Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-01-22
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{ Individual Opinion
HY I.t'E VERNON.

shoots.
| Regulate your expenses and your
business.
A parting injunction-a decree at
the divorce court.
Opportunities, we have found, are
very seldom created.
Matches are made in heaven, but
alliances are contracted in Europe.
Everybody is anxious to loan the
man something who doesn't want to
borrow.
Roosevelt will soon be relegated to
the "good fellow, but" crowd OF
politicians.
An Olympia wife says the only diff
ference between herself and husband,
is the-typewriter, pretty girl.
If men could be solt-hearted and at
the same time hard hearted, TIE world
would get along much more smoothly.
When baby cries to 60 to its moth.
er, its father is perfectly willing, for
once, that it should have just what it
wants.
There are plenty of opportunities in
this country for young man, espec-
tally if he wants to make a fool of
himself.
The postoillce scandal is so rotten
in Washington that even the mail
bags turn gray and brown in disgust
and shame.
While the New York World uses
somewhat more paper each issue than
the STANDARD its "ad" bills are not
one-half as easy to collect.
There are several girls in Olympia
who think that nobody here is good
enough. They are probably waiting
for a prince to come along.
Preacher" When you are tempted
to drink, think OF your wife at home"
East Olympia Mani do-and
that what drives me to drink"
If you let your left hand know what
your right hand does, you may find
your left hand circulating reports that
your right hand has an AK to grind.
Roosevelt's Panama deal is q dis
grace and a shame to the United
States. Other nations only sneer at
the doings of the man with more
teeth than brains.
A cracked, brass dinner bell, has q
more pleasing sound TO the hungry
man than the sweet tone of the church
chimes has to the well-fed, so-called
strictly church goer, nowadays.
Hetty Green says that hash causes
more divorces than inidelity. She
might have added that the young
wife's first biscuits cause more agony,
as q rule, than does the early cucum-
Der.
The Olympia young man who sere.
nades his girl six nights out OF the
week with a phonograph ought to
change the tune. "Come and Kiss Me
Little Sweetheart" is getting monot-
onous.
Ladies are now using the square
Baroniar" envelopes. They are fash
ionable among the 400" of cities and
it won't be great while until all the
400" parrots in small burgs will fol-
low suit.
A negro President would be some-
thing new, but first let him show
when and where he received his edu-
cation in grating" and whitewash-
ing the Senatorial Investigations OF
his friends.
The man who is non. .cOmmittal on
public question for fear it would
hurt his business to take sides, is the
loudest t.mouthed critic of the news.
papers for not doing that which he is
too cowardly to do himself.
An Olympia small boy asked his
grandpa if he had any teeth. "No,
l my child, they have all gone,' re-
piled his grandpa. Then," said the
youngster, think I'll let you hold
this bag of candy, while 60 down to
the store fer loaf of bread"
1t is the height OF cruelty to write .
letter from a warm winter resort,
where the sun shines all the day long
and orange blossoms scent the air. to
many people, who cannot afford the
expense of the trip, and, who must,
to their regret, remain in the town
where it rains, rains and rains.
From experience, during our life-
time, we have come to the conclusion
that the majority of men who have a
face much like that of the under
taker. and who are adorned with long.
flowing whiskers will bear watching
as regard moral or business life, much
more so than any other class OF AMI
NAL moulded into form of man.
Seattle papers need not blow so
much about the amount OF gold COM
ing from the Klondike and Alaska.
The State of California during 1903
produced more OF the stuff that moves
nations than either Alaska or klon-
dixie, besides the miners of California