Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-11-09
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Mr.. Gladstone has contributed an ar
ticle to the October number Of the
Ninsfceask Century. on what he calls
The Color Sense" He holds that
this sense IL not q natural one. but,
instead. is the outgrowth of constant
~ adsan,ing civilization. He ad-
vauces the theory that color blindness
va at one time in the remote past the
common condition Of the human race.
Whether Mr.. Glsdstone's view Of the
ease be true Dr. false. we shall not un
dertake tn ssy. but we must agree with
an exchange. when it lays the devel-
opment and cultivation of the color
sense is to be regarded as one Of the
blessings of civilization. But, like
many others of those blessings,
il 10 not IN altogether unmixed ne.
The color sense. of course. has brought
to man much enjoyment. 1t las given
him new revelations Of beauty and
grandeur. 1t has ministered to his
love for the beautiful Ia the gorgeous
bues Of the sunset, in the varying col.
ors and shades Of the autumn land
sczpe. in the ruddy glow Of the wine.
and in the delicate shade of the maid
ems cheek. Blu. it has ssddened him
by the silver threads amid the brown,
the black, the red. or the yellow, and
has alarmed him by the flush of anger.
It has. as it were, placed the
rainbow In the heavens for his delight,
and hung the average drop curtain in
the provincial theater for his torture.
The color sense has revesled to men
and women all the iorturing incongru
tiles that are found in the combinations
OF colors, whether in an oil painting.
IN the furniture Of . room or 10 the
toilet OF . fashionable woman. With
out the sense, the woman Of delicate,
cultivated taste, would be spared the
pain she o. experiences in seeing q blonde
in red and green, or q brunette in light
blue. If still deprived of it,
women would be spared the trouble.
the perplexity. the annoyance aud the
labor they now e. experience in the at
tempt to match new material. of which
they have a scant pattern, or the old
dress they are economically making
over. They would not be compelled
to orsu all thu sfrnof, IF a uraaf ctf y
hunting down the exact shade. They
would not he compelled to confront
the awful q uestion as &c whether. after
all, one fabric was not q little
blacker, greener. yellOwer. law
enderer, mauver or plumber
colored than the other. The dry
goods clerk would no longer expert
ence the shiver Of horror that runs
through his frame as he hears the
question, " Have you anything OF just
the shade Of thi>?" he would no longer
be subjected 10 the slow torture OF
trying his ewes at ever angle If vision
on two compared fabrics, tn see II
they were both just the same sort oil
black. orange brown, bottle green.
sky blue, or other color. Women
would no longer be worried by the
terrible question Of What sorts and
colors of hats, and sacques, and trim
ming, and cloSks and p~olonaises TO
match 2" Aud the convivial gentle
man would no moro be betrayed Ia
the wife OF his bosom by the color oil
his nose. So. AZ to whether we have
made or lost by the color sense, may
he q question; but az civilization has
brought it to Us, along with railroads,
savings banks. eminent commissions,
sewing machine agents, Pullman
palace cars. train boys and civil ser.
| vice reformers, we can only make the
best OF it.