The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
THEIR VOICES NEGLECTED.
A Mans Observation About Women After
After Attending a Club Meeting.

Two mere men attended a womens
club reception one afternoon recently,
and took seats with quite a supercllious
air: but IL was noticed as the pro-
gramme advanced. and subjects alb
struse and complex were met and dis
posed of with the courage of conviction
and the ease of child's play, that the
complacency of these two mere men
gradually diminished, and by the time
they lad listened to the prophecies or
awful and horrible fate angina over
their country because so many things
were lone that should not be done, ana
so much left undone that should be at
tended to, they shuddered and with
drew outside the circle, where they
would be less conspicuous by COMPARE
son. To recover their ease and regain
their self-satisfaction, they fell to dis
cussing woman's frailties.
'Women do not understand the inn
portance of a w~ell-placed speaking
voice" said the professor of languages
to the other. They cultivate their man
ners, give earnest thought and prayer 10
their complexion, spend a large slice OF
their income on the hairdresser, the
manicure and the Turkish bath, to say
nothing of the modiste, n succeed IN
giving us a most d~electable result 10
look upon-and l suppose we ought not
to complainant why cannot they give
a little time to their voices and give US
something pleasant to listen to as wei!
mot one woman in 20 knows how 10
manage her voice and to ~enunciate cor
rectly. SO many of the other 40 affect
the shrill treble with crescendo and d.
minuendo transitions, probably because
IL sounds babyish and childish, ana SO
many women like to be cunning. III not
that, they come at you with a sonorous
volume that suggests a fog horn IN as
tress more than anything else. There are
rasping voices and voices that make
such an evident effort to be sweet that
they are painfully saccharine, and voices
that Jump out at you explosively, and
monotone voices. and weak, thin, little
voices that have hardly force enough TO
carry them to the ear of the nearer.
Then. why will they not attend to
enunciation? They persist in saying
'dontchew.' 'praps,' 'nachur:' they drop
their gs and slur two syllables into one
and make of an ain termination SIM
ply a nasal sound to finish the word. In
most cases this poor English is due to a
nervous haste to get through what there
is to say. and could be easily overcome
by practicing a careful n deliberate
manner of speech, thinking how each
word looks in print before IL is uttered
II is only a question of time and though
and not often a matter of ignorance.
Dt Itkul hhlu VI 49,
culiar and irresistible charm all its own
and woman i'm general does not half ap'
preciate its power. 1t is something tina
can be felt. 1t vibrates sympathetic
chords like a note of melody. A woman
with his voice may be homely, positive
ly ugly, but with one sentence she WI
arrest a mans attention, even draw 1
away from a pretty woman, and by th'
rich quality and meditation OF he
tones, her easy. clear pronunciation o.
every syllable, hold and delight him al
long as she chooses.
The correct voice comes from IA
down the thoraX. 1t Is a chest tone, AM
II takes a full inhalation of air to brini
il forth. Take a deep breath and befor
letting go OF 1t again begin to speak
and you will catch the idea; the flu
breath exhales gradually with tn
spoken words and the voice is throw
out rich and full. II can be dul
10 a low. deep tone. without losing IL
quality, for there is reserve force benin
IL that will not permit of its degenerat
ing into a thin. unwholesome timbr'
Did YOU ever see a lot OF women with
all talking at once, excitedl1
irrationally, and at the top of thei
! voices. and then see a s~oft-voiced VIC