Don't Talk Loudly

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 12, 1882

Don't Talk Loudly.

NOTHING marks a true gentleman or lady more surely than a low voice, and a man can have it as well as a woman. A loud voice either arises from extreme carelessness or from low breeding. No one likes to walk beside a person on the street who talks loudly. The same rule applies to boys and girls. Play is one thing and conversation quite another, though the former need not be boisterous. Children may have good lungs, and use them in cheering when the right time comes, but when they talk, a low, distinct voice marks one accustomed to good society and possessed of innate refinement.