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Show TALKING NOT SO EASY CHICAGO Do you know that every time yuu open your mouth to speak a proce.-s many times more intricate in-tricate th.-m that involved in the manufacture of silk stockings goes on , in your body? "Manufacturing words," Benjamin N. Bogue, president of the Bogue Institute In-stitute for Stammerers at Indianapolis, Indianap-olis, told a group of Mid-western elocution teachers meeting here, "is I a complicated proposition. Transforming Transfor-ming the air from the lungs into crisp sentences that fall from the lips involves in-volves even more processes than those concerned in turning the cocoon of a silk worm into a pair of sport hose. "Before one can produce so' simple a word as 'you', for instance, the brain, which functions as the general manager of the body, must first organize or-ganize the appropriate centers and then broadcast directions to the tongue ton-gue to press against the base of the lower front teeth. Should the proper brain centers imperfectly co-operate, or the general order sent from the; centers go astray so as to push the tongue against the wisdom teeth, then a tie-up of speech would result, similar simi-lar to what happens in a stocking ! factory when a heel-maker fails to carry out the foreman's directions. "When all the organs engaged in the production of words like the glottis, glot-tis, larnyx, throat, diaphram, lungs, ;oft palate, vocal cords, tongue, lips, and teeth cooperate. 100 per cent and the impulses or the orders from the brain are relayed promptly and correctly, speech is fluent and easy. But when these instruments of conversation con-versation fail to co-ordinate, or there is interference among the brain centers, cen-ters, the result is discord, stuttering, stutter-ing, stammering and defective utterance." |