Show The Leisure Hour tells of the oratory of Emperor William I says hIs speeches are his own composition usually usu-ally spoken on the spur of the moment and it Is recognized that while his orations are often overladen with the ornaments of rhetoric he generally knows when to speak and what impression Im-pression to make His voice Is clear and every syllable correctly enunciated enun-ciated In his speeches he uses what arc known as head notes as opposed to chest notes His old grandfather never had much to say except when he lost his temper and broke out in a volley vol-ley of German imprecations which his mouth fired off like a machine gun The Leisure Hour says o Queen Victoria Vic-toria that she always reads any speech I more than n sentence or two long but her voice is 3 beautiful one carrying far The Queen of Spain Is always nervously trembling when she reads reats her speeches The young Queen of Holland Hol-land has n childlike clear voice each i word comes clear as a bell The Austrian I Aus-trian Emperor Is shy of speaking lung Humbert has a most excellent I voice but Is an indifferent speaker The Queen of Italy Is a brilliant speaker I lluent eloquent tactful |