Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-03-23
Individual Opinion.)
BY LUE F. VERNON.

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Glorious! Great! Whoopee. Hurrah
We're as frisky as lam
Don't have to worry any more,
Feel happy as clam.
More room in our paper
Long desired for actual needs,
No more boiling" home-news
Topraise: Free Government Seeds y
Roosevelt with his "big club" and
Tillman with his "pitchfork" are a
hard pair to bump into.
There will be no recount of votes
in Seattle, far as the Republicans are
concerned, about Moore's plurality OF
fifteen.
Isn't it about time a new sensation
of escapades was coming forth from
the institution for the insane, situated
at Steilacoom?
Women say that the new spring
hats are "dreams." The men who
have to pay for them, however, will
insist that they are realities.
The ideal woman, if she ever would
exist, would be bore, a prig, a hope.
less dowdy, and would undoubtedly be
at loggerheads with all her friends
and relations.
During my career, / have noticed
that many so.called religious conver.
sions are OF short duration, and have
to be renewed every once in a while
like a porous plaster.
Talking about an honest count"
I" an honest ballot" and so on, did you
read the "doings" at the polls, report
ed by Seattle papers, during the re.
cent city election in the Queen City?
An advertisement in Chicago
newspaper contains this tempting
offer: "Anybody who can prove that
my tapioca is damaging to health will
at once receive three packets gratis"
1t is plain that John Riplinger, OF
Seattle, recent candidate on the Re-
publican ticket for Mayor of the
Queen City, was chsgrined and dis
appointed great deal Moore than he
expected.
First Laborer-" Mikes been fred
firm th' union"
Second Laborer-" Phwat fer?"
First Laborer-" Th' walkin' diligate
saw him goin' up ladder two rounds
at q time."
Will the Clancy brothers in Seattle
make the editor OF the P.-I. q present
OF gold watch and chain, for iavors
rendered 10 the Republican party by
that journal during the recent mu.
nicipal electioni Hey!
Twenty thousand laborers are to be
brought to Seattle, from the East, 10
work on railroad construction. What
q good fee employment agencies in the
East acquired, much to the disgust Of
Seattle employment houses.
Youth will have it's fling, and it is
undeniable that many of those who
settle down eventually into the most
staid and respectable citizens have
been those who sowed their wild oats
most profusely in their younger days.
A homegrown, hand.spanked, bare.
footed and hard.fsted country boy
makes . much better fighter in the
battles OF life than does the pampered
youth of our towns ard cities, whose
clothes have always been busted with
Q whisk. broom instead OF shingle.
After lovers. quarrel on Fourth
street, Tuesday, the young man sent
the young girl have q dozen boxes oi
face powder with note explaining
that he had probably carried away
that much on bis shoulders and felt
that it should be returned to her.
Reconciliation is now out OF the ques.
ton.
A wild man who recently terrorized
the residents Of Moultrie, Fla, and
who was described as "a tall, ape.like
creature, hideous, with long, bristly
hair, and giving forth wild, blood
curdling cries." proved to be, when
captured, Boston simple.life enthus'
last who WAS trying innocently to gel
close to mother nature.
An English M. D., claims to have
discovered that insanity and other
nervous diseases are due, in . large
percentage OF cases, to movable kid
neys, and may be cured by compara
lively simple surgical operation. 81
when man is conspicuous for menta
soundness We must no longer say thai
bis head is level, but that his kidneyI
are in the right place.
What do you think OF parents Of I
boy who is on the streets at all hour
Of the night; who stands on the stree
corners smoking cigarettes, using slang
1t is the parent and not the boy WHIT
is responsible for what the future MAJ
have in store. And then the parents
who permit their daughters to CAD th'
streets at night; is it any wonder tha
so many 60 to perdition with . rushi
H. J. Strictfaden, editor of tn,
Maple Falls Leader, who is also Post
master at that place, was recently ar
rested for running "blind pig" HI
was discharged, after jury trial. Al
Mr.. Strictfaden conducted o paper ir