Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-09-09
WHOLE NUMBER 1928.
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The reason some men never get
out OF debt is because they are KEEP,
SO busy getting in.
Some women mistake a moving
picture Show-house for a house OF
neighborhood scandal and gossip.
If women spend money as fast as
they talk, it is small wonder that
they are generally in need of the
stuff that makes the mare go.
How oft the means to do i'll
deeds make i'll deeds DONE" quoted a
lSt. Louis lawyer, in pleading for a
young woman charged with theft.
Starfsh: II find it harder and
harder to live within my means.
klam: That ought to be easy
enough. What I'm trying to do is
to live within the means my wife is
endeavoring to make the public be-
lieve we have.
Population of town is no test of
merit. | have lived in some towns
from necessity and others from choice.
A man must go where work is. and it
is only when he has acquired comp
etence that he is free to please him
self with the character of his sur
rOundings. -..
The Seattle electric street-car man.
agement will not allow fire inspec-
tors, under City Electrician Howard
Joslyn. in Seattle to ride free on the
street cars unless they are in uni
form. This is the right idea. Let
the Inspectors wear their uniforms:
that's what they are paid for.
Conrad Hoska, the undertaken of Ia
CANA, who buried thousands, was him
sell cremated in the new Tacoma crem-
atory.-Tacoma Times.
Certainly. Mr.. Hoska was a man
with genuine blown in the bottle
horse sense when it came to sanitary
facts, and the health of the public.
Catch the idea? Cremation is the
only proper thing for the dead.
1t is reported o. M. Moore, former
editor of the White Rirer Journal, of
Kent. now lives on a farm in Maine,
where to harness his horses he has a
mechanical system much like that
used by fire departments-pull a
string and down comes the harness
on the animals, all hitched, ready
for driving. Must be coming easy
for Moore back in Maine. He did
not have strength enough while
in HQquiam to pull an imaginary
Stirring" of newspaper popularity,
let alone lift" good sized chunk
OF business-in the advertising line.
P. B. Murray. proprietor of a Sc
attic meat market, "a Pike street,
pleaded guilty to using sodium sui
phite, better known as freezum,"
and was fined $50 and costs, by act
ing Police Judge F. H. Egan. The
P.-L says: " Murray told the court
that be had never been arrested be-
fore for using the preservarive, and
asked the court to be lenient." But
it is not reported that Murray told
the court how many times he had
used the preservative without being
arrested. Murray does not have to
incriminate himself, you know.
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Says the P.-L of recent date, in
an editorial headed, " A woman With
Grit:
Miss Anna C. Wilson, trustee of the
Union Printers Home in Colorado
Springs, has launched plan to raise an
endowment fund of 100000 for the
home 1t is big undertaking, but Miss
Wilson, backed by the sympathy and
support OF the International Typograph-
ical Union. is confident of success, so
confident, indeed, that failure in her
case seems to be extremely remote.
Why may not Miss Anna C. Wilson
work as hard in procuring play
grounds for the children, helping
tired mothers, resign from the trus-
teeship Of the Printers Home at
Colorado Springs, Col, let the men
officials conduct that Institution, and
be Useful among her own sex. Why
not?
Old Time Memories.