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Cultivate A Sweet Voice

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
June
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is no power of lovc so hard to get and keep as a kind voice. A kind hand is deaf and durnb. It may be rough in flesh and blood, yeb do the work of a soft heart, and do it with a soft touch. But there ia no one thing that love so ïnuehneeds as a sweet voice to teil what it needs and feels, and it it hard to get it and keep it in the righe tone. One must start in youth. and bs on the watch "night and day, at work and play, to get and keep a voice that shall speak at all times the thought of a kind heart. But this is the timewhen a sharp voice is most apt to be got. You of ten hear boys and girls say words at play with a quick, sharp tone, as if it were the crack of a whip. Wheii one of them gets vexed you will hear a voice that sounds as if it were made up of a snarl, a whine and a bark. Such a voice often speaksworse than the heart feels. It shows more ill-will in the tone than in the words. It is often in ruirtii that one gets a voice that is sharp, ana sticks to him through life, and stirs upill-will and grief, and falls like a drop of gall on the sweet joys at home. Such as these get a sharp voice for use, and keep their best voice for those they meet elsewhere, just as they would_save their best cakes and pies for giiests, and all their sour food for their own board. I would say to all boys and girls, "Use your guests voice at home." Watch it by day as a pearl of great priee, for it will be worth more to you in the days to conie than the best pearl bid in the sea. A kind voice is a lark'a sonar to a hearth and home. It is to the

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat