Show t e CARE IN SPEECH THE HALL HALLMARK HALLEE t r MARK OF BREEDING f EE Use of the Voice Notre Choice of Words Elegance off of off f f Expression E should be Constantly r G Cultivated r rv 1 THE HE noted modern writer Henry i i v James in commenting on the lack t of in speaking king remarks that the question of its in the least lea t mat mattering it l how people may speak is absent ab ent r from American merican education either cither of the home or of the thc school Taking thought and Od taking trouble arc are necessary if one would cultivate careful speech Things ThinS are arc worth while when you stand tand or fall by them and it is not lol too much to say sa saI that men and md women alike in Europe I stand land or fall by their degree de ree of mastery master of the habit hait of employing their vocal ocal organs O after the fashion of good so society det deti fi i Cultivating Cul lv the Voice i cultivation No o one can afford Iford to neglect the cul celI ti of a voice care careful careful ful speech clear enunciation and correct pronunciation The voice oice language and accent arc the time best Lest criterions criterion of education lion tion and social standing stan A firm tweet sweet low voice oice with ever ness mess of tone and rich utterance e eI I is very vcr pleading Jc inS to tt I the ear car A 1 high rasping raping r cone 9 C is disenchanting cl Tim Th honest hone desire end and nd the resolve to t improve ones speech will be ue the lie quick quicken q lic licH en t st H way to accomplish it Patience and persistence are needed i 1 1 Tones TOM I The full free should be cultivated m in n speaking and the throat and avoided voided The voice in speak speaking speaking ing mug may be trained to be as flexible and melodious as the voice in singing Reading aloud is good Rood practice remembering remembering bering berin to open o en the mouth and utter sounds clearly Words Ire are not to be slurred over syllables arc to be enunciated enunCiated enunciated carefully vowels should have hac their broad full tones and consonants should not be lac dropped Slovenly habits in speaking are lre in inclosing inclosing inclosing closing the mite mouth and speaking between the teeth These bad habits including the hard nasal na 1 tones may mt be cured by lIy bythe bythe the simple and persistent practice many man mall times a day of opening the mouth wide and uttering the syllable syllabic ah all from the lie chest No one can speak well who has not the power to utter uller this sound sOld freely freel from irom the chest Musical critic mean this when they thc mention the pure and free delivery de ivery of oi tlC e c v v 0 c cn 0 n 1 a aTh aTh Th standard of rrt i oa i it ar a I must be the be of oi r 10 w are nr a f the highest hight social culture cut and m n st t U tc necessarily e s J English E Faults in pronunciation may ilia corrected correct d by lI ob oh serration and careful practice c The Thc broad a sound ah aTI is not an affectation but is the accepted custom among the best speakers The words after past half calm comet amen and laugh may ma be men mentioned mentioned toned as those with the ah cis sound It is correct corre t to pronounce Tuesday stupid new and duty dut with the mm II sound not woo 1100 or dooty dool Errors in grammar should be cry very carefully watched and md corrected corr A great great mistake is IS to to say He lie says sas for He Hc said or It Ii is tiit III instead of It Itis Itis Itis is I or Mary and me rite arc are going Joing in instead in instead instead stead of Mary lr and I arc are going or Theres plenty of things to lO do clo in instead in instead I Istead stead of There arc are plenty of things to do Errors Error In Terms Forme Exaggerated terms are arc too frequently used Sed and arc not in good Rood taste tate such as awfully Iia mm ice awfully pretty beastly beasly weather wrather splendid etc Recently when reading a new nevi nc and very cr popular novel I noticed a succession on of errors error in in good form in in the talk lalk between two 10 of the time leading characters In nearly every sentence the name haute was vas Introduced 01 of oi the person peron addressed Whether the talk was light or casual serious or emotional emo emotional there wad a J running accompaniment ment of Ir Mr So or Miss So In the first fir t chapter the name ot or oi the slue map man ml to whom she was visas speaking Carrie I e fouren from the lips of the I fair heroine m In fn another chapter the thea a mite was YU repeated ted twenty times This error pu nit the par tart of oi the tle author mth r was Vas as I repetition tom 3 and ludicrous in n o its it continual l 1 4 |