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Show A learned professor in the 8Ht the other day wrote on the necessity and the usefulness of having pupils in the sehools read aloud and declaim, and that outfit to attach to every kind of a school from th humblest kindergarten to the lip;c;est university. The' American people do not half know the value of their own voices. The truth is that there are many instruments which when played upon are a charm to those who listen; hut no instrument ever made by man compares with the cultivated voice. There is more expression in it, there is more feeling in it. there is more power in it than in any brass hand or any cathedral organ, and it should be trained, especially, every day by the young. It is , true that many married people' who have children never rest until they (ret the most expensive musical i instruments in the world, whether their children I have a musical talent or not. It would be better, if both cannot be obtained, for them to hire an elocutionist elo-cutionist and make their children practice their voices and to cultivate them by training two hours a day because, as we said above, while many musical musi-cal instruments are superior, that musical instrument instru-ment which the good Uod placed in every man's vocal organs is superior to anything that man ever made. |