Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-20
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FIR TWIGS {

pardon Is the best cure for con-
sumption ever tried in this country
Some of our great men prefer re
SponSibility for nothing and credit
for everything.
There would be more good COM
pcXions if women used more care in
putting il on even.
Salem, Oregon. will reap IL iinan-
clal harvest from the immense hop
crop in Marion county.
Small-pica prayers on Sunday will
not Justify with nonpareil practices
during the secular week.
EXGovcrnor Gccr, of Oregon. now
wirlds the editorial pencil ON the
T,1b"n" of PcndlctOn. that State |
When Il woman wants to be rea
mean she just sits and Sighs when
her husband tries to talk cheerfully.
Judging from appearances, Port
land, us regard commercial matters,
| is the snail. while Seattle is the flea.
A milk famine in Milwaukee, is
given a three line notice in the city
papers. Milk never made Milwaukee
! famous
Cushman. with his yachting cap.
during Taft's visit at Seattle, looked
like a skeleton with Il toy balloon on
its head.
The people in the country, with the
abundance assured, can certainly take
the world more easily than the ma
| JOrity of mankind.
Lightning which struck the city
hall and court house at Tacoma must
have Il grudge at itself. Might as
well visited Denmark.
Clam: What made your brother
throw himself into the bay?"
Oyster: Il suppose there was a
woman ut the bottom of it,.
She (sentimentally): What poetry
there is in fire."
He SADLY: Yes, a great deal of
my pretty poetry has gone thereY'
A granddaughter of "Stonewall"
Jackson ran away, recently, and was
married. In love she appears to have
the head that was celebrated in war.
A man who INDUCES in wrong
doing is vain-enOugh to believe that
| in his case the announcement will
prove a happy exception to the gen.
eral rule.
Place the letter ''y'' instead of
IT. in Taft's name, and the result is
what Teddy's pet handed the Re-
publicans of Puget Sound during his
recent visit.
The most successful thing about
the chicken-yard of a novice, as q
rule, is the fence. 1t remains long
after the fowls have strayed away
or been stolen.
The recent Chinese-Jap riot at
Vancouver, B. c., gave the citizens
OF that slow poke burg chance to
see how a busy American town ap-
pears each day.
The difference between Seattle and
Portland, Judging from the move
ments of humanity in the street, is
the difference between a snail and q
streak of lightning.
The time to get up is when you
are down. No man is ever downed
till he quits trying to get up. Spirit
and determination have brought vic
tory to many falling standard.
A man who works more than union
hours, seven days week, grows q
little weary reading about the fire.
quent vacations and recuperative
trips that some people have to take.
Certainly Tacomaites voted against
Green River water. OF course they
did, and, pray, why not? II it had
been I" Yellowstone" wet goods, the
result would have been entirely diff
ferent.
When you hear blatant ass con-
tinually braying about the railroads,
you may look around to see what
scheme of thriftiness with the moral
halter off he has hid out in the
bushes.
When you notice man going
around with peek as big as a post
age stamp in his fancy hose it is u
One-best-bet that his wife is sum
mer-resorting" SO enjOyably that he
gets q postcard about twice q week.
Some sO-called men use their fam
lily as a bait to collect money from
organizations of various kinds, by
pleading that they need help. Why
is it some twO-legged animals imag-
inc the public must help support
their families?
A Coroner in making out a verdict
for the findings of an inquest over a
ten-months old child, gravely wrote
the assertion that the child was
unmarried and that its chief Occupa-
tiOn was in keeping its father and
mother awake at night.
THE Chinese and Japs must CO."
is the coming slogan on Puget Sound,
Notwithstanding Teddy's desire that
Japs be admitted to citizenship. How
glad old Dennis Kearny, of San Fran
cisco sand-lOt" fame must feel.
His prediction is being fulfilled.
A boy who calls his father . the
old man" and wears a collar high
enough for a giraffe, and in the mean
time thinks all the girls he meets are
crazy about him, is as badly fooled
as the toad which believed that some
day he would be humming bird.
1t is said that dancing makes girls
feet larger 1t is also said that ice
cream makes freckles. Doctors are
of the opinion that hanging on the
front gate produces rheumatism. A
few more opinions like these and the