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Show BOY'S RIGHT TO WHISTLE Inalienable Prerogative of Youth, and, Anyway, It Is Useless to Try to Stop Him. As to the office boys, messenger hoys, grocery boys and hoys of m:iny other merchandises that are delivered at our houses every day well of ; course, they all whistle. The man who never whistles is not unknown, but no possible reward could bring to light a specimen of the genus boy who doesn't'. It's an inalienable right of boyhood to whistle; it is handed down to him wilh bis dispnsition, bis freckles, his pugnacity and all those things that so remind unkind people, on occasions, of his father. When father fa-ther was a buy he whistled; and, now that the boy has taken the old man's place, why. the boy whistles. It's perfectly per-fectly logical that the boy should whistle and. of course, a boy never is anything but logical. So let us all figure the same way the port did when he requested the boy who whistled at bis work. For otherwise no boy would be there to do the work. And let's spread ihat mantle man-tle of charity' along the years so as to take in the men who wb .sth', too. I on"t sneer at them ; don't strangle the soul of music as it strives to attain expression ex-pression from their puckered lips. Don't but what's the use of sayim: "don't try to stop lheuV It can't be dime, anyway. |