Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-11-02

company. We would also be glad to
make arrangements for an automobile
" schsfler" to run the thing for US. Ii
we can make all the arrangements Is
hereinbefore set forth we will cell our
anatomy to q medical college rs a
curiosity and start in to enjoy the
kind OF life that has made Pittsburg
famous.
Misplaced Kindness.
Two little boys running past a news
paper shop, seeing that the placsrd
board was in tempting position, gave
it harmless and unnecessary shove,
and knocked it in the street with a
loud noise. Then they vanished.
Another dear little boy, with spot
less collar and bright, happy face.
came forward and, making a huge
effort, he struggled to replace the
board. This shows he was thought
ful boy and of kindly disposition,
and that he was anxious to put things
right as he went through this world
of gloom.
Then the proprietor came forth, and,
seeing boy aud the placard board, at
once came to certain rash differences,
and the boy was promptly thrashed.
In vain he protested, the newspaper
man had heard such protests before.
but the boy went away sadder and
much wiser that most of us can learn
wisdom from the incident.
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The Wonderful Power Of Nature.
Recently, Mobile, Alabama, thriv.
ing city OF 10000 population, was
partly damaged by q tropical burri.
cane. Terrible wines going At seventy
or eighty miles an hour, with floods
caused by the backing up of sea water
in bays and inlets were the causes OF
great damage along the Gulf Coast.
Natures paroxysms remain far be.
yOnd the ken of man. He stands as
helpless and as mystiiied in the face
of the typhoon as before the earth.
quake. He can only suffer and ell.
dure. and set with that cheerfulness
he can muster abou, the work of re-.
But nowadays each
is made the subject Of
his painstaking study, and it may be
that each brings him little nearer to
the truth. Possibly time may win to
his inquisitive mind the consolation
of understanding the nature Of these
grim faces which dreadfully assail him,
and whose operations, however sue
cessfully he reduce them to terms Of
exact science, he will be forever power.
less to check.
An Odd Perversity Of Human Nature.
Why will a grown-up act toward a
boy in manner that would he vio
lently resented by another adult?
Did you ever notice what most of
us do when fond mother brings her
baby to our attention.
We make horrible faces and out.
landish sounds. We distort our fea.
lures, bulge. our eyes, wave our arms,
and get almost up into the face OF the
little one.
l saw q tender hearted man on East.
side, the other day, drive child howl
ing in terror to its mother, because he
was unwittingly doing all the things
possible TO make q monstrosity of him.
self. He drew his head down close to
the shoulders SO as to make a hump,
he kept running his neck forward, he
back and forth dizzily, his
eyes hung above the brim OF their SOCK
cts like Holsters eyes, he put his dis
torted visage within six inches of the
baby's face, and all the time he was
emitting a sound that would have been
creditable to an Apache Indian with
his war.paint on. The sight was re-
pulsive enough to me, and didn't
wonder that the baby shriekej in
alarm. And then what should that
tender-hearted man do but offer the
baby q pocket.comb to chew.
But he was unaware how he was
SHINING. He loved babies and he
thought his method was the proper
one to make the babies love him. If
the mother of that baby takes my al.
vice she will put her little one under
lock and key every time that man
co mes into her house.
And he was only one OF the thou.
sands OF people who do not know how
to be really polite to babies.
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Discontentment Universal.
Life would be one long, sweet dream
if each of US only had the other fel-
lows job. The merchant has hard
he had. his life to live over
again he would certainly be a doctor.
The doctor has troubles too numerous
to mentiou-how did he ever come to
90 into such q wearing business any.
how2
The farmer tolls hard and long, and
worries with fear of rain and rust"-
4 farmers life is a mighty hard life
he made great mistake in not being
a lawyer-lawyers don't have to kill
working. The lawyer grows
gray with his troubles, strives con-
to win. He sees how bad he
missed il; he sees there is no place like
the farm; the farmers life is the one
independent life.
The teacher works and works and
gets no credit for all he does, and not
half enough pay. Why in the world
didn't he 60 into the newspaper busi'
ness? The newspaper man does not
have much to do, most anybody can
write q little. That's all newspaper
man has to do, and the newspaper
man, we'll, as 1 remarked before, life
would be one long, sweet dream, it
each OF US only had the others job.
The farmers want 10 live in town
and the town man wants to live in the
The fat man wants to be
lean and the lean man wants to be fat.
The poor man envies the rich one, his
money. and the rich one envies the