Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-05
WRESTLING AND wHIsTLERs.
Some Reasons why Rlen and Even
Women vhistte-A Preventive
OF Profanity.

1t is an accomplishment which proves
very useful in variety Of emergencies.
Many young man going home from see
ing his girl and plodding over a lonely
country road, would have been scared to
death only that he whistled up his cour
age; otherwise he would have been look
ing about for ghosts and highwaymen,
and got frightened by the sound of every
falling leaf or perambulating cat. The
whistle prevents him from hearing mys-
FERROUS sounds, and his attention being
taken up with trying to follow the tune
and working his eyebrows in unison, 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
hitting the sin of profanity because they
whistled when they pounded their FORE
finger instead of the tack with which they
were attempting to fasten the carpet to-
ward the evening of spring cleaning
day.
Men whistle when they are happy and
they whistle when they are sad. When
you see carpenter or a house painter
pushing the plane or slabbing on the
paint and whistling lively air at the
same time, set him down as man who
pays his debts, is cheerful at home and
never whips the children. When the
latter task has to be performed his wife
has to do it.
When man is sad lac whistles in
doleful tone. Nine times out of ten he
won't choose dismal air, but he will
whistle lively tune, hornpipe or a
negro minstrel song. And he will draw
the melody in and out between his lips
in way to draw tears from all listeners.
Sometimes man accompanies the same
result when he is cheerful and trying to
whistle real good.
When man is studying some complex
problem, wondering how he can live at
the rate of $1,000 year on a $500 in
come, or something of that 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
rs far as the elbows into his pants pock-
cts, will whistle-whistle softly.
When man is suddenly surprised at a
preposterous statement, If he is very
profane he will say: eli and d-na-
ton" Ii mildly profane he will say ::
"The dip If not at all wicked he will
whistle: "W-h-e-w"
Girls cannot whistle we'll as rule. Now
and then there is one who can, but she
is an honorable exception to the rule.
But girls, as 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 was ever
known to hear him. He was q fat, happy
looking old gentleman, and he used to
walk with slow, rolling gait, which in a
shorter man and one of quicker move
ments would have degenerated into wad-
die. He always walked with his hands be-
hind him and his lips pursed into tho at
titude OF 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 school
mates, his sweethearts, and later his wife,
and his brethren and sistersi in the church,
his neighbors, children and grandchil-
dren, at the early stages of their acquaint-
ance with him, waited for the tune, but
all were disappointed and he died and
made no sound. Doubtless there was a
tune in his mind of so rollicking and
worldly character that his position in
the church would not allow him to let il
go forth to set bad example to the
young. And SO he heroically restrained
the earthly desire and went down to his
grave with the pucker on his lips and the
world none the worse for his having
whistled all to himself.