WHERE THEY LACK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1294, 24 November 1911, Page 4

WHERE THEY LACK.

According to a nW.T-travelle'd English*, man, I,lie colonial w/Mian shqws scriour k lack of training as rlgards her. walk her voice (says ait "Australian writer). A good walk means much more than graceful progress. Tt'.means'n properly--,' l expanded chest, a lead held. Up, and' easy, rhythmical moments;/;Tho plain*,' est woman who walvs well' will move,, than hold her own 'in' a company of lien, pretty-faccd, cluing !iislers.-" A graceful walk, in modern lift.- is invariably tho 'result of judicious ,i'ressing.>and prqpor exorcises. It has Ifag been'.the fashion, to laugh at deport ntait. as something jo lie taught, but IhoiaMldreif who wiulj'ed for fifteen minutes 'Jiiilv holding a book well forward in tliViY- hands' spent ;t.liat time to very good pifpose. "J'hey gained more in tho way o!' grace .than . their hockoy and crickft'Jilnying',' daughters, whose swinging arils and careless l ' leg movement, add in rfi;.ilegree, to Ihfiir attractiveness. liolli : £it- voice and .action training wo may gft'Jo tbfc.' stage for advice, and it. is significant fafct that it is in respect to Witrs nnfl action that, managers have aspirants to stage honoi'm.; Uotli voicc culture and physical :l mi!hiro.', havo. to bo ■ supnlemeuted by pat'pftt. and, very selfcritical watching. T}tf" walking; exercises of some of the liavo consisted, ill' Walking bifcen chalked lines, and walking with ',tjsmall''weight held forward on the hca'tliT"These are simple enough exercises weft worthy of encouragement anions; [jirlw' own homes. it is only in their lionos, \m, that their voices can be trainedAvjih ,'a'ny degree of success. Children an-gpscntially imitative, and it is tho ana not tho young people who arj',t(i blamo because the nasal tone, the. .'Aiiio,. and undulyflipped words are alj t<)'o • characteristic of tho national utterajoe,: