| Show II NEW EW NEWS OF YESTERDAY YI I S W WHY S WAS ALWAYS IN GOOD VOICE VOICES B By J E E Edwards TIlls daily series ot of anecdotes nd and I that throw new Interesting n clad dramatic light on fern a OUR ens events Id and personalities ot of the tho pa past have been collected by dunn durIn t g fory forty years or of more mere or less Int mu mete the tho leaders since Civil War Cash wih with many ot of co the tho Civi anecdote or Incident Is fresh from Mr Edwards dwards B notebook ad and either In or In part It constitutes Now New News ot of Yesterday garnered from irom limo tho mon men who the from rm e eq willy authoritative sources A Ac hum portent contributions ot of the Huma human Cat Int oret crest sort eort to American history these articles havo a distinctive value al all the tho II hr ow own Just aler after William McKInley hose this Is ha had got through his second campaign for governor or of OhIo him Im In Inthe I had the pleasure ot of meeting the tho privacy of oC time the dIrectors room or of orono ono one or of the New York bank banks n a where ho he felt relt free froe to relax himself le lie had been through a most trying speech making ordeal yet ot I 1 was waB astonished to note noto flint his vice voice 10 ro I tamed Ill all ot of that wonderful melodic I and clear enunciating quality whIch al always always ways distInguished It I aled asked him how he hal had managed It Some persons replied d time the governor smIlingly a as he fondly lingered I a light uI d cigar have told 10 mao t lt a public speaker like a popular singer should eschew tobacco Ir if lie ho wants to pro pre preserve serve hIs voice Yet I have always 8 found that tobacco acted Ikc like a soda tive wIth my voice It my vocal cords nut But speaking Il Ill tol tell yoU about about may voice You must know that throughout time UIO west one or of the chief qualifications for anyone who seeks to come forward as asa asci ci a candidate for Is time abil It to mako n a good speech and es ca I a good oo II speech In imm the tho open I that In days open air political addresses are uro much les less com common mon men In time aRt ast than thun they thoy used to le be nut But In the tho tho they ae ace vital Ial to any anyon aie on who hopes to maIm 0 a successful campaign campaignS S Well Veil when I 1 begun public cna canvas L J S sing Bing I wa was careless or of m my voice olce After Attel I a while I 1 was afraid I wa was going to lose hose or of hoarseness It entre entirely I lied had 1 a severe Severo attack Now a candidate without a voice Is Isa isit it a pat past number In politics and MI Mr McKinley So I won dorOd dered Ir if I was not net going to have hao the opportunity to devote myself exclusive Iy hy to law practise I know well that Ir If wel I had had lost m my voice or Ir if It had been seriously ImpaIred I should not have havo b bean n sent sont to Congress and no one would 1111 ever ot of me a as a candidate for governor But Dut I wanted to sta stay In politics arid and saying anythIng about nl nil purpose to anyone I visited I a Mn ible mal man whom shorn I kio know and amid who hl lund of af a reputation ton M as 1 a teach tench or er or of singInG singing and or of the tho vole voie Ho lookout I at m my throat und and told mo me I It Itras was ras perfectly normal but added that I if It I continued to strain It I would lose loo Cnn Can you tell me what to do to preserve I it I asked anxiously Yes I can hue ho said Dont take any tonIcs dont do any gargling 10 But do these two thIngs First when YOU OU ae are speaking In public use uso the tho voice I dOlt dont mean b by that sing 01 or Intone but use your our vocal or 01 orgene gene n as you OU would use them It if you ou were going to You can do that without a singsong 10 quality The Tho singing voice olce wi will cm carry In the tho open nIl air without the slightest strain upon the tho vocal cords mend and Is its use ro re no mol more effort on tho ot of the tho vocal cords than does docs ordinary conversation take care or of time tho consonants In enunciating the tho wi will tko take cro care of oC themselves h h advice tho direct opposite ot of that whIch I ha had always been given Ad And finnly finally he said aId Dont coddle the tho throat thront give It plenty or of fr fresh h nIl air fd and never nevol speak upon n I a ful full stomach or when hen yoU aro physically very tred tired Well 01 I followed this advice To It I owe 00 the tho Cat fact that I c can go O through a campag campaign speaking sometimes th three e 01 or tour four tm throes a dl day oton often In the tho open air and In ni all kinds or of weather with Ith f out the tho slightest t impairment to t voIce oice ex except pt that time tho vol orga organ get tired as I every other othor physical tred memir does docs when whon It Is much ascii But Dut one ofle tj nights rest makes my vole voice MI as per r feet M as It WM was at the tho b beginning ot of the tho J f campaign And Ammi I owe 1 a Jo good dol deal ot what these political I haVe had to A sImple practical commons n rule respecting the tho treatment of oC th the voice olce 1 t |
