WOMAN'S-VOICE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 15

WOMAN'S-VOICE

GREAT GIFT NEGLECTED

"There is one part of a woman's education often forgotten or neglected— the culture and formation of a gentle voice," remarks a London writer. "It is a great gift of Nature, to be aided by culture —an instrument of powerful influence for good. I speak nqt of singing hymns now, and of culture for harmony and musical purposes, though these tend to God's praise, or to give innocent amusement, but this gentle voice will be able to guide and persuade to good the manly heart of a faithful husband, will mitigate sorrow, lessen trial," and speak of hops and joy to her dearest friends and connections in accents'at once powerful and pleasing. Let us then bo careful in our schools to cultivate this most valuable acquirement. How different, in all respects, for a family, for friends and neighbours, are the kind, gentle, persuasive accents I havo described, from sounds we sometimes, (alas! too often) hear in tho close abodes,of poverty and trial—high, harsh, femalo treble tones of bitter import, scolding and reproaching, and driving away from the hearth and homo (perhaps to sorrow and to sin) tho husband and tho children."