Do you know that your voice can be your best friend—or your worst enemy? It is specially important today, when competition is so keen in every line, that you have a good voice. For your voice, as well as your facial expression, reflects your disposition and your mood, Someone has said: "Your expression is the best thing you wear," therefore your voice should express the disposition you wish to show to the world, writes Loraine Osborne in "Your Life," New York.
o you know that a grouch usually has a harsh voice, and that the nagging woman's tones will be high and shrill? Tragically enough you will be remembered by the tone of your voice long after your looks and appearance are forgotten. "Oh, my voice is all right," you say. "Tve had it all my life and noone has ever said anything about it." That is precisely the point. Possibly Your friends did not dare tell you, any more than they would criticize your dress, that they did not care for your voice. It just n't done." But that does not mean that your voice could not be improved.
Most of us were born good voices, in the process of growing up and going through the adolescent period, something happened. Either we screamed at a football match when Wwe had a cold, or tried to talk above the roar of the underground train, or read aloud to grandpa when we were tired. All of these things can be injurious to a delicate throat mechanism. Only by conscio treating our vocal chords as carefully as we do the rest of our body can we make our voice a "thing of beauty and a joy forever:
Tf you smile when you speak, your voice will naturally have a cheerful tone. Enthusiasm and cheerfulness are the two most important factors that we should cultivate in our speech. Let your voice have a happy lilt. For instance; when you have been laughing and chatting as you answered the telephone, the person at the other end can easily detect the pleasure in your voice—may even remark that you seem to be happy. Then, too, when you, are f you have just quarrelled with some-is quite readily indicated by your well.
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