Answers - Take vocal lessons from a competent teacher. Practice reading aloud to someone or by yourself, and take particular pains to inflect the voice as you would in conversation, avoiding the singsong or any suggestion of it. Practice in conversation, make your conversation as musical as possible, exaggerating if need be. Repeat the alphabet phonetically several times a day. Take deep breathing exercises.
News of Fifty Years Ago
(From the Richmond Dispatch, Oct. 3, 1866.)
The meeting, supposedly in the interest of the consolidation of the Virginia and Tennessee, Southside and Norfolk and Petersburg Railroads, was thinly attended last night at the Tobacco Exchange. Speeches were made by Governor Pierpont, General William Mahone, Raleigh T. Daniel, Colonel Thomas R. August, Robert Owens, General Raymond J. H. Gilmer, and David J. Burr and by Judge Wilson, of Lynchburg. The two first-named advocated consolidation and the others opposed it. Mr. August offered resolutions opposing consolidation. They did not come to a vote, but it was manifest that a majority of those in attendance upon the meeting were opposed to the uniting of the three Virginia roads.
The United States Court, over which His Immaculate Honor, Judge Underwood, presides, was to have met in this city today. It has, however, been decided not to commence the proceedings of this august body until the first week in November.
During the quarter ending September 30, flour inspections in  This city were 2,738 barrels of family, 14,912 of extra superfine, 4,350 of superfine, 1,175 half-barrels of superfine, 113 barrels of fine, 1,437 of middlings. One hundred and seventy barrels of various grades were condemned. 