ON SPEAKING DISTINCTLY.
Parents, you must teach your children to speak distinctly. You are hopeless very often, but your children have not yet taken up your evil ways, and it is your duty to see that they don’t. A slovenly man speaks in a slovenly fashh u because he is too lazy to open his mouth. A mumbling method of speech gives a bad impression. When the old days of competition come back, the man who has the best appearance and speaks well will stand the best chance. Your children should read aloud to you in the"evening. Try to encourage them, and do not laugh at them when they speak nicely, as they have been taught at school. When your child stutters, it is because you neglected to teach him when he began to speak. He was not born with a stutter. It is all your fault; you had not the patience to teach him; you never made him say over and over again the words that were difficult to him. Singing is a valuable method of teaching speaking; a song sung well requires clear enunciation of the words as well as of music. Much might be written on words and speech.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1719, 31 May 1917, Page 4
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202ON SPEAKING DISTINCTLY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1719, 31 May 1917, Page 4
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