Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-06-21

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kiam Gntently watching a gang OF
men breaking stone to make a new
road, when along comes Starfsh):
Hello, Klam! What are you look
Ing for?"
Klam: The sermons | have heard
that are to be found in stones"
If | had power, a law would be en-
acted making it a peniten tiary Of
fense for married woman, whose
husband has position, to go away
from home and work. A husband
should support his wife without her
working Another thing; there are
hundreds of women who must make
THUR own living, who reed the work,
that a married woman who has q
husband earning enough to support
her, takes away from her; in other
words, the married woman takes the
bread and butter out OF the mouth OF
the woman who is compelled to make
her own way.
Most every big daily newspaper
devotes a large amount of space,
picturing and printing lot of gush,
rant and rot, as to what vaudeville
actresses (who have been on the
stage perhaps one season. eat. wear,
and do. While about six lines suf-
flee in speaking of the old time legit-
innate actress. who has talent, who
has brain, and who has studied and
studied her work, while the So
called vaudeville actress who shouts
q ragtime song, wears short skirt,
and knows more about a spotlight"
than the multiplication table, are
having their photos taken looking
down at rose. It's time the big
papers blue -penciled this vaudeville
actress "lost-her- diamonds, rot and
bunkum.
Harry Ferguson. the recently re-
called preacher Mayor of Hoquiam,
gained some notoriety when he was
Mayor by declaring in a sermon de-
livered in Aberdeen that he had
been called by the Lord to save Ho-
quiam from sin.
Instead of saving Hoquiam from
sin, he Gudging by the majority of
votes cast for his recall by the citi-
zens Of HOquiam) only encouraged
and created more sin. II encourage
ing wage-earners to strike, causing
business stagnation; fermenting dis
sension, confusion; making old time
friends enemies, isn't as sinful and
more 81, than the so-called sins of
those who reside in a restricted dis
trict (for the scarlet woman is con-
sidered dead as far as society is con-
cerned, though not by Him whom
such sky pilots as Harry Fergusons
profess to serve) l should like to learn
why.
The voters of Hoquiam, in my
individual opinion. covered them
selves with manhood, self-respect,
honor and horse-sense, so to speak,
by establishing peace and content
ment from now on in Hoquiam, by
retiring into political oblivion. at
least, its one-time preacher Mayor,
Harry Ferguson.
Let the band play; start the bon
fire, and run up Old Glory.
y y 4
June.
June is one mon tn in the year when
l am really glad to know that l am
fast coming to that age where the
music of that poem which I read
a long, long time ago when l didn't
unders tand as much as I do now
about life and things, the one that
reads THE last leaf upon the tree"
comes home to me like the grooming
of mother to her slumbering babe.
1t strikes me that way, because l am
fast reaching that stage in life when
the call OF death will come as song.
But June is the time when l feel it
most and l reckon it must be because
June is the month for brides and
roses. two of the worlds fairest Gre
ations. The bursting Of bud into
bloom. that's it, whether it is the
rose or the bride. It's the begin
ming OF life for them both, and l am,
as l have said, at the stage where l
can look upon the birth of both with
gentle smile and say: "It is well."
What mystery there is in store
for these blossoms!
What a wonderful labyrinth is
open to them, and l, who have sue
cessfulIy followed the clue and met
Minatour of life's vagaries and de-
stroyed it, look with keen pleasure
upon the wondrOus gaze of wide eyes,
as the young flower opens its petals
and gazes about in surprise and
wonderment. Once when ! was
younger, l couldn't do that; l was
too busy finding my own way through
the winding path. unlocking the
dor inc pirod with our;oc;tv ut ul,ot