This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... straight across the platform. Work in oblique lines, retiring on the close of your paragraphs, and coming out on the beginnings. Don't slump by letting your weight rest on one foot. Stand on both feet. Don't speak to the galleries. Keep downstairs. Don't step so far when you change position that you bring your back ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... straight across the platform. Work in oblique lines, retiring on the close of your paragraphs, and coming out on the beginnings. Don't slump by letting your weight rest on one foot. Stand on both feet. Don't speak to the galleries. Keep downstairs. Don't step so far when you change position that you bring your back heel off the floor. Keep both heels on the floor unless you are making gestures, or are intensely interested. Don't talk to a few people in the front of your audience. Talk to those on the outskirts of the room. LESSON XXI PITCH Not all the changes of pitch in our speech are so apparent as those set forth in Lesson XII. Within every sentence we make smaller changes, which, though not so plain as those already given, are just as important, and must be clearly understood by the student of public speaking if he would succeed. The Step The simplest change of pitch that we have is called the step of the voice. Of course, it may be either Up or Down. For instance, in the sentence, "/'// tear her all to pieces" we take steps something like the following: tear all pie-I'll her to ces. or, all to tear pie-I'll her ces. No typographical means, of course, is adequate to picture correctly for the eye, the path of melody in speech. While there are distinct steps in all speaking, they are not as numerous as our ear would lead us to believe. Many of our consonants have slight sounds, and changes of pitch occur during their progress, so that a scientifically correct record of our speech would show us that it moves more by waves than by steps. See Fig. 55, pp. 120-121, and the accompanying description. This fact should be carefully noted by the student, lest he fall into the habit of being " choppy" in his style. Let each thought unit constit...
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