The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-29

The Newest Fad in ety-Practi-
cal Aids to the Correct Use of the
Voice-Mrs. CIeveIand's Charming
Tones.
From the New Yorw Wolrd..
Voice correction. OF, voice culture, is the
very latest fad. If.0pu are a Boston girl,
broad in your aisi and nasal and east
windy in your bronchial tubes; ifiyou are
a Chicago GIRL with voice like a western
cyclone and large round RS; if you are
maid from the south, with a slovenly
sweet little way of sIuTing vowels and
talking dialect; if you are club woman,
and read essays and make speeches in
the low voice that Shakespeare thought
an excellent thing in women, but which
is the despair OF your audiences, or if
you are merely New Yorker, accustom-
ed to talk against what Mr.. Richard Wat
son Glider calls the thunder of Broad
way and have cultivated a vocal force
as musical as ealiope, you will be in
terested to know that a specialist in
'voice correction" has arisen in the great
metropolis of New York, and that it is
quite the fad to have your voice cor
rected.
The voice specialist is an Englshwo-
man. She is neither pretty nor stylish,
but she is a siren. She was, to begin
with, a teacher of singing and elocution.
She finds it much more profitable now to
teach people to talk.
Her conversation is a delight; her Eng
lish is perfect; her enunciation clear
deep, musical To speak with her in the
ordinary aggressive tone Of everyday life
TO drop ones gs and slur ones ms, would
be to follow a Beethoven symphony with
BoWery song, She has studio on Muir
ray Hill, and has a dourshing clientele
of society girls, club women, actresses,
and various professional folk.
She makes a speciality of the converse
tional voice.
How beautiful said Max O'Rell, sis
the American Woman-until she opens her
MOUTH And who ever heard of a Wo-
man who could keep her mouth shut?
$50 many women educate themselves
to sing, this voice specialist declared to
a World reporter but so few educate
themselves to talk The voices of Amer
the continent one shoulders at the rasp-
ing, aggressive tones, the bronchial or
nasal aspirates, that mark the American
woman Her voice IS in contrast to the
| deep-breathed tones of her English cous-
in, and discords painfully with the mu-
| steal Latin tongues.
when 1 first came to this country I
was astonished at the number of Ameri-
| can girls Who weEe learning how to
sing before they had learned how. to
/ talk. 1t is a curious fact that girls who
| are taught to breathe properly in sing
| ing, and who are possessed of musical
/ taste and excellent vocal organs, never
]
| wise theories they have learned in sing
| ing.
/ of my pupils. One OF my most success
| full subjects is a. member of Sorosis,
/ a woman of unusual culture and grace.
/ She is large and stately, veritable full
/ breasted Juno vet Mrs - pardon me
! Yet she had a voice like a penny whistle.
! 1t was really a punishment to strain one S
! ears to hear the still, small shril voice
emanating from that glorious womans
! throat
When she came to me said to her,
| My dear madam, did you ever consider
/ never thought of it. Take off your cor
/ SETS said /, and we will see what is left
| of it, I gave her fifteen minutes exer-
else on the vowels, and at the end of that
| her diaphragm. She had never talked
| from below her waist line before.
she came to me three mornings week
! for several months. It was an absolute
| delight to teach her. Nature had gifted
/ her with fine vocal organs and an unusu-
| al instinct for expression, but she had
| unfortunately. acquired that still, small
! shrill affected tone that was as incongru-
! Gus as a mouse tweak in a lions mouth.
'She, developed hne, clear, sonorous
! contralto, which she can now control with
| ease for the ordinary uses of club speech
| making and essay reading, and in the
lower key of private conversation her
/ voice is delightful.
1.-THE average American woman shrieks
or squeaks in private, and in public can
not make herself heard by a drawing
room audience, or else shrieks at them
like a fish-Woman.
There are notable exceptions Mrs. Pot
! ter Palmer of Chicago is one of these.
| Her voice is always conversational and
delightfully."- distinct and well sustained.
Another voice that is pleasant to remem-
Der is Francis Wizards 5. 1t has home
ly' quality in it that is the secret of some
of her wonderful success with women au-
diences. 1t puts them at ease. What it
lacks in musical cadence it makes up in
it's own individual qualities of friendli-
ness and humor
f'Kate Field has a voice of this sort