Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1887 — PERSONAL CHARMS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL CHARMS.

How the Delsartian Theory of Development Beautifies Women. What is the Delsartian method? If ladies can secure cultivation of th J voice, eo ae to read and converse m sweetly modulated yet strong and deep tonps, and by the same course of tra mng acquire grace of carriage and the development of chest and lungs that ensures health and adds to personal charms, the methods employed are worthy investigation. . Bo thought our reporter, who called upon Mme. Gray, the noted teacher of Oratory and Phys.cal Culture, at one of our leading hotels. As he entered the room a lady tall but well proportioned came with graceful movement toward him. A well-shaped head, crowned with a wealth of iron-gray hair, uark, brilliant eyes, beneath finely arched brows, were noted as the approached. When she spoke it was with a voice sweet and low, yet with a wonderful compass. “ U bat is the secret of this power of vocal expression you seem to have?” “Secret? there is no secret,” laughed Mme. Gray. ‘•Timo was when 1 had one of the weakest and thinnest of voices. Any one cap accomplish what I have done. It i’s so easy to acquire a full, resonaxt voice, that will never ure or grow hoarse. All vocal disabilities may be overosme, hesitation, stammering, stuttering, soon disappear under proper training. ” “Does this training affect the physical system?” “Yes, it will develop the bust to almost ideal perfection. Gentlemen will add four or five inches chest measurement in as many months.” “It is desirable from a point of beautv, then?” “Yes, ladies gain the roundness of waist, taper of arm and hand, and the perfect poise, ease and grace in movement, that add so much to personal charms.” “Health, I should think, would be benefited, also?” “Indeed it is. Lung and throat troubles decrease, narrow chests and thin arms are developed, and female weakness largely overcome. ” “It seems to be a regular panacea?” “No, I am sorry to say that some organs cannot be made good in this way after they have been injured as mine were by a sojourn near a Southern swamp. Before 1 tried physical culture and Warner’s safe cure I was a confirmed invalid. I was consumptive in early life, and it is only a few years since I ov rcame a serious liver trouble. I owe much to Warner’s safe cure, and I do not hesitate to ackjow.edge it” “And the consumption tendency?” “Disappeared after the use of this remedy, and when I learned how to breathe. Not one in twenty brea he in such a way as to fill the air-cells, to expand the strong muscles at the base of the lungs, which should do the labor of expelling air. Hence, if kidney disease prevails, the lungs affected by tne kidney poisoned blood soon give way. ” “Is not your system the Delsartian thepry?” “Yes, and ! greatly rejoiced when this grand teacher gave to the. world his ideas. They correspond to those I had long taught, for I am a pioneer in this work, and have devoted life and energy to teaching the world that women may gain vocal accomplishments, health, grace and beauty all at the same time by these methods of cultivation.” “You are yet teaching?” “Yes, at the School of Oratory and Physical Culture at Syracuse, N. Y., a permanent institution, now in very successful progress.”