Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-11-15
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BY CUE F. VERNON
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1t is very natural that bellies should
give tone to society.
No man ever complained that l.:
woman talks too much when she is
pretty and he's engaged to her.
a Bohemian from my experience
is a man who will gladly let you
share your last quarter with him.
Its to consider the day as lost
when no tiOater is discovered in the
bay ut Aberdeen, if reports be true
No married man has any busincs,
bossing around in the kitchen. and
in Il great many cases his wife hasn't
either.
Some swell people keep frui,
and nuts on the table who Dor.
row StovewOod from their neXt-door
neighbor.
The P-L is the ablest and best
newspaper in the State. Its Alaska
service alone is worth the subscrip-
tion price.
AS TO wearing 4 political coat OF
the Joseph color, William Hickman
Moore. Mayor of Seattle, is becom-
ing IN apt pupil.
It's not a funny thing to pay for q
lot, when you have to starvc your
self, you may say, then lose it, by
some hook or crook.
While the bear in the woods has
not made Teddy ran yet, there are
a few financial bears who will make
him fly in the near future.
Better keep your hand on your
pocket-bOOk and let those who desire
to buy lots in Il much advertised plat
OF ground do rs they please.
The Daily o rcgon Jonrnal of Port
land, c. f. Jackson manager, is
squirting the Orcgonion to produce a
better newspaper than ever before.
Every man who is contemplating
matrimOny should get a position on
newspaper rs a sort of preliminary
training; he gets use to being found
fault with.
There are some people on this
earth who would be glad to read that
Honorable William j. Bryan, was
killed in railroad wreck, but thank
goodness they are few.
The Seattle Ko,n;ny T1mcs, iudg-
ing from public expressions, has
James Whitcomb Riley and his
pumpkin skinned forty ways, when
1t comes to the frost proposition.
Here's TO the man so wondrouslv polite
That he will stand with smiles ever
bright
And listen to the anecdotes which bore
And never say "I've heard that yarn
before"
You lose just rs much time look
ing IN the waters of the bay as you
do admiring yourself in the mirror
neither one act or the other will pay
your roOm-rent, nor your laundry
bill.
Whenever you hear man boast
ing how smart he is, will you be fool
enough not to lend him the $l.5O he
requests, and which he promises to
pay back, next Saturday night. !"
See?
An Olympia man feels that he is
doing his share in carrying the
worlds burden. He is dressing
seven women, his wife, five daugh-
ters and woman who is not his
wife.
Wenatchce man lost his ear in a
runaway. If he watches closely he
may find it on apple tree. We
natchee claims money grows on
trees" up there, and pray, why not
ears?
Seattle has the bubonic plague, but
the plague finds it hard to procure a
house or rooms in the Queen City,
on account of high rent, and no
doubt it will soon depart from that
busy town.
Gov. Mead. like Teddy" i'm
agines himself superior to our laws.
In other words, damn the laws;
do as l say" But the worm will
turn you know, and when it does,
watch Mead skidoo.
Chicago women object to using the
female form, divine, for advertising
purposes. They should set the ex-
ample by refusing to advertise them
selves that way at grand balls and
other social functions.
First Olympia Girl; Ethel is
such a dear creature, but she has
one fault. She is terribly stuck on
her shape"
Second Olympia Girl: Il think
most of the shape is stuck on her. "
Boston Harbor. Say man named
Hillman has been in trouble several
times in Seattle for not doing as he
claimed to those who bought lots of
him. Quite often l have noticed his
name in court matters in Seattle pa.
perS.
Gov. Mead had no more legal right
to declare three-day holiday, as q
privilege to banks, than the fellow
who works in the sewer. The Gov.
ernor's chair" is not large enough
for him. What Mead desires is 8
throne.
H. NJ. Gate City: No, 1 do not
think Gov. Mead will paste the P.L
editorial of Thursday, Oct. 81, head
ed: Gov. Mead's Blunder," in his
scrap book, devoted to compliment
tary write-ups" of his doings while
executive of the Evergreen State.
Every resolution of respect be-
gins as follows: Whereas, God il
his inscrutable wisdom has taker
from our midst, ETC." God has nc
more do do with a fellow creatures
death than the writer. Might a:
we'll say God called the victims wht
perished in San Francisco during
the earthquake and fire.