While researching another topic I was surprised to learn that ladies of by gone eras were taught to speak in a soft, high pitched voice. 

In another book the author noted that women who speak softly are better able to keep the attention of their husbands when they speak because the man must lean close to or be near her and purpose to listen to hear what she is saying. In a way endearing herself to him and he to her. Just the nearness of him listening is an intimate moment that will prepare both for more intimacy later on.

Girls and Women of the victorian era would often train their voices to be melodic and sweet. 

Have you ever stopped to listen to the womens voices in your church? At the mall? In a factory? 

Many a woman these days speaks in tones, and uses phases and wording that many of our grandmothers would be ashamed to hear.  Some would shame our granddads too. 

Ruth Beechick, in one of her books has documented that our voice, physically, passes is or generated through our heart. It gives much more meaning to the words of Christ "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh" 

What does this mean to us?  Well, I suppose if we have a meek and quiet spirit, and our heart is righ twith the LORD, if we have embraced who we are in Christ, and how God has made us, if we are thankful to be women-created so by the Father, them our words and tone will reflect that. 

Have you ever noticed how someone's voice changes when they are angry?  How about a mom or dad with their new baby? 

Perhaps we need to practice some of the graces that were once commonplace but have lost their appeal with the rise of feminism.

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