Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-11-19
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Prary could have spending an even
ing telling each othcr their troubles.
The man wh" wants to borrow a
postage stamp still remains with US:
III these days OF Republican pros
prrty at that.
Wonderful is the United States.
1t was the first to discover the North
Pole, and the first, believe to pro-
ducc a talking crane.
Starfish: "You can't tel, what sort
Of a cook a wife will make"
klam: And you can't tell what
sort of wife a cook will make. and
there you are"
! have an idea that the motion pic
ture shows are destined TO continue
IN popularity. The public viii not
willingly part with actors who do
not expect applause and wouldn t
hear it if it were given.
Hard cider is SO cheap in Switzer-
land that they sell it by the hour-10
cents an hour for all one can drink.
Here is Il chance for the prohibition
lists TO obtain a rosy view of life
real cheap, instead of going through
this vale of tears with frown for
each Edgar Allen Poe and Robert
Burns.
One of the speakers at Il Fedora
tion of Women's club meeting said
that old-time Puritan New England
mothers were not even allowed to
kiss their children on the Sabbath
day, and then she compared that
condition with the present. That
right. They can paddle their child
ren on Sunday now.
The Bible is handy old book in
several ways, isn't il ? | have heard
that the leaves of old Bibles are used
to pack gold leaf in. But | notice a
Salt Lake City, Utah, real estate
tim use it as advertising matter.
Their al reads: Read Proverbs,
chapter XxIv, third verse. Then see
us. The verse of the Bible referred
to reads as follows: Through wis
dom is an house builded, and by un-
derStanding it is established. It's
up to the baking powder companies
now.
If resolutions adopted by the Bea-
con Hill Improvement club of Seattle,
demanding abolition of the black
hole and the third degree" as in
use by the police department Of Sc
attic, do not result in the discarding
OF such cruel practices to prisoners,
there is Yet remedy-kicX Detect
i've Tennant and Prosecuting Attor-
ney Nandeveer out Of their positions.
Though they are officers, they have
no legal right to torture a prisoner
IN order To gain u confession FROM
hlm OF guilt, or anything else.
" Freezum. as used by the seven
teen butchers of Seattle, acted as Il
boomerang to themselves. Judge
Carroll, of the Queen City, upon con-
viction fined the low lived whelps, to
the amount of so, 100. This will, or
should, freezum' for "A while. Men,
who in order to make a dollar will,
by the use of chemicals or anything
else. doctor tainted meat, and sell it
to people who pay the butchers price
for meat, which they suppose in good
condition -healthful, which meat. so
"doctored may cause disease and
death, should be taken-as Rev. NJ.
A. Matthews, the Seattle preacher,
says of those who defame Seattle as a
city outside the walls of Seattle
and shot. Tainted meats, cured by
chemical solutions and sold to the un-
SuSpecting customers, by butchers
should be the cause for hanging each
and every butcher who is proven
guilty of so doing Drastic measures
for drastic deeds. is the thing.
If the babies of this country don t
get their rights it Won be because
they lack friends among the grown
ups. The American Academy of
Medicine has arranged for confer
ence of physicians, sociologists and
educators. to be held at New Haven
Conn, this month, on the preven-
tion of infant mortality. At this
meeting every aspect OF the problem.
from the medical, philanthropic, ed
ucatioral and institutional points OF
view, will be gone into by specialists
who are giving their lives to the
study of the subject. But as 10 the
rights of the babies: Take the single
question of milk as it relates to their
health. Every city that lays any
claim to being civilized has Il Milk
| Commission of some sort or other
now. or Il board of health that says
to the dairyman: The goblinS will
catch you (or what amounts to that
If you don't keep that dairy Of
yours S,rupuiouSly clean. and those
COWS in apple-pie order The time
was when milk was milk, and that
was a., there was of it. But that
was before some indiscrcct scientist
puta drop ot milk on the slide under
his microscope. and then went ahead
and let the rest OF the world into the
secret of what he found there. After
that even The low broWS knew that
things rarely are what they Seem.
They learned that Skjm-milk not
only maSqucrades 4, cream, but that
nice. innocent-ioOking white miii,
might hr Il whole storage ware
house fu!l of germs. Since then
they have learned many more things