Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-09-28


be required to pass an examination
same as marine and stationary engi.
neers. Many lives are in their keep
ing, and they should know their busi-
ness thoroughly. 4 bill should be
introduced to this effect at the next
legislature.
The Chicago Tribune is one of the
most enterprising newspapers in the
world, but it has done nothing that
has attracted greater attention and
caused more talk than its discovery
OF Stensland and his arrest. II was
a daring, expensive and eminently
successful piece of detective work.
There is this to be said about the
automatic piano-player: You get the
exact tune, soon as you place the
nickel in the slot, thus doing away
with that abominable five years of
listening to young girl learning how
to play an accompaniment and how
to sing "Good-night Beloved, Good.
night"
Ex-Governor John H. McGraw was
aboard one OF the runaway steeet cars
in Seattle. Just think, and his pic
ture never appeared in a solitary news.
paper covering the incident. The
fact that an Ex-Governor of Washing.
ton condecended to ride in a street-car
will make text, no doubt, for many
Sunday school topic and church
sermon.
The greatest of American editors in
the United States, Henry Watterson,
of the Louisville Courier. Journal, in
speaking OF Bryan. says: eve accept
Mr.. Bryan's leadership unreservedly.
have considered no alternative; shall
labor increasingly for his election, and
truly want him elected, and that he
ought not to be nominated ION a plat
form OF public ownership, is our fixed
belief"
An injunction has been served on
the Mayor and Chief.of-Police in Sc.
attle, restraining them from interier.
ing with Mrs. Ross, q spiritual preach.
er. Her case, as being classed .
vagrant, having been appealed to q
higher court, it is now up to these
two Seattle officials to consult her as
TO find out if possible if she will M axe
them look like Q nickel with hole in
it or not, at her next hearing.
Suits of red are the late thing worn
by the silly.monkey 400" dudes in
New York. Some time ago King Ed.
ward appeared in London wearing q
red tam o'shanter. This settled the
thing. Now the "brainless ones" are
copying Edwards hat idea, and, going
him still better, by appearing in whole
suits of that color. There are some
{" 400" dudes in Olympia wearing "un.
paid for" suits, and while they are not
red, in many cases they are in numer.
Gus instances, threadbare.
It happened in . store on Main
etreet. Before trying to match the
sample OF silk the clerk asked: els
this piece of something you want or
something you don't wanlT
"Something I want, of course" re.
piled the customer. "You don't sup.
pose, do you, that would 90 to all
this trouble for something I can't
user"
"Some folks do," sighed the clerk.
"The first woman ever saw with that
kind of bee in her bonnet had q square
inch of blue silk that she wanted to
match. The scrap OF silk was 80
small that it was hard work to make
comparisons, but after hauling down
half the blue bolts on the shelves and
running to the door half q dozen
times to test the color in broad day.
light, I found the exact shade. "How
many yards do you wanti" 1 asked.
co." she said, Il don't want any.
Almost any other piece will do. That
particular shade is very unbecoming'
I just wanted to make sure that I
don't get it. That's ALL"
"Since then," added the clerk, 9"
have been cautious. Before matching
. sample now ! inquire into . Gus
TONER'S intentions. If it is . case oil
don't want / don't hurt myself
matching the shade"
The East is still discussing the
question whether women should ride
astride. There is no reason why they
shouldn't do so, if they wish. Most
women, who still ride the bicycle, ride
diamond frame affair, and if they
may do that without scandal they may
certainly straddle . horse. The one
cannot be moro indecent or more
dangerous than the other. The whole
matter seems to me to be simply a
form of that salacity of mind which
searches for the suggestive and i'm.
pure in things not essentially of an
impure character. The people who
effect to be shocked by women riding
astride are thinking OF things that
healthy people do not think Of when
they see women riding in that fashion.
To put the matter quite bluntly, there
are certain persons who might think
that it would be unwise for women to
appear in public at all, since there are
some men who never can see q woman
without thinking indecency. These
nasty mice people are becoming . great