Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — The Reaching Voice. [ARTICLE]

The Reaching Voice.

When people speak of a. “good voice" they very often mean mean a loud voice, .but a loud voice Is not a good voice at all, either in music or anything else. For instance, a loud voice is seldom a distant voice. You often hear, critics speak of “a low musical voice.” That kind of voice is usually very clear and distinct. Anything that is genuinely musical always has volume. Stand across the street and listen to two voices, one powerful and harsh, the other low and musical; Then turn the corner and listen again, and you will observe that you can hear plainly each articulation of the musical voice, whereas the powerful, harsh voice will give a confused buzz or murmur. But when you.are near, the musical voice may have been drowned by the harsh, roaring voice. At sea tho long, rhythmical songlike cry of the lookout will reach ever so much farther than the hoarse, abrubt roar of the man who gives orders to the deck. But on thedeck itself the hoarse shout may completely swallow up tho musical cry. So among hucksters—the voice that has tho music in it will be plain and will sound blocks farther than the mere roar of the ragged-throat vender.