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Pure Lard, 1 1b 19¢.......... = ~..3 hs 53c. Oranges, Navels, svii.per doz 39¢ and b9c. sa sl 4 tins for 25c. SrA res 4 tins for Z5¢ Kippered Snacks Brunswick Sardines In view of the fact that there is to be a Public Speaking Contest at the Convention, Thursday morning, April 21st, the following article by Pro- _ fessor George E. Day of Ontario Agricultural . College, reprinted. from the O.A.C. Review, will be interesting to our readers. So much has always been said and written about public speaking that probably it is the height of presumption to attempt anything more on the subject. However, no serious harm can be done by jotting down a few general principles for beginners; and the indulgent reader (if, indeed, a reader 'can be found), will kindly assume his most amiable mood, and be very lenient toward the many shortcomings of this rambling paper. The rules for public speaking are many. Pick up any work on the subject, and you will find it so full of instructions that the mind is apt to be confused; but the whole matter, boiled down, anfounts to little more than the following : 1. Have something to say. 2. Say it to every man, woman, and child in the audience. When you have said it, stop. If you have nothing to say, then, for sweet pity's sake, keep your mouth.as tightly closed as is consistent with your general health. It is rarely necessary for a speaker to occupy half an hour in telling his audience that he has nothing to say; they can usually be satisfactorily con- vinced of the fact in less than two minute Neither is it necessary, as a rule, (outside of afi insane asylum), that he should spend fifteen or o twenty minutes in assuring his audience that he is not going to make a long speech; that it would not be advisable to make a long speech; that for ten or dozen good and sufficient reasons, all duly specified, minutely described, and guaranteed genuine, it would be absolutely unwise to make a long speech. As a rule, these things, important though they may be, may be left to the intelli- gence of the audience. Besides, audiences, as a rule, are blessed with considerable fortitude; and if he should happen not to speak quite so long as they had-expected, there is not, after all any really serious danger that they will be inconsol- able. As regards the second rule, do not mumble what you have to say to a selected few within a radius of ten or twelve feet. No doubt your audience should be grateful for the privilege of gazing upon your noble countenance, but you must remember that the world is full of ungrate- The Photo = TOWN Plays Saturday, April 30th | : ZANE GREY'S sert Es dz 10 Bs. Granulated Sugar vba gear 120 Superior. Crehiory Butter. rae aaa DDG Breakfast Bacon, per 1b ..............40c. Pure Raspberry Jam .......... visas sa DOC Old Homestead Corn .,...... 2 tins for 25¢. Aylmer Catsup ........ rae 21c. CHEE SAUCE vi' avis nines voioniannihs 25¢. Chicken Haddie ... &. i500 Svvaivvtad 25¢. Sunflower Salmon .......... 1's-..2 for 37c. %'s 2 for 23c¢.- JAMES McKEE & SON ' Superior Store, St. Charles Building, Port 2 fay PUBLIC SPEAKING 'CONTEST PORT PERRY BEST | PICTURE HOUSE | Tuesd'y adits 250. ge Children 5c. fad! 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Besides, bawling will make you red in the face, and make your throat feel as though it had been swept out with a wire brush, while your audience will drift further and further away, until the last link which bound them to you will part'under the force of the wind- storm you have created. Attitudes are dangerous_things to tamper with. If you try to strike one, the chances are it will dodge and strike you instead. It will be. much safer to leave attitudes to the stage. - "Do not persuade yourself that a wailing. whin- ing monotone constitutes 'eloquence. If such were the case, then it would be most unfortunate for the oratoggas he would thus be brought into direct and hopeless competition with the faithful watchdog, who frequently relieves his overburd- ened soul by pouring his troubles into the sym- pathizing ear of the man in the moon. In short, j act like a rational being Who is talking to other rational beings. audience; then look the people straight in the face, and say it to them, not at them, nor all around them, but in all earnestness say it to them, and your hands and other parts of your anatomy will take care of themselves. Then, when you have once said what. you g wish ed to say, stop. Do not try how often say the same thing. The experienced a sometimes adds force by clothing the same idea in different words, but it is a dangerous device for the novice, and one that can be used but sparingly by the best of speakers. It is, no doubt, a very beautiful thought that Tennyson's "Brook" should "go on forever," but when a public speaker evinces this peculiarity there is more or less danger that his audience will fail to see anything poetic in. the analogy. 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