Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-05-24
Whistllng.

We have a supreme aversion to whistIing We would
rather hear the setting of or the rasping OF bur-
dygurdy. 1t is positive nuisance and far worse than
the steam which makes night and day hdeous with their
shreks Despising the practice as wedo we owe vote
of thanks to the Philadelphia Bulletin which denounces
whstling having attained the dignity of national
vice. and maintains that the hardened and unmercul
whistler is character for whom justice demands spe
cia ordinance. Ordinance, we say ! Let him be blown
from the lannon's mouth the East Indian rebels
or let him be served the cobber did his shrewsh wife,
sew his mouth up With our Philadelphia friend we
can heartily sympatse indeed to improve Moore:
Our hearts, my love, were doomed to be
The genuine twins of sympathy,
They live with sensation;
In joy or grief, but most in hate,
When we the whistler's lips berate
Which thrill with cursed vibration
Do we not all know and feel that whistler is either
a coward a fool that be whistles to keep up MS
courage and prevent him from screaming out in alright
or else whistles he goes, for want of thought =
There is no dignity in the vocation. Imagine George
Washington or Washington Irving whstling why you
can't stretch your imagination to such indispensable
case have very perfectdea that whistlng place
among brigands in Italy the chioniers of Paris or the
dead rabbits OF New York, but nowhere among Christian
men. Thieves give low whistles signals to their COM
rades and rakes give similar warnings under their mstre
SEES windows, but in no possible way can be CONSIDERED
as genemeny occupation. The man that goes about
the world with his mouth continually puckered up as
Lady Teaze says, like the aperture of poors box
making an organ pipe of his throat pitched away up
among the edgernes and using his stomach as It's bel
lows sis fit for treason, stratagems and spos We have
often wondered why some Barnum of our day did not
get band of whisters up, each one to draw single
note like the Swiss Bell Ringers for, If people will IN
dulge in the vice, let try to make it profitable
But there wretches to be found crawling this
earth who dare to uphold whistng and say that 1t is
cheerful exercise, betokenng good heart, and they
point you to the birds for precedent and example Here
we Join issue with all such for experience is that Of
the Philadelphia Bulletin, which says has ever found
the habitua whistler a selfish, defiant, desperate crea
ture, who will brook interruption and will put rush
of blood to the head before he will be lwhstIed down.
And the bird don't whistle all the while, and, be
sides, they are able to diversity their performances
by melodous singing. They likewise have large roper
tore Your human whistler is in most confined tc
few airs. He is prone to stay by one strain, with
which he perces you through and through in the very
wantonness of cruelty Your fowns your silent entrea
ties are lost upon the hardened paper Conscience he
is without mercy is far from him. Books of etiquette
do not reach his case What is left but legal enactment"
We most respectfully request the police to abate the nu
sance far possible. We friendly to the swift
execution of the most vigorous measures-Lou Jour.