e ready for me with, "I told you so" and "I knew it couldn't be
done" and a lot of gratuitous information like that.

But I gave up, nevertheless, deeply disappointed to think that once
again I had failed to be cured of stammering, yet all the while
resolving just as firmly as ever that I would try again and that I
would never give up hope as long as there remained anything for me to
do.

And this rule I followed out, month after month and year after year,
until in the end I was richly rewarded for my patience and persistence.

CHAPTER V

FURTHER FUTILE ATTEMPTS TO BE CURED

The next summer I decided to visit eastern institutions for the cure of
stammering and determine if these could do any more for me than had
already been done-which as the reader has seen, was practically
nothing. I bought a ticket for Philadelphia, where I remained for some
time, and where I gained more information of value than in all of my
previous efforts combined.

I found in the Quaker City an old man who had made speech defects
almost a life study. He knew more about the true principles of speech
and the underlying fundamentals in the production of voice than all of
the rest put together. He taught me these things, and gave me a solid
foundation on which to build. True, he did not cure my stammering. But
that was not because he failed to understand its cause, but merely
because he had not worked out the correct method of removing the cause.

It was this man who first brought home to me the fact that principles
of speech are constant, that they never change and that every person
who talks normally follows out the same principles of speech, while
every person who stutters or stammers violates these principles of
speech. That is the basis of sound procedure for the cure of stammering
and I must acknowledge my indebtedness to this sincere old gentleman
who did so much for me in the way of knowledge, even though he did but
little for me in the way of results.

After leaving Philadelphia, I visited Pittsburgh, Baltimore,
Washington, New York, Boston and other eastern cities, searching for a
cure, but did not find it. I was benefited very little. These
experiences, however, all possessed a certain value, although I did not
know it at the time. They taught me the things which would not work and
by a simple process of elimination I later found the things which would.

Finally, however, having become disgusted with my eastern trip, I