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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Does Your Voice Add To Your Beauty?

"She's an exquisitely beautiful woman until she opens her mouth! Then her voice destroys her beauty. She should act dumb to preserve the illusion you first get when you see her." That was said about a former screen actress who was a sensation in the silent films, but who immediately dropped from prominence when talicies arrived. Audiences simply could- n't stand her voice! It was harsh, her enunciation Was

poor. So fame, left her overnight,

Does your voice add beauty or does it dim it?

to your

You.can be your own fudge, it you will record your voice and then play it back to yourself. Such a recording costs only a few cents and you might be aṁażed to hear yourself as others hear you!

. Almost every girl and woman can stand some voice correction. Only those few who have studied voice culture, or who depend up- on their voices such as actresses and lecturers and singers, have perfect delivery.

The most common fault..of a poor voice is speaking in a mono- tobe. Men speak in monotone as well as women. To correct it listen carefully to a person who does not speak in a monotone. Get a record of good delivery and play it over and over. Then mimic it. When you hear yourself speak- ing in a dull, uninteresting mono- tone, immediately raise your voice a pitch and put some expression into what you are trying to say. In no time at all the colourless habit will vanish.

JOAN PERRY has a volcs that is rightly Seautiful. Hér sbrane Beauty to enhanced as she talks with animation..

effected, don't worry. Later you will enune ate more, naturally, but still truly, for it will have become a habit.

Drop at once all localisms, Make your diction universal.

When you speak, place your

As you speak, think of what voice as far forward in your

you are saying. Keep your mind mouth as, possible. Imagine you Unless you are attempting to on the words you select to express have a thick, small ring touching correci a stutter or h monotone your thought. If your mind wati- the back of your teeth. You are talk in as low a voice as possible, ders your speech will be broken going to speak through the ring, but in pitch. By that I mean, and your diction very faulty.. In as you breathe correctly. The pro- shrill or harsh veice is annoying fact if you allow your mind, to nunciation of each word is impor- a low voice is musical. But a wander most of the time you tak tantif, there are consonants in low voice should never be a you will soon develop a stutter. the words, sound them. Don't throaty voice commonly called "a or a hesitation in speech which is skim over them. If at first your whiskey voice."

It

should be most unattractive and bard to get

rid of delivery sounds forced or slightly musical and rich.

Beauty Of Teeth

· Modern dentistry has done much, dent'stry if they are fakten to u

dentist in time.

Avoid Tooth Infection

to teach us that the greatest menace to mouth health is neglect, urid the greatest weapon for the preservation of strong, beautiful Never ask "Why go to o dentist teeth is an understanding of diet, if my teeth don't ache? A visit daily mouth hygiene and the to your dentist Very six months necessity of regular examinations may prevent an oral Infection by a dentist.

from spreading throughout Thinking of modern dentistry body causing such wretched d s in relation to feminine beauty, cases as heart trouble, theuma we should be grateful to the men tism, spine infections, and a host, and women who, in the routine of other painful and beauty de- practice of their profession, Have stroying ailments. :

the

given us knowledge of tooth Teeth should receive sound health and preservation. They dally care. Brushing at least twice have gone beyond this too, in the day, Between" teath » erdvices specialised works of orthodontia cleaned with dental floss, and the (the straightening of crooked mouth washed antiseptically. At teeth) so that young girls to-day least twice a year your teeth are spared the psychological and should be cleaned professionally physical set-backs which buck and examined. A dentist's l teeth and similar malformations thought an annoyance, is definitely crented for our female ancestora. an investment in health and Protruding Ups" and lantern Jaws beauty. We all want to hold onto may be corrected through modern our teeth as long as possiblei

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