The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-16
WOMAN'S MUSICAL VOICE.
A Lecture to Women on the Charms
SDeech-DOn't Shout.

Speech--Don't Shout.
Miss Giddings of the Jenness-Mille
School of Physical Culture addressed the
devotees to the new gospel OF grace and
beauty on "The sweet, low voice, that excel
lent thing in woman," which the poet exalts
80 deservedly, and which American women
lack 90 universally.
'Vocal culture" said Miss Giddings in
clear musical tone, ''is to most minds asso-
ciated with dramatic aspirations and
oratorical ambitions, and suggests the
young woman with rolling eyes and rolling
RS who confronted us everywhere not SO
very long ago. But vocal culture in this
school means only the development OF the
italorRans, which proper voice work Will
do more to strengthen than almost any
other exercise. The organs OF sound are
the lungs which furnish US with column OF
air, and the vocal cnoaas so .na az hat coinmn
If mr.. ns the strings of an Aolaln harp are
agitated by the winds. A., :,
composed Of larynx, lungs and mouth cayl-
tives. and upon the control OF the breath oe-
nends the quality of the voice.. In order to
Hi the lungs it is necessary to have control
If the dinp6rapmatic muscle. As rule,
women don't like to hear much about
muscles and nerves and bones, and l once
heard woman say she wlshed no one haa
BODY. for she should always think in the
future that something would surely happen
70 some of them. All women do love
beauty, however. All women would like to
be beautiful. 1t is the religious instinct
in our sex which makes rs long
for physical loneliness, and not
because we want men to admire
ma although there was never real woman
vet who didn't want to be admired by men
But the most beautiful women OF history
have been those to whom the eaucatloh VI
the body in all its parts was a duty com
manded by law as wellas religion. The an.
c;ent Grecian women, whose beauty was OF
the highest type, believed that they purified
the body internally by breathing exercises
as they cleansed it outwardly by patnlng
They took deep inhalations OF breath,
which sent the rich blood pulsing through
every artery. Lung troubles were not COM
mon and nervous prostration unknown
among the diseases in Hippocrate's vocabu-
larry: .so. .,a a;.,hro,,,
and the abdominal muscles to come to-
eether like the lips of wise when You use
the voice properly, and when the tone ceases
these organs relax. In this way every ar
tery is alternately compressed or relaxed o,
the muscles around it, and the voice pc
comes firm in the ratio that the muscles
seize these organs and hold them firmly
When the relaxation of this organ to ton
ia disreCsrded countless ills ensue. In
throat becomes sore if used much, the al
cells within the lungs collapse because neve
inflated. and tho apex of the lung loses 1t
vitalitv' and becomes diseased from lack Q
exercise, Hence the necessity OF prope
use of the voice.
"yoices, with all the rest, express char
acter and are revelations not only regardin
mind and character, but, if they have n
been cultivated, of age as we'll, and to lear
how to retain the brightness and elastlcit
If yonth ia an art we'll worth having Or
voices oct fat and tuneless and contracted
sbriil. hioh-pitched, and squealy. Childre
sneak mnsically and naturally, but We &
swav from the freedom of early youth, ar
arr has to teach us the lesson of nature. v
begin to develop the muscles OF !ne on
phragm, the proper dlsePnne OF wnicn pr
duces those variations OF nRnt anu sna'
in the human voice ana FORM petIe
transcript of the passions and emotions
the soul. - !.
ITO express vitality in tone Is one Of :
first elements of an agreeable voice. out
is not expressed by loud and forcefui not
Shouting is not test of life, but happint
is. A happy, bright voice Is always swe'
and it il scientific fact that II you seek
cultivate mechanically life in tone a.
brightness in speech You will produce :
structural growths of body and soul at n
scarcely apparent.
"Unfortunately, to hear ourselves spe
as others hear us Is rs rare as to see OF
eers a. ithers see u.s. Our friends nat
q. . Our enemies malign us.- We mnei Y