Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-10-07
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Roosevelt is working hard these
days-scratching.
What was it that turned-the tide.
the long lane, or just the worm?
Don't you think for moment,
simply because you detest limburger,
that | admire frog-legs. Sable?
Bread is just as good if broken in
pieces by hand, as when cut with
a gOld-plated, ory-handled bread
knife.
Painted Maud in the red-light dis
trict will not be One-half so drunk.
drinking bottled beer, as will kalso-
mined Rose on Mob Hill, who drinks
the same number of Mumms.
If there really is money in skunks,
as an Eastern man says, any one who
had been near a mustelOid carnivore
will be ready to take oath that the
coin is tainted and is filthy lucre in
deed.
When your friend is dunned by pos
tai card-an infraction of the postal
law, too-yOu laugh at him; but
when you are the recipient of the
same thing, you want to kill some.
body. That's the difference.
Why should the 5-cent yellow
back novel be censured so much as
regard its literature? Just think ol
some so-called Sunday newspapers
that are on sale, with colOred-supple.
ment back. at the same price.
Now that the world has been re-
paired, placed in running order, by
the graduates of 10, Willie and
Maud can help pa" in the field and
ma" in the kitchen, and need no,
compose an essay about it either
But will thev?
When q wife asks her husband the
next morning after he has been out
rather late, why he is so dry, and the
hubby says, Its the water" she
looks at him in pity and wonders
when he will be taken to Steilacoom.
Ever notice it?
Not desiring to knock New York
but it would not surprise me to set
an earthquake like that of Frisco
within the next two years. Timit
people will probably now sell out in
New York and put their money il
Tacoma, city where thieves never
break through and steal, and the
coming Of an earthquake would be {
decided advantage to the inhabitants
While newspapers devote severa
columns to q Cleaning-Up Day. as 9
rule it is too laughable to be taker
seriously. 1t is generally a farce
and merely started, in order that q
lot of women folks may get theil
names in the papers, and this is
about all that is ever accomplished
AS for the benefit that accrues to 9
town; well. it wouldn't take ter
lines of space to truthfully record
them.
A man renting q furnished room
from private family in Olympia
says his room was not swept for two
weeks. He invented q great scheme
He tore small bits Of paper and scat
tered them in each corner. placed
them on the picture frames, behind
the washstand, dresser, bed, and or
the carpet. He says it accomplished
what he intended it to do. The over.
grown daughter now cleans the room
in q proper manner each morning.
What is every mans chief object
in life? Why do we grind through
all the toll and drudgery of school,
and afterwards luxuriate amid the
honeyed flowers of knowledge in the
classic halls of our universities
What is the only object for which a
man will barter every drop of his
life's precious blood, for which he
will blacken the clear light of truth,
with a hideOus cloud of lies, for which
he will desert and betray his best
friend and confident, for which he
will smilingly venture death itselfi
Why it's cash, hard cash. It's all we
live for.
No use talking. men will continue
to bite the hand that has fed them as
long as the world rolls around
Col. Roosevelt, believing in William
Howard Taft, his friend, took off his
coat, rolled up his sleeves so to speak,
went into the field and built up the
largest part OF Taft's Presidential
fence. and now President Taft un.
grateful as he is, assisted by his friend
Ballinger, are and have been for some
time engaged in destroying the fence
Col. Roosevelt built for himself
around the conservation field. There
is an old saw which reads: sleep
with dogs and you'll get f1eas."
In the market of life, we must pay
full price for value received, but
money is not the price for every.