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Show Whistling on Shipboard. If you want to see a disgusted man, just whistle on shipboard before a sailor. sail-or. You never knew a sailor to whistle. whis-tle. He will tell you all about "whistling "whis-tling down the wind, " but he could not get up a pucker to save his ship. You remember that old story about a sea captain who refused to take aboard a woman who whistled, and knowing the old superstition feared that with her on board he would be sure of shipwreck. ship-wreck. I do not know how it is with the captains of vessels now, for almost very woman seems to know how to n-histle and keeps up the fashion. De-;roit De-;roit Fre8 Press. j |