Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-24

seIfsfrness in browns and clouded blacks.
All finer thoughts, as piety or devotion,
or pure love, are pictured piue nole -
less radiant and beautiful. acSoIulns ~
the elevation of feeling. DR., Baraduc, q
French savant photographed tnousIil
forms in a church. They were, 10 use iis
words. ''for the most part, rolling MASSES
of blue clouds like the depths OF SUM
mer sky" 1T.
am sorry to say that this thought
searcher found an intermixture of browns
here and there 10 the congregation. Ihese
had possibly settled over some 5s'
years bonnet. with the poor soul pc
meath sitting there, calmly unconsSlous
that she was a dead give away don
like too much science in the everyday
or Sunday-walks Of life:
1t is a pretty and eXnaustless STUDY,
this tymphony sin color, and at no period
of the year so perfect as In the autumn.
In natures garden, as seen In the WOous
and by the roadsides, one finds no anoma-
lous ningling of hues. There is the scar
let toned down by whites ana gray
greens; the blue and the yellow, colors
that harmonize perfectly, are usually
pie asters, and so on. And the forests!
How the light fiickers and scintillates
from every coign OF vantage IN coior!
In the crimson and gold and rich browns
and orangel
PREPoNDERANCE OF YELLOW,
struck with the preponderance of yellow
yellow flowers. From the buttercups anu
wild mustard of early spring TO the
chumps of tansy and the starry disks OF
the elecampane in late fall mere is q
constant succession of yellow bloom.
Yellow. II is TO be remembered. is the
color of sunlight. AS it is not gaudy, II
never tires the eyesight. Even in house
furnishings its tones mingle and mar
monize with every species OF light. VI =
wearics, of yellow room never believe
if there is a color favored OF immortals
IL Is yellow. 1t is the earliest and latest
color of the year, and in its variations
becoming when worn by young or middle
aged people What is so pretty comDl-
nation In the autumn of a womans lire
as yellow and black? In this question OF
color, as the old-age mark has been set
forward, l am glad 60 see the freedom OF
choice in colors that are allowed ior
women of to-day.
"That was once my color" or Il used
to wear so much blue have often heard
women eXclaim, with sigh, VINO beneVe
they have lost the privilege or induislng
in personal fancies for colors or styles.
/ don't know, for my part, why woman
cannot use the beautiful things or her
youth as long as her love for them re-
mains. She may give her senses the pled-
sure OF revealing in all the beauties tnat
charmed her, of color or FASHION, 10 ner
liking, if her personality has defed the
effects Of time. There are many women
no longer young, but with youthful faces
and figures. that have not the courage 10
follow their innate love of color in TINS
respect. / know one such woman al %,
who had lived calm. even life. and had
seemingly garnered all possible infiu-
ences for physical and spiritual good. who
owned a girlish figure and the sweetest,
roslest face imaginable, and she dressed
TO match her face and form. She was a
picture in lavender and soft greens ana
black nets and yellow. | do not mean
that all women could thus defy age with
color, but where the heart has kept the
body youthful, there will be no outrage
to the law of fitness-she may robe her.
self at will. -
The glory that such a woman sees In
autumn, with the gold and the purple,
will have passed Into her spirit and YORK
ed itself out upon her face with fresh
ness that age does not wither.
Miss Mamie Martin, Of Craigsville. who
has been visiting her cousin, returned
Wednesday.
Mr.. Daniel Cook, of 1.-The Summit" is
very ill-not expected to recover.
Miss Carrie McCallum, Of Shelton, Will
remain for the winter at Chestnut
Ridge"
The rain this week is timely. Few OF
our farmers have finished ploughing for
wheat because of the drought.