East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09
We OWE OUR
SANITY TO GREEN
NO OTHER COLOR so
SOOTHING TO NERVES
Red Causes IrTitatlOn-Sclence Has
Demonstrated Effect of Green on
the Human Race-Thls Is Why
Stay in the Country Is Beneficial.

and would soon destroy each other
and the human race would become
extinct.
Science declares this to be true.
The light of the sun is composed
OF rays of various colors, which.
combined together form light The
three primary colors are red, blue
and green. The older idea was that
they were red. blue and yellow, but
this was based on experiments with
color pigments.
Science has discovered that the red
and violet, or actinlc rays in sunlight,
are exceedingly irritating to the
nerves OF the retlna of the eye. And
It has discovered that green rays are
soothing and restful
That is why there is more crime In
summer than in winter. The hotter
the suns rays the more murders,
fights, suicides and quarrels there
are, because in summer the violet
rays predominant in sunlight
Shut a man up in room where
he will see nothing but red, and no
green at all, and he will in time be-
come a lunatic. says science The
reason Is that the constant irritation
caused by the red rays will eventual
ly be more than the mind can stand
First the man will become nervous,
then his manner will become irritable
and he will be cross and peevish and
finally he will break down.
But take this man from his room
OF red and its irritating influence
and put him in the country where
everything he sees is green and he
will quickly recover because the
green rays will soothe and rest him. !
Everyone knows how beneficial |
stay in the country is to n man who |
has broken down in the city. The
majority OF doctors think, when they
prescribe for a patient rest in the |
country, that the benefit is to come
from the peace and quiet there.
But science now says that It comes
partly from the green light rays that
everywhere greet the ye
II the grass and foliage were red
instead Of green we would all be lu-
natics says scince.
The reason why so many city per-
sons break down. and the reason
there are more crimes of violence in
the city than there are in the coun-
try in proportion to the population
is because in the city there is a pre-
ponderance of red rays reflected from
the red brick houses and pavements
and the eye constantly encountering
these is constantly irritated until at
last the whole nervous system is shat
tered by 1t.
Experiments have been made to
show the influence of the violet and
red rays of the sun upon animals and (
insects. In London a scientist shut !
some ants in a box and put a pris- |
matte glass over It so that the rays s
OF the sun passing through 1t were {
broken up and only the utar violet {
and red rays entered the box. {
The ants Immediately began to |
scamper to get out of the rays. They
would huddle in a corner where there I
was green or blue, but as soon as {
the red rays were thrown there they c
would scamper away. 1t was the S
same with guinea pigs and mice, They S
tried to escape from the irritating in G
fluence of the red rays. (
sunstroke and heat. 1t has been t
demonstrated that these rays will 1
pierce the skull and that they have t
an irritating influence on the brain. +
The effect of red and violet rays c
upon animals is again demonstrated
in the madness of bulls when con-
fronted with a mass of that color.
To scientists color is simply the ir- II
ritation of the nerves of the eye by o
the waves of light Different wave Il
lengths give different color sensa- t
tions. |
Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst, lectur- >
er on art in Dickinson college, says
in his work. "The Painter in Oils" u
'It is the generally accepted theory "
now that there are three primary
sensations; that is, that the eye is
sensitive to three kinds of color, and
that all other shades and varieties Of
color are the results of mingling or
overlapping of the waves which pro-
duce those three colors and irritat-
ing more or less the nerves sensitive
to each color simultaneously
"These three primary colors are
now stated to be red, blue and green.
The older idea was that they were +