Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-10-19

BY LUE F. VERNON
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1t is said that the young wife of
Senator Platt has filed papers in q
divorce proceedings. Preparing for
another Platt amendment?
Colorado has four candidates in the
race for Governor. The Rev. DR..
Henry A. Buchtel, formerly a mis-
sionary TO Bulgaria. late pastor of
several churches in Indiana, but now
Chancellor of the University OF Den.
yer, has been nominated by the Re.
publicans.
While it is q severe resort to EN-.
ploy Judge Lynch, yet sometimes
it seems justifiable, and if the fiend
who assaulted, beat, scratched and
choked Corintha La Joice and Mar
guerite Ibrig, 7 and 6 years old re-
spectfully, in Tacoma, recently, could
be apprehended, the sentence that
Judge Lynch always prescribes would
not atone for the act of this unregen.
Grated cur.
1t is only a few months ago that
Mae Wood was hot on Senator Platt's
trail for breach of promise. Now
there is the hottest kind of divorce
talk. 1t is said the aged Senator, fear
ing that his wife intends a suit for
divorce, has decided away the greater
part of his resources in order to pre-.
clude the possibility of being called
upon to make a large settlement on
her. Platt seems to be zone of the
boys" from reports.
The ly.boys of London. England,
members OF high society, amuse them.
selves by pouring whisky down the
backs of the feminine members Of
their 400" set. Sam Jackson,
half.breed, at Yakima, a few days ago.
amused himself by pouring a pan of
hot grease over his squaw, but the
difference in the two incidents is this {:
While the snobs OF society in London
considered the pouring of whisky
down the women's backs as Q "Jolly,
blooming joke, by George" Sam was
lodged iu Jail.
Police Judge: whats the charge
against this mani"
Officer S,457: "The auto brigade
brought him in, your honor. He was
found wandering in the outskirts.
When asked what he was looking for,
he said Pavements."
Police Judge: "Great Caesar! Doesn',
he know we have had no use for pave
ments during the last twenty yearsf
Where's his automobile?"
Officer S,457: He has not got one,
your honor"
Police Judge: "No automobilel |
What is he?"
Officer S,457: "He says he's .
pedestrian, your honor"
Police Judge: "Put him in the
padded cell until l have considered
what to do with him."
A .society writer for Vanity Fair,
now one of Lord Northcliff's papers,
maintains that Father Vsughn's stric-
lures on smart society are perfectly
merited. The writer 10 question says
az have heard and seen so.called
amusements in country houses beside
which leap.frog is considered a game of
great refinement. A girl we'll known in
certain hunting circles told me that
after dinner in the billiard room a man
came up and said: DO let me weigh
you, Miss Y. l will carry you across
| the room.'
There was weighing scales in the
room, but when the girl quite good ma
turedly refused he said: We'll, look
here, if you don't let me carry you l
shall empty my whisky and soda down
the back of your frock.'
| ''She never for moment suspected
he was in earnest and said: 'All right,
you can, but shan't be weighed and
he actually turned half of his whisky
and soda down the back of her neck
amid roars of laughter from everyone.
"A male relative of mine was visiting
a we'll known hostess. After dinner the
woman next to him, during a slightly
heated argument, lifted a finger-bowl
and poured the water down his neck.
His retaliation was to put a whole plate
of his grape-skins down the back of her
Dress"
Now, you Olympia girls who dream
OF high society, as the Mecca OF your
ambition, paste this on your dresser
mirror. Society," Funny, isn't III
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Some Thoughts on Matrimony.
According to the Prayer Book you
marry . woman for richer or poorer
But if she thought there was going to
be any poorer she would not marry
you. II is not 80 much that . woman
breads trouble for its own sake-she
can stand it better than . man-but
il is the loss of dignity in the eyes ol
other women which cuts her to the
quick.
For my part, if cannot have noun
tain trout, can do with salmon; i
meat is too dear, and looks as if you
were eating money, 80 to speak, l car
make shift with bread; if o cigar il
beyond me, what is there wrong with