Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-02-16
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Far as business is concerned, The
Hague may as well close its doors.
AS Lone Star" production, the
Texas Tommy dance is twinkling
overtime.
The majority OF girls can play the
piano just enough to spoil them for
hOusewOrk
Olympia has very diSagreeable
man. Even what he eats doesn't
agree with him.
| have observed when a man sings
his own praises he invariably gets
the tune too high.
Many women, these days, divide
their time between prayer-meeting,
bargain, counter and gossiping
He dined, not wisely, but too we'll
Hence all his ills;
And nothing now agrees with him
Excepting pills.
A valuable lap-dog was recently
sold in New York city at the hand
some rate of Sl3 per ounce. If you
want money, 60 to the dogs.
The gas route seems to be the
DC pular thing for suicides in Seattle,
at present. There were four deaths
from gas poisoning in Seattle within
a week.
The Seattle man who discovered a
whale in his tish-trap. and called it a
whale, should be awarded a gold
medal for not insisting it the largest
shrimp ever seen in Elliott bay.
During these days of Taft's pros
perity, tramps in Olympia are be-
coming as smart as book agents.
They have become as smooth that a
woman instead of refusing them
food, apologies for not having hot
meal ready.
Should Congressman William f
Humphrey desire in future to show
some person or persons in Washing.
ton, D. c., Seattle endorsement as
to his standing in the Queen City
well, it's 100 to l shot he'll not ask
the Seattle Bar Association for it.
AT a meeting of storekeepers in a
Texas town, the principal of one
firm strongly opposed Sunday clos
ing on the ground that if he had o
free day he would be expected to go
out with his wife. So he preferred,
according to his idea, the lesser evil.
| The Rose Festival Association of
Portland, Ogn., has suggested that
Mount Rainier be renamed Mount
Jim Hill, in honor of the empire
builder. 1t would settle the old
time dispute between Seattle-Ta-
coma, as to whether it is Mount Ia
coma Or Mount Rainier, anyway.
Customer: But that umbrella
looks so awfully cheap and common,
the price you ask for it is preposter-
ous."
Dealer: MY dear sir, that's the
beauty of that umbrella. It's real
ly the very best quality. but it's
made to appear cheap and common
so that no one would think it worth
stealing"
Recently l read in San Fran
cisco paper an article written by an
actress. The article was headed:
How to Keep Fit While On Tour"
1t appears this actress always man
ages to keep fresh and fit because she
keeps every muscle exercised daily"
One trembles to think what would
happen if she overlooked a muscle
have sort of idea that several
OF our actresses keep fit by posing in
automobiles for photographs, or by
showing their teeth for tooth powder
advertisements.
| If he TAFT thinks he would be de.
feated for President of the United States,
it will be his duty to give an opportun-
ity to his party to select stronger man
If it can get him. 1t can get him if Mr..
Taft says SO. -Leslie's Weekly.
1t makes no difference whether
Taft thinks he will be elected or de-
feated, to his party. Neither will
his party ask Taft to give it an op-
portunity to select "a stronger
man." His party will get a strong
er man" than Taft, without asking
Taft's permission, and that strong
est man" Will be Theodore Roose-
welt.
They were telling dog-stories in q
certain place in Olympia, the other
night where one can enjoy Its the