Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-11-10
individual Opinion.)


j; BY LIE +. VERNON. :.
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Did you ever see a shoe-dealer that
did not look at your feet as you passed?
Some ten-cent,society idiots act as
if this old world was not good enough
for them.
Just think. Alice landing in San
Francisco, and Booker Washington
not there. My, my!
For the quality of ability requisite
for good school teacher, the pay, on
the average, is poor beyond all reason.
No city of any size can afford for
long to be governed by person who
regards every statute and ordinance is
mere red.tape.
Ever man who lives off the earnings
OF fallen woman, should, when he is
found out, be made candidate for
the whipping.post.
There is one advantage the aged
have over the young. A man never
gets too old to vote or to run for Office,
but he can be too young.
The value of presents belonging to
Miss Alice shrunk somewhat terribly
during the voyage homeward, across
the ocean. Did you notice it?
There can be no such thing as real
ism in written music; the voices OF
Nature can never be equalled on any
humanity devised instruments or notes.
Don't repeat gossip. You may be
assisting vicious person in harming
parties who are entirely innocent. A
chronic gossip may be set down as a
chronic liar.
Tacoma ministers do not want Sun
day funerals. What surprises one the
most is that it seems a strange thing
that corpse could receive burial any
day in that sleepy town.
His Wife" But can they prove
that you have been dishonesty"
Husband" No. they can't, but l
shall have to pay a lawyer all 1 have
stolen to convince them that they
can't"
Some members OF the musicians
union down in Seattle have laid away
in the garret of Forgetfulness their
obligation and are taking engage.
ments for less price than q non.un.
ion piano.thumper.
A Maryland woman buried her two
cats beside her husband and every
body in the little town is angry, evi.
IDENTIFY not approaching the fact that a
woman must think great deal of her
dead husband when she buries her
cats near him.
Some men who are now successful
in business, and who are looked upon
by the public as saints. would be as
low in the haunts of the sporting
world as the lowest amongst such to-
day, if it bad not been for "fast wo.
mans" money.
At this season, considering the mum.
ber of men who stand around on cor.
ners and tell Of what stormy winter
is coming, a great deal should be for
given the women for occasionally ty.
ing a ribbon around a sandwich and
holding . reception over it.
There are some people who never
help town along. only from selfish
nature. They do it to feather their
nests" They would not give the snap
of their fingers if the town went to the
dogs if they could not make money
out OF its prosperity. Such people are
blood.suckers. Some people call them
promoters.
The rents and prices will be up fol
some time in Seattle. Labor of al
sorts is the sufferer by a boom il
prices, because while, in bad times i
is the first thing to suffer reduction
in good times it is the last to feel tn.
betterment. Labor is the first ex
pense cut, and the last value raised il
the market.
Did you ever notice that it takes
great deal longer to bury a rich mar
than poor man? A poor man is pu'
under the ground very quickly. while
it takes lot of red tape to plant ricf
man. But then death evens all, th'
body OF the millionaire is just as swee
morsel to the grave.worm as thai
of the pauper.
Some people have queer ideas as tt
what constitutes the imitation of th'
"4OO" dining service. A society cou
pie in Olympia keep a bottle of catsuI
and bottle of olive oil constantly OF
the table, while they borrow cup o
sugar and enough coal'oil to fill thel
lamp, about every other day, from
whole.souled neighbor.
What's the difference whether th'
poor man plays poker at 80 cents
stack, or the rich man juggles Stocks
at ST. 900 a share? It's gambling iol
the poor fellow, but "high finance
for the rich man. I say, if the rlct
man can skin the sucker by manlpu
lating stocks, then the gambler shoul'
have the right to deal the cards.
don't believe for a moment that thu