Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-05-06
FACTS FOR SUFFERERS
A Talk with = Man who
Cures Stanmering.
An Affection that is Sometimes Ac
CURED BY Association.

know; have seen many cases worse
than yours. Have you always been SO,
or did it come from association? I've
seen folks stammer so that they had
TO stand on their heads to talk. Or
rather, I mean, they couldn't talk
without standing on their head. Take
seat; don't say word: don't excite
yourself by speaking until tell you, =
and the professor Of stammering set
lied the Star man into a chair and
began to instruct him as to the cause
of stammering.
'sB broke ont
the scribe.
There now; stop. Say but"
but don't stammer," cried the
Star. AT least l didn't when came
here l just want to talk about other
folks who stammer."
The professor comprehended the
situation.
''Stammering. Well, stammering is
the effect of cause which is the effect
of another cause. See? Lots of folks
stammer. cure them. It is a pecu-
liar affection. 1t has been supposed to
be incurable. Stammerers are ner-
vous because they stammer and don't
stammer because they are nervous.
Some people stammer so that they
have fit when they GO to talk. One
young fellow was brought here by his
father, and when | asked him If he
wanted ne to treat him. he puffed his
cheeks out, and began putting wind in
jerks between his lips. making faces
and beating the air with his arms, and
finally fell right over backwards on
his head. He was trying to say Yes.
/ took him in charge, and in three
quarters of an hour he was talking to
me without an effort"
There is popularity about folks
who stammer. They never like each
others company. Deaf mutes now
class together. They get to under
stand each other and like to keep to-
gether. But Sufferers will run from
each other, and you can't offend a
stammering man more than to bring
him into contact with another, so that
there should be any apparent rivalry.
] have known very serious trouble to
arise from two strange Sufferers
meeting each other ! know a white
man, who was nearly killed by slut
tering negro who thought when he
suffered back a reply to an inquiry
that he was making game Of him.
Down South there was case that
came near resulting in a duel. A
stranger in the place, young gentle
man who was terribly afflicted in his
speech, was introduced to young lady
at ball who was afflicted in the same
way. When he suffered out request
for the next dance she took great of
Tense because she thought he was
mimicking her inirmity. She inform
ed her brother and challenge ensued,
but the seconds discovered the mis-
take"
'Are all the Sufferers born SOP"
asked the scribe.
"Most of them, but not all. heard
of two young men who suffered ter
ribly. They were close friends. One
was born with the. intirmity, and the
other acquired it through imitation
because of his admiration for his
afflicted friend. Families sometimes
get to stammering in this way. /
don't suppose any body ever heard Of y
suffering man and suffering woman
marrying. They would never get
along with their courtship. But some
times a woman will get to stammering
because of association with an afflicted
husband. and the children will follow
it up. It is not in this case an hered-
itary physical defect Il is entirely
the result Of association. Ionce found
an aunt and three nieces who were
afflicted IN this way. They al lived
together. and their conversations were
very remarkable. cured them all.