The Golden Throat

The power of tlie highest interpretation of mude in song is vouchsafed to but few favored mortals and is not to be acquired by any amount of endeavor, jf the trne "golden throat," with finely adjusted chorda; vocales, be lacking. A TOJce of swiïet and mellow cjaality in Bpeaking, bowever, is not always a gracious gift of nature, bnt is a possibleattainmeut to persons of the most ordiuary musical eapaoity. A prima donna spends scarcely more tiruo practiciug her scales than an ambitieus actress devotes to the cultivation of a ringing, bell-like intonation to her sentences, for public speakers and people of the theatric'al profession understand the value of vibrant tones, of the "thrilling, solerun, prond, pathetic voice, " whose eohoes linger ïqng in the ineruory of the inthralled listener. Among well bred people low voices are the rule - low, but not always musical, a teudeney to falsetto rnarking any effort beyond ordinary conversatiou, which is siniply an evidence of the lack of proper training, or of a failure to practice those primary principies pf elocution that are a part of the briefest coinnion school education. Lessons under a teacher are not an absolute necessity to the womau who wonld secure the grace of olear, sweet accents. Deep breathiug and chest expansión are the first steps toward the desired end, and a systematic course of throat strengthening, combined with enough discernment to decide betweeD a nasal twang and pure tone, is about all that is ntjeded to achieve a fair degree of success. An excellent method of strengthening the throat is gargling with cold salt water in the morning, bathing it at the same time, first with very hot and then with very cold water. It thus gets a slight shock and is braced up and