A. voice properly used helps in the expansion of the lungs and chest. Tt entails deep breathing and the supply of adequate oxygen to the blood and body. It compels the speaker to keep the body erect and well balanced.. A good voice elimin. ishes the noise and disharmony of the world. Let anyone listen to the sounds produced at an ordinary' "party," when men and women shriek, in shrill notes, vapid. views, which few of them really believe.
Most people speak on too high a rote and they speak monotonously. Fo be in a world of silence for half and hour-is the Best nerve-rest and sedative any physician can prescribe. It brings into consciousness memory of the still beauty of the Two Minutes Silence of Armistice Day. It removes pain and prejudice and the agonising irritability engendered by having to listen to eud and strident voices or to soft fand futile halls, on telephones and wireless, 10 hours out of the 24.
Some one has advocated "rooms of silence" for University students, Tt is a good idea also for housewives. Ten minutes silence once or twice a day would rest the voice and the nerves of everyone of us—ELiza-BETH SLOAN CHESSER, B.D,
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