Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-10-08
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/ Cook and peary, by discovering
the North Pole, have cured the dis
ease Of many man forevcr-that of
searching for it.
y writer in Success magazine in
Speaking OF Mescal, a certaiu kind of
cactus that grows in Mexico and the
Southwest says it is chewed by the
/ Southwestern Indians, who have
made it the basis of a new religion.
Too bad that Mescal or some other
substance is not used by many old
religious associations which could be
chewed-and spit out.
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\ herd of elephants can attract
an enormous crowd for q few hours.
. after which they cease to be inter
esting. 1t is the same with a herd
of freak law legislators they at
tract for a brief time, public atten-
tion, then they return to their re-
spective homes, die a political death.
unhonored, unwept, unsumg." and
;.rc kindly tucked in by oblivion.
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If Mrs. Steunenberg has forgiven
Harry Orchard for killing her hus-
band, as press dispatches have told
us recently, then Mrs Steunenberg
deserves the censure of every wife in
the country. A woman who will for
give a cold-blooded murderer for
killing her husband, deserves to be
compelled to marry the murderer
she defend and live with him, until
he sees fit to kill her also, so he may
bask in the smiles of his affinity.
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Mr.. j. III. Goodnight. of Franklin.
n.y.. accompanied by his mother. is
on visit to Mrs. Boyd and David and
Bush Baker. relatives, of this city. Mr..
Ii. Is staunch Democrat, and conf
IDENTIFY believes that his State will swing
into line and behave herself hearafter
After Il visit to the A.-I.-P. Fair, they
will return to the State famous for pretty
women, fast horses and pure whisky.
This reminds me of u writer in an
Eastern Washington town who, dur
ing Territorial days. got that State
saying somewhat mixed in the rendi-
tion, " Pretty horses, fast women and
corn whisky
In early days, when the Indians
needed a deer for food, they killed
it, and when the meat was gone
killed another. But with the white
men it was far different. They shot
and slaughtered and butchered the
game, just for the fun of seeing the
animals die, in many instances, and
Oftlmes they left the meat rotting on
the ground. The Indian boys who
are growing up now have forgotten
the old ways of their forefatherS.
Their sireS knew how to track and
hunt. Every one of them knew how
to follow the trails. The Indian
boys who are growing up now, do
not know the art of hunting and
fishing as practiced by their ances-
tors. All they know now is to smoke
cigarettes, drink whisky and-Sleep,
in most cases. rs it is little genuine
work they will do if they can avoid
it. The genuine red man of the
forest is rapidly passing away.
An Eastern Washington exchange
speaking of " sending boys to girls
schools, remarks:
THE hearty. virile. red-blooded,
strong-muscled distinctive male type is
not sought As teachers, but rather the
gentle-spoken, dainty-mannered. sweet
and loving student type, who will be
suitable example for the boy who must
not be rough and who must neither
know soil on his hands nor possess
ginger in his blood
The writer is more or less biased
in favor of male teachers or segrC ga
tion of the sexes, and therefore his
Judgment might be warped in man
ner indicated by the quoted para
graph. We bark back to our school
days when our teachers were older
in years than many who now preside
over the same grades, and when
some of them were looked upon as
veritable viracoes. Their influence
was not in the direction of produc-
ing milksops. There is some rea-
son for the belief that married wo-
men make excellent teachers, also
widows whose home ties are largely
severed, but whose experience in the
bringing up of children proves val
uable. But it savorS OF iconoclasm
when one begins to decry the in
fection OF wOmanly sweetness into
the SchOOlroom. The school teacher
can be " dainty-mannered," gentle
spoken" and sweet and loving, and
still there is no reason why this
should teach the boy not to know
how to soil his hand" And many
Il young school-boy gets more gin
ger in his blood" than is necessary.
Give US the teacher who possesses
these qualities of sweetness and
gentleness without losing her au-
thority. Her hand need not have
rocked a cradle. but she neverthe-
less should possess that sol ,itude
for her charges that inStills in them
the love for all that is best in the
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