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Our Wonell's Voices.

AN excellent thing in woman is gen
tie, ric'', mellow, pure lone OF voice. The
cultivation OF. the speaking voice has not
been sufficiently considered in any part Of
the United Suites, and the consequence is
that American girls, are, most Of hem, talk
ing with hard, nasal lwang, which is a
vtrllablc torture to a fine ear. A pure.
good, tiued womau's voice is tic best Of
aIl music.
In ollcn time the nasal qnality was at
triCuea especially to New England woman,
aud the consequence has been that New
England women have been educ;.t. d ont of
the vicious habit Of their mothers and
grandmothers, and now there is no sweeter
voice heard than that Of a cultivated, re-
fined woman Of Boston, or of any Of the
larger Yanke cities. "The twang exile from
Yankee land seems" says the Philadelphia
H"llctin,'lo have taken up its abode in
Pennsylvania, anl couspicuouSly in the
Quaker City. The manper in Which mauy
Of the yonng women, and some, too, Of the
young men, talk about walking .deown
tcown, and Of going l'e.ye,' nnl lhey-er
i. SO dreadfuIIy shocking that the New
Engl"nders, purged of their faulty provip-
c'asis'ns, turn tho laugh on US. There arc
many more voices Of phvase, ,.or pronuncia.
ton. OF accent, and Of infection that cd
uca,ed strangers, visiting Philadelphia, arc
apt to remark in the conversation. of youny
women. But the worst vice of all, ard ihe
hardest to correct, is that of the metallic
rasping, high pitched voice, which is heard
! even among the school girls, snnG which is
aggravated in maturity. The ono redeem
| ing trait Of somo of the English bu.leeyr,
actresses that have visited this country late.
~, is said to be the delicious qnalty Of their
voices in speaking. A student of lang lage
AMI the voice mcnuons,, in . magazine
article, one Of them Whose speech is vocal
velvet ltmay be something in education
that makes an English woman's voice in
speaking, more musical Than an, American
W. mans. The Improvement in tic voice
of the New England woman, however,
shows that there IS nothing in our climate
TO destroy the lest qualities Of tire voice.
The bad voice all results from bad habits
and careless training. There is Certain
vu'garity about the ordinary tone Of most
OF the young women of the PC. iod IN Amer
ica that is repellant TO sensitive ear accus.
toned toa different tone. Words Of en-.
couragemeut, Of hope, Of consolation, utter.
ed'in such voice, sound like n burlesoue
AS for words Of love, it does not seetn possi
ble that, in such tones rs ave the habit o
the time and The place, they could ever
create good impression" Mothers, faith
ers, and school teachers should unite in An
ehdeavor 70 reform the bad tone and ,,be
bad infections oftLe voices Of their grow
ing yoong girls; and, indeed, boys, 100
should be included. The culture :of The
voice in speaking ought to be made a par
odna,, OF The training a9 Of youth throughout 'h'
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thsoaaiaes' Of Objects; He nstusns, how,
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