Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-11-30

ls. Ii yo-yOu can't do that-then
scut-scuttle the ship. Oh, myw
The old Greeks knew better than to
cultivate their consciences. That was
why they were SO absolutely happy
Physical perfection, and an absence O
introspection and of an exacting re-
iiglon would ensure The joyousness o
any nation. For what do we know o.
any other life than this? We are the
creatures OF our environment, thu
creatures best fitted for this truly de
lightful world. and why, therefore
should we not make the best of il
without troubling our heads concern
ing one that is, after all, but my thicalr
Well says the Persian poet:
"Ah. make the most of what we have to spend
Before we. too. into the dust descend,
| Dust into dust. and under dust to lie
| Sans without wine, sans song, sans singer
and sans end"
Herbert Bashford, OF Tacoma, has
written and published a camp story
entitled: "Tenting OF the Tillicums'
In reviewing the book, the Seattle
News says:
While fairly true in local color and
locality, it will probably cause local
anglers to smile when they read how the
heroes of the tale, while pushing Their
way along a stream so choked with
jungle growth, devils club and briers
that they could not see the brink of the
stream, were able to prosecute fly fish
ing. Hunters will doubtless laugh at
the fierce man-eating cougars and bears
which the boys encountered and slew,
from the safe vantage point OF a limb of
of a tall fir tree"
To solve the method by which the
boys cast their fishing CLINE Z" so choked
with jungle growth, DEVILS club and
briers that they could not see the
brink OF the stream" is one more
difficult than the one.time sensation
1.-THE Age Of Ann"
According to an exchange, an East.
ern Washington farmer says: "My
cattle will follow me until l leave the
lot, and on the way up to the barn.
yard in the evening stop and call for a
lock OF hay" There is nothing 70,
markable at all about this. Last
Summer, when visiting q farmer friend
OF mine, went into the barnyard
without the slightest acquaintance
with the cattle, and an old bull not
only followed me till I left the lot, but
took the gate off the hinges and raced
with me to the house in the most ia
miliar manner possible. I have NO
doubt that the old fellow would have
called for something If 1 had only
waited little while, but I didn't want
to keep the folks waiting dinner. so
hung my coat and piece OF my pants
on the bulls horns aud went into the
house.
"Blake is peculiar fellow"
81 don't know him."
"You would find him amusing
He moved out on the lake shore fol
the summer and bought Jersey COW
Then he hired small boy to drive
her up from the pasture every after
noon. One day the boy fell sick ant
Blake didn't know what to do about
the COW. He said to himself when hi
looked at her in the morning, She'll
certainly forget to come home if th.
boy isn't there to call her attention te
the fact that he has a home.' Their
he looked at the COW some more and
pretty soon he stumbled on wha,
seemed TO him . brilliant idea"
"Wbat was III"
"You must judge for yourself. He
tied . knot in the cows tail TO re-
mind her that there was something
she mustn't forget"
The other day youth came sailing
down Fourth street, in . hired livery
rig, with q sweet young thing by hi,
side. As he struck Main street, mer.
chants whom he owes began to glare
at him. One merchant who owned
the trousers worn on the handy legs oI
the youth, broke down and wept
That boy is king in hot.foot society
He has burned more coal, and hal
spoiled more Sunday dinners in houses
where they kept a servant girl, thar
any other boy in town. Yet he is abso
lutely worthless. When he passes 40
if he marries girl as poor as he is
she will be keeping . boarding house
If he marries rich. he will get proud
and walk around snubbing his fellow
men and looking terribly worried
about the responsibility of great
wealth. But he won't marry rich
Generally girls whose fathers and
mothers have to dig their money ou
Of the earth, have too much sense 4
follow off a necktie and . pair Of soul
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