. Comstock's elocution and model speaker ... . 16), so as to throw the weightof the body on the right foot, then the left may bemoved as required. According to this principle, it will be found thatfrom each original &.&.% position four stepsmay be made. (SeeFig. 21 and 22.)The plan of thesteps, in the origi-nal position, is inthe centre, anddrawn larger; theplan of the steps,made from that ori-ginal position, is re-presented line of motionsof the feet, is repre- 21 sented by a line of dots, nearly of the same form whicheach foot should trace; the line of the free, or first-moving f
. Comstock's elocution and model speaker ... . 16), so as to throw the weightof the body on the right foot, then the left may bemoved as required. According to this principle, it will be found thatfrom each original &.&.% position four stepsmay be made. (SeeFig. 21 and 22.)The plan of thesteps, in the origi-nal position, is inthe centre, anddrawn larger; theplan of the steps,made from that ori-ginal position, is re-presented line of motionsof the feet, is repre- 21 sented by a line of dots, nearly of the same form whicheach foot should trace; the line of the free, or first-moving foot, is marked with a star. In the figures, itwill be observed, that from each position four stepsmay be made — the speaker may advance, retire, tra-verse, and cross. Inadvancing and tra-versing, each stepfinishes on the secondposition of the ad-vancing foot; and,in retiring from thefirst position, the stepfinishes on the firstposition of the con-trary foot; but, inretiring from the se-cond position, it fin-ishes on the first c 84 ELOCUTION position of the same foot. In crossing from the firstposition, the free foot passes before the other, andfinishes on the second position; but, in crossing from?he second position, it passes behind the planted foot,and finishes on the first position. The steps from the two positions of the left foot aresimilar to those of the right, and do not require to beexplained by another figure. CHAPTER IV. THE POSITIONS, MOTIONS, AND ELEVATIONS OF THE ARMS. Fig. 23 represents a person standing with his armshanging unconstrained. Now, if from this position thearm be raised as high as it can be, as in Fig. 24, theextremity of the fingers will describe, in the verticaldirection, a semicircle, which, in the figure, is marked at five points,R, d, h, e, Z, atintervals of for-ty-five , in the trans-verse direction,the arm be ex-tended acrossthe body, as faras conveniencewill permit, andthen swept hori-zontally round,a
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