New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-25
The GCINEIHEN- UNDER-I-GITE JON1N

From The San Francisco Impress
There is living in one Of our Eastern cities a
physician 50 distinguished that his name H. known
and honored abroad hardly less than home. and
whose specially the treatment Of nervous diseases,
this order OF work have resulted In a series Of
generazations as to causss-heredtary climatic and
Vulnerable gradations Of which have passed under
MS hands There are moments in his practice in
brought about: when he promises detailed history
Of hysteria with illustrations drawn from life. and
gates leading into this land OF nightmare and de-
nson and from which even the rarest find escape
why nervous prostration and the overworked over
wrought American woman are necessarily synony-
To-day it is with one Of his types. the mention
OF which he has been known to shut his eyes and put
about his office: the type recorded in notebook.
clearly not medical in It's nature. as The Guinea.
explanation From Maine TO Michigan. wherever the
New-Engander has wandered. what has come to be
known as the American voice has perpetuated
Itself and I'm degree ognzei by the hearers
thereof. set down as the natural effect OF American
climate But the traveller recalls that throughout
the entire South. from the poorest cracker up TO
the stateliest Of southern danes there is quality
or tone. less distinct and rich than that marking
the beautiful voices Of English women. but no less
musica' Evidently; then. American climate is not
the Only cause and as one notes the fact that there
becomes evident that however this mas been brought
about. II stands chief cause for the result
complshed. The human throat and all the COM
pick mechanism of the vocal organs are practically
PEELED 70 render a satisfactory result.
Il am ashamed TO confess" said Boston woman
discussing these facts. that till lived in London
| never realized in full the terror of many OF
New England voices. Cultivated people do not
shrek, and one Is 80 unaccustOmei think
very much whether a voice is agreeable or not. that
| had let this phase Of life 60 altogether. and this
But those rich. smooth voices. that clear, pure
articulation that YOU get from the really cultivated
Eng,ishwOman. was a revelation. Their methods
of life meant part Of it-iher OF door life and
all that; but on the other hand, II struck me that
too were rational at points. and more than
they. We were keyed to higher pitch in every
way. and made up my mind at once that there
was less wear and tear in their method than ours
and that. far as temperament would let me, their
way should be mine"
My friend paused and looked rehsctvely at me-
That twenty years ago she on and
/ look back upon the struggle with wonder that I
undertook il. | hal used nothing but head
notes since was born. and IL | grew excited
perfectly aware that bagppe. at its worst. could
don't know: but you see did it, and II there had
been anybody in my youth with CLEAN Of sense
not only might have been spared the trouble In my
case. but transmitted "A better thing to my chill
dren. For the New-Englander. count Il the apollo
getic wall for being alive at all that marked the
Puritan era. and fingers still For the of u.s.
and the most of us Americans. il is partly obtuse-
ness. partly ignorance. and We are just waking TO
a sense Of both. Travel is giving a standard OF
cepble set of vocal cords But If | could have my
way every child should be trained in such fashion,
that slipshod. slurring. unmusical speech would be
impossible Til this IL accomplished We are not a
cultivated people. nor, without it, million COM
mon schools make US so"