The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-10
THE GIRL WHO SINGS.
FAMOUS PROIMA DoNNAS GIVE
HER SOME NEEDED ADVICE.

The girl VINO loves 70 sing receives greab
deal of good advice in the December num-
her of the Ladies Home Journal from
people to whom she can well afford to listen.
"Be sure you have a voice" says Clemen-
tine de We're. "The best way to discover
whether or not you have a voice is to sub
NIT yourself to thoroughly good teacher,
and abide by his or her judgment, although,
Il YOU possess good intelligence, musical
annreciation. and a really artistic sense.
Won should be able to judge for yourself
whether your tones are true and sweet, and
those are the only requisites necessary for
commencement In vocal education.
Strength. steadiness. volume and ability
come with training; but sweetness and true
ness are natural gifts. These can hardly be
dTbe opinion of your friends and rela-
tiyes in this matter, unless they are mora
learned than loving. will be OF but little
value to you. They are, as rule-oecause
in their ignorance and affection they con-
done and overlook most glaring faults-the
worst critics and advisers a girl can possibly
have l remember famous prtma donna
once telling me that when on her tours OF
this country, more here than elsewhere, be-
cause most foreign lands have their national
conservatories open TO the public, and be-
cause in America, girls Of lower stratum
have ambitions beyond their station and
abilities scarcely morning passed that
fond parents did not bring for her approval
and examination embryo PATHS and
Scalchis. And it was a rarity when these
singing birds could even follow q scale. thus
showing by their lack of natural ability
how thoroughly unprepared they were for
career as public singer.
"But If you have only the smallest guam
~ otrlki vrba have
develop more and learn the art OF singing.
That is all you will fnd it necessary to do
In order TO become very pleasing singer. l
say all but 1t is a very large all 1t rep
resents months and even years Of close ap
plication, patient study, continued practice
and care. But the adherence to them will
give you-provided you have started with
the reQuisites-a style which will charm,
and voice which will be to yourself and
YOUR nearest and dearest, if not to the pub
lie, a constant source Of refined pleasure"
HINTS FROM MARIE RozE.
Marie Roze makes few suggestions in re-
gard to the rules that should be observed
when training the voice. girl who has
any regard for her voice cannot be too care
full when going ont into the open air-in her
wraps, and especially in the manner in
which she protects her chest and throat.
Another important thing Is rest and plenty
of it. A girl who Is irregular In her hours
of sleep will feel It In her voice.
AS to diet, the girl should avoid sweets of
all kinds There IA nothing better than food
of the plainest kind Pastry, nuts, almonds,
raisins, pickles, rich sauces are simply
poison to the singer. All these are indiges-
tible, and q. singer, above all people. should
partake of only that class of food which
digests easily. Never eat closer than two
hours before you sing. 1 go further; if l
sing at s o'clock, eat at o'clock in
A. a..sIA
harmful IL taken in immodarate quantities.
Milk is good, but it is best when mixed
with soda water or seltzer. Wines of any
kind are injurious, and cannot be too en-
phatic in warning all girls who aspire to be
singers to abstain from them. have known
some of the most promising voices TO be ut
terly ruined by even the smallest indulg
ence in wine. Fresh and ripe fruit always
makes a good diet for a singer, especially
grapes. Very often, almost daily, might
say, eat pound of grapea, and find them
the best possible tonic for the vocal chords.
CLARA POOLE on PRACTICE.
In regard TO practice Clara Poole says:
If girl expects to make much of her
voice, by which mean II she intends to sing
with style, method, good taste, and express
sion, either In public or IN her home, the
usual two lessons a week, with the daily
practice at home, are in most cases useless
believe In daily lessons, or, better still, In
morning and afternoon lessons daily. Thi
obviates the necessity for practice alone
and enables the pupil to give her voice th'
exercise necessary to secure its fexibility
and best effects, under intelligent guardian
ship.
Let me suggest, also, the CRYING evil o.
lengthy, as we'll as of misapplied, practice
Under no circumstances should the voice b
used continuously for more than half al
hour. l think there is but one opinion II
this matter. and that is that longer continu
Gus use tends TO destroy both the qualit,
and capability of a voice. Even operi
singers who sing during two or thre
hour performance have always q rest be
tween their lines
MINNIE HAUK's OUNCE OF PREVENTION.
On the art Of keeping Voice Minnie Heul
adds:
The greatest danger to a voice Is over
work. Nothing will ruin vocal powers g
much as to overtax them. Each constitu
ton has just so much vitality, and whel
that gives out it is useless to force things
The wonderful organs that go to make
voice are delicate, and not impervious t
the recklessness Of the fortunate possessoI
There are thousand and one precaution
necessary to protect a voice and keep
fresh and clear; and the girl who has foun
she possesses voice and has trained II
must not think the hardest part is ovei
Two words, however, constitute good &C
vice-be healthy.
WARNING FROM CAMPANINL
Italo Campanini points out danger {
avoid. Personally" he said, al do nc
believe in voice building. Nature mu
give girl voice or she will never acqur
one often have the question asked il
voice can be made to do this or that NJ
answer is that the natural voice can do
much and no more. Every singer with
modicum of common sense should kno
Just what his or her voice can do, and NJ
recklessly strain it by attempting to sing
a large ball. Straining a voice means Il
beginning of the end. One pure. natur
note is JOY forever; but falsetto note
the ghost of departed sweetness.
IA young lady had better, by far. cult
vste her voice, il q small one, for pnrlt
singing and have 1t natural, than ruin 1t
straining for a greater compass. She &c
give her friends in her parlor at home
treat that would make 70 impression on
audience In a large concert hall. 1t is be
ter to have sweet voice in a little roo
Sx10 than to have a cracked, falsetto vol
in big concert hall"
REVIEW BY LOUISE NATILI.
The demand made upon public voice a
considered by Louise Natal, who says:
When girl or woman arrives at the
termination that she wishes to make 4
herself a career as a public singer she mu
contemplate carefully the consideration
uhfoh Influence her To anrh daciaio