Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-06-15

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If Morgan has overlooked anything
Hartman has it,
From Senate to Prison." by Bur
ton, would be interesting if truthful.
Yelling at the top OF the voice may
be singing but it doesn't strike me
that way.
1t strikes me that religion is only
skin-deep when you hear a church
member telling smutty stories.
There is large class OF men who
vent their spite on the family if any.
thing goes wrong with their business
matters.
When a dog jumps on to a man
without any seeming provocation,
there is an ornery dog or a mighty
mean man, running loose.
The minister, looking down from
his pulpit, wondered how all his peo.
pie could dress so we'll. After he had
sized up the contribution box he knew.
There are lots of people walking the
streets who should be stuck on a pole
in the middle Of field to scare the
crows away. That's about all they
are good for.
A Kansas City preacher asks for the
cause of decline in church going.
That's easy. Too many churches try
to scrimp along without paid quar-.
tstte or professional whistler.
When We visit in the country, we like
the hostess disappearance to be fol.
lowed imme diately by the sound oI
chickens so uaking in the back yard
Er.
Methodists, eh?
There are q lot OF bores who think
they can tell funny story, yet not
one man in fifty can tell q good
story. 1t is q matter of courtesy tha,
people laugh at the stupid story. teller
Any mans influence ought to be
worth more to the community in which
he lives than all his money, whether he
has much or little.-Er.
Quite likely, but as Q general thing
it isn't.
If some people who sneak around to
borrow the STANDARD of their neigh
bor will call at this Office and plead
poverty perhaps its publishers can be
prevailed upon to place them on the
"D.-H." list.
A great many fathers who buy theiI
daughter piano, ought to purchase
her a washtub instead, for not ore
girl in fifty ever learns to play the
piano. but they all can learn the use
Of the washtub.
There is a young woman in Olym
pia pretty as she can be, who carrie:
milk to a patron several blocks distan,
every morning, rain or shine. That il
the kind OF u girl for . worthy young
man to brace up to and say: "Wil
you have me"
The beef trust and every othel
trust can be settled by the common
law and enactments perfectly withir
the power OF Congress. 1t remains L
be seen, however, if any Republican
majority will give such proper power
to the President or his Attorney Gen
eral.
"All sorts OF small talk is heard in
barber Shops" said an Olympia ton
sorial artist, as he combed his hail
and looked at himself in the mirror
for he had just returned from lunch
"and l believe the weather as a sub.
ject works the hardest in the shops
One customer will open the conver
sation by saying: 1t is a little
chilly another gentleman will enter
with the phrase "A nice day. to both
of which remarks the barber incon
sistently but politely assents." o.
course "small talk" has its objects
It may be said to be potter and more
friendly to make some remark than tC
sit mum, but at the same time it does
seem strange that We, as q nation
which prides itself on its sound com
mon sense. should not find some moro
interesting topics than the weather
etc, or more intelligent comments
than those in common use. 1t is in
tensely irritating to some people WHIT
would rather read q paper or even si
still and mediate TO have . volley o
these comments and questions fired a
one, every time one meets a casua
acquaintance. In railway trains, stree
cars, as we'll as in shops, the SAM
senseless chatter goes on. 1t is no
pleasant to be rude and snub tn
utterer of these inanities, but still h,
and all of us ought to be merciful an,
try to abstain from empty and per
sistent chatter under the mistaken no
ton that civility demands it.
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