The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-02-13

dry. Keep the plants up from the
ground and carry rotted fruits off the
field. Some varieties are less apt to
be blighted or to rot. These should
be cultivated if valuable from other
standpoints. Other new varieties can
be selected and bred that will be still
better.
WHISTLING FOR HEALTH.
WONDERFUL RESULTS ATTEND LATEST
AND SIMPLEST DRILL.
You may throw away your develop
er. your dumbbells or Indian clubs
and take to 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 have TO whistle regularly and
according TO prescribed plan.
Germans and Swedish professors of
physical training have long advocated
and practiced breathing exercises as
the best 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. Wodel fully
successful results have attended this
method.
Alice Shaw, who has whistled be-
fore audiences of nearly every nation
in the world, declares that all scienti-
fic and artistic practice of 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 "sing-
ing" in all that the technical defni-
tion 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 production Of the different sounds.
But it is as means of prolonging life
and alleviating suffering that atten-
tion is now being turned to whistling.
1t is claimed that those subject to all
menls of the throat and chest may be
greatly benefited by this new and inter-
esting method of treatment. The
mind is occupied while the exercise is
going on. This, say the physicians,
is great point. The lungs are ex-
panded and the muscles of the neck
and bust developed.
Apart from its peculiar beneficial
results it is worth while knowing how
to whistle we'll. As with everything
else, there is ri light whistle. Set
about acquiring the accomplishment
in the right way, and you will soon
become remarkably proficient, but an
uninstruced novice will be 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
capacity 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
l:''lc whistling every day will achieve
unrN p.ctcd sLcc>ss. Volume and
strength Of note will come 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 modulating the sound as to
make it an expression of an idea be
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 county recent
ly whistled like nightingale viii a
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 exer-
else of the lips is supelfuous. The
beginner will find that his lips are a