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NOTES OF THE DAY WHILE THE CAT'S AWAY BRO
THE WHISTLING BOY
By ROBERT LYND
As an American would probably | 66WXJHY 'don't ‚èrrand-boys,wide notorioty by declaring that
ROOSEVELT OPPONENTS
It would be folly to regard the sharp criticism of "government by amateurs" in the United States as Indicative of a general reaction.
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The Very Idea!
THE HAIRY BREED
By George
APROPOS of nothing and
he insisted-not Einstein or Edison reminded of moustaclies
n considerable diminution of or Mussini-over whistled. “It
is only the inferior, maladjusted and the growing need for whistling in recent years.
This, I think is partly a result individual," he added, "who seek suppressing a habit which, of the decline of the old-omotional relief in such a bird- fashioned musle-hall song. At the like act as whistling."
useful as it is to hide a
the habit of whistling."
There was
nt
П
1
one's
In Germany they would sup- press the young and tender down
Ja its first blush but here mass-production fa the% shope of misaproduction la allowed to bo cultivated, in per- feet freedom. -
put it. Professor Wirt "started W whistle nowadays?" akej "whistling is an unmistakable sign something" when he accused the Miss Mario Tempest. I agree with of a moron. Roosevelt Brains Trust of Com: Miss Tempest that there has been None of the world's, great men, mass production we are munistic loanings. He may, have been laughed at or recommended. to have his cranium subjected to medical exploration, but some of the mud thrown at the motives behind the Now Deal has stuck end of last century and at the It was pointed out to him that portion of the face, is 'upt and the President's opponents are beginning of this, the music-halle bath Einstein and Mussolini word losing no opportunity of adding named with such songa as "Daisy Brat-rate whistlers; but so intense to lead to mis-understand- Bell," "Two Little Girls in Blue, was the professor's of little more. The attack has been and "Good-bye, Dolly Graysongs whistling that he merely mondedings in identification. Fortu- quick in development, the absence with tunes that were memorable his original pronouncement, to nately the need grows with of the President on the Nourmahal after a single hearing and so sim-something like: "Whistling is an the moustaches so it will boing extromely convenient, Rople in structure that even a boy unmistakable sign of a moron, ex- much so that it would almost seem who was stone deaf could whistle cept in Einstein and Mussolint and not be apparent for some possible that the time was careful them so that you could tell what other men of genius who are in considerable time but
he was trying to whistle ly chosen.
Principal boys and principal Whistling undoubtedly is a causo
word in season will not come girls carried theas simple melodica of annoyance to many people be- amiss. from London to the provinces, aides the professor. A boy was
We every city street hummed with aned 28. Cd., a few years ago in
ourselves were em- them to the great distress of Bristol for whistling untunefully, barrassed by female who people with fastidious musical "Piercing shrills are not good for accosted to on the ferry, only tastes.
the nerves," declared the magist- yesterday. To-day the music-hall song has rate, "and constitute & nuisance." bean largely displaced by the
One tries to carry I remember myself as a small dance-band song, and in England boy causing annoyance to an elder-growth with a certain amount. The Roosevelt policies have always this is usually a foxtrot, lacking in ly clergyman by whistling. We of distinction and style and it is had powerful opponents, if com-
the oleaginous simplicity of the were walking along the main street, a little crushing to be mistaken paratively small numerically. Wallfate Victorian popular song.
of a quiet country town, he think for Ronald Colman. However the Street hates evory move
Some even of the best of the ing his thoughts and I thinking beggars can't be choosers 80, President makes. Big Business music-hall songs nowadays are mine, and neither of us feeling any we made the best of this gambit. fcars him. Both have tried to cheat more dilleult for a boy with no need for conversation.
