Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1911 — The Home Voice. [ARTICLE]

The Home Voice.

Have you ever noticed tho close relationship between the home voice dnd the home atmosphere? And as the atmosphere is the sensitive, intangible thing, it is affected by the voice, not by the atmosphere. If the head of the house, whether it be the husband or the wife, has a whining voice, the atmosphere of that home is apt to be depressed. Everything is limp, so to speak, and spineless. Even the draperies hang in dejected folds. Nothing ever is right or bright or cheery. The home is a center of complaints.

In the home where the dominant voice is gruff or surly, an atmosphere of antagonism seems to prevail. Nobody seems to want to do what he ought to do. His manner implies a protest, a sulky compliance. Take again the patronizing voice In the home, the voice that condescends to tell the others what they should do. The family sit uneasily under it There is a feeling of subjection in that home, a lack of individuality.