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7sf>e RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
January 19, 191S 
Stock Owners 
HereS^urAiiswer 
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Advice and Suggestion 
Advice to the Tongue-tied 
I nm very much troubled with being 
tongue-tied. There are words which begin 
with certain letters of the alphabet that I 
cannot say. I know what the words are, 
but cannot say them. Could you tell me 
something to stop it? It comes on in 
spells and oth&r times I nm able to say 
everything all right. ii. A. B. 
As you are able to pronounce the diffi¬ 
cult words part of the time, it is evident 
that you are not “tongue-tied,” but that 
you cannot always control your tongue as 
you w’ould like. .Tust why, I cannot say, 
having never seen you and not even 
knowing your age. Your physician at 
home should be better able to advise you 
than anyone else as he has the best op¬ 
portunity to learn the exact cause of your 
trouble. I can make some suggestions, 
however, which should aid you in curing 
yourself, provided that your trouble is, as 
I suspect, a “nervous” one. 
First, remember Hint no one else can 
cure you ; you alone have control of your 
tongue and you must be the one to train 
it to obey your will. By “^'^ngue” we 
mean all the <u-gaus that help in produc¬ 
ing speech. These organs have to he 
taught to form words, they do not kuow 
This is the Fine Little Girl Who Had Trouble With 
Her Nerves 
how themselves: the baby can say “goo, 
goo,” but lie has to learn to talk, and it 
takes him a long time to do this. Y'ou 
have learned to talk but you still have 
to teach your tongue always to pronounce 
the words that you want it to. To do 
this you will have to be patient and per¬ 
sistent for a long time, perhaps ns long 
as it took you to learn to talk when you 
w'cre a child, hut it is worth while, so 
don’t give up until you can always say 
just what you want to say. ' 
Now here are some helps in training 
your tongue: First, learn to talk slowly 
and distinctly all the time, and always in 
a quiet, moderate tone. Never allow 
yourself to “jabber” excitedly or talk 
rapidly and indistinctly, and don’t strug¬ 
gle with the hard words when you can’t 
pronounce them. Wait until you can, 
and then pronounce them slowly and care¬ 
fully, so that your tongue will know just 
how. Don’t be annoyed if silly people 
mock you, and don’t try to say the hard 
words when angry, if yon must get angry. 
Remember that you can’t control your 
tongue when you can’t control yourself. 
Then, learn to read out loud, reading 
•lowly and distinctly and pronouncing all 
the words carefully. Do this each day, 
reading to mother, or some other member 
of the family, and stopping before you 
get tired. A few minutes at a time is 
best. 
Try not to make hard work of this 
tongue training, for it must be kept up 
for a long time. Get into the habit of 
talking slowly and quietly, so that you 
will do it without thinking about it, and 
remember that the way we learn to do 
things is by doing them. M. B. D. 
Conserve the Baby’s Nerves 
Ajiropos of the question of conservation 
of babies, may I give a bit of my own ex¬ 
perience? When my girlie was nearly 
‘two years old she had fewer teeth than 
she .should have had, was extremely, ner¬ 
vous. and, while not really sick, her i-oii- 
dirioii alarmed me and I took her to an 
old doctor in w.hom I had great confidence 
because he had once done very good ser¬ 
vice for me and was called a particularly 
good doctor for children. Tlie little girl 
had always made friciid.s readily with 
everyone, and she was certainly a cute 
playtliiiig. hut I noticed at once that she 
disliked the old doctor—pr<d>al)ly because 
he had a long beard, and l recalled the 
fact that none of the men she knew had 
whiskers, and she had probably never 
seen a beard before. She .showed her 
fear only by cuddling close in my arms 
till the doctor bent over her to examine 
her guin.s, whereupon slie began .scream¬ 
ing frantically. It was impossible to car¬ 
ry on conversation, so he calleil an at¬ 
tendant to take the baby away while he 
talked with me. I disliked to let the ter¬ 
rified little thing go. but I .saw nothing 
el.se to do. though frankly I have but a 
hazy idea yet of what the doctor said 
when she wa.s gone. I could .still hcai^her 
screaming wildly till it dawned upon me 
tliat. while I could hear the doctor'.s 
voice, it conveyed uo meaning whatever 
to my con.sciousness. and I told him so. 
