Standing in the open air, or in a room before an open window, take a long, deep breath through the nostrils until the lungs are well filled, then open the mouth and slowly expel the air. After a few seconds’ interval repeat the process and continue in this manner for ten minutes. By ex¬tending the arms straight out before the body and raising them above the head as breath is taken, the exercise is made more effective. It is also a good idea, after filling the lungs, to hold the breath for an instant and lightly slap the chest four or five times to quicken the circulation of the blood in that region.
Now we are ready for the actual beginning, which we will take up in the next chapter. Many students start out bravely, but soon tire of the practice and give it up; others practice inces¬santly and their ill-considered efforts cause an uncomfortable feeling in the throat in a short time which compels them to desist; others, again, are easily discouraged before they have fairly begun, and because they do not succeed almost immediately in obtaining the effects desired, they think they never will be able to learn; but those who go about it in the right way, using intelli¬gence and discretion in the frequency and amount of their practice and remaining patiently content to become perfect in one thing before taking up the next, invariably succeed. According to the old Irish saying, ” Patience and perseverance got a wife for His Rev’rence ” and so it is with ven¬triloquism or in fact with anything worth learn¬ing, either for amusement or profit; and this art is productive of both, whether one takes it up simply as a hobby or avocation or with the de¬termination to make it a means of livelihood.

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