Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-25

Thirty Thousand People in England I'M
proving their Voices by Using IT

proving their Voices by Using It.
Bottled Italianized Air for the Voice"
reads much like ''Bottle Bosh," says
London Truth, but in these days of
scientific discovery it IS unwise to dismiss
any invention with a sheer and without a
trial; and certainly 1 witnessed at st.
James Hall last week an illustration to
the point. Miss CarlingfOrd, one Of the
ladies from the Opera Comique who con-
ceives that her voice has been greatly
benefited by the 'bottle air. in question,
issued about 1900 invitations to various
scientific and musical people, and
organized a concert at st. James Hall
last Thursday. The point Of this E'invita-
tion'' was that all the singers used bottled
air, and DR.. Garter Mofat, the ''bOttled
air" genius, himself appeared between
the parts, holding the mysterious Gam
moniaphone," or bOttled-air machine,
long silver tube, which he flourished in
the face of the audience, while he de-
scribed its virtues with considerable
animation and a robust faith, which at
last became rather contagious. | confess
that, at first, much as | can swallow in
the way of scientific Boosting and asser-
| ton, l could not swallow the bottled-a1r
theory. How did know what the voices
of the singers before me had been ere they
took to the bottle or tube? DR.. Carter
I Motfats own agreeable and sOnOr0us
organ had once been a poor, squeaky
thing, but assiduOus Inhalation, had, so
he said, made it what it was. l was glad
to hear that, but-but-let's have look,
| said to myself, at the pamphlet. The
room was strewn with copies of pamph-
| let by the doctor. 1t is all about himself
| nd hic cafs forth hOyu 10
! analysed Italian air, to whose influence,
| he said, we owe the most beautiful voices
| in the world; how he found it saturated
with peroxide Of hydrogen and free am
mOnia; how 1t occurred to him to collect
and cOndense these gases and cause them
! to be inhaled with common air in certain
! proportions by people with weak voices,
! and how the result was practically to
ltalianize the voice.
After reading this astonishing asser-
| ton l eagerly turned the pages to dis
! cover who DR.. Carter Moffat was. l soon
| found that he was all right. For seven
! years he was First Demonstration at the
Royal College of Edinburgh, beside being
| Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow. He
went out to examine mines and mineral
earths for the Italian Government some
| years ago, and so valuable were his
| services that he was awarded gold
medal at Turin and received decoration
OF honor. 1t was at that time he carried
! on his experiments on the air of the
AbruZza regions, with the startling effects
! which have ended in the invention of the
ammOniaphone. He came home, threw
up all his professional prospects, took a
! farm outside OF Glasgow, built his own
laboratories, and for nine years employed
himself in various scientific researches
and experiments, chiefly connected with
gases and their inhalation. The interior
| n tho COMMUNICATIONS is / told
cupied by wicks saturated with peroxide
of oxygen and free ammonia, and by air
chambers regulating the transmission of
these gases through a little mOuthpiece
into the lungs. A couple of deep inhala-
tiOns will suffice for test.
1t was, / confess, with profound skep-
ticism that / placed the little silver
mOuthpiece to my lips, and drew deep
breath. A strong, choking, burning
favor of peppermint nearly took my
| breath away, but it was not unpleasant,
| and perseVered, alternating each pull
| with a good gasp of common air to fol-
low. l had previously been asked to say
| sentence or two in my natural voice,
| and, after two or three pulls at the am
| moniaphOne, l was requested to repeat
| the same words, without using any extra
| eXertiOn. | was really startled at the
! involuntary lOudness of my own voice,
and friend who accompanied me, and
! VINO was greater skeptlc than myself,
fairly burst out laughing at the result.
DR.. Carter Moffst smiled benignly, and
told me that he had now 10000 people
using the ammoniaphone with the same
result. Marie ROze, Lady Macfarren, and
host of others are ready to bear witness
to benefits received, and, OF course, their
letters are printed i'll the pamphlet. The
ammOniaphOne also claims to be of use in
bronchitis, and also specific in asthma.
| DR.. Carter MOtfat is perhaDS a little in
danger of claiming too much for his
curious invention, but his labors and
sacrifices have certainly not been alto
! Qpthar in VAN