The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-08

- 1911
Whistling. says a London paper, is
intensely and peculiarly English. and it
Las fiourished very much Of late years,
which fact looks a little awkward o
the intellectual character AS well a
personal manners Of the nation. Let
any elderly persono Of good observation
an memory Try to think what would
have been the effect upon q room full Of
people. in his salad days. had q steady.
continues whistle been set up by any
one in company. There were no rail-
way carriages for people to whistle in;
bit fancy if any passenger in q stage
coach had ventured 70 whistler We all
Know that a habit spreads very quickly,
anl the habits Of individuals become
DE habits ~ classes. and in time the
aei!,iis Of n nation. There is just the con-
nciisn between ann Individual and his
cpunlry, through the classes with which
H. Is nlost familiar. that there is be-
tween the sentiment of egotism and the
sentiment OF patriotism. through the
middle sentiment of p~arochiality.
This particular habit Of whistling. thefe-
fore. may have spread from a potboy
70 a people. passing through many steps
of class contagion by the way.
Few Erenehmen whistle, and Italians
never. The French. indeed, have a
proyerb on the subject. which Is not
complimentary to their lively neighbors,
ourselves. Khen Germans WHISTLE
and it is not often they DO. II Is with,
melody prepense. They cultivate odd
gifts of amusement, those cornwall
Teutons. .and whistling Is sometimes
practiced among them as an accom-
piishment- But q u precisely because
"a German whistles with skill that he
keeps his endowment for service when
-called upon. and seldom whistles in
public. or without being asked. The
Englishman who cannot whistle does.
DO we not all know the stolid fat man
OF y few words, but Of one a~unceasing
sound. who is SO entirely the creature
OF habit that he takes up the same posi-
ton at regular periods. and II he can
NJ get his accustomed chair pines
%nervously in another? But. in his place
or out of it. he whistles softly and oleag-
inously, as If he would never grow
thin. His whistle Il not the shril pi-
ping Of the plebeian youth, who suffers
not the drowsy sir 70 siumber o tho
sharp winter Wind to thrflr him into
silence. ut is fat, round, soft, hard
breathing whistle, a s5ofk-an elderly
grampus overcome by heat. Then
there is the restless man who whistles.
and who. 50 far from gravitating to one
loved spot, never sits five minutes, in
any, hisHwhistie u the most ~irritating
OF all, for he sseemss 70 be gperpetually
suffering from q bad tune in the head.
which be ID vainiy trying to whistle
AWAY. The restless whistler is great at
the DEVILS tattoo. He beats that infer
nal rappel with his finger-nails on the
table. ON the crown of his hat, on any
thing responsive to the diabolical
drumming. A<knifel or IL poker will
serve him In keeping up . steady tap
tap-tap for IS bad quarter Of an hour
as eyer was chimed on-a cracked bell.
II chance should move him to put his
hands in his pocket 1t Is . dead certain
ty that he win whistle. For he is the
bird of Ill note; the prophet Of disturb
nice in the moral atmosphere; the
mother Carey's chick of the vexed life
sea-