Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-11-09

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crs OF the WAsIIINGToS STANDiEDl
A woman always enjoys a joke at
the expense OF another woman.
The man who has plenty of money
need not care a snap Of his finger for
public opinion.
One generation makes money, the
next burns it, and the next lives by
sitting the ashes.
The man who goes into game of
fraud except when he comes out loser.
Between theater tickets and rent,
With vision of coal on the side,
Married men should be pitied | vow,
Who are compelled ON earth to abide.
Secretary Shaw, who is again adver-
tising his last" appearance as a MEM
Der of the cabinet, is easily the AIDE.
lima Patti of the administration.
A Seattle millinery establishment
announces that its hats are dreams"
But the men who have to pay for
them will insist that they are realities.
| have never, as yet, read OF one
member OF football team who pos.
sessed poor or retreating chin, weak
or turnedup nose, a small! neck, or a
diminutive brow, or irresolute eyes.
A Missouri man sent the following
testimonial to patent medicine COM
pany:
Dear Sir: My wife took bottle of
your medicine and died. | am married
again; please send me another bottle"
The great trouble with the negro of
the South is too much freedom.
Emancipation brought him liberty to
go where he pleased and to do as he
pleased, aud the consequences have
been disastrous.
First Olympia Citizen: "a man in
public office should not be Indifferent
to this worlds goods"
Second Olympia Citizen: "This
may be true, but it is not always wise
to let himself be caught with them."
A dollar spent with your neighbor
may soon return to you, but if sent
thousand miles away, will likely never
come within your reach again. If not
on patriotic grounds, selfishness alone
ought to prompt you to patronize
home industries.
Every time We see fat dog rolling
over, we envy him the pleasure. .--SeattLe
Ners.
Ye gods! II the State of Washing.
ton has a meaner man, let's hear of
him. And to think this fellow is a
journalist. Wow-wow.
Tom Watson has retired from the
editorial management OF the Watson
Magazine. From newspaper reports
it seems Tom never owned the publi-
cation bearing his name; Col. w. d.
Mann, Of Town Topic fame. being the
real owner. Watson and Mann quar-
relied, and Thomas stepped down and
out. That's all.
Postal cards which have been spoiled
and not cent through the mails, if en-
tire, will be redeemed at all postoffices
under the sliding scale of valuation by
which the Postmaster will pay Z cents
for 10 cents. Is cents for IS cents, 81
cents for SO cents, IS cents for 100
cards. The cards are to be wrapped
in bundles OF 25.
Now won't you let me call you
darling and let me feel the loving
tendrils of your rosy lips on mine.
while the stars OF twilight sinner"
wrote an Olympia swain to his sweet.
heart, who never dreamed that the
foregoing portion of his epis.le would
help form paragraph in "Driftwood."
But what girl with spark of romance
in her soul could resist such poetical
appeal?
Some people are so sensitive they
get hot under the collar when person
they owe sends them a statement of
their account. They seem to think it
is reflection on their honesty. Such
persons are not business men or wo.
men. A business man expects state
ments from the firms with which he
deals, the first of every month, and ii
he doesn't receive them he would con-
slider the firm lacking in business
courtesy.
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Washington who "roast" me every
chance they get. More power to such
as they, for when they are giving me
h they are letting some other poor
soul alone. Personally I entertain a
perfect contempt for such little gnats
and tumble bugs, or rather what the
tumble.bug rolls-a little ball-and l
court their hostility. I would rather
have the enmity of such creatures
than their friendship.
| Seattle is boasting OF q Chickering
piano, and has had the same on exhi-
bition in q music store, which was
built in Boston in 1928. An Olympia
man has o table that was built thous.
ands of years before Christ, and he
never speaks about it being ancient.
He thinks so little about it that half
/ the time he doesn't know where it is,
and as far as placing it on exhibition
is concerned he poo-poos" the idea
it is the multiplication table.
What do you think of the parents
Of the boy who is on the streets at all
hours of the night, who stands on the
street corner smoking cigarettes, using
slang that would make the resident
tough in Seattle's tenderloin" sigh
with envy. 1t is the parent and not
the boy who is responsible for what
the future may have in store. And
then the parents who permit their
daughters to CAD the streets at night
is it any wonder so many 60 to the
devil with rush?
The dining of Booker T. Washington
by Theodore Roosevelt, some time ago,
did not gain him so many followers rs
be hoped to secure. People may
think we'll of the negro, with all such
trimmings as goes with it, but there