Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-17

ital letters and breathes a spirit of
frankneSS:
A Friend that is Social,
Good Nature and Free,
To Pot of my Liquor
Right welcome shall be.
But he that is Proud
Or I'll Natur'd may Pass
BY my Door to an Alehouse
And Pay for His Glass.
Equally frank is the Toast of the
Constant Lover" rarely given, as
the tactless truth does not cOnduce
to present good fellowship
Here's to you, my dear.
And to the dear that's not here, nv
dear;
But if the dear that's not here. my dear,
Were here, my dear,
I'd not be drinking to you. my dear.
The reverse of the medal is shown
in modification cf Tom" Moore: .
Let us drink to the thought that where
e'er man roves
He is sure to find something that's
blissful and dear;
And that when he is far from the lips
that he loves
He can always make love to the lips
that are near.
The toast of the partie carree "a
group of four) shows fine disregard
of grammar and something of the
philosophy of Montesquieu, when
said that he attached himself to
such as he thought loved him and
detached himself assoon as he thought
they didn't:
Here's to you two and We two.
If you two like we two
As we two like you two
Then here's to Us four;
But if you two don't like We too
As we two like you two
Then here's 10 we two and no more.
What might be called q fair minded
toast is embodied in the words of an
old song
Here's to We absent lords.
May they long in far countree stay;
Drinking at other ladies' boards,
The health of other absent lords.
The wisdom of enjoying our golden
hour is expressed by Durant, who
says:
Long live to-day-our own at least.
Shall we tomorrow see?
Take what you can of joy and feast
And let tomorrow be,
A writer offers homely toast to
contentment" in language that sug-
geStS covert threat
No one bull.lug yet could eat
Every other bulldogs meat;
| II you have a good sized bone.
Let the other dog alone.
The toasts to lovely woman" are
innumerable, and range from the full
some to the coldly critical, not to
say savage. A gentleman, somewhat
catholic in his tastes and OF a testy
humOr, is responsible for the follow
ing:
Here's tn women who are tender,
Here's to women who are slender,
| Here's to women who are large and fat
and red;
Here's to women who are married,
| Here's to women who have tarried;
| Here to women who are speechless -
but they're dead.
That time-honored bumper dear to
the masculine heart,
To the light that lies in woman's eyes.
| And lies and lies and lies!
is always more or less annoying to
the particular ra. and bone and hank
of hair at which it is directed, but
she need only bids her time to raise
her glass and send home her little
verbal arrow, which, being tipped
with truth, always makes its mark
To woman's love-to mans not akin,
For her heart is Q home, while his heart
IL an inn
Some cynic who looks upon life
with jaundiced eyes has written:
Here's to Love-
That disease which begins with few
er and ends with a yawn.
To those who cry "Out upon such
doctrines!" and who still cherish
their illusions, the heart to heart
toast will appeal. One that rings
true and escapes Stiffness runs:
To me and you when skies are blue
| To you and me when tempests be,
To both together in every weather.
The Toast of the Gay Deceiver"
possesses subtle significance:
have met many, liked few;
Loved but one-here's to you.
The purely impersonal and some
what frivolous toast is sometimes
useful. AS o sample
To that curious thing called love,
Which comes like dove
| From heaven above
To some;
While to others it fits
And scatters their wits,
And gives 'em all fits.
By gum!
Accompanied by a properly soulful
glance, of which the habitual giver of
little dinners is usually past master,
this is generally successful. 1t takes
q keen maiden to discover that the
loved one may not be herself and that
her host has but kept well within the
limits of the truth.
A doubling Thomas, and a selfish
withal drinks tn the following: