Temperance > Autobiography and personal recollections of John B. Gough

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OP JOHN B. GOUGH.
jurious when used continually. I have heard speakers
say they are never without something of the kind;—the
mischief lies just there,—after using them freely for a
time, they become a necessity, even when they are doing
a permanent injury. If the voice becomes hoarse, and the
throat dry and husky, try cold water gargling; or dash
cold water on the throat, and back of the ears, three 91- four
times in the day, and after speaking; and if that does not
relieve, do as I did—rest till the voice recovers its tone;
and if the throat is not diseased, the remedy will not fail.
I would say that a piece of pure liquorice about as large
as a small pea, or even a less quantity, taken into the
mouth just before speaking, will relieve without injury.
I make this statement, as the throat is the organ most im¬
portant to a public speaker, and I give my experience for
just what it is worth. I once recommended an advertised
remedy for the throat as relieving a tickling cough, and it
did relieve for a time. I have received a large number of
lozenges, and other preparations for the throat, from the
proprietors, requesting recommendation, and they must
not be angry with me because I send them none, as I do
not try these things as a permanent cure for hoarseness.
On the occasion of a lecture in Sadler’s Wells Theatre,
on Wednesday, May 3d, an incident occurred of which the
London Illustrated News speaks:—
At the close occurred the incident which Mr. Cruikshank has
described with his graphic pencil. It is well known that our
artist is a total abstainer, and naturally he was unwilling to lose
so good an opportunity as then offered itself for swelling the
stream to which he belonged. Accordingly, he appealed to the
audience to come forward and take the pledge. Nor was the
appeal made in vain. A rush from box, and pit, and gallery was
the result. A plank-bridge was laid across from the pit to the
stage, along which poured the living tide. A young lady was