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Show 1 ow i ii'ei d Orators. I rVani IU St Uun Llot Dtmocrat "Orator) it by no means a lost art but Iho power to address ast audiences proper!) li exceedingly rare," tiid Tiler A. Colon, at Iho ijtclctlc-. "lnkt tbu Chicago Convention for Illustration Illus-tration Tho Wigw im sc'itcel ncnrly ao,oou people Tnero were, Urst and last, thirty or fori) rpcikcra, and out nf the ciiiuc lot not n single man with sufficient tolce to make his remiiks Intelligible In-telligible lo lull the audience. Soma of Iho sneakers could not he understood by the thousand people packed in directly around tbeni Now, nn ontion tint on not be heirtl hy nn entire autlicncL Is worac than hborwastttl In thu golden age uf drcclon oratory sneakers nddrctsed entire nrnilea, and If we are to believe Hie historians, did so successfully. They trained their voices for just such occisioni," and Hie result was lint llicy possessed tho liuigi of a Mentor and their thoughts were written In thunder One Greek nntor, wenre told, used lo exercise his voice on the scacoiit during the Mount mid could make himself understood at a considerable distance elespite the roar of tho wind and the pounding nflhu breakers Ulan nit) ihit modern orators or-ators do not take like pains to fit tlieni-sclvi tlieni-sclvi s for their labors Instead of popping up wltlipcnni-whUlIt olces and performing per-forming occult p-iutomlmes lo the ills-gust ills-gust of several llioiitand people. The gestures and gliniiccs of nine tenths, of our modern ontora aru so tlumty and ill timed lliat no man or woman horn can divine their thoughts from n,elr dumb show." |
