The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-17

s/ >< The most telling charm girl can have Is a sweet voice, and yet how often, alas, is the quality of the voice utterly ignored by young people. One hears the terrible twang indigenous to this country issuing from kissable coral lips, hears maids in the finest raiment speaking with the hoarseness of ravens or with voices as badly managed as those of monkeys. Yet there are elocutionists for training the voice to honeyed notes, and the owner of the dulcet voice is a power in every circle of society For al though the voice is the easiest of all the points of woman's beauty to train into ways of loveliness 1t generally happens that the low, exquisitely- timbered and beautifully used voice goes with the superior nature.
 The deaf speak discordantly be- cause they cannot hear the manner in which they are pitching their voices. So hearing Is needed for voice training, and 1t is possible to cultivate it's sensitiveness with very simple home methods. Listen, to all the beautifully-pitched voices that come your way and then go into your room and practice with the contrast of your own naturally speaking voice. You win see your mistakes in short order, and by keeping the CT TOT in mind, as important to your 1h. x.rf11 @,r. no,fva..tf initiating the lovely voice. first copy Ing the manner in which single words are uttered and then essaying some whole phrase caught up from the voice melodious. Little by little you will get the right infections, and then somehow you will grasp at last the spiritual side of human speech. The feeling of words will appear and you will utter them in the right manner, telling your fairy tale with the right touch of gayety and your tale of sor- row with due solemnity.
 According to voice specialists, the commonest defect in young people is the pitching of the voice too high. and this is accompanied by nervous
 tension which holds the throat taut and strained. The breath is short
 and hurried, which cuts the over tones and destroys the vibrations. So | the high pitch must first be over come, and since reserve breath and wholesome state of the throat and nose are needed these organs and | the lungs must receive their due share of attention. The simplest breathing exercises, taken quite twice day in a full and rhythmic manner, will undoubtedly improve defective voice through the help the exercise lends to the vocal cords Deep breathing, too, is often advised for bashfulness and stammering. those two great banes of timid youth. which if not overcome in time will some times last until life's end.
 For the girl whose general health is none of the best, and whose voice soon wears out with class recitations, diet of molasses and coarse bread is to be recommended. Sweet milk and buttermilk will also be of much benefit, while raw egg, beaten up with little lemon juice. and taken before breakfast is almost certain to ward off hoarseness during the day. Raw eggs are very healing and feed ing to the throat and lungs, and should be given far oftener to under nourished young people, whose very delicacy makes them ready victims to lung and throat diseases.
 Anything which interferes with the general health will affect the beauty and strength of the voice. and since the membrane of threat and nose is so delicate it must al- ways be given immediate care in time of trouble-or. better still, be kept in healthy state with the frequent use of antiseptic washes.
 But lot of the ugliness in youth
 full voices comes from bad habits
 alone. The young people are not corrected for their vocal errors in
 time, they are allowed to sing at too
 early an age, they sleep and sit in
 rooms too hot and dry, they have the example of other badly-trained | children, or get the habit from their
 tone-deaf elders. But 1t Is never too
 late for the girl who has been neg lected in this way to improve herself
 if she will only realize that a sweet.
 well-modulated voice is one of wom-
 aims greatest Vaccinations and that
 all her success in it's attainment Hes | fn harsaIf