Tho present shaggy outcrop him of the potential success of oar to pick up immediately than
a heavenly peace pings on the north pa on many songs of the "Daisy Boll" variety.about the sleepy shop-fronts and young men in the his different Recovery measures. Miss Gracie Field's "Balloons," the sleepy horaca, that stood be for prompt legislation,
Colony calls But they have chosen to give lip for example, calls for a whistler tween the shafts of various service, lying low in the hope of of more than average attainment vehicles beside the kerbs. The his eventual crash, ready to assist to do it justico,
sun shone benignly on a perfect There may be other reasons for world in which the loudest noise in his destruction should the signs be favourable. The Wirt charges the decay of whistling, however. was the purr of a sparrow's wing. For one thing, the modern errand- Instinctively I shaped my lipe were bad progaganda for the Pre-boy very often goes about on a for a noble rendering of "The sident. If the opposition can work bicycle, and even the most musical Man that Broke the Bank at Monte on the fears and suspicions of the of errand-boys must find it dim-Carlo,"
Ono sees the moustache first in conservatively-minded,
acult to whistle in the old care-free ONE DAY'S NEWS
I had scarcely got to the middle embryo as a patch of dirt rapidly breach in the national allegiance manner and to dodge motor-cars There is about news a meteor-inspired by his untiring capacity at the same time. Besides, what of the chorus when, glancing up at taking permanent form; then it is the good of whistling when all my friend, I noticed on his face a grows in separate lumps and has tortured expression like the expres- to be fed and watered. It le a rological inconsistency. Storms of dealing with big problems in a the music he can make will be sion on the face of a trombone long while before the proud Big Way, much damage will be drowned by the noise of the motor-player in a German band who sees owner will venture to weed his threaten-and often nothing
done and Mr. Roosevelt will find cars?
a child sucking a lemon a few unnatural offspring and fow, happens. Yesterday, the financial himself hampered át every turn.
Datural After all, the
boy yards away just as he has got to fortunately, ever reach the stage anxieties of a number of coun-
whistles chiefly in order to make his favourite bit of the "Loretel," where they will stand pruning, In noise. He does his best whist-
The "I say," he said, with a heroic
sickly adhesion which tries coincided in the bulletins, so A DANGEROUS GAME
Hing in a silent street where he attempt to remain gentle, passes as a moustache will often. feels he la creating something of that the impression given
a disturbance, just as it is in the say,, don't you know that it isn't rond to outside treatment and was that
good manners to whistto In the some have been known to wither some of these It is the process of instilling most silent streets that ko!
word. Others, have dis- atreet?" doubts in the public mind concern achieves his best performances in nations were sinking fast
ing the President and his advisers rattling a stick across railings. I could not see why, but, a little appeared during the night in a ashamed, I subsided into silence the Lock, and those that do manner worthy of "The Rape of into bankruptcy and the that is now being witnessed in His whistling is an announce- economic world into chaos. To the United States. But it is
survive as perennials are usually ment to the world at large that and marched on by his side down
a`still quieter street.
less for decorative purposes than Here, amid the stillness and the for such domestic uses as strain- morrow, some new "sensation" dangerous game. Who dares say he is there and that ho doesn't mind who knows it. It is the will arise; the allegedly impend- the President has undeutedly cap could force his personality on an sparrow's wing stirring. Such a
that the multitude is wrong? And mustent expression of his ego. He sunshine, there was not even a ing, camouflage, and police work. Still others which have come ing financial entastrophe will be tured the imagination of the mul- entire suburban street in this Paradise of silence it seemed to out topside in the struggle for relegated to the background. titude. None of Europe's Dicta-fashion forty years ago. To-day, me that, after a few seconds, in existence have branched out in In a few days more, the enquir-tors commands a tithe of the per- constant is the interruption Surer for of heart, 1 lavoluntarily side issues such as beards and sonai Influence which Mr. Roose from motor-horns and gear-chang- burst into full whistle with "Two sideboards. The latter even the
ing that nobody would notice his Lovely Black Eyes" ing student of international veit exerts by his magnetic per-pany pipings.
blinkers on a "I say," said the clergyman in horse and at a pinch can be aged affairs will wonder-will resent,sonality. Those who have coma I have heard it suggested that an alarmed voice, "don't you see as a nutmeg grater, whilst the ilke the magazine reader who under it do not question that he is pre-Georgian boys loved to whistle that you're making everybody look lariat-like affair depending from
capable of undoing meat of the because, having been taught that at ue?" (As a matter of fact, no- the chin has mocs uses tinued," realises maddeningly the cost of a few words over the they regarded it as something not his shop, who was looking at us is the whitewashed sepulchre; quite right, and whistled out of because there was nothing else in when frayed and tattered like a that it is a last year's number, radio. Attacks, therefore, arsheer perversity. I cannot believe, and that he will never discover dent is forced to rely upon the perverse as all that. If they friend; "if you don't whistle any do; when spread carefully out in dangerous. The more the Presi- however, that human beings are so the street to look at.) "I'll make battle-scarred standard it is what a bargain with you," continued my the devil found for Idle hands to what happened in the last chap-support of the masses, the greater were, girls, who used to be for more till we get home, I'll give you front of the neck like a curtain it ter. There will be a tendency to will be the tendency towards ad- bidden to whistle even on week- a shilling."
