Speakers, singers and stammerers / by Frederick Helmore.

  • Helmore, Frederick.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Speakers, singers and stammerers / by Frederick Helmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be calm and steady under excitement, and lastly, to use those muscles of the torso on which deep and healthy respi- ration depends. And let him, now in these very days, join a rifle club and learn in it to carry himself with the erect and noble port which is all but peculiar to the soldier, but ought to be the common habit of every man ; let him learn to march; and more, to trot under arms without losing breath; and by such means, make himself an active, healthy, and valiant man. The above remarks are mostly applicable to both sexes, and although a woman can hardly be expected to make a man of herself, or to practise the noble art of self-defence, or to mdulge in all manly exercises, she should however, if she have the opportunity, take plenty of horse exercise; she must walk, run, and attend the ladies' gymnasium. She will do well to strengthen her will by training her pet horses, dogs and birds to all kinds of performances. This will give firmness, patience, and steadiness of eye. Let her play billiards, bagatelle, croquet, badminton, and all games which require steadiness of hand and eye. Let her rise early, and find useful employment for every hour in the day. She must never be lazy, she must eschew sofas and easy chairs, and self-indulgence generally. Meanwhile, let her apply the concluding words of my quotation to herself, let him learn again the art of speaking: and having learnt, think before he speaks, and say his say calmly, with self-respect, as a man who does not talk at random, and has a right to a courteous answer. Let him fix in his mind that there is nothing on earth to be ashamed of, save doing wrong, and no being to be feared save Almighty God ; and so go on making the best of the body and the soul which heaven has given him, and I will warrant, that in a few months his old misery of stammering will He behind him, as an ugly and all but impossible dream when one awakes in the morning.
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