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The Shrill Voice of American Wo-. . t ■ rmen.The Rev. Edward E. Hale does not like_ ithe voices of his countrywomen. He says most of them talk with a shrill voice, and if they wish to gain power seek it by sharpening the note, or screaming, rather than by giving more volume, and adds; “I remember at the great dining saloon of the Bauer au Lac Hotel, in Zurich, both the largest and finest dining hall I ever saw, when five hundred were dining at once at their different tables. I could single out my own country women in all parts of the hall, no matter what their distance, by the shrill yell, more or less nasal, with which they summoned the waiters, ordered soup, asked for a napkin, or passed from pastry to ice cream. Above the general roar of the buzz-buzz-buzz of five hundred voices in conversation you could d istinguish the war cry of these eight or ten American women, as you distinguish the signal rockets at night above a long dark line of entrenchments.” Mr. Hale ascribes these uhpleas-, ant tones to the custom of making little iris read in a.Jpud and unnatural fashion i the grammar aftd primary schools.II
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Harrisonburg Old Commonwealth
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Mar 11, 1881
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