Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-18
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| BRENTWOOD L
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So many people are forgotten long
before they are dead.
Some people know go out of their
way to tell the truth, particularly if
it is unpleasant.
An uncontrolled temper in bust
ness can lose more in 4 week than it
| can make in half IL year.
A man who never changes his
mind is one who has So little mind
that he can't run any risks with it.
4 Tumwctcr lad when asked ii he
knew why chickens came out of the
eggs. said he supposed they'd get
boiled if they stayed in.
a Florida editor suggests that all
drinking men should be made to wear
badges. \ great number do let their
light shine before men. and its red,
| too.
No man ever finds ont how little he
| knows about women until he has
married one of them. There are Just
as many kind of women as there are
kinds of weather.
A Chicago paper declares :" the
present generation is always tired;
even the babies are weary" Under
the circumstances it is very good of
the babies to tolerate their mothers
and fathers.
The best dressed child in the world
is the American child. Especially are
the little girls delightfully."- attircd,
! and as they are also pictures of per-
feet health one is driven to the con-
clusion that American parents are
ideal parents.
The fog is boon to the burglar
Not only does it make matters easy
for him as far as affecting an en-,
trance is concerned, but should he
be seen it is a simple matter for him
to escape. Fog might be described
rs an atmospheric jimmy"
Plays are manufactured for the
public just as shoes are-according
to pattern which experience has
shown to be a good seller" and
which will please anybody. The pub
lie is assumed incapable of caring for
works which would shake up its men
tai Incidence or its dull sensibility.
Tell the average mechanic, for ex
ample, to make you a cupboard or a
doghouse, and he will go cheerfully
to work. But he is bound to intro
duce into it some variation or i'm
provement of his own. And he will
probably spend more pains on this
feature than on the rest of the work.
1t will be either larger or smaller
than your own measurements, be-
cause that is matter on which he
|, will exercise his own judgement,
which he invariably considers to be
superior to yours. Of course there
is something to be said for these
traits of character. They show en-
terprise and originality.
Public libraries are not for the
poor people. Let person
woman or child-enter one, and il
they are poorly dressed, it's hun
dred to one shot that if they ask for
information as to a book, that they
are treated as if they were not want
ed there by the library employe.
Yet, if a handsomely attired person
enters the place, the attendants will
break their necks. SO to speak, to
serve him. Public libraries are
mostly patronizcd by people who are
: able financially to purchase their own
books, while the poor, who cannot
buy books, as they need their money
for food and shelter, are treated in
such manner by library employees,
II many cases, that they never visit
he institution again.
heard discussion, the other
evening p, and con, by q gathering
, II fathers and mothers, rs to whether
mothers should teach their daugh-
tiers the secrets of birth as one
teaches the child botany and other
, natural subjects, or allow their girls
to learn these things furtively-
where and when they may. l, my
self, hold decided views on this sub
iect, and think it a mothers abso-
. lutte and sacred duty to teach hel
girl all that she may herself know
about the mysteries of birth. | also
believe the day is coming when u
saner and more practical view of the
matter will be generally taken, and
when difference to q sO-called del
icacy will not be allowed, as it does
r at the present time. to foster the
ignorance and sometimes compass
the ruin of girls and young women
Ignorance is not innocence.
The beliefs of men are various, and
some of them have the peculiar prop
erty that they can be changed from
one extreme to another in almost nc
time. In q restaurant the Other
night, several men were discussing
their dogs,
Yes, that dog can do anything
but talk"
J Well, it's wonderful the intel
igence they have: Why, had @
fOx-terrier once
And yet they say that dogs can
reason! Why, q friend of mine
That's right! You can t tell me-
} And when he was killed. it wa,
just like losing one of the family
My wife"
We'll, / believe if there's a here
after for human beings, there's one
for dogs. | don't see"
." Here, here! Come here! Yo,
brainless little beast! Stop nosing il
t those scraps! Don't you get enough
to eat at home? Go over in the cor