The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-22

some previous time and fears that he will
stutter over it the next time he comes to IT,
w men again it comes up he fears it. and
shutters. II, instead of pronouncing this
consonant, he were TO sound only the vowel
sounds OF the word of which the coHsonant
forms the obstructive part, he would have
no trouble In saying it. But the trouble
some consonant is before his eyes and in his
mind. The vowols he does not think of,
ana Ill the struggle to get out the consonant
ne goes at 1t several times like horse that
refuses going up to a fence which he might
clear. Besides, the Importance which he at
taches to the consonant makes him diminish
the vowel sound and thus make the pro-
nunclation of the word so much the harder.
The more vowel sounds there are in a word,
and the fuller volume given co them, the
easier IL is for sufferer to pronounce both
the vowels and the consonants.
Few women stutter The proportion of
Sufferers must be five men to one woman.
Women talk faster than men as a rule
Their lungs are not as free as mans to ex-
pand. Their vocal organs are the same as a
mans. The reason why they do not stutter so
much as men is chiefly because they naturally
sound their novels more than men do. Men
clip words more than women do; they alb
breviate more than 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 a party of women talking. The
woman's voice and tones are softer which
comes to great extent from the better use
of the novels. ASIDE from this woman has
usually more self-possession than a man,
but when she does stutter, she shutters
worse than the average man sufferer.
Sufferers come chiefly from the class of
people who have what books on phrenology
describe as a "sanguine temperament"
though some Sufferers have "phlegmatic
temperament" A small proportion of slut
terers have black eyes and black hair. The
great majority havs light hair or light
brown hair, and blue or gray eyes. A slut
terer is usually nervous, though he may
not show it in any other way than by his
suffering, and his suffering may cause
the nervousness as much as the nervousness
causes the suffering. There is a reflex ac-
ton between the two.
Some Sufferers bother over it much
more than others. Some do not care, aud
it discommodes their friends more than it
does themselves. Other Sufferers are very
sensitive about it, though sufferer is usu-
ally less sensitive with another sufferer
than with any one else. If two men stutter
slightly and they get together and talk to
each other, by the time they have been
talking for some time they will be stutter-
ing at greater rate than if they had been
talking to some one else. 1t is a matter Of
habit to some extent, becoming stronger In
force as the suffering is repeated, and in
creaslng with the unconcious imitation that
association with another sufferer brings
The tones of the voices of the people with
whom one is constantly tend to bring the
tones of his own voice into conformity. A
man who does not stutter would be likely
to acquire it if he were constantly with slut
terers and talked with them.
In almost all cases suffering can be
cured if the sufferer has the normal vocal
apparatus, lungs, diaphragm, and
so on, and if 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, in
crease suffering. A man with strong will
power and accustomed to methods and pre-
cision would get over suffering more easily
and rapidly than men less favorably situa-
ted, just as he would get over anything 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. A slut
terer who suffered once, say in every ten
words, would feel so much relieved when
his suffering was reduced to once in fifty
words, that he would, unless looked after,
Then he would have relapse.
The way for a stutterer to be cured, is to
place himself under the hands of some per-
son who knows how to talk and will
teach him to talk properly. 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 a rush, instead of economizing their
air supply. 1t is somewhat as if an engi-
-, Lat %o,, he 81
N the boiler of his locomotive with a rush
and then expect to 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 too little air in
his lungs there will be nothing to furnish
the sound. A man should economic his air
power In talking SO that he may secure the
best results with the lowest expenditure Ii
a man spends all of his money the first day
of the week, he will have hard time get
ting along the other six days; so if a man
rushes out the air in his lungs with a gasp
and one or two sounds the first word of a
sentence, he will have nothing with which
to say the rest of the sentence unless be
pauses, inhales and tackles the second
word This is not the way to talk, and the
sufferer must be told so frequently
There are several schoolssin this city and
in other cities where Sufferers are
taught how TO talk properly. Some of these
schools are run by men who do not know
how they talk themselves, and who do not
know how to teach Sufferers to talk. Some
teachers have been making the mist AXE of
teaching Sufferers consonants, instead of
forcing them to pay more attention to the
vowel sounds. A sufferer who should be
forssd to repeat consonants all day long
would stutter more and more, while if he
were to say only novels, his ease of utter
ance would be increased and he would be
on the way to talking properly. 1t is much
the process of a child learning to speak,
only the sufferer has had .habits to undo
while the child has only good
habits to acquire. A child's
first utterances are never consonants but
always vowels. In child's first efforts at
speaking, only the vowel sounds are appar-
emit, and it is not until some time after these
vowel sounds have been made that the
child takes up the consonants one after the
other.
Some of the schools in New York are man
aged by men who themselves used to slut
ter, and who taught themselves how to talk.
1t is hard, though, for sufferer to teach
himself how to talk, as another man can
better criticise his attempts than he can,
and can better tell him what TO do than he
can tell himself One of tue oldest of these
schools is a few doors off lower Fifth
avenue. 1t has been going for some time,
and in many ways resembles kindergarten
in its methods. The stu tterers are taken in
at all ages and put in the lowest class,
whether the sufferer is a man Of 60 or a
boy of 8. He does not know how to talk,