Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
LET THEM WHISTLE.
Dr. Talmage Discourse5 on Fafnn- --. jar and HomelY Themes.

QoalJlIul than UElS e&SFClSo. | u0 1dC- ulty has been granted to those of us who can not sing much. Though we might lose our way in tune if we attempted the customary soprano CT bass, we revel in the sounds which, without any skill, rush with the breath through the contracted lips Grumblers seldom, if ever, whistle. Tho art is left only for the blithe and cheerful. Whether it is th5 whistle that makes the good cheer, or the good cheer that makes the whistle, we have now no timc to analyze This kind of music is an inspiring accompaniment of work. Let two masonS be busy on the sc2ffolding, their strength alike, their hods and trowels alike, the one who whistles will better set the bricks and rear the truest wall. Do not rob us of any of our helps. What the world wants is an augmentation of diver sions and entertainments; not less skip and romp and curvetinC, but more. God has no objections to it or He would not fill the kitten with play and the lamb with. frisk and the dog with facetious bark, and send the night wind around the gable with mouth full of whistle.
 We know not why women with all their cares should be denied the exercise, and yet an ungallant rhyme has for ages for bidden it. Do tell us something that women may do! You do not want them to skate or lecture or preach or walk too fast or laugh very loud, and you finish your long list of prohibitions by saying: -
 Whistling girls and growing hens
 Always come to some bad end"
 There are times in @ woman's life when apsalm-tune does not seem particularly ap propriate and a carol seems too formidable to attack-the former is too grave and the latter too jubiIant-and nothing on earth is consonant with the circumstances but whistle. That privilege shall not be denied If we have any thing to say about it.
 Soon after going on board steamer we noticed little pewter instrument that hung to the boatswain's jacket On such sim pie thing you would not suppose a man could make more than one or two sounds, but that little instrument can play hun dred tunes, and at it's call cables, cordage, rigging, sails, colors, boats and anchor re- spond, and the crew fly swiftly from hammock to capstan and from capstan to ratlin. After eight days of head wind we heard the boatswain's long, keen, resounding whistle. It meant that the wind had changed and the sails must go up. There was in that pewter whistle more music than in any harp we have since heard, and when it fell down again from 
 to see where all that chirrup and glee of sound and shrillness of blast could hide themselves Thus we sail on in life, and sometimes in the teeth of head wind, and it is tough navigation. Our whistle, dangling to our neck. seems of no use. Every thing is against us, but after awhile there is a change in the moon, and the wind that was adverse wheels around and into our favor. Then we take up our whistle and, all hapjs on deck, the sails arise and the port lopms up in the distance. If at such time we make more noise with our mouth than we ought to charge it to the boatswa1n's whistle.
 So, also, we would be less hard on all kinds of frolicsomeness. For instance, haz- ing at college is to be reprehended, but it is no worse now than it has always been.
 It seems that some time ago the students of college diSarranged the store signs, in lured street lamps, sang discordant songs, and disturbed the village until commit tee of the citizens waited upon the mayor, and large group of the young men were arrested, taken before the authorities, threatened with the penitentiary, and their names telegraphed throughout the land. People say: "What are our colleges coming to!'' and "What a generation of wayward young men are marching on to take possession of our institutionsl If staid, orthodox, solid colleges do so, what may we expect of insti- tutions reckless and anti Calvinisticl" My friends, there is no cause of alarm; the boys are doing just what their fathers and grandfathers did before them. As long as l can remember I was shown hn ,,1n nn nf building where one bright morning there were found a load of wood and mule attached to the load, all raised to that bad eminence by the sophomore class during the night-some of the men engaged in the achievement afterward Senators of the United States and doctors of divinity. l reprehend the young men who in Princeton put an under takers sign on an apothecary store, and I chide them to be more careful, while at the same me give 1t as my opinion that they sometimes have overheard the recital in some minister's study, or lawyers office, of the college pranks in which their fathers and grandfathers participated. Boys will be boys-that is, boys that turn out good for any thing. While I set myself against all youthful mischief as every one must, and suggest that when these young men sing at night as far as possible they confine them selves to church tunes and retire at ten o'clock in the evening, punctually, never
 theless parents should not imagine that al | is lost because their sons are sometimes
 little frisky, and public officials ought t. l be lcnient in their chastisement. Thes | young men do not need a ceH in the peni
 tentiary, as nave seen it hinted, but the.
 need private talk by some kind old man
 judge or professor, or college president
 who will put his spectacies up on hi
 forehead and take the young man by tn
 hand and tell hin of the great possibilitie
 that are open before industry and sobrlety
 and of the grief that his i'll behavior vii
 bring to parental hearts so anxious fo
 his welfare, and then say: "That i
 ali, my son." But this throwing our
 selves back on frigid dignity and in merci
 less condemnation of the present, Q
 though the past had all the virtue and al
 the honor and all the propriety, is an as
 sumption hypocritical and unjustifable.
 Now I am resolved, and will you, kin
 reader, join me in the resolution, to be il
 good humor with men and women, boy
 and girls, and sweeten our judgments.
 people want to whistle let us join in the ez
 ercise, and if boys will be boys, let us nc
 conclude they are going to ruin.
 We know people so genial that their fac
 Is always full of sunshine and there is n
 night there. When they have trouble we ca
 scarcely tell whether they are crying c
 laughing The wave of tears dashin
 against bank of smiles. But there ar others who arc explosive and gunpowder
 under slight provocation. There is such
 thing (lgho would have thought itD as
 snappy editor. When you enter his ed torial rooms he does not look up for lon while. You stand with your hat in hant thinking what a luxury it would be to , asked to sit down. While you are medita ing the best way of attracting his attel tion he suddenly looks over his shouldt and spits out; "What is it!' There is | flash in the eye and venom in the tor that you feel yourself villain, thoug 1A