The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-06-27
NO NEED no ~ TER.
THERE is A SWIFT. AND EASY CURE,
WITH LASTING RESuLTS.f

AAeading Specialist Says tl,e sufferer Car
Cure Himself The Way Us to gTake, /.
Long Breath Before Each Vowel, Open
the Mouth Wide ard speak ls4ggtl
49,
Stammering and suffering are now
permanently cured IN Now York by a
simple method. These affiictioils diaey
but slightly. III one ease there is inabi1-
ltysto pronounce certain words; IN the,
other, certain sounds. Neither, accord
rig TO a New York professor, who is a
graduate of Il German college for the
vocal organs, is.a ID .sease,sb bart both are
habits thar Wi! disappear under proper
treatment
The inability to talk plainly or to az,
ticulate except with great effort, when
due to organic trouble or maFormation,
does not come under the head of STAN
meling 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 Ifell you that the sole
and only cause Of suffering and stam-
lneIfng is careless respiration. People
WHO suffer from the impot.izleAt have
only to pause, take in long breath,
and then, opening the. Rs9uth in the
manner laid down III 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
stfanmerers 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 colsonant 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,
c-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
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 a chart, and pronounces with
me in a high, mechanical voice, paw :,
paw. This is often repeated, the vowels
being changed. s.le. - ,.{s
"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 fo1rn-
ing this habit. Asthe patient pupil pro-
crosses the length Of this irespirationis
reduced, the pronunciation is made in
lower pitch and ia a few weeks, rarely
over five, the most inyeterate sufferer
can talk fuently and rapidly with no
sign of his former affection But eternal
vigilance is necessary.
Should the apparently cured patient
become careless and forget the necessity
Of respiration as tanght him, he may re-
lapse into his former state, and then his
training must be done all over again
A boy 16 years of age was once brought
to me. His was a 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 u 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 affiiction, 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 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
LOcoS4lAHCl GI1S lIlpOItttuCo OI IttiOAdl
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 speciality is taught in the
government employ. The German treat
ment is that of elementary training i'll
elocution. -
The habit of imperfect respiration is
generally found in com tien with some
diseases of childhood lia1 tho measles,
but a most frequent cause is uncon-
scious imitation. One stuttolIns child
in family will set al the others to
struggling with the vowel sounds. An
adult in conversation with a stuIterer
finds it difficult to speak without stam-
mering. New York Herald. -
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