Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-04-03
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\ lot of society women in New
York Will institute IL boycott against
swratShop girls. They never sweat
themselves and do not propoSe to en-
courage the prespiring habit among
their less fortunate sisters.
The plan for portable schools to
keep up with the shifting population
never will appeal to the small boy.
From his point of view it is bad
enough to have to 90 to school with
out having the school come tagging
around after him.
rSt tlicrt, comes "A LIT a. cold.
And then there comes IA cough;
An then consumption comes along
And gently takes Won off.
With rlirurnati>m-'tis another tale,
Makes life Il wretche.i stunt,
Keeps ynu in mi cry pain, for years.
To .rowl, Ia cuSs and yrnnt.
The strictly religious ana pious
hypocritc who reads Nick Carter
incloSed in an elegant and costly
Bible binding, is just as sure of Il
crown and harp, as is the editor (O
OF Il 2X4 newspaper who advocates
prohibition. yet keeps his bottle of
Old Crow slowed away in box
covered with papers to initiate a
bundle of old exchanges.
\ New York chemist claims to have
invented Il preparation which will dis
solve snow before it falls to the ground.
The Democratic party might do well to
lay in Il liberal supply of the compound
before next Falls election. - IslaAd
County Times.
AS no chemist has invented a
preparation that will dissolve a
" landslide the Republican party
will not be able to lay in a liberal
supply" either before or after next
Fall S election. hence the followers
of that political aggregation might
as well order their shrOuds now.
How big was Governor Mead. pa,
That people call him great?
Was he like Goliath, tall,
A man of high estate?
Was he man so tall and grand,
Like some great steeple high,
That when his feet were on the ground,
His head reached to the sky?
Oh, no, my son, he was not tall,
Though he was great as said,
1t did not tower in the air,
But on the ground was spread.
1t was not his statue made him grand,
His greatness You will find
Was not like that Of other men.
But only in his mind.
When young couples are in hurry
to get married they sometimes go
before a Justice of the Peace. A
Justice. of the Peace is not usually Il
very poetical creature at the best of
times, and it is difficult to imagine
him as the obliging angel who ties
the knot. Here is the manner in
which he generally hurls a couple
into matrimony:
Do you, John Smith, promiSe?'
and SO forth, and so forth.
And do you, Ida Rash, promise?"
and so forth, and SO forth.
We dol"
You're it"
should say they were hit. y
Completely knocked over the matri-
monial ropes. There is not much
candy in such a ceremony, and it is
to be hoped that newly-married
couples partake of the sweets after
the Justice of the Peace has received
his fee, and turns to reading q paper.
Shrewd men retain their seats in
Congress, term after term, by get
ting on the Public Building com
mittee. The smart member of that
committee has a dead cinch O
three or more terms, if he introduce.
a bill to erect public building ir
the strongest town in his locality
gets if passed, which requires q secon(
term, and men who have infuenc,
enough to induce the TREASURY De
partment to go slow in getting W
designs, letting out the contract anG
in completing the building. If he i.
downright smart, he will get Il bill
passed just as the building is finished
to make addi tons to it. In fact. l.;
real bright man, on the Public Build
ing committee, ought to remain il
Congress at least five terms, or ter
years, on one public building, which
an individual constructing for him
self would have up in five months