The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-27
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~ ~ FREAKS AND THE DAYS D0M;s

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REAxY people. and the odd
III things they do, bob up at nj
fimee and make many of - turn
Z Away from the sombre side OF
lie TO smile IT the vagaries OF
our friends and Of ourselves.
4 v5ujd be but gloomy weather IL
- nothing else but spring. says the
- -. This world would be very duh
- ssneatc IL we we're al. cut Oh; Of one
80 4 cloth and hemstitched as dat as
80. Some folks like fiatness and
s.r..e folks like ruffies and frills. It's
Z - ming that the opportunity OF seiec-
- = granted u. for 1t ID poor baker
~ turns oil Of hts batter into one form
hpead.
mpQD "Biue Laws" are being revived IN
1 nDns parts Of Connecticut. In one
-. winesed. no man Is permitted 20 Ass
- vie or sweetheart on Sundays. Think
Y 81 Sunday sparkling and no kissing.
- young fellow who has waited all tho
-, digging and delvtng In the hard and
- coll Of . Connecticut farm. Tor Gun
- ovenins 10 come. when. dressed in his
60 snit Of clothes. he can 60 forth and
3 phAntIy escort his little sweetheart
u neeting. what about him7 Ali the time
80 peescher says Love thy neiehbor ~
oejfs his granger heart In zmen-ing the
n,in4nt with fervor. Ali the week he
sns for tEat sweet FIVE minutes when
70 xAlk through the dswy lane Is ended
- h receives his goodnight kiss at the
s1rlt. looked down upon by the wsnking
ps The bulldog on the other side OF the
IS. who may look. but dare not
TT the combination. Is the only
s6tness Of the embrace. and he will not
- 70 think that the law prohibits this
~ BIT Of paradise Ii = bewlldering idea
~ then. the law reads that no man
~ kiss his wife on Sunday. II he may
~ lin his own wife. dare he kiss the
6IA1f fellows? heard . married man
sselins = bachelor friend the other day.
His wife. my boy. take . wife," he
I'D. Whose wife would you suggest"
neesntly demanded the bachelor. chew.
= his cigar end diligently.
s n anti-wife kissing law isn't bit tiis-
nmL II q man had to 60 energeticaliy
a. york. closing all doors. thinking the
ghoIes, closing outside shutters. pulling
A9n inside blinds. to kiss 4 wife In the
nsknea and soIemnity Of Sunday blue
~. unlsss he were more than ordinarily
hnunsn. he might obtain a suggestion ap-
eabIs to the mystery Of some other
nfbdden fruits that grow in Connecticut
= veil - in other states.
10. -
- u doing anything wrong. and 10 and
Mold! some angelic visitor whispers such
Nsgestions that the next thing you hear
N thai the good have strayed far away
~ that straight and narrow path which
bsnH wide enough for one.
u y Is
pHE Japanese are 20 wise and have
" been so gifted for % much longer than
~ Americans that ! never could under
nand bow was that the nation never
hiosed until the English man-of-war taught
~ l!ttis trick to the Jap maidens through
Ne Forts 81 the sailors We are told this
MI Japanese history In "'The 0eisha."
A. y We take our fashions and our SER
nau eessn from the stage. this must be
IN. Xsslng. tn spite Of its abuse. seems
60aAe outcome of a heart bursting to
Il love. The first thing one does
III pEetty baby is TO kiss It. The last
- one does to the beloved dead face 10
- II. ere the death mask freezes the
encs and endurance left In life's last
Ms1yie.
THE mania OF the maj who has been
wandering up and down Philadelphia
htefy scratching matches on mems face ID
Avery freaky and funny thing to think Of
he man whose face IL used AZ a patent
~ not patient. sandpaper. Ii the fellow
= receive the comfniseration OF the COM
Inunisy. To scratch matches across ones
bee IN day time isn't 80 bad. hut how
YOU'D you feel to awaken some dark night
md. looking upon an occupant Of your bed.
M phosphorescens CLEANS prominent
anong the pillows and holsters OF an other
plse model s:eeping partner.
Wouldn't you think the OLD man himself
had come and changed places with your
bedfeliow. Tying in luminous brightness at
FOUR side?
T COULDN'T understand for some little
time why So many women we're gazing
~ Insently on the silver quarters obtained
n change and feeling them with the persis-
ence OF = blind man tracing a resemblance
by aid Of his fingers. I heard one woman
Jay to another; we can't use these Nat
quarters half SO effectively: the others. the
anworn ones. seem to last good deal
anEer." These werneu were collecting
quarters. with well accented faces OF the
Goddess OF Liberty. To drop In the gas
meter. A welt accented quarter viii Re
b the benefit OF the droreer In the slot,
While the smooth quarter helps the gas
sompany, 70 say the wse women. who
have reduced the gas stove 10 a science.
{ After trying three women and two Jap
Acys In a month I made up my mind that
leved my wife and invested in sha. ar.i-
- which was advertised TO bake angel
ioei and none other. Ne getting ~ aow
TT a. m. 70 have coffee and soas, az :
ia arise Hike the itwht-slppesed lark
sad turn on two tets. Ore hoiis my cofSee.
NJ other hrolis my chop and toasss my
tfead Ry the time | have read the head
Inc In the morning paper nay breakfast re-
rcse In peaceful beauty uaan a we'll
warned piafe There le osfiy one po.n 20