Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-02-04
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Even a physician cannot tell what
is the matter with wagon by loox-
ing at its tongue
The auto is said to promote append
icitis, but this will not deter those
who can scrape up the price.
The man who shouts most for good
government is the one figuring on
becoming an active, salaried part of
it.
I If in one thousand years from now
it will be possible to live 120 years
it is to be hoped that it will be worth
while.
| Virtue does not consist in doing
right, but in choosing to do right.
This is the great distinction between
animal and man.
| have observed that some reform
ers, in trying to make the world bet
ter, merely succeed in making it un-
comfortable.
Horses are iickled, pleased YOU bet,
| Show it by prance and wiggle
Know men adore the airship, now,
So hand auto the equine giggle."
Now DR.. Cooks attorney couldn t
stand for his clients peculiar meth
od' of doing business, and has
dropped him with a whack.
Scientists now say that 4 butter
fly S ear is on its stomach. | do
not dispute the statement but am
thankful it is on the butterhy's and
not on mine.
This country needn't fear u war
with any nation half as much as a
fight with the Standard Oil Com
pany or the Beef Trust, and this is
not joke either
After reacing about mental NAL
practice and treatment for pros
perity in New York | have more
charity for the ancient New England
crs who believed in witchcraft.
Dwellings,, in many parts of the
United States, these days, with the
exception of the windows and doors,
are covered entirely with asbestos
ttireprOOD shingles. Even porches
and cornices are formed from asbestos
squares.
Klam: They have just estab-
l!Shed telephone stations all over the
Alps"
Mrs. Klam: Isn't that NICE
When they get lost up there now all
they have to do will be to call up the
St. Bernard dogs. "
An elephant was guest of honor
at luncheon recently given by
wealthy Eastern people. at Colorado
Springs, Colorado. With the rich
at Newport giving dinners in honor
of monkeys. would not be q bit
surprised to hear that an entire
Zoo was brought into close social re-
lations with the idle rich.
y heartless court has appointed a
cOnServator for the 70-year-Old bride
who recently married an Eastern
university student, aged II. and the
young husband will be arraigned for
perjury in gallantly swearing that
his wife was only "a. There was a
time in this country when people ad
mired an enterprising young man
who tried to work his way through
college.
Poems and Paragraphs is {
curious book and l do not remember
ever to have seen more incongru
ously arranged one. For example
the first place in it is given to a long
rambling poem called "Theodosia.
in which such couplets as the follow
ing reward the reader in quest of ;
glcam Of humOr:
And jacques. the iovial organ-blower.
Had married Betsy, now no more
lin toiling servitude).
The Treasury department ut Wash
ington has given orders that revenue
} cutters shall patrol the water abOu'
, certain Hawaiian islands where
poacherS are ruthless destroying th'
, birds. This protection is intended t.
prevent such indiscriminate slaughte
and to assure the preservation o
birds the value of which is coming
to be more thoroughly appreciated
This is 4 form of conservation tha
is to be commended.
Beautiful. sunny Italy skies il
San Diego, during the Winter" i
the way that Southern Californi
burg advertiseS its Winter climate
From a letter received few day
ago, the writer informs me that tn
rainiest day ever known by the old
est inhabitant" on Puget Sound
would look like q Canadian been
piece with six holes in it, beside tn
rain storm which ushercd in Ne'
years Day at San Diego. Cal.
My individual opinion of Ballinge
is that he is too big for his brceche:
, Being pettei, fawned and slobbere
: over by Taft, he has arrived at th
:, conclusion he is the whole Unite
States. But he isn't. though tasge
all over with Tafts approval. PHI