Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-05-16
TO CURE

III n people who stutter were callet
upon to provide the mode OF punish
ment to be melted out to the wicked,
they would probably not hesitate the
hairs breadth OF 81 second to reply. but
as fast as their stumbling ongue
could articulate would order that all
speech be tied.
Just what kind OF a nervous afnic-
tion suffering is, and 1t is generally
conceded that in the nerves lie the real
cause. 1t IL not necessary to know, the
really important point is that II can be
cured.
h for suffering are every day
turning away patients once hopeless
sufferers who can express themselves
as they please without ever becoming
ntangle In d maze of reiterated syll-
ubles.
The fundamental principles taught in
'heSe schools are simple enough. Men
ana women who cannot afford to take
a course or 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.
me one successful test against
wh1ch suffering cannot stand Is
rhythin; SO that is made the first les
on In the course of training. Every
thlng must be said to beats in a sing
song way. The sufferer Is told to re
peat a certain sentence marking each
syllable with a baton or a swing OF
tne hand at first to very slow time.
men increasing as to faster and faster.
After this has been practiced until
II seems to be completely mastered q
WORD is allowed IA beat instead OF a
syllable, then two words. three. n
clause. and finally IA sentence.
or course for the cure to be at all
successful. 1t is necessary to repeat ev-
cry sentence spoken in this manner.
and to allo several hours u day going
over words and clauses to every kind
OF time used in music.
Jane Oaker, leading woman with the
VIM. I-ackaye company, has an uncle
VINO for years has been one of the
busiest stock buyers i'm the Chicago
yards. But he suffered about as bad
as any man could and finally make
himself understood. One day when h.
had a little leisure on his hands ha
sat down and figured out lust how
much valuable time he had wasted i'm
ms life trying to make his sentences
Ineligible. 1t to some
lhlng IKE three years and ten months.
lhen he figured u Just how much
more he would waste I'm the same w,v
II ne lived To an average age. and it
Ihaue almost the same number of
years. A course at a certain school
VI " S.
ana IN less than Il week someone else
was DOING his work and he was in
stalled as an Interested pupil beating
out MS words with q baton. To holm
Things along he bought boxes or soan
matches. and everything else he could
mink OF to pcddle from door to doo,
IN order to try his new method under
'ne most embarrassing OF situations
where he would be most apt to sf,,,,ar
SUI II proved to be ali that was
claimed for 1t. and even befor, The
.nres months We're up he went back to
ms business completely cured.
1t is not necessary to stand I'm ha-
1ore a class. however. and recite sim
PIE niue rhymes. nor to peddle matches
from door to door. The same methnds
can be practised behind mes num
doors and in everyday life when talk.
ing to friends. II. only time and al
.sntion enough is devoted to the cure.
me worst Sufferers may be freed FROM
the tolls that are so painfull, .,,h.r
RAISING to those afflicted.