DO YOU STAMMER?

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7749, 15 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

DO YOU STAMMER?

Thrcw back the shoulders, expand the chest, kepe the mouth closed, breathe through the hold the breath a few seconds, and say simple words slowly. The chief difficulty with stammering is to enunciate words and syllables beginning with consonants, and any violent effort to talk only increases the iliffi culty. Speak slowly, therefore, and with an affected ease in a stylo resembling chanting. Let the words flow rather than attempt to force or jerk them out, and remember that (stammering results most generally from a want of sufficient breath in the lungs. You should, therefore, before beginning to talk, always take a full breath, at the same time partially pronouncing the letters beginning each word or placing the mouth in a position to do so. For instance, take the word "scissors.” Close the teeth and make the hissing sound ne-

pessary to utter it, then change into “sciss,” the first syllable, and the other will easily follow. You will frequently, when alone, speak aloud rhe very words you experience the greatest difficulty with when in company. Read aloud slowly, and at the end of each pause take a full breath. You will wonder why you ever stammered, though when endeavouring to talk in company the same trouble will occur. This f however, only proves that you lack’presence of mind. Follow these suggestions patiently and carefully, and you will effect a cure in a marvellously short time.