The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-01-24
WRESTLING FOR HEALTH.
Wonderful Results Attend Latest
and Simplest Drill.

You may throw away your developer,
YOUR dumbbells or Indian clubs and take
| to a much more convenient and comforta-
BILE means of exercising your chest meas
urement and keeping yourself in trim.
All you have to do is to whistle! But you
must whistle regularly and according to
prescribed plan.
German and Swedish professors of physl-
cal training have long advocated and prac-
ticed breathing exercises as the best means
of promoting health. There are many drill
schools in this country where almost the
whole business of the pupils is to lie fiat on
their backs on tables and for 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 before
audiences of nearly every nation In the
world, declares that all scientific and arts
tic 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 well 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 diff
ferent sounds. But it is as means OF
prolonging life and alleviating suffering that
attention is now being turned to whlstllns,
It 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 occu-
pied while the exercise is going on This,
say the physicians, is great point. The
lungs are expanded 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 a
right whistle. Set about acquiring the
accomplishment in the right way, and you
will soon become remarkably proficient, but
an uninstructed 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 time mod
ulations should be practiced and then any
airs that suit the taste of the performer.
A little whistling every day will achieve
UNEXPECTED 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 varying and
modulating the sound as to make 1t an ex-
preston of an idea he has in his mind. A
simple example of this power is the en-
terrogative WHISTLE which can be per-
formed by nearly any one.
Another professional whistler claims to
be able to whistle two notes at the same
time. A famous French entertainer who
was in this country recently Whlstled ike
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 superhuous. 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 attractive
aud pleasing part of good whistling, and to
produce it properly the tongue is made use
of particularly.