Stammering, Its Cause and Cure

for me than had already been done-which as the reader has seen, was practically nothing. I bought a ticket for Philadelphi

ntals in the production of voice than all of the rest put together. He taught me these things, and gave me a solid foundation on which to build. True, he did not

same principles of speech, while every person who stutters or stammers violates these principles of speech. That is the basis of sound procedure for the cure of stammering an

, but did not find it. I was benefited very little. These experiences, however, all possessed a certain value, although I did not know i

, I bought a ticket for home and boarded the train more nearly

the advertisement of a professor from Chicago saying that he would be

en drilled in them time and again. This fellow was like so many others who claimed to cure stammering-he was in the business just because there were stammerers to cure, and not becaus

ent, "Stammering Positively Cured!" Whenever I saw a sign "Vocal Culture" I became interested, so I clipped the advertisement, corresponded

ing hack home in a short time cured-to the surprise of my family and friends. But I was doomed to disappointment. I took the twenty lessons, but went home stammering

n orator. That was very fine and would, no doubt, have done me a great deal of good, but it was of no use to try to cultivate a fine voice until I could use that voice in the normal way. The fine

determined to be cured. I made up my mind I would never give up. True, I often said to myself, "I may never be cured

man who could do the whole job IN ONE HOUR. Wonderful power he must possess, I thought. Of course, I did not believe he could do it. I COULD not believe it. It was not believable. But neve

th a hypnotic sleep and the proper hypnotic suggestion while I was in the trance. But like a

end up with the conclusion (in their own minds, at least) that it is a failure. Hypnotism may be said to be a condition where the will of the subject is entirely dormant and his every act and thought controlled by the mind of the hypnotist. I do not know, not having been conscious at the time, but it is not improbab

n treatments. So I planked down the specified amount for ten treatments, and went to him regularly three times a week for almost a month, when he explained to me, again with a plenitude of professionalism, that my case was a very peculiar one and that it wo

o eliminate this contraction and leave my speech entirely free from stammering. I knew something about my stammering then, but not a great deal-consequently his explanation sounded plausible to me and appealed to me as being very sensible and so I decided to give it a trial. I was glad after it was over that I had rece

f doggedly to the task of ridding myself of an impediment that I knew would always hold me down and prevent any measure of success. I stayed with this task. I never gave up. I kept this one thing always hi mind. It was a life job with me if necessary-and I was not a "quitter." So failures and discouragements simply steel