A PLEASANT VOICE.
;If you-, stoprtovrealise-thatutho most, glorious ~'musip.over-.written' loses, its beauty when played,'.upo!i aiharsharid, tuneless .instrument, then;. yb\} , :hbw. v yQur';. -best phrases^when, spoken in a nasal,- undisciplined voicfe,' actually, .Kurt.', tho .cars, of-your hearer. ■Npflesa famous. ; persoii' than iDeijiosthenes appreciated';.that: Jiis ideas' could never hold ' the attention 1 ,."0f anyriiauiiiencci 'if. ho: expressed them in- sharp,.,and. : .str.ideht.-tones, consequently. .allyorators ,gavo the mo_st earnest ;;Sud J patient'/attention to the inas'fory''pf/'hisjnatilr'a'lly/uiimusicai Voicjo be? f qitteih p tpjf, tpCigiSen k)' toth e people,'arid"iri a smgli Way; it'is quite easy, for any one to do just'what Demosthenes did. Thp way to give/%jii'obthn'ess and to a_ high, ifrsh ,voice is, to,,use, the-simple der vice of, persistently ; speaking one wjiole octavo lower than that wjiicli is .ordinarily and carelessly employed. ;'vav*«v This brings the,, voice under control, and this is what gives to the voice of nearly every -that" nice"'distinction that .ffl>abJi®_iis. y to .tojljn an., instant .from what £art' of ;a'big s £6iHuient she "comes, no matter when'or--whero'>wp-may'meet her.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 102, 23 January 1908, Page 3
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166A PLEASANT VOICE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 102, 23 January 1908, Page 3
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