Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-11-20
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The Labor Temple in Seattle is
mienamed. 1t should be chriStcncd
the " Temple of Quarrels.
It's peculiar thing, but we wind
up the clock to make it 60, and wind
up the business to make it stop.
When people become too old to 60
to dances, and are not invited. they
say they have too much sense to 90.
BE good to yourself and read the
WASHINGTON STANDARD. Be good to
your neighbor and tell him how you
like it.
The boarders were religious men,
But expedient they found it
To pray the Lord to bless their meat
And to bribe the cook To pound it.
The union men Of Seattle showed
+. \. Rust, manager of the Labor
Temple. where he WAS at-not in
good standing with them. Vale,
Rust.
The more one reads about legiSla-
ton upon the subject of marriage.
the more he is convinced that it
would be better for lawmakers to
let it alone
New Tenant lin Seattle) -" But
the cellar is full of water!"
Seattle Rental Agent -" Full of
water! And what did yon expect
champagne?
Some rules have been published for
discovering counterfeit banknotes.
What the average man wants are q
few simple rules for discovering the
genuine article.
The Connecticut nurse who stole n
spoon from a college and was sent to
Jail for thirty days, probably was a
delinquent on the subscription list of
the college paper
| have observed that a successful
stockbroller pays for something he
can get. with money that he haSn' I
got, and then sells what he never
had for more than it ever cost.
y heather idol manufacturer is
proSpering in Philadelphia and idols
are exported to India in considerable
quantities. Some of the idols are
made of heads of birds, bodies of
beasts and tails of reptiles.
Starfish -" Well. what did he
marry for?'
Klam-" For sympathy.'
Startish- -" And he didn't get even
that
Klam-" O, yes; from his friends. y
Olympia Mother: George, if you
had little boy who made himself as
dirty as you are, what would you
do with him!
George (aged three, muddy from
head to FOOT: lid wash him. -
1t is frequently said: If had
the chance of so and so, | might be
as rich as he That is not So
Money-making is q gift, talent
Some people can't help making
money, other people may 60 over
precisely the same ground and have
little success.
Had the same amount of material
used by political parties in making
red-tire' for campaign purposes
been turned into sacks of coal, or po-
tatocs, so to speak, and distributed
amongst those in need in the Unit
ed States, out of employment and
mOneyless, what Il tremendous lot of
human happiness would have re-
suited.
a subscriber TO the STANDARD at
Gate City sends the following:
EDITOR WASHINGTON STANDARD:
DO you think that commercial career is 10
be compared 10 literary career!
SUBSCRIBER
In business you can write your
name on postcard and make it
worth thousands of dollars. In liter
ature you can write on reamS OF
paper without making it worth a
Canadian half-dimc with six holes in
it.-Ep. STANDARD.
Just think! Charles W. Wappen-
stein, former Chief of Police of Sc
attic, has been placed in charge o
the exposition guards during the y
Y. p. Fair, and not Seattle paper
has published the Cincinnati, Ohio
" shake-down' story, with whicl
Wappenstein was 50 much connected
by Seattle papers. while he wa:
Chief of Police under eX-Mayol
Moore of the Queen City. My, my.
Women no more want to be scrv
ants to families than men want to b,
bootblacks to Wallets. There is n,
denying the aversion of girls anC
women for the life of the kitchen, tn,
stutfy upstairs back-room. the drudg
cry of pots and pans, the endless
answering of the bell, running mayb'
from the kitchen TO the upper story
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