The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-26

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University, Worcester, Mass, appears
IN have made out, very much more |
taarlv than IL has ever been known |
.efore. lust what is really the matter |
with n sufferer, says the New York |
sun
Ho took eight different subjects, |
,r the most part boys and young
mon. and all rather bad cases. He
tied them up. one at a time, in an
elaborate apparatus which recorded
as Wayy lines on a revolving drum
tbe movements of the chest as the
breath went in and out, the CORE
sponding movements Of the dia-
phragm, the ''voiding" Of the breath,
md the articulation Of the individual
sounds the pace of the heart beat and
The presence of absence of the SHUTTER
Bv this means he obtained a perma-
nent record 70 be studied at leisure
If Just what WAS going on in half
dozen different places at once during
ZACH tenth Of a second.
The trouble with these Sufferers
turned out To be largely in the timing
If their speech. We who are tongue
Tree in our occasional intervals of
silence, take our breath and let it out
again in about the same period, ribs
and diaphragm working quietly in
harmony But when we use our voices
We shift TO q new rhythm.
latch, but goes out slowly. The outgo
now takes at least four times as long
IS the intake. We start talking with
The first puff Of the expiring breath,
md keep going till the breath is out.
The other fellow gets his chance for a
word while our lungs are filling again
Now the statterer cannot swing into
he normal talking rythm. So long
~ he keeps still he breathes like any
body else. But when he 't-t-t-ries
t-t-t-to t-t-t-talk" reaches only about
. two-to-one relation for in breathing
and out attempts to speak when his
lungs are empty, or even when the
breath is coming in. The entire timing
II the speech collapSes.
The diaphragm and the ribs get at
ross purposes, even to the degree
mat one set of muscles may be trying
10 breathe out The mouth Sha pes it.
self for syllable when the voice is
not turned on. The whole elaborate
rorrelations of breath, voice and ar
tculation falls apart. Lrynx, lungs
and lips go their own gait without
much regard to one another; and the
wretched victim Of the seizure stands
dumb, or else keeps repeating the las
sound that he succeeded in getting
while he vainly tries to get his mus.
cles into their team play for the next
The trouble is, then, nervous. 1t is
/
he inability to walk high bean
when one can easily walk a crack OF
The floor the fear of harmless little
snakes. the curious difficulty tina
most of us have in hitting a slow bal
when the bases are full or in recall
ing familiar name for a sudden in
PRODUCTION. All these are essential.
suffers, all of them may teach u
something Of how it feels not to b.
able to say plain good morning Il
stranger.
All of us, moreover, have SOM
combination of sounds that come
hard. some position of lips and tongu
that will not switch smoothly owe
INTO the next. The man who take
Peter Piper" at full speed twists hi
voice into knots over Jump skunk
There Is always some bit of voCa
gymnastics that each Of US cannC
do.
Now the sufferer is like all tn
rest Of us, only more SO. Some pal
ucular tongue twister is especially al
TO beat him--and he is by nature
nervous chap and easily ratified.
lie sees his particular bette noiI
while it is yet 81 great way off. II
tries To find another word to avoid i
mas To think of two things at once
loses his nerve and muddleS thel
both; and finally giving away at tt
unequal knees trembles with stas
fright in the presence of the alphabe
We who stutter at high beams
pitched balls or little green Snak
can usually keep out of the way. b
there is no lodging hard consonant
aud the victim Of the verbal horro
goes from bad to worse.
tbs conscience" therefore, .'th
makes towards Of us all'' and Suite
~ some-conscience, that is, in Il
ElIZabethan sense of Self-consciOu
ness, the nervous taking thought f
acts are left to smoothly only VIII
lhey are left to the subliminal min
suffering in other words, is
anxiety neurosiS" which blocks t
machinery of speech, and throws
out OF gear. Precisely Simll
troubles are now recognized for t
handwriting and the walk.