The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-06
A Fine Color Is
Yellow


In ancient mythology yellow was
sacred to Jupiter, and to be worn or
Sunday, the day ruled by the sun and
iconsecrated to deity. Saffron or flame
,colored robes We're also dedicated to
Hymen, and brides were covered with
a veil called the hammarion, without
which no marriage vow was held bind
ing.
The imperial color of China is orange
and is sacred to the use of the Son of
Heaven. Yellow mixed with red is
often an emblem of turbulence, as the
orange lily badge of the orangemen in
! Ireland.
Yellow is considered fundamental
color, like red and blue; its principle is
healing, stimulating, but may prove
| injurious and over exciting to very ir-
ritable and nervous conditions, as it
| is powerful in it's effect upon the
nerves, especially of the brain and
lower parts of the body.
YELLOW IN NATURE.
The yellow principle pervades poi
sons, tonics, emetics and such medi-
cines as SIENNA, figs, castor oil, olive oil,
sulphur, etc. Coffee, with its yellow
brown principle, is inflammatory, and
1isposes to restlessness; saffron in
small doses exhilarates the spirits; in
large doses produces headache and
1elirium.
Nearly all alcoholic drinks contain
the stimulation OF yellow-sherry, Mar
sala, whisky, brandy, champagne, the
golden wines of Italy and Spain, etc.
also cereals such as wheat, oats and
barley. There are strange chemical af-
f1nities between colors, and it is curious
to note with regard to the growth of
plants how certain colors group them
selves together, such as violets and
prfmroses, gorse and heather, ETC., vio-
let and yellow being affinitive colors.
Wherever yellow enters another color
there is a deepening and warming;
thus yellow with blue, green; yellow
with red, orange.
yellow is assurediy the outward ex-
preston of power, vitality, vigor-
physical, Intellectual and spiritual. 1t
all the qualities for good and
for evil of the planetary principle of
Jupiter, the ruling qualities of the
world: wherever it is present it strikes
a dominant note.
POWER OF GOLD.
The raging fire, the illimitabie desert
with its shuffling camels, the beautiful,
fierce body of lion, a tiger, a cobra
are alike yellow. There is no power
on earth greater than those little Jumps
of yellow metal, passed with the I'M
swiftness of thought from
hand to hand, focusing like a magnet
all the evil passions of men, consum-
ing its seekers with the gold fever; 1t
is the root Of all evil, yet with a bios
sonling power for good; by it men must
live, without it, die.
In the Jewish ritual the most pre-
cious metal is an ever recurring sym
Dol. The golden cherubims above the
golden ark and mercy seat, the golden
able ana the golden candlestick, the
golden lamps, the golden bells on the
nigh priests robe, the golden inter with
is engravement, Holiness to the
Lord"
And the same symbolism flows
through the vision of Patmos-thei
golden altar, the golden crowns and
yirdles, the golden Walls of odors and
hose seven terrible Walls of the wrath
# God. and the golden cup of aboml-
nations held by the scarlet woman,
unning, as it were, from the heights
q the depth of the golden scale-or
ather shall il be said, from the depth
q 7he height. from the barbaric, tawny
range Of physical force. through the
infinite ganut of tone shades-copper,
,ronze. iacinth. topaz, flame, saffron,
.mber. citron. lemon. primrose, cream.
vorv-up to the glorious fount of light
,efore whom the spirits veil and from
whose radiant glory the torch of life is
1.-THE Queen.