Speakers, singers and stammerers / by Frederick Helmore.

  • Helmore, Frederick.
Date:
1874
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    with the weight of the body on one foot, the other being advanced sHghtly Hke a soldier standing at ease. The leg is the sounding post of the voice, and should be in a perpendicular line with the throat and heel. (Fig. 4.) Lastly. Be diligent in the practice of the exercises neces- sary to the easy management of breath, voice and articula- tion. First master every mechanical difficulty, and then bring the mental power to bear upon every word and sentence. When reading, try to identify yourself with the author of the book, or if in dialogue with each individual represented. Recollect that no two persons speak exactly alike; there- fore to make reading effective you must be careful to pre- serve the pecuharities of voice and style of each speaker whose words you utter. Above all, never forget, when reading the Holy Scriptures, that it is the Word of God. Many admirable readers of secular works, forgetting this, give a flippant and irreverent character to the inspired words,—while some, on the other hand, who are good readers of the Bible are equally unable to give effect to any other styles of writing. CHAPTER X. STAMMERING AND STUTTERING. C TAMMERING, though frequently applied as a general ^ term for all kinds of impediments in speech, relates more especially to that lock-jaw kind of gasping, with which so many are afflicted. The glottis and the action of the vocal cords appear to be paralysed so that they cannot be brought into the position required for the emission of vocal sound. Stuttering is that species of hesitation which shows