The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-08
nv reason" The artist groaned over the

nv reason" The artist groaned over the
memory.
.,she does look like trump agreed
.ba beauty. Gets her clothes at good
nlaces too. but she hasn't any taste She
goes to Mrs. Porter's dressmaker. GU We
seen that gorgeous pink gown OF MIS-
Porter's? Do You know that cost her
only one hundred and fifty? imported
for Mrs. Asiorbilt, and she wouldn't Tax
n because the embroidery WASH / the
daeipn she wanted. Mrs. Porter happened
to be lust the right size. Wasn't thae
luck? Did you know Mrs. Astoroill Duss
gowns, wears them once ana sens oiie1,
back to the dressmaker at hall pity
Then the dressmaker sells them again ~.
loss than cost, you see. That the way
T rot my yellow crepe. I've decided yell
51oU-.s INV color. Always did wear pink
but I'm tired Of it.
The adept had been making lne11ectuai
efforts to stem the tide, and lead her MOCK
ba ok to psychological pastures. Ihete
was her chance .,
..That shows spiritual development IN
you,', she said hurriedly
..Oh, does it? thought it just meant
1 am getting too old for pink
mot at all. Pink is the color LOT ma
terialism 1t has been demonstrated that,
Just as colors correspond to muslcal
tones. so they correspond to mental and
moral attributes. You can affect your
character radically by use of colors.
Don't YOU know how restful green ISL
WHY THE WORLD IS GREEN.
.swhy of course, that's why the world
is green said the artist. did you ever
stop to think how ghostly it would nave
been if the Lord had made the world
bright red?"
.Oh. l don't know, objected the widow.
.+We'd probably like it that way. II we
were used to it, and it would have saved
people lot Of painting. I'm afarid some
of the men know wouldn't have had any
occupation at all, if the Creator had
forestalled their efforts that way.
z Several eyebrows expressed disapproVal,
but Priscilla edged her chair nearer the
widows.
''Green expresses spirituality and men
tally combined" continued the adept.
with her little air of recitative, because
it is composed of yellow, the color OF
spirituality, and blue. the color of men
tally. A taste for green speaks very well
for person. Pink shows heshy instincts,
and red is downright carnal and disas-
trous to the nerves and temper"
4. We'll. / must say I don't take much
stock in that theory said the beauty.
wears yellow of some shade or other, has
her drawing-roonl and boudoir all in
yellow, and every lamp and gas globe In
her house covered with yellow. I hope
YOU don't call her spiritual-divorced
twice and leading that Delaney boy
such dance that he'll not have q, sou
left. He's taken to yellow just because
she has golden hair and that French
artist who was over here and painted her
portrait told her she looked like SYM
phony in gold in her yellow gown. He
and that settled it. It isn't a bad fad,
though, is it? But guess her vibrations
are bright red
mo rule Is without exceptions, af-
firmed the adept with dignity.
'sI wonder if that red den of my hus-,
bands is what has spoiled his temper.
the bankers wife remarked meditatively.
You wouldn't believe how nervous he Is.
He put Molly out of the room last night
just because the child was pounding the
fender with the tongs. while he was
reading some dull old financial maya
zine And he's simply frantic about the
steak lately.
BEEFsTEAK ROCK OF OFFENCE.
..Isn't it queer how many happy homes
are wrecked on beefsteaks? said the
widow "a man may be cherub about
everything else. but I never knew one
who didn't row about the steak. They
say men have mathematical minds, but
tried for ten years to demonstrate to my
dear husband that. given the number of
persons in the United States who eat
steak, and the number of cattle raised.
and, taking into account the limited part
of a beefs anatomy that Is adapted to
porterhouse, it is automatically impos-5
sible that every man in the country
should have the best cut of steak every
day You can do the problem just by
plain arithmetic. but he never could see
1T lie always lost his temper over it,
and said he didn't care what other men
had, he wouldn't chew sole leather. and
Z must change my butcher at once. He
died without ever seeing the truth of my
proposition
sSsAli the married women were sympa-z
thetic. but Priscilla was so Tar lost to
propriety as to chuckle, and she fancieo
she caught an answering CLEAN In the
Widows left eye.
cit Is really very queer. how much food
has To do with domestic happiness = the
bankers wdfe agreed. 81 You can get
along with all other sorts of incompati-
billy, but persons who dom like the
same things to eat oushtn't to try to live
q can't think of anything my
family could do that would try me as
much as for them not to Ike bacon for
breakfast. II would fret me almost to