The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-22
ABOUT THE NAMES OF COLORS.

ABDUL me NANlLo VI SokONS.
In the old days russell, Nile green,
ultramarine, turquoise, and sky blue
were the usual names of colors-
more or less cut and dried, more or
less ideal names. Now chewing
gum" and "bluehsh" are consider
ed good names for our modern
colors. And then there is the in
cessant change in color names to re-
feet the days news, like Joffre blue
when that general came into promi-
nence, soldat blue, Belgian blue,
and submarine gray. inspired by war
interest. This spring there came
Rocky Mountain blue, Palm Beach
tan, and Tuxedo brown.
The merchants have selected list
of twenty-nine shades for the COM
ing season. White Way white is the
first on the list. Bronx is the name
of a shade OF light yellow. Castle
walk and Fox trot are, as one might
suppose, on the old rose hue. Clam
Juice, Nickle and Chewing Gum are
the descriptive names OF certain new
shades of gray. The gold shade is
Grape Fruit Such terms as Dat
meal, Bluehsh, Coon's Neck, Culebra,
Mud, Militia, Flag Blue, Pittsburgh
Smoke and Battlcship Gray are self
descriptive Why Stockyard should
be applied for the new American
Beauty shade does not seem so OBJ
vious, nor does one see at a glance
why Candy should be the name of
a red 1t is obvious that Oregon
Apple is a delightful green. Com
muters' Pansy and Coon Purple are
the new violets. The new blues are
Holdover, Long Island, Naval Re-
serve and Police And the list ends
with the blacklist black you ever saw
called Subway.
Three cheers for the imaginative
faculties OF the merchants who COM
piled this list!
a psychologist tells us that we
should give up reading war news
and novels just before we go to bed.
Instead. says he, we should read
poetry. the genuine old-fashioned,
soul-soothing kind, too, and not the
:cy erish. d;scordant, crashing variety
,-lI,,.,I -,
airy school OF poets. either. What
you want is the good old singsongy
.ird-thc kind that doesn't miss a
bea: III the way through. That's
Inc kind YOU used TO recite when YOU
we're :. school girl II is Longfellow
nd Whittier and Tcnnyson that you
H1nt. not Walt Whitman or his
Jrescnt-day disciples.
Novels excite your emotions. They
center Your thoughts on human pas
sicnN. on jealousy. hatred, malice,
ambition. They keep your mind too
mucl, occupied with the human ele-
mcnt. And the war news agitates
you. rouse your sympathies, your
antipathicS and your feelings OF re-
sentiment. But poetry, OF the old
fashioned psalm OF Life variety
Gains you and soothes you. 1t plays
gently and lightly on the emotions
and draws YOUR thoughts away from
the sordid interests OF the day At
least that is the theory OF this psy-
chologist who has made study of
the causes Of insomnia.
"a slightly puzzled look, with the
lips parted in half smile" That is
the way friend Of ours described
the facial expression that has been in
vogue for the past season. Mrs.
Vernon Castle has it down pat, and
every one OF our dcbutantes can give
a pretty good imitation of it. The
baby stare is out, and no one smiles
broadly any more. That sort of
thing was all right for the athletic
girl who was in vogue several years
ago, but it went when it was mo
longer the thing to acquire a coat
of tan every summer that would last
all winter.
The Liberty Bell is touring the
country receiving immense audiences
at every stopping place en- route. The
inscription cast on the bell is, PRO
claim liberty throughout the world
to all the inhabitants thereof"
Does all, asks our suffrage friend,
Include women in its liberty-bear-
ing message? Or should the inscrip-
ton read. Proclaim liberty to one
half the inhabitants of the world?'"
Y. W. c. A. Lodge Is Popular.