The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-11-19
RISE AND FALL OF THE VOICE.
Once No Living Thing Had One. ana IN
Same VIII be True Again.

he onoe No Living Thing Had One. ana 4
Tx Same VIII be True Again.
" There was time in the history of Il
,k world when even the animals had ,
10 voice. There were no sounds or nois
,e tnen but those made by the win,
~ whistling about mountain tons ar
Il nowiing through primeval forests, or /,
Is the waves dashing on shores absolute]
d silent and dead. The animals of thos
!. geological epochs. being in the plastj
u state preceding the development of til
osseous structure that now gives forr
!. and comeliness to the human BODY. wer
just beginning to breathe the externa
: ar with gentle respiration. Ages
1 should rather be said epochs, wer
; passed In this manner, in the course n
which the habit of respiration develope,
the lungs Then the use of the throa
essential to the taking of food pro
duced those organs necessary to speech
which are called the pllarynx. rlott;.
and larynx 1t seems that Providence
as matter of supreme convenience
made the same passage serve for eating
speaking and breathing. although
another arrangement was possible. like
the respiratory apparatus of the grass.
hopper, which is placed at the sides.
This is one of the very few exceptions
to the rule which applies in common to
man and most animals.
when the upper part of the throat
was In an advanced state of deyelon-
ment the act of respiration began IN he
accompanied by certain iuarticnlate
SOUNDS, at first resembling the rough
breathing OF of person whose air pas
sages are obstructed by bad cold. In
stinct soon taught the animal that
.nese noises could be increased by fore
ing slightly the inspiration or expira-
tlon OF the breath, or by contracting
the muscles of the throat and so emit.
tlng the voice in a rapid succession of
indefinite sounds. We have the riubt
TO suppose that the yelping of sea lions
represents very nearly the human voice
io IT'S early stages of development. The
SOUNDS OF the voice OF the human being |
are, like those of all animals and of all |
instruments, the result of vibration
OF chords, and are grave or acute ac-
eofding to the size of these chords.
mere Is little reason to doubt that the
nrst sounds made by animals were low
down In the musical scale, but as the
voice, guided by instinct, was more and
more used, either for the purpose of I,
or to inspire terror. thew
would naturally, in the case of manv
'pecies IN which there was more pro- I
iounced development of the Uranium. I
'e made more in the head and become
vhat we now call head tones. This
mango was more rapid in animals =
wing on the land, the voice i
Il those whose habits continued a
Q DC amphibious remaining much 4
ne same. There came in the |,
curse OF time to be great variety in r
ne voices of animals, determined partly j,
y their size, but generally by the cir O
in which they were placed II
ne oinerent species of the feline race m
wing In forests cultivated the higher la
mes. The lion adapted his voice to Il
re vast desert spaces where he roamed te
10 gained a scanty subsistence. The IN
u IN ms wild state probably confined %
mself to the lower notes of the scale sh
IA expressed his hostility only by pl
lrklng. Since his domestication. hav. ga
acquired sort of human sentiment tn
yelps and whines in the higher tones
express feelings that are but INNER %,
stly understood The cat initiates u.
nigh sopranos The horse having Ar
ig neck and head nearly as long. ba
mates in his neighing most of the in
'dern tenors- The animals of the no. IN.
Re tribe produce the voice from low ho,
"n IN the throat, only occasionally ~.
turing on certain higher and exceed alo
'iy unnatural notes. A great variety 40,
Tone and compass is found among the ~.
us, from the shrill scream of those E.,
ravenous kind down to the parrots tho
ong which are found the bassos -
/, s;n..;.s =: ai'os OF the race. the
singing birds combine the high I;tt
low tones with extraordinary iexi- and
" or voice and perfection of vocal nre,
at which they arrived probably at ties
'ry remote period of the worlds his fo,-,
whe
an inherited from his immediate Ri,
estors, the apes and monkeys. a whe
e OF considerable altitude. in which Tn Z.
lower tones were almost unknown u.
, 60, a. 70 their fellows est,
tree to tree in shrill head tones. r.,
natural vocal expression of weak l.nt
timid race, in whose physical for nho,
ion the head had begun to hold an sald;
'rtant place. The upper notes of No
register were Characteristic of the 81.
men, as they are still of savage tribes that
peoples. and of the half civilized rr.s;
oers OF modern society, whose ;ects
IS have never been subjected to dis
me- The voices of country people
stoned to magnificent distances To
conversation at long range are. If earn.
. ~ mig er' oitener used in the walk
ranges than those of city people. Said
feel obliged by the necessities of .sR
breeding to moderate their tones. nlex;
:. 70 SeH-cohtalned he uses deah
liddle and lower tones of his voice. at.
angry the voice mounts gradual renIv
the head Ii the gentler sex would swan,
er bear in mind the eulogies of a-ru;,
'speare and Scott of that voice wet
and low which is an excellent 81.
in woman they would more rare let mn
e occasion to wonder why thew as !
ceased to be attractive The mn little
the Chinese, Japanese, and of ALI d;dn..
RIDES is keyed high and sung usu- 81 :
falsetto, the lower notes being tale
ed by drums, tomtoms or some den
instruments of the kind. Al aus
their son0x are g.