Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-07-19

THERE IS A SWIFT AND EASY CURE,
WITH LASTING RESULTS.

A Leading Specialist Says the Sufferer Can
Long Breath Before Each Vowel, Open
the Mouth Wide and Speak.
Stammering and suffering are now
permanently cured in New York by a
simple method. These affections differ
but slightly. In one caSe there is inabil-
ity to pronounce certain words; in the
other, certain sounds. Neither, accord
ing to New York professor. who is a
graduate Of a German college for the
vocal organs, is disease, but both are
habits that will disappear under proper
treatment.
The inability to talk plainly or to ar
ticulate except with great effort, when
due to organic trouble Or malformation,
does not come under the head Of STAN
mering and is not within the scope of
the suffering specialist.
"The whole thing is very simple, !"
said the professor, SO simple that you
will smile when tell you that the sole
and only cause of suffering and STAN
mering is careless respiration. People
who suffer from the impediment have
only to pause, take in a long breath,
and then, opening the mouth in the
manner laid down in the charts used by
elocutionists, pronounce the word sharp
~. Have you never noticed the remark
able fact that people who are inveterate
stammerers are often accomplished vo-
calists? That is because in the act of
singing respiration is done in proper
way.
"a novel fact is that the troubles of
stammerers Or Sufferers lie entirely
with the vowel sounds. Patients do not
seem to understand this In describing
their cases they will tell me that they
have difficulty in sounding p or d.
That is where they are wrong They
sound the consonant all right, but stag
ger at the vowel. A patient comes to
me, and say to him, say papa He
will commence p-p-p-p-p, oh, professor.
I c-c-c-c-c-c-an't say p-p-p-p-papa
sit is at once apparent that his trou-
bile lies with the vowel "a. Then the
treatment commences. Standing before
him, suggest that he take long
breath through the partially closed
mouth until the lungs are we'll filled,
and then, at the moment Of exhalation,
following my direction, he opens the
mouth in the proper manner, as indi
Gated by chart, and pronounces with
me in high, mechanical voice, paw
paw This is often repeated, the vowels
being changed.
"From words we pass on to sentences
and SO on to introduce In close connection
all the vowel sounds. The respiration
before each vowel sound is necessary
The treatment therefore consists in form
ing this habit. AS the patient pupil pro-
crosses the length of this respiration ia
reduced. the pronunciation is made in a
lower pitch and in a few weeks, rarely
can talk fuently and rapidly with no
sign of his former affliotion. But eternal
vigilance is necessary.
HShould the apparently cured patient
become careless and forget the necessity
of respiration as taught him. he may re-
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training must be done all over again.
A boy 16 years of age was once brought
to me. His was q stubborn case, but in
six weeks had him talking all right.
Time passed on for two years. I fire.
quently saw the boy at his father house
and was delighted with the cure. Last
summer he came to my institute. He
was as bad off as when first met him.
1T seems that his father had sent him
on {. short business trip to Europe, away
from the restraining influence Of the ia
ther, whose ears were always alert for
any return of his sons affliction, and
much disturbed, as he explained to me,
by the noise of the vessels machinery,
he became careless, and having once re-
lapsed he became worse every day, and
was really forced to shorten his stay
abroad and return to New York for treat
ment.
"He was bright lad, who readily
applied himself to my rules, and i'll a
week he was all right again. AS mat.
ter of fact, he need not to have come
back to me, but could have applied his
old lessons with success.
''The German government has long
recognized the Importance Of rational
treatment Of vocal impediments, and
school children afflicted in this manner
are put through regular course by
graduates of the college at Frankfort,
where this speciality is taught in the
government employ. The German treat
ment is that of elementary training in
elocution
The habit Of imperfect respiration is
generally found in connection with some
diseases of childhood like the measles,
but most frequent cause is uncon-
scious imitation. One suffering child
in q family will set all the others to
struggling with the vowel sounds, An
adult in conversation with a sufferer
finds it difficult to speak without STAN
mering. -NeW York Herald,