Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-12-15

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We drain the cup with laughter,
And never learn till late
That marriage is the morning after.
john Nicholas Be6s'. ts Judge. -
Courtship is the wine of life.
Drinking always brings remorse.
We mount the water wagon when
We petition for divorce.
-P-I.
If courtship is the wine of life.
Which we drink with laughter.
Marriage must be the breakfast food,
OF trouble. quarrel, disaster.
No one ever speaks kindly of the
postoffice pen.
No sooner are Thanksgiving dishes
wiped than the Christmas table
must be set.
Wonder what the shade of old
dragon, queue-lOving old Ii Hung
Chang, thinks OF China-the United
States of China?
Like the play of Uncle Tom s
Cabin, the celebration of the execu-
tion of the Chicago anarchists who
participated in the Haymarket riots.
should be prohibited - they only
cause discussions and quarrels; that s
all.
The Rev. J. S. Hwang, OF the
Chinese Baptist Church in Seattle.
likens the Chinese throwing off the
Manchu bondage to the throwing off
OF the Egyptian yoke by the children
OF Israel, and declares that Sun Vat
Sen is the Chinese Moses. Pass the
plate, please.
In speaking of the new book of
verse written by Mrs. Ella Higgin-
son, just published by G. NJ. Sher-
man of Bellingham, the P..L says
It's slender volume" Admitting
the volume is SLENDER" none can
deny that it isn't chuck full of ro-
bust, corpulent aud strong, delight
ful and charming, literary ideas.
The name Taft. when spoken, pic
lures aE diversified fat gentleman
who is truly honest, homelike and
gentle, but there is no spark OF elec-
trio patriotism. energy or force in
spired by it. The name Taft makes
one think Of a Sunday school tract.
pair of slippers, rocking chair. and
a sleepy, dying fire in the CRATE.
The cOld-blooded. amazing and
astounding confession of the Nc
Namara brothers at Los Angeles,
was a solar plexis blow to those mem
5ers of organized labor who have de.
clared publicly that these men were
being prosecuted and bounded to
prison by Burns. Burns had the
goods on them from the start, and
he has not finished the case yet.
c. S. Dudley, OF Seattle, a ceme-
terry sexton, lately had charges pre-
ferred against him by several chill
dren living in the neighuorhood OF
the cemetery. Three girls, aged 9.
IL and IL years old, made state
ments which caused the officers to
arrest him. II Dudley is guilty. he
ought to be made to dig his own
grave, shot and dumped into it.
That's the way to treat all his kind.
No use talking, our laws need re-
upholstering, and need it badly. Now
adays If a woman is young and
handsome. I" she can shoot and kill a
man with the knowledge that no
jury will convict her. But if some
working woman. hair-lipped. freckled-
face and pug-nosed, should kill o man
it's two to one shot she is convict
ed. There should be one law for all
handsome or ugly.
1t would be better TO-DAY # Sc
attle had red-light district, along
with two or q dozen Arcade dance
halls. Those so-called "cafes," in
Seattle are more dangerous to young
girls than the Arcade dance-hall was
in its palmiest days. Reformers
would be doing q Christian duty TO-
wards young girls who they are
eternally clamoring about saving
from a life of shame" should they
establish restricted district.
4 4 4
Captain James Axtell, OF the local
Salvation Army of Centralia, in or
der to attract a crowd, recently
placed himself in a coffin at the army
hall, that city, and was carried down
Tower avenue to the corner of Main
street. He arose." says the News-
Examiner of Centralia. "and ad-
dressed the crowd and then got
back into the coffin and was carried
back to the hall. Here he again