The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-25

dropping asleep or or waxing
from sleep have a flood of
splendid color suddenly ap-
- pear before your closed eyes
and as suddenly vanish. a
color purer, more radiant, than any you
have seen in the world of matter!
Sometimes there is a variety OF ex-
quisite tints, blending like dissolvlng
views; again, forming rose pink and
azure blue checkerboard blocks or 9TH
er regular pattern Scientists peieve
these beautiful hues to be currents OF
the universal ether which fills all space,
and that, like light passing through
prism, they are varicolored 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 filing 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, bIacker than a black cats
shadow, blacker even than what before
seemed perfect darkness. Such Hood
of somberness 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 Quln-
cey in his opium eating dreams. The
gloom one cannot for some time shake
off The subject who has witnessed 1T
wakes shudderingly and in spite of him
self often has an impression that some
thing evil is going to 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 to be
put off or lightened up with white or
purple touches just SO soon as conven-
tionality will permit Better indeed if
conventionality dictated that mourning
should not be worn at all. One who
has lost even her dearest and best owes
it as 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
What, then, shall be said of the wom-
an who so soon as she is middle aged
shrouds herself in dreary gowns and
bonnets and cloaks of black, never
Frightening 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 it look older. Only women
with fine compilations or girls without
any hollows and shadows in their faces
can bear it. Lately at the theater
saw a mother and daughter enter one
of the boxes. Both were handsomely
CARRIED. The daughter, a pretty girl
think all girls are pretty-was pleas
ant picture in a 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 1t made her look like a sharp
faced. withered old woman when she
had excellent features and a graceful,
eirlish figure. A light gray theater
waist garnished with cream lace or
pale pink or lavender chiffon or even
black trimming would not have sug-
gested 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 good match, when the moth
er would be ready to die. Women,
don't YOU go to abandoning life and it's
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 in pale pink. with a dash of gid
ing and cream color in the holdings
and woodwork, is suggestive of harmo
nv, brightness and cheerfulness. Tt is
inviting to enter and to stay in, par
ticularly If it have upon the floor one of
those pink and white Japanese cotton
rugs which are so handsome, cheap and
durable. These rugs also come in blue
and white. They are warranted to hold
their co1ors and may be scrubbed with
a brush with the nap" They are
genuine addition to American furnish
ings. Every one of them was made by