The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-11-15
NO. IS
WHTSTLING FOR HEALTH.
RESULTS ATTEND LATEST
AND SIMPLEST DRILL.

You may throw away your develop
er, your dumbbells or Indian clubs
and take tc much more convenient
and comfortable means of exercising
your chest measurement and keeping
yourself in trim. All you have to do
is to whistle! But you must whistle
regularly and according to prescrib-
ed plan.
German and Swedish professors of
physical training have long advocated
and practiced breathing exercises as
the bes. means of promoting health.
There are many drill schools in this
country where almost the whole busi-
ness of the pupils is to lie flat on their
backs on tables and for a certain time
do nothing more than fill and empty
their lungs with air. Wonderfully
successful results have attended this
method.
Alice Shaw, who has whistled be-
fore audiences of nearly every nation
in the world, delares that all scientific
and artistic practice of the art must
be the result of an expulsion of air
from the lungs through the throat and
lips, each affecting in turn the current
of air started by the working of our
breathing organs. She AYERS that
whistling is really singing-without
words. In saying this she is upheld
by the musician Marchesi, who allows
that what Mrs Shaw does is "singing"
in all that the technical definition of
singing requires.
To whistle we'll you must breathe
out long and steadily like singer.
No good whistler ever draws the breath
in except, of course, between the pro-
duction of the different sounds. But
it is as means of prolonging life and
alleviating suffering that attention is
now being turned to whistling. 1t is
claimed that those subject to ailments
of the throat and chest may be greatly
benefited by this new and interesting
method of treatment. The mind is oc-
cupied while the exercise is going on.
This, say the physicians, is a great
point. The lungs are expanded and
the muscles of the neck and bust de-
veloped.
Apart from its peculiar beneficial
results 1t is worth while knowing how
to whistle WELL As with everything
else, there is right whistle. Set
about acquiring the accomplishment
in the right way, and you will soon
become remarkably proficient, but an
uninstructed novice will be a long time
before he can give any one pleasure
by his attainments.
This is the way to do it: Throw the
head back, fill the lungs to their ca
pacity and then with the lips and
throat in proper position expel the air.
After a time modulations should be
practiced and then any airs that suit
the taste of the performer. A little
whistling every day will achieve unex-
pected success. Volume and strength
of note will come very quickly. 1t is
quite possible to "phrase" in whistling
as in singing.
A celebrated performer can all but
speak by whistling, so delicately vary
ing and madulating the sound as to
make it an expression of an idea he
has in his mind. A simple example
of this power is the "interrogative
whistle" which can be performed by
nearly any one.
Another professional whistler claims
to be able to whistle two notes at the
same time. A famous French enter
tainer who was in this country recent
ly whistled like nightingale with
handkerchief stuffed in his mouth.
A good ear for music is necessary
before one can become really first
class whistler. But no other natural
qualifications that are not possessed by
ninety people out Of every one hundred
are wanted. Special exercise Of the
lips is superfuous. The beginner will
find that his lips are little chapped
after practice, but this wears off and
does not recur. The trill is really the at
tractive and pleasing part of good