The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-05
NO NEED TO SHUTTER.
THERE is A SWIFT AND EASY CURE,
WITH LASTING RESULTS.

A Leading Specialist Says the Sufferer Can
Cure Himscif-The Way Ia to Take n
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 a New York professor, who is n
graduate of 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, $50 simple that you
will smile when l tell you that the sole
and only cause of suffering and STAN
mering is careless respiration. People
who suffer from the impeachment have
only to pause, take in long breath,
and then, opening the mouth in the
manner laid down in the charts used by
elocutionists, pronounce the word sharp
| ly Have you never noticed the remark
able fact that people who are inveterate
stammerers are often accomplished vo-
/ THAT 10 in tho not 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 l say to him, say papa He
will commence p-p-p-p-p, oh, professor,
1 c-c-c-c-c-c-an' 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 long
breath through the partially closed
mouth until the lungs are we'll filed,
and then, at the moment of exhalation,
following my direction, he opens the
mouth in tho proper manner, as indi-
Gated by q chart, and pronounces with
me in a nigh, mechanical voice, paw
paw. This is often repeated, the vowels
being changed.
From words we pass on to sentences
and so on to introduce III 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 ii
reduced, the pronunciation is made in
lower pitch and in few weeks, rarel,
over five, the most inveterate stuttere
can talk fluently and rapidly with III
sign of his former affliction. But eterpa
vigilance is necessary.
"Should the apparently cured patien
become careless and forget the necessit,
} Of respiration as taught him, he may re
lapse into his former state, and then hi
training must be done all over again
A boy 10 years of age was once brough
to me- His was a stubborn case, but il
six weeks l had him talking all right
Time passed ON for two years. l FIRE
quently saw the boy at his father S hous,
and was delighted with the cure. Las
summer he came to my institute. H,
st seems that his father had sent hin
ON short business trip to Europe, ava,
from the restraining influence of the ia
: Their, whose ears were always alert fo
any return of his sons affection, ant
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, an,
was really forced to shorten his sta,
abroad and return to New York for treat
ment.
He was a bright lad, who readil,
applied himself to my rules, and in
week he was all right again. AS a mat
ter of fact, he need not to have com,
back to me, but could have applied hi
old lessons with success.
1.-THE German government has lonJ
| hoSoShi1Ou tho iihpoituuCo VI riitiOnd
treatment of vocal impediments, ant
school children afflicted in this name
are put through regular course b,
graduates of the college at Frankfort
where this specially is Taught in tn
government employ. The German treat
ment is that Of elementary training il
elocution.
| The habit Of imDerfect resniration |
generally found in connection with som
diseases Of childhood like the measles
. but a most frequent cause is uncon
scious imitation. One suffering chill
in family will set all the others t
Struggling with the vowel sounds. A
adult in conversation with stuttere
finds it difficult to speak without STAN
mering. New York Herald
In Trouble.