street and its three
great sides gazed fatty at anyone APP
preaching from any OF three dlrec-
tons.
The prowling footpads OF the wolf
were too close for Betty to have done
much except install a bathroom and
kitchen and hardwood floors In her
barn. She wanted very much to make
good In the little village In which all
her forefathers had been reared. An
attractive sign down at the rustic gate
leading to the barn informed the pass
erby that Miss Wycliff taught dancing
and elocution.
Betty's pupils were not 80 numer-
GUS as to effect traffic block In High
street, yet she was beginning to see
daylight and the permanent Danish
ment of that wolf from her barn door.
1t was between dance and an elo-
cntion lesson that BETTY watched tho
approach of young man.
Betty soon learned that he was
the owner of the new department
store that was even then nearing COM
| pletion In the heart of Onthemap's
shopping district.
Miss WyclIff.' he jumped straight
way into his reason for intruding, II
Will pay you $500 down and another
| $500 when the signs finished II you
will rent out that east wall OF your
barn to me for advertising purposes
It's swell site to catch the eye and
It need not be teo-er-advertIsy- 1t
we're. What do you say? I'll get an
artist that knows his job"
wait 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 1t
be done without lot OF printing!"
IF | have my artist chap consult
you before beginning that do7
/ And II Onthemap grows as It's bound
to and takes my store along with 1t,
i you shall have double that rental In
another year. And seeing consent In
Betty's eyes he arose. squeezed her
hand until she nearly squealed and was
off to arrange with his artist.
He had not been gone an hour when
the owner OF the new butcher shop
came up the path with the selfsama
dreams OF an advertisement In his
head and the exact same figures In the
way OF rental
But I simply couldn't stand 1t to
have pictures of sausages and those
sides Of lamb and beef rioting on my
barn walls cried Betty.
.4The decorative scheme shall be left
entirely to you" said the young butch
er. quite overjoyed at the site he had
secured.
i The town baker secured the third
and remaining wall and Betty knew
that the old prowling wolf was gone.
| She retired In somewhat wilted
state to her little kitchen to brew her.
self cup of tea. Certainly having
walls to ones barn was greater as.
set than having a brain In ones head
for the teaching of dancing and elocu-
ton.