It seemed to be an entirely new thought 
to him. and he said. .“^Miy, that's nerve 
exhau.stion ; go and get your baby, (inick. 
before yon get any wor.se off.” It is m-ed- 
le.ss to say that I obeyed with alacrity, 
but the injury was already done. ^ly 
brother was with me. and she was usually 
very fond of that uncle, liiit she aeteil ;is 
if she had never seen him. and oliji'cted 
stremioiisly to being taken into the baggy 
with him. From that hour she was wild¬ 
ly afraid of all men till she became a big 
girl :ind outgrew it. and even yet she 
doesn't easily get acquainted witli tlumi. 
though slie is five years old. Many a time 
we liave had company that we were espe¬ 
cially glad to see, and I have had to take 
her entirely away from them and keep luu- 
away. mrs. e. m. a. 
The Cat “ Came Back ” 
I want to tell yon young folks, large 
and small, a story of what hapiiened in 
our liouse lately. There had been coru- 
plaiut of a rat. wliieh appeared to be 
imiu-isoued in the kitchen and living 
rooms, for there would be signs of it every 
morning. Some things would he eaten or 
distni'bed. Oiiee a carpet was gnawed 
through and it was feared that serious 
damage would be done if tin* animal was 
not either killed, raptured or driven away. 
Some weeks went on. Several sorts of 
rat poison were set out for the rat. Some¬ 
times a little of it appeared to he eaten, 
sometimes other things showed that it wa.s 
still about. As time went on. though, the 
evidenees heeame fewer, till tlu'y seemed 
to disappear entirely. ^Yas the creature 
killed or driven away, or was it inerely 
showing extra eaution. as rats will do 
when they becouu' aware tliat they are 
hunted? One day the mistress eoiisulted 
ail aeiiuaintauee who keeps a store' and 
he h'lit her a big wire trap that a man 
could fairly crawl into. Tlu're was a 
place' for cheese or se>me' eitlier bait anel 
a tilting hoarel to drop the “e-ritter" inside 
and then fly back to place', ^ye' have all 
seen sueh devices and many more, hut we- 
have selelom seen a rat in one eif them. 
The animal is te>o wise for them generally. 
Se'veral days now and nee sign of the rat. 
One moruiug a man came to the eloor te> 
deliver a roll of carpet and when the' door 
was ope'iu'd in ran a kitten. Tt was sneVw 
white, or would have* been if it had he*eii 
a little meire’ careful eef its toih't. Tt was 
plain thiit it was no mere wandering 
creature, feir it at eeiu'c maele friends with 
everybeedy. Thoughts of the; possible rat 
kept it from being put outdoors and e'ven 
when it took to being a small miisance* by 
running under our feet thoughts eif the 
rat still kept it in tole'raiu'e'. At lengtii 
the eat went intee the cellar and was out 
of the; way for'a time anel fairly forgotten. 
Then the mistress went outside and 
ope'iied a rear eelli.r door and behold 1 
There was the .small eat eating the bigge-st 
rat we had seen in many a day. When 
approaclu'd the cat showeet fight, hut it 
was indue'cd to go outside and finish its 
meal, wliile the household rejoice'd. When 
the' feast was ended the e'at returned tei 
the house, so full of rat that it could 
hardly walk, and dozed under the kitchen 
stove for half a day. No, sir; the epies- 
tion of keeping that small ratter is not 
discussed. It can stay as long as it is on 
its goeed behavior, for thi.s household is 
fortified against rats and mice as it cemld 
not be in any other way, so long as it is 
with us. T. w. c. 
