Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
SARAH ID. LOWRIE,S
SATURDAY EVENING TALK
Your ShrH Little Whistle in Life May Affect Many Others
With Its Cheer or Sadness

COMETlMES late in the night and
~ sometimes after the turn Of the
night, in the very early morning, q boy
goes by our house whistling. lie is
not always the same boy, for the tunes
that are whlstled range mp and down
the gnmut of melodies from the last
jazz catch back To- n plain song as old
as and older than Christianity, and the
chap who cares to keep his spirits up on
a cold brisk night by the one sort Of
tune would not be likely to know the
other. But what happens is the same,
whatever the tune. The men and wom-
en-. old and young, who are awake and
restless In all the houses the length OF
his walk lie still for the moment and
listen to his tune until Il grows faint
in the distance and dies away.
Something about the tune in that
still hour OF the night gives It for the
moment Of the whistler's passing q
power not only TO hold thought in sus-
pense but to change Subtly thoughts
rhythm, SO that no ONE goes back 70
thinking quite in the old groove after
She silence once more settles down into
the low pulse beat OF the city in the
night.
have often thought it the whistle
OF passing boy can be felt by 50 many
ot his fellow men-u greater audience
than most singers can boast for Il
nights performance-who can say what
10 Of much account and what IS of little
account in this world?
yTyHE men who get praised for things
Il and the things that get praised are
seldom az heroic as something that
Is put over with no medals or speeches,
Just in the line Of duty.
have been interested 70 read Of the
yelease Of the Slim Fein political pris
srers and Of their triumphant return
to ireland and Of the great ovatiops
shat were given them.
But I went today to the release OF
3 prisoner who for fifteen years has
walked under the shadow OF death. and
Suffered the ignominy OF disease end
pain, waiting IN suspense for the
cruelest kind Of death, the postpone
snent Of which only meant more suffer
ing and greater weakness and the pos
GSihty of loneliness. As looked slowly
round on all the faces OF the men and
women gathered at that funeral. l
thought: There isn't one here who
has not been helped by that woman 5
dignity and grace and brave simplicity
IL carrying herself through this living
death for all these years"
She has made what the Latius call
. beautiful gesture IN her heroism
and in the hour of need of all who
watched her the memory Of that ''ges-
turo" will stand them in good stead.
r WAS thinking the same thing, too,
j about Lewis s. Sadler. whose death
last week has brought 10 a halt what
seemed to some persons great hope
for the future politics Of this State.
Several years ago when bis wife died,
tho people up IN Carlisle shook their
heads, doubling If he would ever rally
from that shattcring Of all his life,
enough to break the recluse ways into
which he had fallen. Whatever force
carried him out OF his depression into
the public life Of service that had
marked him since we entered the war,
it was quite plainly not a zest for LIE
In the old lines.
He gave one the impression OF living