The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-02


from sleep have n food OF
splendid color suddenly APP
pear before your closed eyes
and as suddenly vanish,
color purer. more radiant than any YOU
have seen in the world of matter
Sometimes there is variety OF eX-
quisite tints. blending like dissolving
views; again, forming rose pink ana
azure blue checkerboard blocks or oth-
er regular pattern Scientists believe
these beautiful hues TO he currents of
the universal ether which fills all space.
and that. like light passing through a
prism. they are vaiicoIored because OF
differing rates OF vibration.
The effect of this etheric or electric
color play on a sensitive, nervous or
ganization is marked, its recollection
often filling the mind with cheerfulness
and serenity for days. ON the other
hand, there are times when the sensi-
tive nerved individual sees at the mo-
ment Of sleeping or waking great CLOUDS
of darkness. blacker than black cats
shadow. blacker even than what before
seemed perfect darkness. Such HOOD
of son erness floating before the inte-
rior eyes Is depressing in the extreme
TO one who sees IT. He remembers the
columns of darkness" described with
such fearsome vividness by DE gum
cey in his opium eating dreams. Inc
gloom one cannot for some time shake
off. The subject who has witnessed II
wakes shudderingly and in spite of him
self often has an impression that some
thing evil is going 10 befall him.
Women. being fine nerved, perhaps
perceive these color manifestations Of
tener than men do. One would think
from the opposite effects produced on
their minds and spirits by the tar
tarean darkness and the light electric
color bursts that they would know bet
ter than to wear black clothing year in
and year out, as they do, but they do not
seem to learn. Even mourning gar
ments suggesting TO the beholder weep
ing and death and funerals. ought 10 be
put off or lightened up with white or
purple touches just so soon as conven-
ffonality will permit. Better indeed X
conventionality dictated that mourning
should not be worn at all. One who
has lost even her dearest and best owes
it as a duty TO her own health and
spirits as a contribution to the salts
faction of those about her, TO grieve
outwardly as little as possible.
an who so soon as she is middle aged
shrouds herself i'm dreary gowns and
bonnets and cloaks of black, never
brightening the world about her by SO
much even as delicate gray and pink
tea gown? Here is a point to remem-
Der: Black always makes the woman
who wears il look older Only women
with fine complexions or girls without
any hollow and shadows in their faces
can bear IT, Lately at the theater l
saw a mother and daughter enter one
of the boxes. Both were handsomely
CARRIED The daughter, a pretty grill
think all girls are pretty--was pleas
ant picture in waist of cream white
and blue The mother was really a
much handsomer woman than her
daughter could ever hope to be, but she
had blotted herself out in funereal
black. II made her look like a sharp
faced. withered old woman when she
had excellent features and a graceful.
girlish figure. A light gray theater
waist garnished with cream lace or
male mink or lavender chiffon or even
black trimming would not have sug-
cested to all the world that. duenna-
like this mother had abandoned the
world and had nothing left to live for
except to watch that tall daughter till
she made a good match, when the moth
er would be ready TO die. Women,
don't you go to abandoning life and its
pleasures till you die. This is very
good world. full of fun for us all.
Pink is the color of love. a room pa
pered i'm pale pink. with dash OF gild-
ing and cream color in the holdings
and woodwork. is suggestive of harmo-
nv, brightness and cheerfulness. II is
| inviting to enter and 10 stay in. par
ticularly IL Il have upon the floor one of
those pink and white Japanese cotton
rugs which are so handsome, cheap and
durable. These rugs also come i'm blue
and white. They are warranted 10 hold
their colors and may be scrubbed with
brush with the nap" They are a
| genuine addition TO American furnish
ings. Every one of them was made by