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breathing, or disturbs sleep, or induces mouth-breathing, or otherwise interferes with some natural function. In case of serious interference with health, one or both may be extirpated. The operation on children is not attended with any bleeding of consequence. The bleeding in adults is easily controlled. A permanently enlarged tonsil has lost its glandular function, and is worthless. In cases where the operation must be performed, the removal is not, as popularly thought, and as once believed even by some physicians, usually followed by any serious consequences. Yet only a dangerous or worthless gland should be removed.

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Written for THE VOICE.

M. T. N. A.

PROGRAM FOR THE INDIANAPOLIS MEETING, JULY 5, 6, 7, AND 8, 1887.

"Singing Flat and Singing Sharp," by Leo Kofler, New York.
"The Art of Teaching the Real Things of Music," by Henry
Harding, Binghamton, N. Y., and Thomas Tapper, Jr.,
Canton, Mass.

Public School Music," by Dr. Samuel Warren, Washington.
Principles of Voice-Production, with Demonstration of the

Written for THE VOICE.
DOUGLAS MCCALLUM.

STAMMERING AND ITS TREATMENT DISCUSSED BY A
PROMINENT SPECIALIST.

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It would be impossible for me to do all the work, and so I have assistants. A lady assistant, a graduate of a college of elocution, pays special attention to some lady pupils, yet I give personal instruction to Defective speech is far more prevalent than is every pupil for at least three-quarters of an hour usually supposed, and no defect entails greater bur- twice a day. I do not believe in class-work. That dens, sorrows, loss and unhappiness than does stam- is why I take a limited number only. Much of my mering. A pretty large volume would be required to time is taken up from now until next year. Pupils fitly portray the woes of the stammerer, who, strange are booked,' as the English say, months ahead, and to say, meets with less sympathy than ridicule, and with the exception of a week or two in August, the that, too, from well-disposed persons, who do not school will remain open all summer, during the warm mean to be unkind, but who, unfortunately, misun-weather many pupils coming from the South." derstand the nature and effects of the impediment."

Thus explained Mr. Douglas McCallum, of 11
East 14th, St., New York, whose "School of the it
Voice" is in the Steck building, between Fifth Ave.
and Union Square. In the very midst of this fash-
Ionable thoroughfare, in cheerful, light, airy and
tastily-furnished apartments, equipped with gymnas-
tic apparatus, charts illustrating the proper use of the
respiratory and vocal organs, and other aids for the
restoration, development and cultivation of voice and
speech, gather pupils from all parts of the country,
while letters of inquiry come from foreign lands, so

Action of the True and False Vocal Cords," by Dr. Eph-extended is the reputation of this school.

raim Cutter, New York.

"Boy Choirs," by H. P. Roney, East Saginaw, Mich.
"Science and Public School Music," by H. E. Holt, Boston,
and B. Jepson, New Haven, Conn.

"The American College of Musicians the Ally of the Com-
petent Teacher," by E. M. Bowman, St. Louis.
"Proper Use of Piano Pedals," by Arthur Foote, Boston.
"American Composition and its Representation in and out of
the M. T. N. A.," by Wilson G. Smith, Cleveland.
"Our Notation and Terminology," by Edward Fisher, To-

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Jewish.

Essay on the Harp and a Recital, by Mine. Josephine Bohrer-
Chatterton, Chicago.

Essay on Ballad Singing and a Recital, by Wm. H. Courtney,
New York.

VOCALISTS. Mme. Emma Thurston, Brooklyn; Miss Effie

Stewart, New York; Miss Dora Henninges, Cincinnati;
Miss Hattie J. Clapper, New York; Miss Marie Groebl,
New York; Chas. R. Adams, Boston; Win. H. Courtney,
New York; Jacob Benzing, Boston; J. T. Wamelink,
Cleveland.

