Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-05-02
BAB IS \ COLOR EXPERT.
When War RACES Red Is the Popular
Tint.
The Happy Young Girl-Giving Of
Wedding Presents Three Won
derful Chests - Collecting Odd
Silver-Makes the Conscience a
Little Lax.
From on REGULAR correspondent1

wondering who will initiate Byron ana
20 to fight for Greece. In the meantime,
I nearly all the string hats are red. You
wonder at my jumping from subject Of
vital importance to mere question Of
fashion; but if you Will take the trouble,
as did, to study up the history of col
ors, you will find that there was never
time when war ragged that red was not
in vogue. | am told that during the
Civil War in our own country red
| bodices were very fashionable. They
called them Carloads. Who does not
remember the red liberty cap Of the
Terror? During the time when we had
! that little unpleasantness with Eng
| land, who can doubt that the bright
hue of the English soldiers cOats-as
seen from their backs-inCited each
American to greater deeds? Then, too,
at this time every lady OF importance,
who regularly attended the fashionable
assemblies in New York, Philadelphia.
Baltimore, or Richmond would have
counted her wardrobe as a very poor
enc unless there had been in it red
brocade, satin or taffeta ball gown. So
much for red.
BAB AS A COLOR EXPERT.
Now, what effect does blue have on
you? The dark blue is depressing-it
suggests domesicity, economy, but
none Of the pleasures Of life. As a con-
trast to it, take light blue; and without
following a line Of thought, YOU think
of the cold skies. OF the robes worn by
angels. but you are Unc0nsciOusly
chilled. That pale heavenly blue is too
holy for us. who are essen italy of the
earth earthly. Yellow, thai wonder
fully pure shade. has no Individuality
eddy enough. unless il is combined
with something else. Puta yellow frCcll
on a beautiful woman ard she NAV
suggest sunshine. 'tNt she never brings
to your mind Q strong personality. f0t
a black and yellow frCck on woman
who knows how to wear IT, and with
this knowledge, she can laugh at beauty,
for as she moves around. and YOU see
first the bright yellow and then the
dead black Ohis is mos effective IN
stripes the individual man stands
out as attractive, iutcres ing, subtle, q
little mysterious, and distinctly feline.
Pu. white and yellow on young wo-
man and she looks like a Dresden
statuet,e: she suggests 10 You happiness
and gaycty: but y0u arc conscious that,
as vet. her soul is sleeping.
Now think of the color Of which it is
said that there are seventy FIVE distinct
tints-purple The faint violet lavender
or heliotrope. call the delicate tone what
YOU will. is the color of emotions and
of experience. and ,he longer YOU look
at it. even if it is only in the form Of a
bunch Of violets. the more certain you
become that it is not adapted to the
young girl. but to The young m2.ron .
best of all-thc widow. The veri,abie
royal purple assures you that it has a
will Of its own; it controls. And it
makes the elderly maron who wears
il assume a stateliCr walk. hold her
head a little higher and causes her to
think of herself as q woman OF inn
p0rtance. There is another shade Of
purple that was affected years ago by
the Greek hetGire-it is that tone which
seems splashed with red until it is
neither purple nor red, but & mingling
of both, resulting in q color that tells
of wickedness. of power, Of gayety, Of
sorrow. and of everything that seems
contradictory. Green, the color OF
hope, should in its light tints, be worn
by a happy woman. Whenever she
locks at it it whispers Of something
better that is coming; but green in is
dull, dark, dizzy hue, belongs to
woman who thinks little, VINO ccono-
mics much, and who is rather DESC
late.
Pink is the color dedicated 10
THE HAPPY YOUNG GIRL:
it is really couleur de rose. It means
ignorant innocence; it means love with
out fear. and it suggests unbounded
faith. Can you imagine a woman who
doubted the love of her husband putting
on a pink gown to tell him Of her sus-
picion? We all laugh at that character
on the stage known as The woman with
a past, and the critics count themselves
as very witty when they jcer at her for
wearing black gown. But that black
gown is just as certainly the expression
of her wretchedness as all the aIl-White
one is symbOlical OF the happiness Of a
young bride. But, oddly enough. neither
white nor black express anything until
they are assumed by a woman. The
woman triumphs over the colors with
out color. |, was Balzac who said that
woman's character unconsciousiy
found expression in the colors that she
fancied. He thought woman who
were yellow or green Woulc be Quairti-
some. She who put on black without
cause was not to be trusted. The wcafer
of white should be cOquetle. 10 the
woman who was unhappy he dedicated
pearl-gray. And lavender, he thought
should be worn by woman on her
daughters wedding day. But Balzac
did not. at least 20 my way OF thinking
discover all the subtlety that exists N
the heliotrope TINS; and neither ga ne
find out how colors influence women
and nations How their influence is as
strong as the pressure brought 10 pear
nv the mysterious waves OF thought
fiat control the entire world at one
time. Those waves Of thought that
have their birth nobody knows Whete'
that roll from country TO country me
the ocean. nobody knows how; and thar
give way. in their own good time, 10
new waves and uOb0dy knows why.
By-the-by. apropos Of brides wearing
white. are you aware Of the fact that
the --,---.-,,.-r-.
GIVING OF WEDDING PRESENTS,
eycent nv ones kindred or very init
mate friends. is a thing Of the past?
Did you ever happen 20 thlnA now FuI-
gar it was. this giving to every lom'
Dick and Harry. 10 whom you SEND
card to the church to witness your