The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-01
NO NEED TO SHUTTER.
THERE. is A SWIFT AND EASY CURE,
WITH LASTING RESULTS.

Long Breath Before Each Vowel, Open
tho Mouth ,Sido and Speak.
Stammerins and suffering are now
permanently cured III New York by n
simple method. These Affections differ
but slightly. In one case there is inabil-
lty to pronounce certain words in the
other, certain sounds. Neither, accord
ing to IL New York professor, who is n
graduate of German college for tho
vocal organs, is IL disease, but both are
habits that will disappear under proper
treatment.
The inability to talk plainly or to ar
tlculate except with great effort, when
due to organic trouble on malformation,
does not come under the head of STAN
mering and is not within the scope of
the suffering specialist.
1.-The whole thing is very simple"
sand the professor, 80 simple that you
will smile when 1 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 i'll long breath,
and then, opening the mouth in the
manner laid down i'll the charts used by
elocutionists, pronounce the word sharp
ly. Have you never noticed the remark
able fact that people who are inveterato
stammerers are often accomplished vo-
calists? That is because III 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 i'll 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 I 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-
bic lies with tho vowel "a Then tho
treatment commences Standing before
HIM, suggest that he take Il 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 tho
mouth i'll the proper manner, as indi-
Gated by chart, and pronounces with
mo i'll II high, mechanical voice, paw
paw. This is often repeated, the vowcls
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 i'll form
ing this habit As the patient pupil pro-
crosses tho length of this respiration is
reduced, the pronunciation is made i'll n
lower pitch and i'll Il few weeks, rarely
over five, the most inveterate sufferer
can talk fiucntly and rapidly with no
sign of his former afiliction. 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 G years of age was once brought
to me. His was stubborn case, but in
SIX weeks l had him talking all right.
limo passed on for two years. | fire.
Qucntly saw the boy ut his fathers 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 Il 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 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
nent.
Ho was Il bright lad, who readily
applied himself to my rules, and in IL
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 mt Frankfort,
where this speciality is taught in the
government employ. The German treat.
ment is that Of elementary training in
elocution "
Tho habit of imperfect respiration is
generally found i'll connection with some
diseases of childhood like the measles,
but Il most frequent cause is uncon-
scious imitation. One suffering child
i'll family will set all the others to
struggling with the vowel sounds. An
adult i'll conversation with a sufferer
finds it difficult to speak without STAN
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