Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

Olympia woman will not be home
Friday evenings for some time.
Nearly every man carries in his
pocket the picture of an unmarried
girl. Her name is Anna Wilkes Will
liams, and her likeness adorns the
silver dollar. Their wives seldom
show jealousy, although wanting to
get it in their possession and get rid OF
it.
The landlady OF rooming house
that hasn't time to answer phone
call for roomer has time, yes plenty
OF time, and no trouble at all, to
climb two flights of stairs, knock on
your door, wait until you have fin
ished your bath, for your room-rent
when it's due.
There may be a beautiful paradise
somewhere in the unknown, but, after
all, the present world is not to be
despised, and even if it does contain
some rough and rocky places, we ap-
preciate the truth of Hamlet's re-
mark and would rather bear the ills
we have than fly to others that we
know not Of.
There is longshoreman in Seattle
who is said to be one of the best vocal
lists in the city. We have a vocalist
in Olympia who is the poorest singer
in Western Washington, and the
worst OF it all, is that he hasn't sense
to know that be might become use.
full man" by joining the Hired
Hands Association OF Farm Laborers."
A Cincinnati doctor says any man
can cure himself of the drink habit by
eating five cents worth of candy
every time he wants a drink, This
seems to point way for the temper
ance reformers to accomplish their OBJ
ject in a practical, easy manner. Soon
we shall have temperance candy stores
instead OF the present. institutions for
the cure of the drink habit.
Women can retort so quickly and
so aptly. If they are struck, they
strike back with speed and precision.
Two women, the other day, were
walking on Fourth street in front of
US. 1t appeared they lived next door
to each other.
Your little boy" the first woman
said, blows all day long on his tin.
horn, doesn't he?"
The second woman gave laugh.
" He does it to drown your daughters
piano-playing." she answered.
The English edited newspaper Of
the Northwest, the P.-L. OF Seattle, in
a late issue, in reporting clambake
and dance at Port Madison, says:
can orchestra composed of four col
ored musicians, tore off ragtime two
steps that would put dance into tin
Indian, and played waltzes which made
the long, dreamy waltzes OF ordinary
orchestral organizations seem like fun
eral marches"
So they "tore off" two-steps that
would put "dance into tin IndianW
And this language appearing in the
precise P.-I. Sure, the description of
the great talent this orchestra con-
tanned may be properly called one OF
" color"
He was a bad man from Bodie, Cal.
He landed in Tacoma and entered
saloon to tank up" After a few
rounds OF " red-eye" had trickled down
his throat, he proposed to his new
found companions that he would sing
them a song. He was an extemper-
aneous vocalist, that is, he would com
pose to song as he sang. He started
in:
&" I'm a rambler, and a gambler,
No use have | for the Dutch.
l was born in dead Tacoma
And | don't amount to much"
That settled it. He lies buried near
the beach where the perfume scents
his tomb twice day.
The Seattle Republican says:
Not satisfied with having burned
three human beings at the stake, using
more brutality in doing so than ever did
the widest savages, the Georgia bar
barans went a step further, and gather
ing up the charred remains of the ne
groes expressed them to President
Roosevelt labeled, You Will Never Eat
With These Niggers.
Then the Republican lashes itself
into a foam and implores that the
government should punish the send
ers of the package to " Teddy" Why?
Roosevelt is no better to be insulted
than any other white man. He in
suited hundreds OF white people by his
appointment of negro postmasters and
postmistresses over the protestations
OF white people. Tit for tat" is good
in this case.
A sentence in new book by Yer
non Lee might we'll serve as a motto
for the buyer of presents; "Much OF
the charm and most OF the dignity Of
a gift depends on its being thing one
would otherwise have done without"
The difficulty, of course, is to hit on
just the thing that someone wants
very much, but has made up his or
her mind that it must be done with
out. Presents are things that want a
good deal OF thought beforehand. and,
if possible, judicious inquiry too. a
great many people, no doubt, wish
presents could be bought as easily as
eggs, by the dozen put up in boxes, for
they are good deal OF worry often
times.