Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-30

tne MISSES 1duilhe anu NhiVttd hoish'
Those present were: Misses Hester
Weleh, Esther Bailey, Greta Misner,
Celestia Brace, Veda Vaughn, Merle
Whitney, Mildred Kaylor, Ruth We'll
born, Amelia Taylory Silvia Edmiston,
Gertie Witzel Greta. Witzel; Messrs.
Cooper, James Walker, Arville Star,
Miller, Fred Shoemaker, Edgar Rowl-
and, Herbert Welch,, George Beck, Ad-
ren Nadon, Lawrence Brewer, ROsco
Clark,
The Pythian Sister club held its first
meeting of the season last Friday, at
the home of Mrs Parmenter. A pleas
ant social afternoon was enjoyed after
which dainty refreshments were served.
The next meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. c, E, Barbour.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. f. Downing and
daughter, Miss Hazel Downing, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Hartley, will leave
Monday evening, to attend the expo
sition at San Francisco. They will be
absent two weeks.
Mr.. aud Mrs E. T. Busselle nave re-
turned from an exceedingly enjoyable,
two weeks visit at the Panama Pacif-
ic exposition. They stopped at Sacra-
mentO, and made several pleasant side
trips to various points of interest
around San Francisco.
The ladies of the Elite Embroidery
club were entertained Thursday af
ternOon by Mrs. Knox mad her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Ray Clark, at their home on
North Front street. This was the first
meeting of the club since July and the
club members entered into the club ac-
tivities with renewed zest. Mrs. Knox
and Mrs. Clark were assisted in serv-
ing by Mrs. Fred Prince. The home
was tastefully decorated in the season s
flowers.
Mrs. Baldwin P. Doolittle, the well
known interior decorator of Portland,
gave a most inspiring and revealing
talk at the art conference at the
State Federation on Wednesday after
noon. Mrs. Doolittle, who is a former
resident of Salem, leaves next month
on an extended tour through the
Orient, where she will study the sub
jeet of interior decoration and con.
tribute articles for several leading
papers on the results of her research
work. Her address at the Federation,
on "The Influence of Color in the
Home" follows:
"Color has deeper significance than
Is generally supposed. L believe the
underlying principle of color is the first
cause for the present demand for violet
(both red violet and blue violet yell
low and blue in house furnishing ma
terials as well as dress fabrics. These
eolors stand for spirituality, intellect
and wisdom. Despite the dreadful war
now raging in Europe that would seem
as though we had returned to savagery
| believe the human race on this earth
is yearning and longing for greater
spiritual insight and is striving for the
wisdom to work out the problem for
world peace and harmony. Without
understanding the laws of psychology
the world is by natural selection choos.
ing colors that stand for spiritual
growth. Consequently the study of the
psychology of color is becoming one of
our most interesting ones and in the
school for Interior Decorating, it is i'm.
! perative to attend all the lectures on
this subject in order to receive a
diploma at the end of the course. We
who have made even beginning in
this far reaching subject see how es
sential 1t is to study our homes and
bring our color schemes into harmony
AS we grow older we begin to realize
as youth never can, how important are
our first and early environments and
impressions, How wonderful would be
the results if all children from the mo
ment they are born could be surround
ed by right colors and things. William
| Morris said we should have nothing in
our homes excepting the useful and
the beautiful but we have so many su
perfluous things that are neither use
full nor beautiful. The Catholic saws
give me the child till he is seven and
You may have him the rest of his life
We know that in these first seven for
native years he will instill the princi
Piles that make character and that viii
abide with him all his life. Early i'm
pressions may lie dormant all through
middle life and then all of o sudder
come to light 1t is so in my own case
and is in yours or will be We all
realize how bad it is to be compelled
to listen to a discord in music. Let
some one practice in our hearing anC
repeat over and over the same mistak,
and it is maddening. Now color ha.
its harmonies and values as has music
only it is not so well nor universally
understood To live in a house wher,
the color scheme is discord disturb,
our nerves, keeps up wrong vibra
tion and undermines our health ever
though we do not realize it. There are
people of highly strung personalities
who if confined constantly in re,
room would 60 insane while those OF
q slow phlegmatic disposition woulC
be helped, their intellect would b,
stirred and they would accomplish
more. Consequently we should stud,
our people. | always contend tha
each person should have his or her owl
room done in the color best suited I,
the personality. To go to sleep and t,
waken in q room done in the color W,
love hest is harmony mad gives III
, strength, Each individual has
} rhsyehic color. We are surrounded b,
an aura and the color of this aura \
the result of our personality and chang
es with our development and moods
There are people who can see this auri