Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-07-13
individual Opinion.)
By LUE +. VERNON.

Preachers, as a general thing, are
failures AS politicians.
Spencer will say "Out again, in
again" and have his own opinion of
Gov. Mead.
When preacher resigns, the great.
est fear of the women members is that
ahc town will 60 to the devil before
they can get another man.
The Democratic party, two years
hence, will want no man in the party
who comes out and yells at the corner
OF the street and forgets his duty in
the balloting booth.
This is the season OF the year when
the ribbon clerk will swear on stack
OF bibles high as Mt. Rainier that his
boss could do nothing moro worthy
than to raise his salary.
From the way weekly newspapers
are being launched in the sea OF jour
nalism in this State, the time will
soon arrive when there will be a paper
for each citizen of the commonwealth.
The United States Government has
given Peary three years in which to
discover the North Pole. 1t is some
satisfaction to know, however, that il
it isn't discovered in that time it will
not wander away.
A New York appendicitis assurance
company now issues special policies
guaranteeing to holders all the medi-
cal, surgical aud nursing expenses, up
to the amount insured, incurred in an
attack OF this mslady.
An Eastern Washington paper tells
OF smart wife who helped her hus.
band to grow eighty acres OF wheat.
The way she helped him, most likely,
was to stand in the door aud shake a
broom at him when he sat down TO
rest.
Olympia Young Man: "You know
some one has said. If you would
make lasting pair OF boots, take for
the sole the tongue of woman"
Olympia Young Woman: "Yes,
and for the upp.rs the cheek Of the
man who said it,"
The present styles, accentuated as
they are by the frivolous devotces OF
fashion, are lacking in the elements of
both good taste and becomingness.
Parents cannot be too guarded that
their children's taste be not vitiated
by the foolish example. and love for
the Outre be born.
What more sensational publicity
could q woman expect, than to be
mixed up in q murder, who allows her
photo TO appear on trays used in
saloons as an advertisement of her
pretty face. namely. Mrs. Harry Thaw,
formerly Miss Nesbitt OF "Chinese
Honeymoon" fame.
"No less a man than Lord Curzon,
late Niceroy of India and one Of the
greatest living statesman of the age is
Theodore Roosevelt of the United
States. '"-Seattle Times.
And he might have added without
stammering: "With the exception of
Hon. William J. Bryan"
Mrs. Hstty Green never lives long
at the same address. This is chiefly
because she fears to be annoyed by
cranks" who want her to invest in
hair ir-brained schemes. When she moves
she keeps her new hiding. place secret
from even her closest friends. A
shrewd woman 10 Hetty.
1t is now asserted that the big mil
linery bills Of the women OF Utah
have done more to break up polygamy
than all moral arguments ever brought
to bear upon the subject Of frequent
uxoriousness. Women will point to
this, outside OF Utah, as triumph Of
the morality of big hat bills.
The calendar of Harry Thaw and
Stanford White for years past, from
reports, has been q calendar of tears,
of triumphs and denunciations. OF
debt and abuse. of scandal, Of palaces
and yachts and duns, OF dinners, oil
domestic joys, and marital infelicities,
OF wife at home and demi. mondaines
without. Ugh!
A man that howls and growls at the
boom and crack OF fireworks on the
Fourth O. July, should HE himself
across the ocean and live where be can
tip his hat every time the band plays
"God Save the King" and where he
can worship tho Union Jack of old
England. The United States will not
miss such renegrades and hypocrltes.
Seattle is growing at and insists
that bill.boards must be curtailed in
some manner, yet never . word is
limited at store keepers who have more
stock on the sidewalk than inside,
much to the inconvenience OF pedes-
trians who must pass in front of such
places. Gag at the ant, you know,
and swallow q camel, is Seattle's policy.
"Mr. Bryan can't get over the speech
making habit. In spite of the difficult
ties of language he made harangue to
ihe Norwegians the other day."-Ta-
coma Nelcs.
I'll wager the editor of the News
would gladly resign all hopes OF ever