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# VELVET and RAGS (INDIVIDUAL OPINION) BY LUE F. VERNON Halley's comet has done a vast amount of good for space-writers, anyway. The Republican could not name a better candidate for Governor of the State than Hay-for defeat. The word "insurgent" to a standpat Republican, has the same effect as a red rag to an angry bull. With Gov. Hay, it was a case of "giving Gen. Lamping a free hand in the reorganization" of the National Guard. Just a tip. The Jeffries-Johnson fight will be "pulled off" allright, allright, and Johnson will "bring home de bacon." It is written so. Though the A.-Y.-P. exposition closed with enough money to pay all debts, it has eight damage suits in courts, which aggregate $45,000. Most editors tell their correspondents not to "get funny." However, Mark Twain left an estate valued at $180,000. Still "Mark Twain" humor doesn't grow on every kind of soil. Wonder if the second marriage of Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of W. J. Bryan, will prove more happy than her first one? Here's hoping it will, for her parents' sake if not hers. "Tie Your Little Bull Outside," is a late song in vaudeville circles. It seems if any bull is to come inside, it should be a little one, hence, "Tie Your Big Bull Outside," would be a better title for the song. Ex-Gov. Mead has been appointed receiver for the Home Security Savings Bank, at Bellingham. Next he will be elected city councilman-than death - politically - for one Mead, ex-Governor of Washington. It is well enough for some people who sneer at those whom nature has not given as pretty a face, as themselves, to learn that no difference however ugly the features of a woman may be, she is a Venus in the eyes of someone. # "Lick Turns Big Gold Key Over to Mayor Fawcett" is a heading in a Tacoma newspaper. This is an eye-opener for Seattle. Seattle has heretofore supposed there wasn't enough gold in Tacoma to make an object large as a cambric needle. Rev. M. A. Matthews, of Seattle, said, recently: "The unprotected girl should come in for just a little more attention and protection at the hands of men than the girl from her happy home with brothers and fathers to defend her." Amen. Chief of Police Wappenstein, of Seattle, may not have known that gambling was being conducted in the Monte Carlo saloon, in the red-light district of that city, but the Sheriff's deputies did, so they raided the joint and arrested the dealers of games therein. A Kent prohibitionist was placed in jail the other day for being drunk. His was a case of not practicing what he preached, worked and voted for a "dry" town. Such hypocrites as this Kent man is what disgusts even those who really believe in the "no saloon" cult. Lottie Collins, who sang and kicked her way into popularity, by singing, fifteen or sixteen years ago, the song "Ta-ra-ra-Boom De Aye," died very suddenly at her home in London, May 3d. She toured the United States during her successful career and made plenty of money. The letters of Frank Kenney describing scenes in foreign lands are very interesting and delightful, to be sure. A man who writes such charming descriptive articles cannot do otherwise than handle the king of all beers "It's the Water," and this Mr. Kenney represents as all STANDARD readers know. H. Hriga, a Japanese 29 years old, tried to commit suicide in Fauntleroy Park, West Seattle, by using a revolver. "Too much study, too much work" was all he would say. It is "too much study, too much work" and no play, that kills the average business man of to-day, whether he be a Jap or any other nationality. The Queen of Roumania collected huge sums for a refuge of the blind. A little town was built and inaugurated for the blind of all nationalities. Now orders have been issued expelling all the blind who are not Roumanians, turning them out to exist as best they may. The Queen never donated a cent of the initial cost, but simply collected from charitably inclined folks. This woman may be the Queen of Roumania, but she is a heartless she-devil with it.
