The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
EFFECT IN coLoRs.
To the Psychologist Each Color Con veys It's Own Peculiar Meaning.

From the Philadelphia North American.
 The human eye. 1t Is asserted, can dis tinguishe 100000 different colors or hues, and can appreciate and differentiate twenty shades of each hue In other words, the eye is capable of 100000 col or impressions.
 In the development of human beings from proteplasm. color scientists de- clare, was a great factor.
 In the depth of the sea the algae are red. Simroth has declared that red Is the most primitive of colors, and long ago protoplasm on the new earth prob ably responded to red color waves
 If a glass colored with various pigments Is thrown over a vessel containing in fusoria, it will be found that various kinds of organisms cluster under various col ors. Each family of organisms has its affinity of color. And so, 1t Is said, with people.
 Could you see mans mental being" declared theosophist, and were his emotions to change from anger to love, from envy to hate, and from a prayerful attitude to one of great joy, you would find him undergoing colorful changes"
 Havelock Ellis has declared that red and yellow are the only colors ever seen in dreams Have you ever thought of this? :? The next time you dream make note of the colors which you see.
 In states of mystical eXaltation it Is said the visionary may see flaming red. During the medieval occurrence of the St. Vtus dance in Germany, the dancers i'm aglned they were bathed in streams of gore. That person in a state of intense emotion should imagine he sees red ac- cording to Ellis, Is possibly because of the blood vessels in the brain.
 Red is also the color of revolt, blood shed, carnage. In times of revolution you see red flags, red badges, red stream CTS It is the color of the iconoclast, the declaimer, the socially dissatisfied. In the Bible scarlet Is the color of sin Devils in theatrical productions are al ways dressed in red.
 Have you ever paused and asked why? Has 1t ever struck you that In uncon- sciously associating certain colors with certain occasions the human mind se- lects the color that Is fin accordance with emotions supposed to be aroused at such times?
 Formerly colors were associated with the cures of many diseases. so much so in fact, that physicians colored their medicines Red fluids were considered good for levers, and yellow fluids in- dispensable to the liver. More recently however, statements have been made by physicians that the curtalnlng or WlnooWs with red has effected the cure of per sons afflicted with smallpox
 Red has been associated with violent emotions of anger and hatred. Yet an examination of the precipitation of per sons in this state of emotion has re- vealed a pink pigment
 Among the early races and savages brilliant colors were greatly used. both for personal adornment and on feast days. Let a baby choose ball from balls colored red. yellow, blue. violet or green and he will invariably select yellow or red. In after life 1t is said the majority of persons change their preference to blue or red
 If the theory of theosophists Is based on fact. there is much significance in this. Blue Is said to be the color of emotions of nobility, loftiness of intellect and strength. Red Is supposed to be the color of the soul when deeply excited, whether by good or bad passion; the col or of love- devotion to cause and in tense feling,