Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-18
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON: FRIDAY MORNING. SEPT. 49,
The laundries of Chicago have raised

The laundries of Chicago have raised
prices. Cuffs have been raised from
4 to cents pair, and collars from 2
to y cents. AS no socks are men
toned it is sorrowful to think that
perhaps in the up.to date Twentieth
century Chicago people do not wear
such things as socks.
"Miss Work was gowned in a dark
blue silk shirtwaist, which, with hat
to match, was her travelling costume"
says Southern California paper. The
weather must be oppressively hot
down that way, or perhaps the report
er was in hurry and overlooked
portion OF the lady's costume.
There is a man in Olympia who
never writes his acceptance OF an invi-
tation without adding the letters
"W. P" One of his many friends
asked him the other day what they
meant-ii they stood fol" weather per-
mitting" "No," said the Olympia
man, "they stand for wife permit.
ting"
During the run of play at the
Third Avenue Theater in Seattle, last
week, a real live COW was used as
"props." OF course there is nothing
unusual about this, only that num-
bers of people went around to the
stage entrance and asked the actors
and stage-hands what they called the
animal.
About the most silly and disgusting
sight in this world is to see an eight
dollar-a-week dude clerk driving a
livery team with brainless, giggling
girl sitting along side of him, on a
Sunday, while his old mother is home,
trying to find enough food to eat, and
wondering where she'll get the money
to pay her next months rent.
Il fellow in New York State tasted
small fraction of a grain of radium.
It acted as powerful stimulant, af-
fected both the heart and kidneys. 1t
was several hours before his pulse be-
came normal. 1t is not recorded how
he acquired enough money to pay for
the fraction of radium, but we surmise
he ran a country weekly in Washing
ton.
We never know what good qualities
there are in most men until after thsy
are dead. This is wrong. If . man
has good in him, why wait until he is
in his grave to laud his virtues? Why
not speak of them while he is living.
He knows not words OF praise or words
OF scandal after death. Give praise to
those whom you think deserve it be-
fore death claims aud oblivion swal-
lows him up.
That discharged navy man who at
tempted to kiss 14-year.old girl in .
park in New York city, who was set
upon BY women and nearly killed, be.
fore being rescued by policeman, will
now on, perhaps, hire q room in .
lodging house, and kiss q photograph.
Il won't hurt him so bad. By the
way, New York city should present
the women with loving cup for their
heroic action. Don't you think it
would be the right thing?
A Milwaukee woman has applied for
. divorce on the ground that her hus-
band smoked cigarettes SO constantly
as to unfit him for the duties of
society. The Judge promptly grant.
ed her application, saying that any
fool who was so far gone as to become
the slave OF the cigarette did not de-
serve q wife. For our part, between
the cigarette, and what little we know
of sassiety," We would have to take
be matter under advisement.
Isit not fact that men really spend
in treating amounts that they would
hesitate to give away no matter how
deserving the charityi 1t is trait of
human character that comes through
the all.absorbing disposition to "hold
your end up" when with friend.
Hundreds of men take thousands OF
drinks that they do not want and
other hundreds pay for thousands
that are not desired. Two men meet
and one says, Mighty glad to see
you. Let's have something" Neither
generally needs or even wants drink.
But the man who offers it wants to
show that he is generous. He takes
this method of proving that he is glad
to meet his friend.
The Door Bell.
Every time you ring door bell you
register what manner Of person you
are. It is seldom that two rings are
alike. The housewife recognizes each
the impatient man, who rings the
bell twice in quick succession, and
does not wait long before trying it
again, the one of more phlegmatic
temperament, whose ring is slower and
more substantial, the hesitating wo-
man, who pushes the button with
nervous touch, the seedy individual
who wants . "hand out" and the
Jolly friend who knows he is welcome,
and therefore "agitates the annunci'
ator" with a push that sets the bell
to shaking its sides with such feats of
echoing laughter that it positively can
| not stop at once, but subsidies grad
ually with . merry irrepressible little
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