Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-10-20
DRIFTwOOD
individual Opinion.)
BY LUE F. VERNON.

81 BY LUE F. VERNON. +.
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No one can play truant from the
school of Experience.
There's nothing like politics to un-
mask a mans egotism.
When photograph doesn't look
like you, it is said to be a study"
Adversity is the only scale that
gives the correct weight of friend.
An optimist believes in narcotics
and pessimist believes in hoodoos.
From accounts Miss Alice Roose.
velt is young woman of Longworth.
Some people are willing to be good
II paid, and others are good for nothing.
What has become of the man who
used to say go, my stars" and dad
gumit"?
A barber cannot. perhaps, eat saw
dust, but he may be able to live on
shavings.
When the women pray " Lead us
not into temptation" they mean dry.
good stores.
A good many professors draw their
convictions from the Same place they
do their salary.
John d. Rockefeller says there is no
danger OF a money squeeze and he
ought to know.
People who always say what they
think seem to have some exceedingly
disagreeable thoughts.
Among the journalists of the Ever.
green State. there are several Colonels,
Captain, but only one King.
A Milwaukee, Wis, woman fed her
husband on tar soap. No doubt he
preferred it to the biscuits she made.
While half the wise are much distressed
At suicide of the nation,
The thing that worries all the rest
Is over-population.
1t is said the world contains eight
wonders. When this was compiled, il
is evident that the Councilmen OF Se-
attle had not been heard OF.
An Olympia man talked a whole
hour about what his wife would do
to him if he lost her umbrella. Then
he walked away and forgot it.
Probably Saltwater Bill" thinks a
few disciples Of Blackstone down in Sc.
attle run their game without "look-
out" and with the bride off,"
When l hear some one say: "Mr.
So-and.So, is man OF the people,"
believe it; for it's two to one wager,
that he has made himself so out of
their money.
Times must be very quiet in Seattle.
A vendor OF peanuts displays the fol.
lowing sign at his place of business on
Washington street: 1.-TWO Bags Of
Peanuts, Five Cents"
Sin wears adelightful face, but after
all, it is only mask. Behind the
flowers are thorns and behind the
smiles grinning skeleton. After all,
it really pays to be good.
Forty loafers were "run in" by the
police in Seattle one night recently,
yet amongst the lot not q sign OF q
hold.up" or . footpad, or even q
train.robber, was discovered.
An Olympia woman does not es-
pecially approve of a curfew law, but
thinks bell put on every male citizen
of the town so he could be located At
night, would be a good thing.
Every man, nowadays, who is stoney
broke, is alluded to as a hobo. If
Christ should come upon Earth at the
present day, he would not be here
twenty.four hours until "run in" as a
vag.
When a man wants to give the i'm.
preston that he is an experienced
traveller, he puts his umbrella into the
hat.rack Immediately upon entering
the train, and when he gets off he for.
gets and leaves it there.
The police would receive the thanks
OF many ladies in Seattle if they would
arrest the fresh" young man, who
poses in front of cigar stand saloon
front, insulting, by looks and speech,
women who must pass such places.