The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1903, Page 10

1 Y \ THE SUNDAY CALL “*IE WOMAN ~MODULATED il but 1 tower and cruise ese beautify gosies, wnich waves, ling country. F it lies r hundreds an unbre of deadly ularities of splendor, the soil roud of white. dips into_ the the ra- and places perhaps a thousand s up on ridges "HOBNBLOWING /5 A CURE SHBILL HEAD NoTro” breathe kif is quite r vipe as possl! practice wance es at short Ne interval r strain o sense ning it pipes im the voice an ex- s the woic bringing tt firs an. the center d g v es away rough it bey up and d from the ( mouth wid o from side to side w r ull. deep breath t word of several sy with Lubles 1 syilable the per- lips, 't e and hephylline, for ex dificult on. push the but enundiate ault of a more Do not wit «© throat vur lessons in tone feet deep of solid spow, and intersected with ible crevasses, to fall into which w . £ into a bottom 4 hes and Jandslips, storms Jing blizzards . and whirlwinds which 4ar up the drifts and bury alike i s and valleys, are comm dues not. somehow pre dance of animal life. Just ghboring seas swarm with whale. porpoise, cod e white wast a olar bears, arctic foxes and reindeer, which know how to exist where it w seem nature had forbidden that fe ned. It s the breed- ng of many varieties of birds, ar while sea fowl in countless flocks thr the islands and floes in the sum- mer season, plovers ouse and knots, with ravens, falcons and a very large specles of eagles, are seen in shore. Large dogs, also, of the sledge-drawing kind, but fierce as wolves and powerful as mas- tiffs, run wild upon the uplands: and it id that the aurochs, the primitive bison of the Arctic Circle, still inhabits the inner tracts where a scanty herbage is sometimes laid bare. The natives are the well-known stunted, ignorant and miserably poor people called Esquimaux, whose exigtence from birth to death js long struggle against the for world where nature hardly wears a single charm or ever relaxes her stern severity. Yet these starvelings of the frozen region are a contented and cheerful race, ac- tually loving their icy country and un. able to live elsewhere in any happiness, S0 that those of their number who have been brought to Denmark or Norway al- ways return or die of nostalgia. The Es. guimaux about the Danish stations enjoy the advantage of buying imported flour, brandy, coffee, sugar, tobacco and fire. wood. The remoter Greenlanders live much s do the polar bears, wandering from island to island or from inlet to in- let, gorging themselves with seal-fat and whale blubber, sittng in their igloos of snow through the eight months’ night of that dreary continent, stitching with bone needles their garments. of bird skins or grinding whale-ribs on a rough stone into Tunners for their sledges. voice culture. held un vYour he. oo your mouth and throat, #nd iet the ton gush ferth, if Lot like the song of a bird, st least it as duleet 1ones as you. cap Think of pleasant things. tvice may very woll-be taken singer Position particular is g. if one is to zet tie full vaiue note. The pose should be erect, with the music held a littic above the level of the waist line 1t is @ matter of fact that ~heerful folk usually have melodious veices. With the light of happiness in your cyes and on your lips, your volce should be sweet and smc If you have & bad temper, or are sry or worried or discontented, you will probably have » h: digcordant voice We judge perament, measures h. rasping or speak with a whine. by the tem- and are by their outward expres 1t these expressions abrupt and unat- tractive, the person will exposea to the same verdict. When the voice changes end becomes refined and gentle in man- the verdict will be changed character dtsposition voice motive jons, be ner, Voices can surely training did for the great actress Rachel we all know. At the outset of her career she was handicapped by a harsh, rasping voice. When she was at the height of her career it was described as marvel- ous. *It ran along your nerves like an clectric shock. Then again it 80 s0 grave—so solemn, like the music cathedral. Such enunciation—no syllable was ever lost. Sit where would, each word was perfect—poli full of meaning—came safely, muslically, to your ear.” The actresses of the present day are many oN them possessed of remarkable voices. Duse, fike Rachel, is an example of what patient drilling can do for an organ not naturally beautiful. The sin- cerity of her utterance is poignant and euphonious. Bernhardt is golden-tongued. Ellen Terry's voice is charming and ade over. What # & 4 THE CoRRECT STANDING POSITION IN SING ING ADDS gl OPL BN T OF CONTRELTS TONES " caressing. Mrs. Patrick Campbdell's voice has a slightly veiled, deliclous quality. Mary Mannering's is the “dark” voic the voice for sustained, though languor- ous, sentiment. It comforts the ear. Mrs. Fiske's voice has grown darker, heavier, though it has lost none of the old-time suppleness. It is better adapted now to the exvression of tragic terror, and the semirhythmic intonations. Christine Nilsson has a curious theory that flowers affect the voice. When she ‘was singing she would not tolerate them in her apartment. Calve has a particular aversion to violcts, on account of their injuricus mfluence Tt 2t violets should have an effect the volce is a ecurious thing, but singers think that they cause