Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-08-31

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BY LUE r. VERNON.

down and that is-Jim.
Populism has almost entirely dis.
appeared from the country.
The Republican party is forced te
"stand pat" for that is about all it has
to stand on.
WopHn was created from q rib
and che has been the bone OF conten.
ton ever since.
A girl who has courteous, dignified
manner does not need to wish for q
pretty face. She will be admired, all
right.
Whenever you begin to suspect q
fault in yourself, you may feel assured
that it is obvious to the rest of the
world.
Be suspicious OF the man who boasts
of his conquests OF the gentle sex.
The chances are that he is a braggart
and liar.
A little Olympia girl says che knows
what drawing is-"You Just think
something and then run q line round
your think"
1t is ridiculous, it is funny, to see an
old woman who tries to be a girl and
INDUCES in girlish designations when
she should be in bed.
The women's idea OF a real trial is to
be married to man so old.fashioned
that he takes the screens out OF the
windows, claiming they keep the air
out.
John d. Rockefeller's income per
annum is said to be thirty millions,
but l wouldn't trade places with him
and take his dyspepsia along with his
cash.
Wizard" Burbank saws he is going
to Improve the watermelon" If Mr..
Burbank really wants to help out he
will devote his time to bettering the
opportunities to get melons.-Bryan's
COmnaOner.
He: "That vessel out there is hug.
ging the shore closely"
She: "Yes, and 1 regret to say
that at this moment the situation is
unparalleled"
Seattle is inspecting bake.shops,
food. weights, and 20 on, but iorgets TO
inspect its city hall. It is so rotten
that the stencil from Chicsgo's pack.
ing houses would be as perfume from
the violet.
The question is, how to employ the
convicts so that their labor may be
productive and yet not destructive to
legitimate free industries. The use OF
the convicts in making roads seems to
be one good solution of the difficulty.
Scotchman in Seattle, playing bag.
pipe in a saloon-passes around the
hat-gets no money-is disgusted-
turns to the bArkeeper and says
Yours is poor country"
Barkeeper Cooking al the piper'a
costume): "Well, we can afford &c
wear trousers, anyhow"
There is . class of husbands whc
never take their wives anywhere. They
seem 10 think that all wife is good
for is to bear children and perform the
drudgery of the household. These are
the men who are Usually so lavish in
their attentions to other women when
they are away from home.
A man named Church, At Aberdeen,
has lost his job with the city-burn.
ing garbage-for disposing of stale
eggs and other stuff of that sort to
poor people, with the result that dan.
gerous sickness has developed in sew.
eral families go supplied. A man BY
the name of Devil could do no worse.
The colonial wife is not to be trifled
with. When her husband goes cur
country" and neglects to return within
a fair and reasonable time, she simply
advertises for him. Here 10 . recent
ad from an Australian paper:
"If my husband, A. B., does not an.
swer this advertisement in three weeks
Intend to get married. (Signed) G. D."
A New York divine declares that the
trusts are responsible for the decrease
in the number OF marriages in this
country. Since they have increased
the cost OF living, 90 as to make it i'm
possible for the average young man
working on q salary to support a wife
and family. This is the hardest indict
ment that the trusts have yet received
The girl in the white bathing sui.
sneered as the automobile droned BY.
"You said he was the carver OF his
own career" she exclaimed, noddine
toward the occupant Of the superb
Car. "Wby, l learned to-day that all
he did was to marry an heiress."
"Well," her companion explained
"he cut out seven other chaps in ordel
to get her, didn't he?"
In all towns where a newspaper il
published every man should advertise
in it, if nothing more than card
stating his name and the business hi
is in. 1t pays not only the advertiser
but lets the people at distance know
the town in which you reside is (
prosperous community of busines
men. As the seed is sown, 80 tn