PIANISTS.-Wm. H. Sherwood, New York; Mme. Rivé-King,
New York; Mme. Fanny Bloomfield, Chicago; Alexan-
der Lambert, New York; Chas Jarvis, Philadelphia;
August Hyllested, Chicago; Miss Neally Stevens, Chi-
cago; Miss Andrus, Detroit; Miss Hahr, Richmond.
ORGANISTS.- John White, New York; J. E. Batchelder, De-
troit; S. A. Baldwin, Chicago.

STRING, Van der Stucken Orchestra, New York; Dannreuther Quartet, New York; The Detroit Philharmonic Club.

Among the works of American composers to be given at the Indianapolis meeting are: "Henry of Navarre," a cantata by George E. Whiting, with tenor solo and male chorus; "The Rose," a ballad by W. W. Gilchrist, with contralto solo and chorus; "Landing of the Pilgrims," a cantata by Otto Singer, with mezzo-soprano solo and chorus; " Dedication Ode," by George W. Chadwick, with full chorus. The last portion of Ferdinand Dulcken's Masse Solennelle," with solos for all voices will also be given.

The choruses will be given by nearly 600 voices, and the entire meeting will be on a scale of magnificence never before attempted by the M. T. N. A.

S. N. PENFIELD,
Chairman of Program Committee,

Chickering Hall, New York.

Mr. McCallum, have you been long in the profession?"

My school is the oldest and largest of the kind in
this country, and I have made the treatment of stam-
mering my life-work. I was led into it by my own
affliction. I graduated at several prominent institu-
tions and have made the voice and its proper use a
special study for many years, studying its various ar-
tistic as well as practical uses under the best teachers
here and abroad. In curing myself of stammering
I noticed many defects of other systems, and by my
own researches and experiments I learned to apply
the correct principles of speech so that I have not
found a case, no matter how severe, that has not

yielded to my treatment. Although my correspon-
dence is very extensive, I am at all times ready and
willing to impart information and give advice upon
this subject."

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Will you explain your method?"

"What references have you?"

'Stam

"As good and as many as you want. I consider unprofessional to print them; no reputable physician does it. Most of my patrons are from the best classes of society, and would protest. That is why I have no sign STAMMERING 'on the building, which would keep many away, for stammerers are of fine, keen sensibilities and do not want to parade their infirmity, as they might it seen entering a mering Institute. My references are the best; I even have letters from colleges and physicians endorsing me, and am well known to business men, having lived in New York nearly all my life. Many of my former pupils are now filling important positions, which would be beyond their reach had they not first been freed from their speech-slavery."

"Are special qualifications needed for a teacher ?" "Most assuredly. He must possess a rare combination of qualities, and, I may add, he must have been a stammerer himself, for only he who has passed through the ordeal can understand the nature and needs of such afflicted persons. That is why it is so difficult to find a satisfactory assistant. I have tried a number but found them incompetent. Some of these having only a smattering of my methods, are now trying to practice them, but it is needless to comment upon the results. Special preparation and long experience are necessary; and the treatment must be adapted to the needs of each person. Therefore, treatment by mail is not advisable. However, I hope to be able to give the readers of THE VOICE some of my views at an early day."

"Have you many competitors?"

"I do not consider that I have any; there are imitators; indeed, some of them have been with me at some time and have set up for themselves, but I disclaim having any connection with them, and do not wish to be held responsible for what they do, and sufferers from stammering can, as a rule, discriminate between those who are dependent upon profuse ad

Gladly. I have no tricks, secrets, movements, jerkings or facial twists and contortions. My method is educational, based upon the laws of voice-production and articulation,-a training of body and mind. To the practical application of the discoveries made in vocal science I owe my success. The moment a person begins with me I stop the stammering, show the correct manner of using the organs, and at the very outset engraft upon the pupil an easy, natural way of talking. Sometimes silence for days is im-vertising for their existence and an established school which relies almost entirely upon its reputation." posed, the only use of the vocal organs allowed being Why are stammerers laughed at ?" the exercises in my presence. In nearly every instance I take away at once all inclination to stammer. Besides overcoming their impediment, my pupils improve in health by the respiratory and vocal gymnastics; the weakness and constriction that they have felt in their chests goes away, and they are greatly changed; they breathe better, eat better, sleep better and enjoy life much more.

