"DO'S" FOR PUBLIC SPEAKERS.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 15 May 1912, Page 3

"DO'S" FOR PUBLIC SPEAKERS.

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Professor Grenville Kleiser, founder of the International Public Speaking Movement, has issued the following list of "Do's for public speak-

ers" :—

Be prepared

Stand up promptly. Begin slowly. Speak distinctly. Address all your hearers. Be uniformly courteous. Prune your sentences. Cultivate mental alertness. Use illustrations which illustrate Conceal your method. Be scrupulously clean. Feel sure of yourself. Look at your audience. Be direct. Favour your deep tones. Speak deliberately. Get to your facts. Be modest. Cultivate earnestness. Observe your pauses. Suit the action to the word. Be yourself at your best. Speak fluently. Use your abdominal muscles. Make your speaking attractive. Be conversational. Conciliate your opponent. Rouse yourself. Be logical. Open your mouth. Speak authoritatively. Cultivate sincerity. Cultivate brevity. Cultivate tact. End swiftly. "

Think nothing in conduct unimportant and indifferent.

Always say a kind word if you can; it may come with singular opportuneness, entering ' some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly whose circumstances he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.—Sir V Helps.