The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-30

children, but try to secure for them
that subtle charm of voice, rich-toned
and cultivated, which carries with a
such individuality and power.
ITO one person seeking to be trained
for public speaking there are a dozen
wanting to be relieved of hindrances
to the voice in every day use" said a
professor. Il get scores of letters and
gifts from men and women whom
have helped conquer a voice infirmity.
no case is undertaken without the pa
TENTS agreeing to follow instructions
to the letter, and understanding that
time. patience and determination are
the main factors in the cure. The
young man who went out just now is
under treatment for a phenomenal
voice, a voice that he can't depend on
for a moment and which nobody can
hear for the first time without laugh
ing. He says he breads to speak to his
friends in the street, because uncertain
how his voice will sound whether it
will be falsetto, bass or the thinnest
squeak in the top registed. At times,
when he particularly desires to speak
firmly and decidedly, he is apt to go
eff in a quavering treble. And when
at social entertainments he wants to
use low, gentle tones his voice comes
out gruff and forbidding. AS a law
student of considerable ability, his
voice is a great drawback. He is in
training here a half hour each day
systematically, even Sundays and holt
days. l expect to put him in possess
sion of tones that will allow of his adj
dressing a jury or inviting girl to
dance with the same absolute control of
his voice"
"A club woman fifty years old is
seeking cure for lisp. She is intel
lectual and interested in public affairs,
but to hear make an address with
that lisp and you wouldn't credit her
with an idea. She has resolved to I'M
dergo any prescribed discipline that
will Danish the trouble. Another am
bilious club member is having her voice
strengthened in order to speak In
louder, clearer tones than she now COM
mands. Ministers who have injured
their voices from overstrain, and those
whose tones are gutteral or nasal come
to be relieved of the difficulty.
II am now creating a voice in
woman whose faculty of speech has
been paralyzed. She could scarcely ut
ter a sound when her husband brought
her here. Young. educated and of good
mind she has been deprived through
Illness of all means of expression. BY
practicing with me daily she will even
tually recover her vocabulary. OF all
sufferers the stammering patients most
enlist my sympathy. One OF next
weeks brides is a pupil whom | cured
of stammering after she was 20, and
regarded as incurable. l insisted on
her coming regularly for lessons and
resolving to conquer. Now her impe-
diment is hardly perceptible. A pc
culiar case was that of young
stammerer whose father had be-
oueathed him a dye shop. He said his
trade was falling off on account of his
hungling talk Garments being sub
mitted for treatment he had to explain
whether they need be ripped apart or
| left whole the colors that the partic-
MAR material would best take, whether
the buttons and trimmings should be
removed etc To pronounce the
words rip" and buttons" was agony
IN him. He is now almost cured.
Stammering is sometimes the result OF
| illness affecting the throat, sometimes
an inheritance, or engendered by chill
dren's mimicing persons so affiicted.
| Certain trainers attempt to cure SIAM
mering by making the patient mark
| time between utterances, as is done
| in a music class. l condemn this meth
nd as ungraceful and use a successful
system of my own.
"Familiarity with the principles of
health and the conditions that affect
the nerves and muscles of speech is es-
sential to the voice culturist Indis-
! tinctness is sometimes due to careless
ness. or to a want of self-conf1dence or
self-assertion There are subjects, the
roof of whose mouth is too high 10
promote correct utterance. and they
must learn to allow for this defect.
! Some people, while approaching the ex-
nression that should be given to SEN
! fences lack control over their mouth
| muscles. The words come out head
] long without meditation or emphasis
and leave no impression on the listener.
All faults can be corrected by the ex-
ertion of the individual VIII unaer
nroper training. An astonishing number
| - Young children have defective
voices or tricks Of speech. so many