Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

3d. TOO, can many suicides.
The well modulated, sympathetic voice can
do much to reduce marital unhappineSs and to
mold business success.
EugubriousnesS in tone Is partially responsible
Tor the business depression at the present time.
Even when people say Business Is getting
better" they say it in such Oppressive tone
that no buoyant attitude or effect on business
Il created. In other words, the nearer seldom
feels that the expression Of opinion comes from
the heart of the speaker.
The voice qualities OF the radio speaker de-
termine his success in putting over his ideas.
The business womanS security and her success
are dependent upon her voice control The
voice appeal OF the minister In the pulpit. of
the lawyer to the jury, Of the insurance agent
% his client, of the fnancier. or any one in
any profession business where contact with
the public is necessary, is the gauge Of success
or failure.
And perhaps more important, the character
Of each individual, his genealogical background.
the handicaps Of his life, his hopes and his
aspirations are all revealed in the tones of his
voice.
John Citizen, though not trained to detect
such things in voice tones. instinctively reacts
90 them. He is Immediately wary OF the down.
Np-doWn voice-the yeah?-of sarcasm and
eynicism. He shuns the rasping Voice. He does
not listen to the tonelesS voice. He cuts of his
radio II a voice is unpleasant. But he Is carried
along by the vibrant. alive voice, and he is
tones which comfort and careSs.
THESE are some of the interesting facts that
Mrs. Anne Tillery Renshaw has found out
Rsom many years of study Of human speech and
Cts effects upon Others Before she came to
washington Mrs. Renshaw taught English.
speech and sociology for IL years In colleges
Since then she trained platform orators. among
them $50 campaigners for President Coolidge
Her pupils Rave been high Government off,
Dials, officers Of the Army and Navy, scientists
men and women from II different professions
and lines Of business, and women who must
stand in the social Hznelight. The attaches of
embassies and legations have sought her out to
learn the difference between Washington Eng
lish and oxford English.
Recently she was elected the first and only
woman ON the washington faculty of the
American Institute of Banking to teach its first.
cultural subject. the pleasant approach through
nse of tone qualities to the voice.
People seek Mrs. Renshaws help for all sorts
of affiictions-seh consciousness lack of poise
rs well as for unpleasant voice qualities.
Zone of the most interesting cases I have
ever had was the wife Of famous Public Health
Service physician, college graduate and
woman of cultural background. Yet when she
walked into this room the muscles Of her face
were set and in a private interview I could
hardly get out Of her the fact that she felt that
something was the matter with her prOnunci-
mtlon," Mrs. Renshaw said.
II surmised that she had made wrong
diagnosis of her trouble and after some time
discovered that she was suffering from n patho-
logical condition induced By self consciousness.
This had been brought On, Il seems. partially
because her husbands position necessttated that
they entertain q good deal, and two weeks
before and two weeks after such an entertain
msnt she was so tense from worry and excite
ment that she was really III.
$50 we prepared for her next party. We
took her list Of guests, calling them n, B, G,
ETC., and we wrote down opposite each his
faults, his foibles his interests, his likes and
his dislikes. and then we planned the entire
conversation for her at her next party. She
entered into the game in spmtsmanIike fashion
and when the party came on it proved o great
9laecess. Now she is one Of the most popular
hostesses in Washington, 10Y 70 herself, her