hoarsenes The great baritone. Faure, who wrote a book on the hygiene of the voice uls the violet oune of the greate « of the voice. ranking it with alcoh tob: gives fe A French physician. Ca interesting example s of violets on the human voice At a soiree in Paris,” he celebrated singer, Marje Sasse, pre- sented with a large bouquet Parma which had been sprinkled with a concentrated extract of the same flower. She was fond of violets, and inhaled the perfume eagerly. Presently, she attempt- ed to sing and found that her voice was entirely gone. Her vocal .chords were, for the time, completely paralyzed Another interesting theory is that cer- tain essences will give certain qualities and capacitiés (o the voice. This is of importance to embryo Pattis. The theory is that, in order to modify the sounds of the human voice, one has only to inhale the vapors of certain liquids and essences. Thus, {nhalation of curacao will raise the voice two notes; essence extracted from pines will give two low notes; the in- spiration of creme de menthe will add one Ligh and two low notes. an “the say was of violets, Answers to Correspondents. Elizabeth, Julia, Emma ani Blossom.— To use benzoin on your face daily is mot ivisable. Once a week is often enqugh; then put a little in the cold water with which the face is rinsed. Interested Reader.—If your eyes feel weak and tired, bathe them In cold tea or make salt and water. A soft linen cloth, which is used for no other pur- pose, is best for bathing the eves. If the . eyes are not rested now and then, they will look colorless, listless and expres- sionless. Never let your eyes get tired. Close them occasionally, or bathe them in warm water, and lie down for & half- "CENTER THE TONES LETTER "O FORMED BY THOMB AND FOREFINGER—» » ws A T nd dry lips. A lump w into a basin of boiling water and then in haled is a good reme ak husky volce, especially if one has to sing e cod r G A ette can wear lig e a iy shades Avoid browns and laver Sreat Men and T heir Dwes. 6 & ==HIS place is perfect,” Charles Kingsley once wrote to wi from the seaside, “but it seems a dream and imperfect without you. I r er before felt the loneliness of being without the beloved being whose every motion are the key- 3- look and word and notes of my life. People talk of love er ing at the altar—fools, I lay at the win- dow all morning, thinking of nothing but home; how 1 leng for it:" There 1s nothing in the history of more attractive than the pictures of the ideally happy married lives enjoyed by some of our greatest men, or more to love ing than the tribute they paid the women who filled their days with sun shine. Indeed, If one were asked to pre- it a picture of the sublimity of married happiness it would be only necessary to recall the scene in which Charles Kings- ley, within a few days of his own death, having escaped from his sick room, sat for a few blissful moments by the bedside of his wife, who was lying serlously ill in the mext room. Taking one of her hands tenderly in his, he said, in a hushed voice: “Don't speak, darling. This is heaven.’ Few men, great or small, have been bappler, in their married life than John Bright, and the story of his inconsolable grief when his wife, “the sunshine and sclace of his days,” was taken from him, forms- gne of the most pathetic pages of human histery. “It seems to me,” he piti- fully said, “as though the world has plunged in darkness, and that no ray of light could ever reach me again this side of the tomb.” It was Cobden who shook him at last from the lethargy and despair which were paralyzing his splendid energies. ‘“‘There are thousands of homes in England this monfent,” he sald, “where wives, mothers and children are dying of hunger. Now, when the first paroxysm of your grief Is past, I would advise you to come with me and we will never rest until the corn law is repealed.” The late Dean Stanley, it is said, wor- A t. that horrid creatu mark ntrast to this flattering tion was the compliment he paid t first wife, whom he had wooed disgu as a hackney coachman, when spok of her as “the connecting link betwe woman and an angel an ever relled more com s guidance and 1 the pdet of a ™ the day when he in his bride in Hursley vicarage, to tt sad hour, thirty years later, when he d in her arms at Bournemouth, she was he often declared, his “‘conscience ory and common sense.” Dr. Pusey's too brief married life wa also wned with happiness, as wife's memory was his one solace -d ing the forty-three years he survived her To his dying day the very sight and sme ;2( !hef\srbewa plant affected him ears, for it was a sprig of verbena offered to Miss Barber w:an he asked ¥ to marry him—‘“the most sacred a blissful moment" of his life. Willlam Corbett was very proper proud of his wife, the brave and dev ote men \ o _/ S ) < . ecoming u v so ¥ e A Anx M ! - . 1 = \ grow . wise w w v 8 Ca W I > . ¢ u g Glyce 1 a curs g for a w < sice of & lemon ¥ De elax soa vice a week shiped the g 1 e Augusta, tr pliments omize w of the " honeym W i . M X s ’\‘ 1 f A M wife is al war n ever looke: world t happy i ¥ of them, before .mar < - of her fut husband woman who was, in his words, “the bes helpmate an undeserving man ever ha Whatever mistakes I have made in m life—and they have been many and gre —she has never had a word of bl me, nothing but sweet sympathy s solation. The price of such a wife indeed be me f