The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

BREATHE RIGHT AND SUCCEED
II You Want Health, Beauty, Youth.
Success and Charm, Here's the
Secret.
Do you know how to breathe?

Do you or do you just think you
or not?
Most people do not breathe prop
erly-nOt one in ten-and that's |
what's the matter with them Maybe |
it's what's the matter with you II |
there is something the matter and you
don't know what it is.
There's girl in motion pictures
with face smooth as a cemeO, a
form like a diminutive aphrodite, al
voice like velvet, perpetual youth in
her brown eyes and in every grace
full motion, radiant, calm, full OF
charm, and last, but not least, sue
cessful in her work and admired and
loved by all who know her, personal
ly, and by thousands who do not.
When asked recently by an old
friend who had not seen her for years
how she does it, the startling an
swer was: Il know how to breathe.
Asked to elucidate, she continued:
In these days correct breathing
seems to be a lost art. In ancient
times men understood the secret and
they lived longer and were happier
but now, aside from certain cults in
India, students of the occult in this
country, some singers of note and .
few teachers of dramatic art and elO
caution, nobody breathes properly
yet it has more to do with the physi-
cal we'll being of man than any 9th
er one thing, for breathing is life.
Jean and Edouard de Reszke,
Nordica, Media, Patti. Caruso, Ger.
aldine Farrar and their confreres
knew and knew the secret of correct
breathing and they were all beauti-
full, happy, healthy and successful,
? but without that secret they could
not possibly have been what they
were.
Some people of the stage know it
and without exception they are sue
cessful, healthy happy people and all
OF them are Handsome. 1t seems to
be an enchantfnent-it never fails.
''The secret Of correct breathing is
in the diaphragm and once acquired
it cannot be lost. The immediate
consequences are resonance and mu,
sic in the speaking voice, improved
circulation, clear complexion, bright. |
er eyes, elasticity in the step, optims
ism, a keener sense of beauty, cour-
age, poise, and self-confidence. Ill
have omitted anything add it-you
can't go wrong.
ut frees the voice. That is al
technical expression for the phenom.
ena that follows the cultivation of
correct breathing and it seems to be |
a spiritual thing as well as a physi, |
cal thing. 1t must in some way be |
closely related to the divine life else
so wonderful Transformation could
not be made.
mo, it isn't taught in the schools |
and there isn't one doctor in a thou |
sand that understands it, AS | have
said. some teachers OF singing know |
the secret and teach correct breath |
ing, but not all of them. The great |
ones do, of course; that's one reason
they are great.
There are certain fakirs also, who
profess to teach correct breathing. |
but they teach a trick, the practice OF
which is destructive. Apparently it |
develops a kind Of clairvoyant power.
hut it has the opposite effect from
good
"A teacher of correct breathing |
should be in every school little and
big, in the world. 1t is the biggest |
thing yet undone and is traught with
the most momentous consequences.
MANY a bad man or boy or girl
is bad because they don't breathe |
properly. and this lack has done
more to fill jails and hospitals. in
sane asylums aud poor houses than
almost anything else. II your boy
is bad don't condemn or beat him.
Look TO his breathing and. incident
ally. look To your own. You can find
a teacher II you'll look hard enough"
And II you want to know the an.
thOrity of these statements her