The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-20

Some Reasons Why Men and Even
Women Whistle----A Preventative
of Profanity.


Women Whistle----A Preventative
OF Profanity.
Denver Tribune.
1t is an accomplishment which proves
very useful in a variety of emergencies.
Many a young man going home from
seeing his girl and plodding over lonely
country road would have been scared to
death only that he had whistled up his
courage otherwise he would have been
looking about for ghosts and highway
men and got frightened by the sound of
every falling leaf or perambulating cat.
The whistle prevents him from hearing
mysterious sounds and his attention be-
tune and working his eyebrows in uni
son, will have no time to look about for
what might be lying in wait for him.
And before he knows it, he will arrive at
the paternal domIcile and have to study
about getting into the house without
awakening his father.
Many man and great many more
ladies have been prevented from COM
mitting the sin of profanity because
they whistled when they pounded their
forefinger instead of the tack with which
they were attempting to fasten the car
pet toward the evening of a spring -clsan-
ing day.
Men whistle when they are happy and
they whistle when they are sad. When
you see a carpenter or house painter
pushing the plane or slabbing on the
paint and whistling a lively air at the
same time set him down as a man who
pays his debts, is cheerful at home and
never whips his children. When the lat
ter task has to be performed his wife has
to do it.
When a man is sad he whistles IN q
doleful tone. Nine times out of ten he
won't choose dismal air, but he will
whistle lively tune, a hornpipe or n ne
gro minstrel end song. And he VIII
draw the melody in and out between his
lips in a way to draw tears from all list
eners. Some times q man accomplishes
the same result when he is cheerful and
trying to whistle real good.
When a man is studying some complex
promblem, wondering how he can live
at the rate of So, 900 a year on a $500 in
come, or something of the sort, if he has
not got something to smoke he will
whistle. He will walk up and down the
room Or the back yard, or he will sit in
"A rocking chair and thrusting his hands
as far as the elbows into his pants pock-
Il u
When a man is suddenly surprised at
a prepOsterops statement, if he is very
profane he will say: "II-- and d-na-
tionr' If mildly profane he will say:
''The DIP If not at all wicked he will
whistle, "W-h-e-wr'
Girls can not whistle well as n rule. !
Now and then there is one who can, but |
she is honorable exception to the rule. |
There is one pretty, golden haired crea-
ture in Denver who can whistle first rate, |
and let her know it. But girls, us a rule, |
whistle in jerky. disconnected sort of |
way and groan mildly between the notes |
There used to be pious old deacon of |
the Baptist church who was continually |
whistling, although nobody ever was
known to hear him. He was n fat hap
py-looking old gentleman, and he used
to walk with a slow, rolling gate, which,
in n shorter man and one of quicker
would have degenerated |
into a waddle. He always walked with |
his hands behind him and his lips pursed |
into the attitude of n perpetual whistle. |
Thus he would roll along the quiet |
streets of the town where he passed his
peaceful life, ever with the whistle Just
about to emerge from his lips, but still it
never escaped. When he was very
young, his schoolmates, his sweethear.s,
and later on his wife, and the brethren
and sisters in the church, his neighbors,
children and grandchildren. at the early
stages of their acquaintance with him.
waited for the time, but all Were disap-
pointed and he died and made no sound
Doubtless there was a tune in his mind
II SO rollicking and worldly a character
hat his position in the church would not
allow him to let it go forth to set bad
Example to the young. And so he hero
cally restrained the earthly desire and
vent down to his grave Il with pucker
1pon his lips and the world none the
worse for his having whstled all to him
self.
The Way OF a Georgia Girl.
Philadelphia Times.
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