The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-05-23
TO CURE

If the people who stutter were called
ipon to provide the mode Of punish
ment to be melted out to the wicked,
they would probably not hesitate he
hairs breadth of a second to reply, but
as fast as their stumbling tongues
fould a%rticulate would order that all
speech be tied.
Just what kind Of a nervous afhic-
ton suffering is, and it is generally
conceded that in the nerves lie the real
cause, it is not necessary to know. the
really important point is that it can be
cured.
Schools for suffering are every day
turning away patients once hopeless
sufferers who can express themselves
as they please without ever becoming
~entangled In Il maze Of reiterated Syll-
ableS.
Inc fundamental principles taught in
these schools are simple enough. Men
and women who nj afford to take
a course Of instruction at them or who
are SO situated that they cannot get
away from their business for a long
enough time to attend, can with a lit
Tie patience cure themselves at home.
The one successful test against
which suffering cannot stand is
rhythm, SO that is made the first les
on In the course of training. Every
SHtS iioo OG LIZ W DGdlS III d sing
song way. The sufferer is old to re-
peat a certain sentence marking each.
syllable with a baton or a swing of
the hand, at first to very slow time,
then increasing as to faster and faster.
After this has been practiced until
u seems to be completely mastered a
word is allowed a beat instead of a
syllable, then two words, three, a
clause, n finally a sentence.
Oh course for the cure to be at all
successfui, 1t is necessary to repeat ev-
cry sentence spoken in this manner,
ana 70 allow several hours a day going
over words Il clauses to every kind
of time used in music.
Jane Oaksr, leading woman with the
WIN. Lackaye company, has an uncle
Who for years has been one of the
busiest stock buyers in the Chicago
Safds. But he suffered about as bad
as any man could n finally make
himself understood. One day when he
mad a little leisure on his hands he
sat down and figured out lust how
much valuable time he had wasted in
MS life trying to make his sentences
lhteillglble. 1T amounted to some
thing like three years and ten months.
Then he figured out Just how ml1ch
more ne would waste in the same way
ar ne lived to an average age, and it
made almost he same number Of
years. A course at a certain school
guaranteed to cure in three months.
ana IN less han a week someone else
was doing his work and he was in
stalled as an interested pupil beating
out his words with a baton. To help
thlngs along he bought boxes of, soap.
natches, and everything else he could
!h1nk of to peddle from door to door
IN order to try his new method under
the most embarrassing of situations
Where ne would be most apt to stutter.
sut 1T proved to be ali that was
claimed for it, and even before the
three months We're up he went back to
ms business completely cured.
1t is not necessary to stand up be-
fore q class, however, and recite sim
pie little rhymes, nor to peddle matches
from door to door. The same methods
can be practised behind ones cwn
doors and in everyday life when talk
ing to friends. II, only time and at
tent1on enough is devoted to the cure.
the worst Sufferers may be freed from
Inc tolls that are so painfully embar-
caSstng to those afflicted.