Keep Whistling.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 May 1914, Page 2

Keep Whistling.

£_ . „.._ (By Walt Mason).

Keep whistling! It's better than pausing , to cuss, and tearing your sweater, and raising a fuss. No woes e'er were banished by swear words and howls, no troubles e'er vanished because of your scowls; they'll hang on the longer on finding you sore, they'll thrive and grow stronger and vex you the more. Keep whistlmg! It's wiser .than taking a club and scolding Eliza, who's late with the grub: or roasting Susannah, who's painfully prone to punch the piano when shirts should be sewn. For scolding and ranting and shedding the tear makes life less enchanting for every one near. Keep whistIra g ! It's saner than pawing the air: there's nothing that's vainer than tearing your hair; and folks are not eager to list while you groan of sufferings meagre compared with their own. Tour friends will desert you and call you a bore, and think it a virtue to sidestep your door. Whereas, if you whistle and laugh at your woes, and swear that a thistle is good as a rose, they'll say you're a honey, n bird and a pear: your life will be. snuny, which now is a screech.