Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-08-05
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INDIVIDUAL OPINION)
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Mrs. Klam: I've been reading
an article on electricity 1t appears
that before long we shall be able to
get pretty well everything we want
by just touching a button. .
Mr.. Klam: 1t will never pay
here. You'd never be able to get
that way.
Mrs. Klam: "Why not?'
Mr.. Klam: Because nothing on
earth would ever make you touch a
button. Look at my pants.
Bishop Scadding, of Portland,
strongly opposes the argument that
pure Christianity is Socialism. He
says: q have been at Socialist
meetings where it was asserted and
accepted almost as a dogma that
Jesus Christ taught Socialism. The
story of his whole life proves that
his face was turned in an opposite
way-he appealed to the individual
and not to the mass as an organiza-
tion."
First Olympia Girl: A girl
shouldn't marry a man until she
oil ohD,,< liz, -
Second Olympia Girl: Good
gracious! If she knew all about
him she wouldn't marry him."
More commercial candOr. In a
San Francisco paper a piano was
offered for sale. and the announce
ment concluded:
"TO see this instrument it would
stagger any man who knows what a
piano should be-"
If the tone Of the piano staggers
the community the man who pays
his money cannot complain that he
wasn't warned.
The number of unoccupied houses in
Seattle at the present time is due to the
fact that a large number Of undesirable
dwellings have been abandoned in favor
of more modern structures, according to
a report made at to-day's meeting of the
Seattle Chamber Of Commerce. "-Se-
attic Times.
The more truthful reason is be-
cause the tenants of the houses could
not keep in employment; thus could
not pay the rent, hence were COM
PEELED to vamOOSe.
A writer in a popular magazine
says we do not go TO the play to get
information about human nature.
and that more is to be learned about
human nature, by anyone capable oi
learning, in a street-car than thea
ter. If that assertion lie clever, il
has the demerit of being untrue.
For the proper purpose OF the drama,
as indeed of all art, is to select sig
nificant moment in human affairs
that will bring out and reveal thf
character of a man or a woman.
am afraid the writer of the article in
question is not a street-car traveller;
if he be. he must have q marvellous
penetration, for l know of no more
typical example of people with their
masks on than those who ride in
street-cars. Drama will always hold
supreme fascination for people who
desire to understand character, be-
cause it reveals in q living way GER
tain crystalized facts about it that
no other art can.
And now clergymen, in different
parts of the country are censuring
moving picture shows.
LOrdy, Lordy! What will not
preachers attack as an Evil-every-
thing. seemingly. under the canopy OF
heaven but-themselves. The tend:
ency of the present day is to indulge
in pleasure giving, or, rather, pleas
ure receiving, shows no sign of fail
ing. In almost every populOus town
there is to be found o skating rink,
and a moving picture show. to say
nothing of other attractions. such as
theaters, dances, and so forth. True
it is there are those who deplore this
as tending to produce q type OF hu-
manity deficient in the bolder ele-
ments, but at least it is open to the
reply that the present day-life of the
toiler lends itself peculiarly to the
fascination OF these and similar at.
fractions. The worker to-day must
work generally at a faster pace than
his forefathers knew, AMI bis envi.
ronments in general do not all com.
pensate him for the increased nerve.
strain which modern industrialism
produces. There is little aptitude
for mental exercises after the day Z
work in the factory, or store, is end
ed, and it at least stands to the
credit of moving picture shows thai
they give him amusement, and some
times instruction, without the tain
of alcoholism, which he would neces
sarily receive if he were obliged to g
to a saloon for his relaxation. Every
man is not a bora philosopher, mol
even checker player, and it would
be well if the preachers who ahus,
and censure moving picture shows
! would af laacf thipE ybo<bor <b.