COLOUR AND HEALTH.

Shannon News, 20 December 1929, Page 3

COLOUR AND HEALTH.

In recent times colour, like relativity and ray therapy, has been playing a much larger part in human affairs. Astrologically each erf the planets, besides the signs of the Zodiac, has a colour assigned to it, and its vibrations, and mysterious properties are a science that is only beginning to be understood, writes a psychologist in a London Daily. Certain it is that colour can help health, and that every individual has an inborn dislike for certain colours and a marked predilection for others. Purple has always been connected with royalty and greatness, gold with brightness and intellect, green with the fairies, blue with youth, while all over the East red is associated with magic. The meaning of mauve is said to be spiritual, and price decadent. Not only in gardens, but in numberless different tints and shades of woman's dresses, the eye, in summer, can range over almost the whole scale of chromatic colouring. As in the case of clothes themselves, those colours that look the coolest are not always the best for reflecting the rays of the sum. Just as linen is far cooler to wear than cotton, so white, which readily absorbs sunshine, is in reality hotter to wear than black.

Eed is obviously a hot colour, but there are some of the lighter shades of yellow that are both pleasant and practical, both from the wearers' and the watchers' point of view. Green, of course, is a proverbially cool covering, and despite its ill-found-ed legend of arousing the jealousy of the fairies and bringing bad luck, ap-ple-green has been one of the most popular and fashionable colourings for this season.

Strictly speaking, grey is not a colour but it can be included, like blue, among those that are cool. Silver grey is a sihade that is a popular favourite with the Queen. Princess Mary is fond of certain shades of yellow . Some of the new printed dresses offer combinations and gradations of colon rs, to satisfy each individual sight and taste.

Some people are artists in the choice of their surroundings, but all cf us are better able to do good work and enjoy life if the colour schemes that we life with are harmonious and not discordant.