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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 8 April 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

.Effects or Colors on the Mind,—The .author of a lately published ■book on '.'Art in ; Ornament anil Dress" hos'somo very imaginative tilings to say iiboutcolors. Fow people can know what a great deal there is in color until tboy lmve read this authority, and oven somo ofrtliom may riot be convinced. ,-Yellow, ,"the eldest, daughtor of light"' lie praises, for " .without yellow no spectacle can be splondid " but striped, with black,- yellow sugajests tigers., pan thors (the author Is responsible for the. coloring of.- lus; beasts) ami wasps. Red " asserts a strong will;. so a wea i -minded man ought to put on a rod., tie nnil 'sOcks, and■ take a flamo colored pocket--handkerchiet when lie wants specially to assert himself. Bluo lie describes vaguely,; "It doos not yet suit, or it.no longer suits, like golden and flamo color, the time of lovo." Without 'waiting to ask why or how, it may be noted that" green can only awaken amiablo and goutlo thoughts, rpnwmbrancos gracious as those of spring and " —this again is vague— 11 other promises ofnature: •grreon gives rcposo to the mind as it docs to the; sight." One lias come across ladies in violent green dresses and gloves who have scarcely had this pleasing effect, "It is only,".he continues, ■" when combined'with black that green becomes symbolical of sadness," and here there is a touch of truth. When a, man has backed: a horse belonging to some ownior whose colors are green combiuod with black, and when the Jiorso does not win, the combination does, no doubt, symboliso sadness. ... --,