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'Can all stammerers be cured?"

"There is not one in a thousand who cannot be cured. Malformation of the vocal organs is exceedingly rare, and only structural defect makes a cure impossible; yet even here the speech can be improved. One strange thing is that the great majority of stammerers are gentlemen, comparatively very few ladies being afflicted with fettered speech.'

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How long does the treatment take?"

MR. LUNN'S EXPLANATION. To the Editor of The Voice: That depends upon the severity of the case, the Let not your medical contributors be exorcised in temperament, will-power, mental calibre, and the spirit by my analogy between a bird's organs of voice weeks are sufficient to break up the old habit and perseverance of the pupil, Usually, four to seven and mine own. I know the difference in form as form the new. Young people yield readily and speedwell, or better, than they; but deep seated, underly-ily to the treatment, yet persons as old as forty-five Parents should have ing this difference, there are the eternal laws of years have been cured by me. their children treated as early as possible, as that fluids in relationship to solids, and as a man and a period is the best for many reasons. Just as soon as brick, though different in form, are both amenable the child is old enough to grasp what is said to himto the law of gravitation, so the voices of men and say six years old-he should be treated. When children are too small to come to me, I go to their birds are each by nature ordained to be the result of homes, and when I have the intelligent cooperation a natural, automatic resistance to a natural, automatic of the parents, most satisfactory results are reached. Yours, etc., CHARLES LUNN, I have had large experience with children.'

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Because their malady is misunderstood. The human heart is full of sympathy, yet some most cruel wounds are unwittingly inflicted, mainly because people do not know what stammering is. I would like to enlarge upon this subject, but will now forbear, having been invited to deliver a course of lectures for the purpose of correcting some of the popular errors in regard to stammering, and to give hints how parents may care for the speech of their children, and prevent them from forming bad vocal habits. nearly all cases of stammering might be prevented or checked in their incipiency if parents and teachers would do the right thing at the right time. 'I hope in such a series of discourses to do something toward ameliorating the condition of speech-sufferers."

All or

W.

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DIRECTIONS. Allow one of the Tablets at a time, to dissolve slowly in the mouth, taking from eight to twelve during twenty-four hours.

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years; certainly, he has united most judiciously Chloride of Ammonium and Chloride of Potassium, Extracts of Dulcamara and Hyoscyamus, as calmative anodynes, the pectoral Balsams, Tolu and Peru, with Senega, Squills and a minimum of Ipecac. In fact, we think more highly of it, than any prescription known to us, our long experience making us familiar with the composition of all this class of remedies.

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Best indorsements in the country as

PUBLIC READER, AND TEACHER OF ELOCUTION, DELSARTE, AND STAGE BUSINESS. Special courses of forty lessons given in any part of the country where classes are ready formed. Engaged until Aug. 1st at Fulton & Trueblood's School of Oratory, Kansas City, Mo. (present address).

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MISS MARY TUCKER MAGILL.

Lectures, Readings and Recitations.

Lectures for the season of 1887-8:

1. Shakespeare and His Times,
2. Two Indian Maidens:

Minnehaha, the Poetical Fiction.
Pocahontas, the Historical Fact.

3. English Humorists of the XIXth Century.-
Dickens and Thackeray.

4. English Humorists of the XIXth Century.

Hood, Lamb and Sidney Smith.

5. Queens of the French Salon.

Repertory of Southern Humorous and other Recitals will be furnished on application at her residence.

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[From ex-Surgeon General Hammond.]

43 WEST 54TH ST., NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 1886. I have referred many cases of stammering to Mr. I. R. Aldrich and he has never failed to cure a single one. I have received letters from them from various parts of the country; all expressing their thanks for the complete relief that Mr. Aldrich has afforded them. Some of these cases have been exceedingly bad, but he has cured them with apparently as much ease as the slighter ones.

I have every confidence, therefore, in his ability to successfully manage any case of stammering or stuttering that may be placed under his charge.

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