Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-12-11
WIT AND WISDOM.
Those Saratoga Chips" Which Please Even
the Palate of Wise People.

VIII s<NS vvI0OSm
Those Saratoga Chips" Which Please Even
the Palate of Wise People.
Clothes do not make a man, but
sometimes they break him.
Genius gets the lime light, but
hustle gathers in the dollars.
Ignorance of the law excuses no one
except the judge on the bench.
Every man has right to his own
opinion if he keeps it to himself.
While you spare the child, it is a
good idea to keep the rod in pickle.
1t is lucky worm if there is enough
OF him left to turn when stepped upon.
If ignorance is bliss, there are some
people who must find life one long
dream of JOY.
People who 60 around with chip
on the shoulder ought always to carry
accident insurance.
The secret of business success is to
learn to sell an article below cost and
still make good profit on it.
The difference between magazine
poetry and newspaper verse is that
You can sometimes understand the
latter.
Self-made men never forget to
honor and glorify their Creator, but
they generally warship in a small con.
gregation.
Bottle manufacturers do not see
anything to sigh about when State
goes prohibition. 1t is a "corker,"
you know.
Atthe break OF day the stars winked,
and the clouds blushed rosy red as
fair Aurora arose from her sunlit
couch in the East.
There are more people to whom a
hammer would be an appropriate
Christmas present than there are to
whom Ratchet would be.
II doughnuts are worth more than
dollars on a desert isle, it would be
we'll for politicians who embark up
"Salt River" to lay in liberal supply
OF fried holes"
Some men are born homely, some
achieve homeliness by marriage and
others have homeliness thrust upon
them in the shape of children that re-
semble their parents.
1t is probably the oft repeated dec
laration that Money is the root OF all
evil" that causes 90 many people to
be 80 strenuously actuated by the re-
frain, Root, hog or die"
1t is seldom that q cob-pipe tastes
sweeter to q millionaire than a carved
meerschaum. 1t is, however, q mere
matter OF taste, that of the cob being
favored with sour grapes.
There may be q great amount oI
satisfaction in giving fool answer to
fool question, but the deuce of it is
the fool never knows when he is an
swered according to his folly and keeps
on talking just the same.
Russell Sage would never make a
successful writer because he coulC
never bring himself to write only on
one side of the paper. Economy il
wealth, you know, aud successful
authorship does not always bring it.
Cne of the greatest surprises for a
countryman in his first visit to a bis
city is to learn that the aoorwalkel
does not own the store. The poor in
nocent can't realize that it is the mar
behind the counter who carries the
key.
1t ia hard to believe that some men
you see floating about the earth were
once pretty babies, and it is probable
that if their parents could have for
seen what they would turn out to bt
they would have chucked them dowr
the sink.hole.
Some millionaires have to die tc
find out how many times they have
been married. If retribution dom
catch them before death, punishment
overtakes them soon after. But then
as the dying sinner said to the pries
when confessing previous to receiving
asolution: "You can see, father
I've had mighty good time."