FIGURES AND FLOWERS OF SPEECH.
TO THE IDITCP. OF "THZ TBISS." iSir, —I felt sure someone would take it up, and I see "Prov. XXVII. 21" lias. In your recent report of a reception it must have been a doubtful figure of speech to tell the educated new arrival from the land o' cakes and hnggi-i that ho must have felt like Abraham when leaving home. Then again, there was that other speaker who said that the public conscience is heard from the pulpit. So long as St. Paul's ban holds that women may be seen with their heads covered and not heard in church, we are only getting one half of tho public conscience. I don't think the training of the voice gets enough attention. I once went t-.> a lady elocutionist to try out mine. "Oh," she said, "you are too squeaky, practise 'R' deep down." Playing golf later with Kennerly Bumford, I noticed that he was constantly bringing out his "R's." A woman's voice haunts me still; Maud Jeffrey's, also Bishop Suter's, of Nelson—they were both deep. —Yours, etc.. PETER TROLOVE.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18241, 27 November 1924, Page 12
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