is a concealment for poverty, and When I remember this, I cannot when pointing upwards to the blame journalism; the fault, vanced Ideas of social reform.days, would have whistled all day Events may drive him farther to
help wondering whether the world calling it is an indication that the however, must be laid at the door the Left than he originally intend-ated in the brain of an anti-whistlers and whether they have
The theory, I imagine, origin-has not always been full of anti- owner is standing on his head. of circumstances. Too many ed to go.
whistler, and the world is full of not triumphed at last in the twen anti-whistlers-grim killers. countries, too many Budgets, too
of tieth century. other people's joys that interfere many crises--they converge and
with their own. coalesce to make storm clouds;
The fact is that "government by they separate and fade to mean
amateurs" has ceased to have any nothing; and the dismissal of fears for the majority of people. them calls for much more time, The professionals have been mak- trouble and expensive cable tollsing a mess of things long enough than does the original alarming munity, programmes are judged by message. Every now and then, results and not by motives. And incidents will arise which carry if he has done nothing else, Preui- their own story with a finality The get-rich-quick mentality has dent Roosevelt has achieved results, that cannot be escaped. No been largely scotched in the United room for ambiguity or specula-States. The people have recover- tion here--the occurrence hased their self-respect and belief in themselves. A new respect for happened, the crisis arrived, social obligations is evident. High inance has received jolt after But those alarms which come to jolt. Whatever may be the re- nothing do, none the less, arouse ault of his somewhat startling ex- very real anxieties. They are
periments with the dollar and in the commercial field generally, he due, in part, to a widely pre has given the country some very tangible assets. It will be a long valent feeling of nervousnces time before they are overlooked. engendered by the unusual con- ditions of the time. To that ex- GERMANY ON THE SEA
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same. purpose
дя
than
comes suddenly-upon "To be con- damage caused by the Wirts, at it was a-sin-to whistio on Sunday, body was looking at ua except a hairs.
butcher standing In the door of When brushed and blancoed it
tent, they are understandable.
MOTIVES OR RESULTS?
for most. In a sensible com-
If, at the same time, they re-f Germany's demand for the lift- ing of the naval restrictions in the flect a disposition to be ready for Treaty of Versailles has long been official de- the worst, whilst hoping for the foreshadowed. No best, they may have their value, marcho on the subject appears to havo boon mado, but the commonta Unduo. complacency has its of the Berlin newspapers reveal obvious dangers. The lesson to studying the question and a move that the Wilhelmstrasse has been be learned is that of preserving
time. may come at any
Britain a sense of balance. Above all, and France will be chlofty It is necessary to read with acades will probably be
cerned and
their respectiva ntti- the same as nice discernment, to cultivate the in regard to land armaments. Bri- habit of taking long views and tafa cannot at the same time bo to refuse to bo stampeded in-prepared to concedo military to alarm by any one day's, nows. degree of naval revival,
creases and logically reslat some
сол-
long.
Scarcely anybody, indeed, ex- cept the whistler, really enjoys A few years ago one of these hearing him whistle. fessor of philosophy, earned world- in the streets is a dying art? anti-whistlers, a New York pro- Is it any wonder that whistling
in-
"That's straight goods, Mr. Boggs. We girls at the office
think you're the cutest sales manager we ever had."
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It will thus be seen that as a guide to character the moustache and Ita accompanying ap- pendages are too betraying to be lightly adopted and the pressing need for economy renders the upkeep of the parasitic growth a matter for grave calculation,
Then there is the sexual life of the moustacho to consider, and here-we.come to le raison d'etre. Here, you pseudo-Colmans we would ask to stay your growth a while and reflect before
you. develop, plain maaste of creeper.
What does a girl really get from brushing her tender lips against your brush? She can get more of whatever it is from a scrubber -and with less risk. Or she could. kiss the top of your head where there is probably much Icas. vegetation.
Anyway, remember you don't have to be hirsuto to suit her and: to prove it we appond this bedtiong verse.
“Tut, tut,”
There was a young man nanted
Canute
Who liked himself a la hirauto". But each time he kissed hor He gave her a blister,AY That cute caballero Canutos And he thought in his prido,
the Galoot.
His growth was Canutie's leng
sult
From hor tooth, the big Camel Brushed all the enamel
And now thero's a rift in th
Jute.
To the tale of, this prim
brute,
A moral wo must contr
To sweep: girls off#1
A face broom".la no Ask that muto Caball”
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