Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-06-25
NO NEED TO SHUTTER.
THERE IS A SWIFT AND EASY CURE,
WITH LASTING RESULTS.


WITH LASTING RESULTS.
a Heading Specialist Says the Sufferer Can
Curs Himself-The Way Is to Take .
Long Breath Before Each Vowel. Open
the Mouth Wide and Speak.
Stammering and suffering are now
permanently cured in New York by
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 win disappear under proper
treatment.
The inability to talk plainly or to ar
ticulate except with great effort, when
due to organic trouble or malfornation,
does not come under the head of stam--
mering and is not within the scope of
the suffering specialist.
1.-The whole thing is very simple"
said the professor, 80 simple that you
will smile when l tell you that the sole
and only cause of suffering and stam-
mering is careless respiration. People
who suffer from the impeachment have
only to pause, take in a long breath,
and then, opening the mouth inf the
manner laid down in the charts used by
elocutionists, pronounce the word sharp
y. 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 a 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 ID,
That is where they are wrong. They
sound the consonant all right, but stag
ger at the vowel. A patient comes to
me. and l say to him, say papa He
will commence p-p-p-p-p, oh, professor.
Ic-c-c-c-c-c-an't say p-p-p-p-papa.
1t is at once apparent that his trou-
BILE lies with the vowel "a Then the
treatment commences. Standing before
him, suggest that he take o long
breath through the partially closed
mouth until the lungs arc well filed.
and then, at tho moment of exhalation,
following my direction, he opens the
mouth in the proper manner, as indi-
Gated by o chart, and pronounces with
me in q high, mechanical voice, paw
paw This is often repeated, the vowels
being changed.
From words we pass on to sentences
and so on tc 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 is
reduced, the pronunciation is made in a
lower pitch and i'll few weeks. rarely
over five, the most inveterate sufferer
can talk fluently and rapidly with no
sign of his former aff1iction. But eternal
vigilance is necessary.
"Should the apparently cured patient
become careless and forget the necessity
of respiration as taught him, he may re-
lapse into his former state, and then his
training must be done all over again.
A boy l6 years Of age was once brought
to me. His was stubborn case, but in
six weeks I had him talking all right.
Time passed ON for two years. fire.
quently saw the boy at his fathers house
aud was delighted with the cure. Last
summer he came to my institute. He
was as>bad off as when first met him.
at seems that his father had sent him
on q short business trip to Europe, away
from the restraining influence of the ia.
| Their, whose ears were always alert fol
any return of his sons affection, 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 a bright lad, who readily
applied himself to my rules, and in Q
week he was all right again. As mat
ter Of fact, he need not to have come
back to me, but could have applied hi:
| old lessons with success.
| 1.-The German government has LONG
recognized the Importance of rational
treatment Of vocal impediments, AND
school children afflicted in this manner
are put through a regular course by
graduates Of the college at Frankfort
where this specially is taught in the
government employ. The German treat
ment is that of elementary training il
elocution.
The habit Of imperfect respiration i.
generally found in connection with some
diseases of childhood like the measles
but most frequent cause is uncon
scious imitation. One suffering chilt
in family will set all the others t
struggling with the vowel sounds. Al
adult in conversation with a stutterel
finds it difficult to Speak without STAN
mering. New York Herald
lyon see," said the lean man will
the yellow vest, lit was dark when
got home. and the girl met me in tn,
hall, and saluted her quite affection