The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-01

| dropping asleep OF VI NdhiiS
from sleep have flood OF
| splendid color suddenly APP
A near 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 a variety OF eX-
uuisite tints, blending like dlssolVlng
views; again, forming rose pink ana
azure blue checkerboard blocks or oth-
er regular pattern. Scientists oelleVe
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 oil
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 sensl-
tive nerved individual sees at the mo-
ment Of sleeping or waking great CLOUDS
of darkness, blacker than black cat
shadow, blacker even than what pefore
seemed perfect darkness. Such nood
of sonlberness floating before the lnte-
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 Quin-
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 nm
self often has an impression that some
thing evil is going to befall him.
Women, being fine nerved, perhaps
nerceive 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
fer 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 Iightened up with white or
purple touches just so soon as conVen-
tionality will permit. Better indeed II
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
snjrits. as a contribution to the salts
faction of those about her, to grieve
outwardIy 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
hornets and cloaks of black, never
Frightening the world about her by so
much even as a delicate gray and pink
tea gown? Here is 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 l
| 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 a pleas
ant picture in a waist of cream white
and blue The mother was really
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 sharp
faced. withered old woman when she
had excellent features and graceful
eirlish figure. A light gray theater
waist garnished with cream lace or
male pink or lavender chiffon or even
black trimming would not have sug-
qested to all the world that duenna-
!
world and had nothing left to live for
except to watch that tall daughter till
she made a good match, when the moth
or 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 in pale pink, with dash of gid
ing and cream color in the holdings
and woodwork, is suggestive of harmo-
nv. brightness and cheerfulness. 1t is
inviting to enter and to stay in, par
ticularIy 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 colors and may be scrubbed with
a brush with the nap" They are a
genuine addition to American furnish
ings. Every one of them was made by