The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-21
Improve Your Looks by Talking Cor
rectly.


rectly.
Are you satisfied with the contour
and expression OF your face? If you
are not, try lip culture. This is one of
the absolutely new things in fads for
the coming season. 1t is already prev
alent among women who have learned
that the beauty of facial expression
and the manner of their speech can be
materially improved by cultivation"
This cultivation consists of exercise.
Lip cufturists have discovered that
| few people, particularly those of Eng
| disappearing nations. use anNShing
/ like all the facial muscles intended to
be brought into play during converse
ton. Acting upon this discovery they
have devised a set of rules the appli-
cation of which is designed to entirely
! change the contour of the face and
produce a fascinating facial express
! sion. In short, it is claimed that any
woman con enhance her beauty to an
inestimahle extent by adhering for a
short time to the rules laid down to bs
| followed during converse ton. AS an
attractive manner of speech is held to
be one of womans most fascinating ac-
complishments 'faddists'' have snap
ped up the Zip culture" idea and are
working it in excess of the union scale,
The enterprising man who PROFOUND
ed the system of lip culture first took
into consideration a few salient facts
of unquestionable significance and then
built about them the structure of this
new fad. The first fact to be taken
into consideration by a new student
of lip culture is that in pronouncing
the vowel sound 'ah'' the facial mus
cles may remain nearly undisturbed,
with the lower jaw slightly dropped
hon
of pronunciation. The conscientious
lip culturist would say "ah" by draw
ing the upper Ii pslightly away from
the teeth and opening the mouth fairly !
wide.
The effect of this deviation from the |
methods of careless takers will be to |
give prettier expression to the face |
while the sound is being uttered, and |
at the same time color is added to the |
sound itself. This is the first exercise.
Exercise No 2 is on the vowel sound |
20" Normally to utter this sound it is
not necessary to alter the formation of |
the lips to any noticeable extent. But
Under the new system the angle of the
lips should be drawn forward and the
sound pronounced with vigor This
angle is controlled by a muscle having
its rise in the lower outer angle of the
eye and leading into the muscular
fbers of the lips. This lip formation
draws the lips backward, forward, out
ward, and upward, and is most i'm
portant in the proper formation of
vowel sounds.
cultivated smile may be assumed
by repeated uttering fthe expression
zee" With proper acquaintance with
the muscle described in exercise No. 2
a person can acquire an expression of
amiability that would battle any eX-
pert reader of character that bases his
opinion upon what he sees in the face.
Lastly, in the vowel exercises comes
the sound of 90" In this the most
active muscle lies between the nose
and the lips and carries the Upper
lip forward and upward. Another
muscle in the lower lip carries it in
he same direction. and the general
angle of the lips is drawn forward.
Then there are the consonant sounds
which come in to claim due attention.
4 clear way of enunciating 9TH" is
important TO the culture of speech.
Note how many people say that in
| careless way of lifting the tongue
against the back of the teeth instead
If setting it quite between the teeth.
sound free from a lisp.
md. in fact the same sound that adds
distinction and beauty to the Spanish
anguage.
An exercise commencing with the
ound of 'p." which draws the lips
ogether. but congresses them against
he teeth and ending with the sound
f ~ mot "oo'D, is useful for ac-
uiring flexibility of the lips.
The soft sound of "g," - and "ch'
an all be pronounced without NOV
ng the lips after they are once sep
rated. but the wise person who is
FISHING to test the secret value of zip
ulture" will extend the lips in front il
T the teeth, separate them well and {
ropel with some force the word com
Fencing with any of these sounds, as i.
chair for example. n
A pupil is not allowed TO pronounce
" in the most frequent and ungrace- o
ii way of resting the upper teeth b
gainst the inside of the lower lip. but
ne exercise is given by placing the +,
PIPER teeth just over the lower lip and n
taking sure to propel the sound with s.
considerable breath
A person who takes up the study of 81
p culture is ordered 10 say tn evari- t.
US sounds ten successive times at