you're settled down, we'll try--What? the deuce you say! Rejected--you rejected?

So was I.

 

--_Anonymous_.

 

The necessity for changing pitch is so self-evident that it should be grasped

and applied immediately. However, it requires patient drill to free yourself

from monotony of pitch.

 

In natural conversation you think of an idea first, and then find words to

express it. In memorized speeches you are liable to speak the words, and then

think what they mean--and many speakers seem to trouble very little even about

that. Is it any wonder that reversing the process should reverse the result? Get

back to nature in your methods of expression.

 

Read the following selection in a nonchalant manner, never pausing to think what

the words really mean. Try it again, carefully studying the thought you have

assimilated. Believe the idea, desire to express it effectively, and imagine an

audience before you. Look them earnestly in the face and repeat this truth. If

you follow directions, you will note that you have made many changes of pitch

after several readings.

 

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put

more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the

revolution that destroys the machinery but the friction.