Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

paper. and how many courses they
desire at their meals, report Saycth
not.
An Eastern paragrapher asserts
that the peek-a- boo waist derives its
name from J. X. Emmett's old song,
Peek-a-bOO, Peck-a-bOO, ! See You
Hiding There" Amt that scan
dalOuS?
John L. Wilson, of the P-L. re-
sponded to the address of welcome at
the editors convention at Everett,
and not Fairbanks flag was to be
seen in the hall. What u disappoint-
ment to the 7Tmes of Seattle.
AS rule, every country news
paper shop has an editor and a
devil" Yet in some instances the
editor should hold the DEVILS"
position, while the intelligent devil
ought to sit in the editorial chair.
The New York San says girl in
Gotham set house atire on account
of peek -a-bOo waist. ShuckS, that S
nothing! A real cute peek boo
waist, under certain circumstances,
can set every man that sees it afire.
Standing in the middle of the road
and making a noise is about as use
less as sitting under the shade of a
tree and whiting piece of cedar,
unless you know why you are dis
turbing the quietude of the commun-
ity.
A fellow in New York wanted to
kiss a girl and she would not let him
so he killed her. Young ladies', you
know now what to expect when a
pie-faced mutt expresses 4 desire to
eat the peaches and cream off your
checks.
An essayist declares that there
is more real intOXication in some
books than in bottle of wine. y
Better keep that mum or prohibi-
tionists will want people to grow
up unlettered so that they cannot
read them.
The Omaha woman who ate din
ner of ham and cabbage, with Gu
cumberS, ice-cream, SOda-water and
cherry-pie on the side, is dead, and
people who like to point out the
dangers lurking in pie, can now get
busy again.
Preacher Benedict OF HOquiam will
make few converts by his action in
Aberdeen, as regard Sunday-closing
If it was not for the business men,
where would Benedict procure his
clothes, his salary and yellow-legged
chicken? Hey!
The preacher who says that kiss
ing is worse than whisky, must have
found something pretty exhilerating
and intoxicating. But he had no
business saying SO, for the closeup
Sunday, anti-salOon people, will try
to regulate that by law next.
An Eastern Washington exchange
says: Senator Ankeny stands solid
over here" Well, it's different on
Puget Sound. He only totters, and
his bosom friends fear he will have
to be placed in the easy chair of
down and out before many moons
If hot, sizzling, paragraph sizzles,
can cook anything, so to speak. the
meat on the bones of the editor
of the Aberdeen Bulletin has been
cooked to a nice brown" by the
editors of Gray's Harbor, and don t
you forget it. He has been done to
q burn,
A Connecticut rooster" says the
Washington Herald, is raising a
brood of chicks, and clucks to them
like hen." Their mother is prob
ably chasing around raising sub
scription for an orphans home or is
off attending cluttering of female
suffragists.
There is a diversity of opinion, -
says an Eastern Washington ex-
change, as to what President ROos-
welt would do if the Republican con-
vention should unanimously nominate
him and adjourn" Teddy would
probably convene his anti-third term
resolutions, move that they adjourn
and declare the motion carried.
1t is said Seattle merchants fail tC
pack their goods for Alaska buyers
in good shape. This is more than
can be said of some Alaska fish pack
ing concerns, if report is true. 1t is
said that some Alaska Gamers pack
seaweed and decayed fish in pretty
labeled cans and ship such to Seattle.
From this it would be well for the
kettle not to call the pot black, if it's
true.
lido not suppose there is q calling
in the world, the members OF which
are so ready to help each other as the
followers OF the stage. Many strand
ed professional has been helped out
and he in return has helped many &
brother actor to "get on his feet. u
SO to speak. "A fellow feeling makes
us wondrous kind" reads the ole
quotation, and as far as actors ART
| concerned, l believe it true.
Every time I read the Tacoma
Necs l can only wonder why Perkins
did not hold fast to Albert Johnson
it's former editor, who is now editor
on the Seattle Morning Times. Per-
kins could have afforded to pay hin
double the salary he did, and helt
him, for the Neus was better news
paper when Johnson conducted the
editorial page, than it ever was ant
is. Johnson made the Ne1s.
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Miss Estella Corwell shot ant
killed George T. Bennett, q contrac
tor, in Los Angeles, the other day
with whom she had lived severa
years as his wife, and who was about
to marry another woman. Miss Corn
well will not be prosecuted. Prose
cutting Attorney f. T. Fleming say:
the unwritten law covers the case
Il could never find the heart" sale
Fleming, to prosecute a girl whit
slays her betrayer, or husband who
avenges the wrecking OF a home.
With all due reverence for the writ
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