The Lambertville record., 1903-07-08
MADNESS IN COL0RS.
TlNTS THAT WILL TURN THE BRAIN
AND INVITE DEATH.


Purple Is the Most LethaI of All
Hues, and Scarlet Is Nearly ms bad.
Hue VIII stimulate the Brain, but
II VIII Wreck the Nerves.
II purple walls aud red tinted win
dows surrounded you for a month with
no color but purple around you, by the
md of thai time you would be mad
nan. No matter how strong the brain
might he, 1t would not stand the strain,
and it is doubtful If you would ever re
cover your reason, for purple is the
most dangerous color there is In its
effects OH the brain, which 1t reaches
by way of the nerves Of the eye.
\ splash or two of any other color
in the room would save your reason for
some time longer, but dead purple
would kill you eventually as surely as
would foul air. Scarlet Is as bad, but
scarlet has Il different effect. 1t pro
ducos " hat Is called homieidal mania
a madness that drives It's victim 10
XII! his fellows, especially his nearest
relatives. Even on animals scnrlct has
this effect 1t will drive Il bull or
tiger To charge naked spear. But
purple, on the contrary, brings on mel
ancholy or suicidal mania
Blue. rs long as there IS no trace OF
red In it, stimulates the brain and helps
ii, but its effect on your nerves, If you
are saturated With it and cannot get
away from II, Is terrible. Scientists
class blue as kind of drug In Its ef-
fects on the brain.
1t excites the Imagination and gives
n craving for music and stagecraft,
but it has a reaction that wrecks the
nerves. If you doubt 1t stare hard for
few minutes at large sheet OF
bright blue paper or cloth not flowers,
for there Is good deal of green In
their blue and you will find that 1t
will make your eyes ache and give you
Il restless, uneasy feeling
Green, on the other hand, Is the king
of eolors, and no amount of 1t can do
any harm. On the contrary, 1t soothes
the whole system and preserves the
eycsight If you were shut up In mn
artificial green light for II month II
would develop your cycsight Immense
", but Ii would be fatal, because when
YOU returned to the world you would
be utterly unable to stand ordinary
lights and colors and you would Ger
tanly contract ophthalmia, or possibly
destroy the optic nerve altogether I'M
less you were very mindful 10 take
great care.
Most people Imagine the sky In clear
weather To be blue. 1t is really white
tinged with green. II is only the dis
lance and clearness which make IL
seem blue.
Green is so soothing that it makes
big difference in the length of an
Illness, helping the system to fight the
disease. and nearly ali hospital wnrds
have every possible detail about them
eolored green. Sage green is the most
soothing tint of all; metallic green,
however, is by no means So good.
Solitary confinement In yellow cell
for six weeks will hopclessly weaken
any system and produce chronic hys-
terin. \ long course of ii will pro
ducc foolish lunacy, and even on
guinea pig or rabbit Will drive the
animal ut last to- bite and wound itself
or reduce il to such state of nervous.
ness that 1t will die of sheer fright If
suddenly startled
ON the other hand. If you are not
smothcrcd with ii yellow is the hcalthl-
est chcericst color there IL, and will
make Il dark room bright and hablta
Bile when even green would be cold
and depressing. But To be well "souscd'
with yellow day and night, and to be
unable to get away from 1t, would
bring you To nervous madness within
two months at the outside.
Sheer dead white, unbrokcn, will de
stroy your cycsight as surely as cata
ract would if You are exposed 10 ii for
n few days "A week ut the latest Ii
Kills the optic nerves, aud the sight
goes ont like "A candle, while the effect
on the brain Is SO maddcnng that
blindness Is almost II relief
This Is why arctic explorers have to
wear eolored goggles of green tinted
glass. otherwise SNOW blindness" as
it Is called, and which Is really white
blindness" Is almost n certainty. Even
IN the polar regions. though. the white
Is not complete The sky breaks it. II
it did not no man could keep his eye
sight there without glasses New York
News.