Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

| row and steal the STANDARD in order that the,
may enjoy little sunshine as they journey
| through this vale OF tears.
Some beauties OF education-pretty
school teachers.
Dogs and children know their friends
without being told.
A friend asks if always pay as 60
Nobody will let me 60 if l don't.
| Don't think the suffering man is
untruthful because he often breaks
his words.
Rain is good for locating chuck
holes in city pavements. Did yor
ever notice it?
The difference between electricity
and lightning is this-you don't have
to pay for lightning.
Summer schools are a mistaken
educational notion. Children need
rest in warm weather.
The reason they call our language
the mother tongue, is because pool
father never gets chance to use it.
Keep right on kicking-never mind the
| hindering words folks utter;
The frog who fell into the churn, kicked
up pound Of butter.
He who contracts debts which be
knows he cannot pay is just as dis
honest as, and less honorable than, 6
highwayman.
A Chicago physician says that frigh,
will produce badness. That proba
bly, accounts for so many bald.headed
husbands in Olympia.
There are two things that can bt
depended upon, as q rule, which will
help mankind to get up in the world.
The alarm clock and the stepladder.
Olympia has a man who is always
telling jokes. They are thin ones
He always makes them that way tG
enable his listeners to see through
them.
The description OF wedding notice
in the society department sounds like
dukes and kings, until in the last ten
lines, when it says that the groom il
"a popular clerk in the drygoodl
house of So-aud-So."
An Olympia vile goes quite often te
her husbands Office. She says sh'
knows that her husband does not wish
her to come 90 often, but his mannert
in the Office are 80 much nicer thar
they are at home that she likes to en-
Joy the contrast.
An Olympia man told US the othe
day that his wife made him stane
round: al can't deny it," he said.
doesn't it humiliate you" ",
asked. "No," said he, "Our baby il
the living image OF me-and he makes
| her stand round"
"There goes fellow who makes OK
travagant statements" said a man il
Seattle to me the other day. "Wh.
he looks respectable. Who is he"
asked.
"I don't know his name," replies
the fellow, "but he makes out our ga
bills"
No man who wishes to live undo
pure government will oppose GoverRo
Mead, in his asking that the guards a
Walla Walla be removed for illega
registration. But shouldn't the higl
muck.a.muck in charge Of that insti
tuition be given his dishonorable dis
charge at the same timer
A hobo told mo recently that hi
made great mistake when he startet
out in life. I asked him in what way
"Well," he said, "in not pickin' on
what kind Of criminal was goin' Il
be. Ididn't know, in dem early days
when me character was JUS bein
formed, dat it were goin' to be con
sidered crime to die rich"
Several weeks ago an editor il
Southern California published thi
notice:
"The business man who keeps kissini
his cook had better quit or we will pub
llsh his name."
The next day thirty of the busines
men of the town rushed into tho oi
fee. one by one, and payed up thei
subscriptions and several dollars OF
the side, "just TO help the paper out,
and advised the editor not to pay an,
attention to foolish stories as cook
were liable to be kissed in all well
regulated families.
There is girl in Olympia VIII
wears simple dresses that she make
herself and pair of plain SO shoes
Her hair is done up neatly and simply
as a girls should be. There are n
rings on her fingers nor bells on he
toes. She is pretty, quietly dressed
sweet.faced, an innocent girl, with he
head full OF the fine dreams ant
fancies that come to every girl. He
mother is responsible for the child
graces. Her mother keeps her girlist
and, in so doing, the mother retain
her own youth. She is one OF tn
handsomest women in town. He
face reflects a clean heart. The Gil
doesn't hear malicious gossip in he
bome. She doesn't know everythin
on earth or in hell-which word