Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-12-10
Detroit Currency.

Detroit Currency.
Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. E. Cady
Stanton have been ut work together all
summer on book that will place man
just where he belongs.
What an Ohio man wanted of New
York publisher was "a family Bible OF
good tone, with lots of pictures In it"
When decorative art strikes the head
OF the family vinegar barrel with .
group of angels hurrying towards the
spiggot it will go no further, and we
will all have rest.
Says the Washington Capital; : rno
country may be booming w.aA pros
perity, but it is just as difficult Il, bor-
row five. dollar note now as IN she
hardest days Of the panic"
The way of the transgressor is hard
indeed. Woodward. the defauiling
Bostonian, is in Canada. = Detroit
Free Press. To avoid the draft, w
presume.-[ New Haven Register.
DR.. Gutter says that the increase II
nervous diseases, decaying teeth, pre-
mature badness and general lack Of
muscular and bone strength, are greatly
due to the impoverished quality o.
-four now in use, the gluten being
thrown away in order to make the Hour
white. A prominent miller denies that
the -four is Impoverished. He says
that modern processes OF milling are 20
perfect that every part Of the grain Of
wheat except the outer covering goes
into the -four. s
SLOW CoURTsHIP. Lovers who pro
pose to enter the temple Of Hymen
should not daily long in the vestibulos
This is q progressive age. and thaTe oAa
be no progress in courtship beyond :
certain point. When the parties to the
affair have arrived at the conviction
that they were ".made for each other"
and cannot be happy apart. tho sooner
they become . one and inseparables
the better. Anteanuptial affection d g
mobile as quicksilver, and when il has
reached its highest point, the safest
policy is to merge it in matrimonial
bliss. Otherwise, it may retroersde.
Very long courtships often end in 3
back out on one side or the other
retiring party being in most cases in
constant man." And we would hiatt to
that unreliable being that he has no
right to dangle after an estimabls
woman for years without any fixed in
tention Of marrying her. The beet
thing lady can do under snch circum-
stances is to bring matters to focus,
by asking the pointrno.point gentle
man what he means, and whsn? She
can either do that or dismiss him al
together. Perhaps tho latter plan
would in most instances be the better
one; for man who is slow to mAtri-
mony is generally slow in all the CON
Germs Of life.
The Rev. DIR. Wentworth writes y
the Troy Times, ON reading . recent
feet washing ceremony, q follows:
1.-THE wit Of the Illinois Conference.
the Rev. George j. Barrett, was attend
ing 2 camp meeting held BY the feat
washing Bsptists. and stood in the rustic
preaching stand looking down on The
scene while the brethren and sisters
gathered at the front benches and
stripped Of shoes and stockings, and
the preacher who conducted the serv-
ices went around the circle with . tn
basin and towel and washed the feet
presented, till ell were served. When
the ceremony was over the preachsg
looked up to the stand, and, with the
peculiar twang and and whining upward
slide of the voice sometimes called the
holy Tone said with solemn distinct
ness, We should be glad to know Whist
our beloved Brother Barrett thinks Of
this ancient and honorable custom"
Barrett Strengthened up, and said he
thought we'll Of the custom; feet-wash-
ing was good things useful habit;
and, as for the cases that had passed II
review before their eyes to-day. ne
judged it would have bean we'll II Il
had been attended to fortnight earlier
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