American Fork Citizen | 1922-06-24 | Page 6 | Voice Retains Its Quality

Hi1, VOICE RETAINS ITS QUALITY I Hl'tj Fixed Feature of Human Vocal Or M& j ' I iana Which la Regarded ae Some- Mi J v.1 thing of a Phenomenon. 2 jj. The cliungca that come with age, (M ! observes the editor of the New York jn 'i Medical Journnl, are so mnnlfold and g $, striking" that we ore Inclined to over m f ' t look the persistence through the years M Kj ef the quality of the voice, and yet j J ', this one fixed fenture Is remarkable. ij J; Even those who have lost most sent Ejj ,, bianco to their former selves have not ijf III loat to any extent thepecullnr organs itt their volco. When one notes that the orgunia which, In their functioning and, hence. la their structure, hnve so endured, are .relatively small and dellcnto nnd is very frequent use, the phenomenon la of (-renter Interest. A vocal apparatus appar-atus may be Injured or worn by over owe, nnd the power of a singer docs JM Inst for lire, nut, though Its flexibility, flexi-bility, power nnd range mny diminish, for ordinary purposes the quality of apecch remains easily recognizable and apparently but slightly Influenced, eenparcd with the nll-too-nppnrent decay de-cay nnd destruction which has gone forward with the passage of n decade r twp.