Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-05

BY lUE r. VERNON
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10 keep fish from smelling-cut of
their noses.
! About the only physical culture
some housewives gets is at the wash.
tub. ,
When a man is failure he is
called a fool. When he succeeds he
is called shrewd.
4 An Olympia man is far-sighted,
Since l borrowed s. from him he
can see me mile off.
Yes. asters by the brookside
Make asters in the brook"
But cook-books in the kitchen
Don't always make a cook.
An Olympia wife saw that a lot of
unpaid bills was worrying her hus-
band, so to relieve his distress. she
burned them.
am glad all the baseball managers
are satisfied with the makeup of
their teams. The season should end
in dead heat.
A trick is like cheap firecracker-
when 1t seems to have done it's work
and lost its vitality it is apt to ex-
plode and hurt the man who set it off.
You brush fly from your face and
kill it without thought; there are
people in this world who will brush a
human being from the Path of Life.
as coolly and feels the crime as little.
Canned meats and fruits!
And green stuff, too,
Canned pudding, fish
And canned beef stew,
| But hear my thankful wholesouled cry,
Praise be, they cannot can the pie.
l would advise young man to
marry a smart, wholesome, healthy
girl, as poor as the regulation church
mouse, and who works for q living.
rather than society butterfly who
bats her wings against the golden
bars of palatial mansion.
An Olympia man-who is true
friend of John BarleycOrn - when
somebody in his hearing in the Ok
ford saloon made the remark that he
was hard drinker, Indignantly de-
MED it, and said he drank easier
than any other man in the town, and
would bet money on it, too.
Gold is such magnet that no
matter where it is men will go t0 get
it. If it could be certainly known
that gold is at the North Pole, money
would soon be found to equip expedi-
tions of such magnitude that the
secret OF even that hitherto unassail-
able point would quickly be laid bare.
The journalistic mercenaries who
hire themselves out to beslobber pot
house politicians and tattooed candi-
dates and pour envenomed slime upon
the heads of men of standing and
character, have another respite of
two years from their efforts to befog
and mislead gullible voters of this
State.
Really, some men are far too BASH
ful-too backward in coming forward;
they should try and overcome it;
jewels of men like this shouldn't hide
their light under bushel; high hon.
ors are in store for them, but how
high depends upon the situation of
the limb of the tree to which they are
strung up.
In the trial of Bible case in To-
peka, Kas., the attorneys had occa-
sion to read the Lords Prayer. They
sent for Bible. Then they sent for
preacher to tell them in what part
of the gospels to find the prayer. An
Olympia lawyer would have known
enough to have called q minister to
the stand in the first place.
The State should subscribe for Our
Dumb Anin'als, published by Geo. 7.
Angel, of Boston, Mass, and dis
tribute a copy free to each pupil in
public schools. The paper is YES
terday, to-day and forever" for the
kind treatment of animals; is doing
good work in this line, and should be
read by every man, woman and child
in the land.
certainly do not comprehend that
there can be much difference between
gentlemen who play cards for sport
and those who do it as a business,
provided that both play for money.
Really, think if there is anything
wrong in the practice, that the men
who are not forced by dire necessity
to play that they may live, are by far
the most to blame.
Portland has q woman city market
inspector; she having received her
appointment at the request of the
Domestic Science circle, an organiza-
ton of housewives who desired to
trade in clean shops. She has occu-
pied this position for more than o
year, and the stores on her clean
list" are the ones patronized by her
friends and acquaintances.
Show me a man who, if Queen
Alexandria should offer him her hand
to kiss, would give it a hearty grip
and shake and inquire how she was
getting along; who would slap the
Pope on the shoulder and ask for a
chew of tobacco, and would leave
Vesuvius in disgust if it didn't boil
over" for his edification, and I'll show
you an honest, kind-hearted fellow.
The Editor-in- Chief of the Seattle
Times has no use for the pin-head"
country editor, but it seems from the
following, he gobbles their goods and
palms it off on an unsuspecting pub
lie as special' matter, without pay
or credit:
"The Seattle Times borrowed bodily,
word for word and letter for letter, the
Journal account Of George w. Bickford's
remark able experience short time ago,
and published it as special dispatch
from Friday Harbor'. "-Friday Har6or
Journal.
For ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain," the Editor
in Chief" of the Seattle Times seems
to be peculiar.