Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-12-20
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True, tine chap who loalhrs tobacco
Might he scnta pipe or 50,
While the man who needs pL lanas
May receive Il pircolo,
But the spirit OF the givin.
Is the thing that gains applause;
Christmas comes and We are living,
So hurrah for Santa Claus!
Congress is talking.
Plenty Of stoncy broke men just
now.
\ safety vault has any bank beaten
Il mile.
The undertaken favorite exercise
is boxing.
IN elastic currency that will make
both ends meet, is what we need.
by what right of law can n banker
loan depositOrs money to himself?
The design for a flag for the col
orcd race should be in the form of a
razor
In the days to come. William Jcn-
nings Bryan will stand forth Il bigger
man than Roosevelt
Where YOU never See ads of Royal
Baking Powder. Uneda Biscuit, )"
etc in the War Ery.
Before another issue of the STAND
ARD reaches its readers Christmas,
1907, will have come and gone.
See to it that the heel and toe of
your sock is well darned-the pres
ents might be lost, you know.
| can love Il knave, sympathizc with
Il rascal. pity Il fool, but when it
comes down toa liar-eXc,isc me-.
When a man with a $50 salary mar
rieS girl with Il $50 taste, he soon
realizes that marriage is failure.
Here a merry Christmas to each
individual in the world. that some
poor damnphool doesn't think him
self sighted.
Speckled editorials did not pay
expenses for the Seattle .N"rning
Times. Blethen still has the Ereniny
Times to fall back on, SO to speak.
Individually l prefer a bottle of
Olympia beer It's the Water"
any time, or any place. instead of
Mumm's. Kind friends please take
notice.
The Tacoma L~lgrr, when Schultz
conducted it, was Il far brighter
newspaper and had more influence
amongst its readers than ever before
or since.
Don't hint to pa that an auto
mobile is fine thing for a Christ
mas present, when you know pa
has not had employment for q month,
or longer.
At the next meeting of the Inter-
national Postage Congress, some
one should suggest the issuing of a
postage stamp that is good in all
countries.
The American public is composed
of a queer lot of folk, who run after
anything foreign with the idea that
it must be a deal better than the ma
tive Yankee article.
l have noticed that q woman who
tells her husband that she is willing
for him to marry again after her
death, appears to be in best of health
and condition herself.
Young man don't try to ask your
sweetheart to marry you by present
ing her with Il diamond ring, that
you must purchase on the install
ment plan. Don't do it.
The message of President Roose-
welt to the sixtieth Congress, was a
disappointment to his staunchest
admirers. Really, it is not worth
the time consumed in reading it.
An Olympia woman, on returning
from Seattle, Tuesday, was asked by
me how she liked the Queen City.
She said 1t would be perfectly
lovely after it was finished" Gee!
An old woman, being in store in
Olympia, the other afternoon, sat
down and extended her feet to an
iron safe, remarking that she was SO
glad that the air-tight stoves had
come into fashion again"
Sometimes people get mad because
they think they are referred to in a
paragraph, when in fact the writer
had no reference to them whatever.
1t is dead give away. however, as
they are evidently hit where they
tender.
A Kansas City woman wants di-
yOrce because her husband threw
silver dollars at her. 1t should be
granted on the grounds of insanity
Who ever heard of q woman leaving
any dollars in tho old mans poe kets
for him to throw round any way?
Olympia has man, a bad man,
who is worse than-even q refOrmer,
like Mayor Moore of Seattle. The
ideas of this fellow would upset the
whole social and business world. He
says if he had his way he'd put in
Jail everybody who ought to be there.
David Luke, a 70-year-old Siwash,
at Port Madison, predicts Seattle to
have snow this winter, two Indians
deep" This will not alarm anyone
living in Seattle, for if it should
prove true, there will be coal dealers
four men deep" in the Queen City
to supply the demand. you know.
Professor Penny. a teacher of
music in Washburn College, Topeka,
Kansas, has, it is stated, discovered
that in the tunes employed by
churches and Sunday schools, there
are six waltzes, two twO-steps, and
seventeen polkas. No wonder some
preachers appear SO frisky at times.
Your lips are like the roses.
Your brow is like the lily,
Your cheeks are pink carnat ions,
That blossom willy-nilly.
FOrget-me-nOts your eyes are
But smiles are hazy,
To sum you up completely
Fair maid. you are daisy!
Some time ago, in q small town In
Washington, which shall be nameless.
a drummer found printed notice in
the bedroom of his hotel requesting
visitors not to smoke in the bed
rooms. Underneath the card q
former occupant of the apartment