Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-09-25

BYUUE r. VERNON.

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stranger in an interurban car ~
ro"fe from Tacoma to Scattlc)-
What time is it by your watch,
if you please
| Stranger don't know.
But you just looked at it,
| Yes; only wanted to see if it |
was still there.
Klam Are YOU going to have
your boy learn to play the violin?
| Startish-" Yes.
klam-" He will never make Il
good one.
Startish-" Why?"
klam-'' His head too big
Startish-" Good. The bigger the
| head the more tunes he Il hold.
| The workmen of kalamath Falls. |
Oregon, dropped their tools To wei |
come +. II. Hartman. of the South |
ern Pacific railroad, upon his return |
To his Summer home, Pelican Lodge. |
The workmcn pick up their tools,
work faster. and swear harder, more
SO than at any other time, upon the |
arrival of James j. Hill, at a division
point, of the Great Northern railway.
| X
| Is Charity Il Failurc?' is the |
heading of an article in a popular
magazine, written 10y woman. 1t |
seems Il paradox To ask such qucS-
ton, for we know that charity never
| faileth. Governments may fall. |
the accumulated knowledge of cen
turies may toe forgotten. continents
may crumblc, but if we mean by |
| charity, true love reflected in the |
| hearts of men, it is rs indeStructible |
| rs eternity.
| Quotations clcverly malapropos or
neatly distorted furnish half the wit |
of the professional humorist. Never
theless, when such a verbal misstep
| is spontaneous there is often real fun |
in it. a Tacoma young man had |
been out sailing with his sister and |
a friend of hers. He did not know |
particularly well the fine points of
| the art, and on trying to make the |
landing against head wind, he cx-
| claimed. after several vain attempts |
-" Well. it is better to have Mtfed |
and lost than never to have lutfed at |
alI!'
Higher education makes many wo-
men very discontcnted. They en-
gross themselves in their learning
to the exclusion of everything else
Home life. with its joys. is of little |
account, and is always looked upon
as 4 necessary evil, to be borne with
as good grace as possible. To
thesr people the higher education is
a curse. 1t makes them miserable.
They know too much to be pleasant
company for the average woman, and
those with whom they could fra
ternlze are hard to find. Taking il
all the way round, do not think the
higher education has improved the
lot of women
| All the guests at Il wedding in
kissme, Florida, brought fishing
rods, and the bride and groom. both
members of the Kissme Angling
Society, passed beneath an arch of
fishing rods on leaving the church.
Olympia has no Clam Society" at
present, so must wait for the pleas
ure of a wedding where clam-shovels
with extra long handles will be used
in forming an arch for the newly
welded couple to pass through.
| An Oyster Society would be bet
ter; for oysters require neither fish
ing rods nor spades to catch on. 1t
is just a grab-and- take-it, that suits
the oyster. .-ED.
Berlin's police have determined to
get rid of the monStrous electric light
signs and advertisements which to the
artist make night hidcous in many
of the principal streets and open
places. During the day it is bad
enough, says the President of the
Berlin Art Academy, to see other
wise handsome buildings with huge
roofsigns advertising cigarettes
and dog biscuit and certain infal-
lible nOstrumS for stomach ache and
nerves. But at night it is in
tolerable to see in every direction
; those blinking. insistent lights, high
in the air, at the end of every ro-
mantle and beautiful street vista.
, telling their ugly monotonous tales
of chocolate and cakes There are
streets in Berlin, Paris, London
and New York, mysteriously beauti-
lul to me in the night, that are
spoiled by these hideous things"
Cardinal Gibbons. in Il sermon at
St. Charles Catholic Church, Pixies
vile, recently, incidentally referred
r to the stand taken by the Catholic
Church in regard to the use of liquor.
The church is not fanatical ou the
subject of liquor, said the Cardinal.
but she teaches moderation. Her
+ path is not one of rigor, not yet of
r laxity, but the middle course-the
golden mean. The use of liquor in
/ | moderation is not to be condemned.
r but if there is danger of abuse, then
it should not be used at all. Our
Lord was present at banquets where
n wine was used, and changed water
: into wine, and by His presence sane
toned the use in moderate quantities.
| cannot too strongly denounce those
{ who applaud those who condemn the
+ vice OF intemperance 1t blasts the
\ flower OF youth, undermines the con-
n StitutOn and renders it's votaries de
graded members of society. But. ,
+ added the Cardinal, we must take
men as they are, and moderate use
b of liquor has never been condemned
= : by the church. "
If you want to getup in the world,
sit on tack.