Richland beacon., 1889-06-29
NUMBER 20.

man VINO never had hay fever would
think nothing of it. Few men talk
perfectly. and few men are dumb
Between the two comes the vast num-
Der, though it is hard to see inst where
the line can be drawn between the
man who shutters and the man who
does not. There are few men who
cannot recall some time in their lives
when they wanted to sav, the very
words of ii, and still that they did
not say i, because they could not
Fear, embarrassment, astonishment,
and other emotions affect a man pow
er to speak. In some men it takes
much more emotion than in other
men. So it is with stutteres. 1t
takes less TO upset a sufferer and to
prevent him from saying what he
wishe. to say than it does to interfere
with the enunciation Of man who
has been accustomed TO enunciate
with ease.
What many people do not know is
that stutterlng--the term is used
throughout in the sense of both STAN
mering and suffering that stutter-
ing is the inability to say consondnts.
ANY sufferer can say Vowels. The
only thing required to say a vowel Is
to send out air through the throat,
which is IN a certain position according
to the vowel sound which it is intend
ed to produce.
The consonants that cause trouble
are not the same with every one. a
man who has suffered over certain
consonant once is much more likely
to stutter over ii again. One reason
Is that this consCnant Is present be
fore him, and that he recalls that he
suffered over it at some previous
time and fears that he Will
stutter over it the next tune he comes
to it. When again it comes up he
fears it, and shutters. If, instead of
pronouncing this oonosnant, he were
to sound only the vowel sounds of the
word of which the consonant forms
the obstructive part, he would have
no trouble in saying it. But the
troublesome consonant is before his
eyes and in his mind. The vowels he
does not think of, and in the strug-
giles to get out the consonant be goes
at it several times Ike horse that
refuses going up to fence which he
might clear. Besides the importance
which he attaches to the consonant
makes him diminish the vowel sound,
and thus make the pronunciation of
the word so much the harder. The
more vowels there are in wo:d, and
the fuller volume given to them, the
easier it is for sufferer to pronounce
both the vowels and the consonants.
Few women stu,ter. The proper
tion of Sufferers must be five men to
one woman. Women talk faster than
men as rule: Their lungs are not
as free as mans to expand. Their
vocal organs are the same as man s.
The reason why they do not stutter so
much as men is chiefly because they
naturally sound the vowels more than
men do. Men clip words more than
women do; they abbreviate more that:
women do; they talk in a rougher,
more abrupt way. From a party of
men there does not arise the same
soft murmur of conversation that
comes from party Of women talking.
The woman : voice and tones are
softer, which comes to a great extent
from the better use of the vowels.
Aside from this woman has usually
more self-possession than man; but
when she does stuter, she suffers
worse than the average man stutterer
In almost all cases suffering can
be cured if the sufferer has the nor
NAL vocal apparatus, lungs, diaphragm
and so OF, and il his health is fairly
good. Smoking, drinking, late hours,
irregular eating, and everything else
which tends to injure the general
health or to disturb the nerves and
stomach, increase suffering. A man
with strong will power and accus-
toned to method and precision would
get over suffering more easily and
rapidly thar men less favorably situ-
ated, Just as he would get over any
thing else through his advantageous
possession of these qualities. The
hard thing about curing Sufferers is
that they will not keep at the cure
until they are cured. sufferer who
suffered once, say in every ten words,
would feel so much relieved when his
suffering was recuced to once in
fifty words that he would, unless
looked after, be likely to relax his
vigilance and efforts. Then he would
have a relapse.
The way for sufferer TO Le cured
is to place himself under the hands Of
some person who knows how to talk
and who will teach him to talk prop
erly. He must learn how to breathe
while talking, which is thing that
few Sufferers know. They get their
lungs full Of air and send it out with
rush, instead Of economizing theil
air supply. 1t is somewhat as if An
engineer were to let off nine -tenths o.
the steam in the boiler of his locomo-
tive with a rush and then expect tc
start his train and run it properly
with the little steam remaining. A
man cannot talk without having some
air in his lungs, and if he has to-
little air in his lungs there will b.
nothing to furnish the sound
Some OF the schools in New Yorl
are managed by men who themselve
used to stutter, and wins taught them