Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-03-05

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Tacoma has twenty-five Vac
earnrr> owning their own homes,
to Seattle one.
Many a piano-player is not SO from
choice h" must eat, as WEI. as the
c.crr, or hcgTar.
The 4uiilotinr has been revived in
France Wonder if Marie Antoin-
cite j. looning up or down?
Tacoma. far as decp-Sca shipping
is concerned, has Seattle beaten To a
frazz.e, as the hate President Roo>c-
Welt would putt
Sometimes The rich banker hash t
half the manly qualities and princi
Giles about him, as are possessed by
the genuine hobo.
John Watermelon Rrddington,
who published the SIM in Tacoma,
a few years ago. is now employed ON
the Nt,h .Jo1,noi, at Reno, Nevada.
1t is not fashion that changes. it
is women $ taste. No woman will
admit that the same style of dress
can salt her several years in success
sion.
\ Canadian physician protests
against the practice of the singing
psalm tunes to sick people. " Such
music he complains. makes the
patient feel that he is in the last
stages.
Some would-be Greedy, WatterSon,
Scott newspaper editors establish a
standard for their paragraphs, which
they (thr cditors) themselves. can
not write. Great to be " boss,
ism il?
The man who has Il good position
will tell You it it the best town on
Earth, but the fellow, in the same
place, out of employment, has every
thing in pawn, will most likely in
form you that it is IA h of Il town
Ever notice it?
Notice how many great men are
having their crntennlals celebrated
this year? They are all dead ones
You may get yours in another 200
years, but in the meantime don you
prefer To help celebrate others?
Funny. ism it?
Surely times are prosperous among
the big newspapers in the East, if
nothing else. No magazine section
of Il Sunday issue of hi. newspapers
published in Eastern cities, have
contained the article: In Turk
lSh Harcm. - for at least three weeks.
Every vessel that secures its main
cargo in Tacoma. which. after load
ing. happens to call at Seattle, out
ward bound. is claimed by Seattle
rs receiving its full cargo there
The Seattle spirit seems to be
" 1t 5 all mine. whether true or not.
Feeding Cosgrove on matted milk.
alone, doesn't seem to make him
" fine as silk. as an old song has it,
a small piece of meat, though it
came from the political crow would
no doubt be quite pleasing and ac-
ceptable to the Governor. rs the
change of diet just about now.
a self-appointed instructor in
civics in Olympia. nine years of age.
was rehearsing the greatness of the
President. when he was interrupted
by one of his hearers. a little girl of
five. who said. gently. but with a
certain air of rcprOoff: God made
the country; he only let's the Pres
ident run it.
When is known the people Of Ia
coma have no equal as providers of
table eat;IbleS, those two men who
were reported as Subsisting on food
filched from Tacoma garbage cans.
to speak the bare, naked truth, have
been living on wine-ratc DelmOnicO
menu, all the while, without being
aware of the fact.
An Eastern Washington editor
says, :" the impulse to confess is one
of the deepest seated of human
springs Of action. At the present
time the impulse to undress APP
pears to be the most deeply seated
if the number of freak SalOme dane
ers who are in the show business, just
now. are any criterlOnS.
From a Red Bluff, Cal, paper, it
is learned u citizen of that town has
a remarkable hen which makes u
practice of laying her eggs on the
kitchen table. The article does not
state whether this very Obliging hen
also lays an egg-cup and a spoon to
match, but it is assumed it does, as
most anything can happen in the
Golden State.
Save up your dimes, your nick
els and your rocks, and you'll always
have tobacco in your old tobacco
box" is an old saying. The saying
is not worth repeating. If one saves
every penny and doesn't buy his to-
baccO, providing he use the filthy
stuff. he generally buns it from
others who pay for it. How can he
save his dimes if he pays for his
Lady Nicotine.
Many occupations there are which
give unfortunate youth no chance at
all of providing for its future. Even
when the outlook may seem some
what promising, it is clouded by the
fact that so many boys are employed
that there is no room for them when
they become men and seek man s
wage. Bright and smart at sixteen,
they find themselves turned adrift at
nineteen or twenty, with no pros
poets and no trade.
A Small Matter Of Considerable importance.