Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-18

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Editorial rooms. ..... Wherever my rent is pai'
(Pieces of individual opinion washed up b,
the tide, doomed. sawed, split and piled for thu
perusal and pastime OF those who have enougt
nerve to read it,
It's no sign because a mans name il
Mustard that he is sharp.
There's no art in making mustard
plaster. The art is getting it put OF
after it is made.
The hardest thing about some men'l
jobs is going on with their work when
they have drawn their pay in advance
There is not much room to draw the
line between fashion and vulgarity
Vulgarity takes up most OF the space
We would rather pay the fiddler
any time than the fellow with the bag
pipe, when we wish to "shake oul
foot"
There would be as much sense il
leaving the oysters out of an oyster
cocktail as to play sacred music on {
piano.
Itseems strange to hear the ocean
roar. One would think that such an
immense volume of water would
drown the noise.
BARRIERS, too many, consider every
man entering shop to have shave
must have Fourth of July one. "Sil
down, get up. cough up and get out"
The woman in waiting" at the
undertakers has crying time of it
But with it. it may be said, her posi-
ton is accompanied by flowers and
perfume.
We have heard it said that married
people grow to resemble each other.
We always knew it was quite impos
sible for a married woman to keep bel
good looks.
Some people / know, who use specs
do not wear them all the time. They
are so mean and stingy that they ieal
they will wear the glass out looking
through them.
Between listening to q young lady
play five.finger exercises and part.his
hair.in-the.middle drug clerk pound
away with ragtime no wonder we dom
care for pianos.
What a pleasure it is to remember
when you knock over the sticking
matter contained in tho bottle, that i,
is library paste and not the old-fash
ioned mucilage.
A we'll known Olympia man who
looks as if he was suffering from az
attack of the grip, is really su fierinl
from the effects Of holding king full
against four aces.
We would rather be the old anG
honey nag that pulls the scavengel
cart than to be the dock-tailed, rib
bon-bedecked animal hitched up tt
the millionaire carriage.
The Topeka City Council has passet
an ordinance prohibiting the sale o.
chop tea." The Councilmen of tha,
bleeding" Kansas town must have
been reading Seattle papers.
The public have no more right te
expect an editor to give free space
away than the editor expects to have
q merchant give him a suit of clothes
for nothing. And this is truth.
It's the common thing now for peo
pie in Seattle to "run over" to tht
undertaken shop when wanting milk
All undertakers handle it, but the,
call it formaldhyde. That's all the
difference.
The Newark On. J.) woman whe
made her husband call her up by tele
phone every hour during the day
while he was at work, would never ds
to live in Olympia. Manager Doragh
wouldn't stand for it.
Sheriff White, of Danville, ILL.,, is; {
brave man. He has arrested the mob
or rather the leaders of it, who tool
the law in their own hands recently in
that town. He Whites away ant
cares not where the shavings fall.
With all these built hips and see
more waists, and open-work stockings
and fancy skirts aud high-heeled shoe
that we see on our streets, an old
fashioned Olympia girl, dressed neatl!
and plainly looks good to the eyes.
If that Chicago woman who il
spending so much money ON q hous'
of refuge for cats, would spend it OF
homeless children, she would NEE
with more cordial welcome when sh'
goes np-as she expects-to see th'
Lord.
An Olympia young lady told hel
sweetheart that her heart and hsnt
were priceless. Then the sweethear
told her he would 60 to Seattle ant
wait until she sent him word tina
they were marked down. The en-
gagement is off.
Women will buy drygoods at bar
gain sales. and put them away, bu
they will not buy groceries, or dishes
or furniture, until they need them
Every husband in this town can tell {
story about his wife buying drygood
at bargain sales, and laying then
away for years.