Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-02
- PSYCHOLOGISTS tell us that tn,

~ PSYCHOLOGISTS tell us that the
reason why red and orange.
bright yellow and rich purplcs
are tho coiors that FIRST appeal to chill
dren-and their own psychological
tests With youngsters prove this to be
the case-i. because OF the fact that
mankind nrst learned 10 respond
plea surahly 10 these colors. since they
were tho coiors OF ripe fruits. In more
ways children are little primitives
The games they play are like the pas
times of harbarians and tho stories
they like best TO hear are the same
stories I'm altered form that delighted
our ancestors In some remote an
tiquity almost too long ago for us to
measure the time with years
II you want TO see how true this Is
as 10 children's natural fonfnees for
ripe fruit colors get together a group
of such colors-that OF ripe banana,
ripe orange. tho red OF an apple. the
purple OF a grape and the growing yell
lowish pink OF peach. Put these
colore IN one group and IN another put
the light blue OF the sky. the green OF
grass. the gray OF fee, the white of
SNOW. and tho brown OF esrth-tones
that IN the course OF our own advanc
ing ago and taste may appeal more
strongly than the luscious colors OF
ripe fruit. Just sec how quickly the
child picks out all the ripe fruit col
or.. Psychologists explain this by
saying it is because Il always was ncc
essaH among primitive folk 10 have
keen feeling for these colorr that be-
tokened the presence OF ripe fruit, be-
cause through fruit prim'tives derived
almost their entire sugar supply. many
healthful mineral matters much water
and considerable starch. And next 10
candy there is nothing that a child 20
quickly puts his hand out 70 grasp as
4 ripe apple or peach or grape. Little
primitive that he Is. he instinctively
knows that Il is good for him The
90 baby that has never learned that
candy is sweet VIII hold his hand out
Tor hit O. luscious fruit. and for the
same reason first notices red and
yellow.
Had IL no. been FOR the adaptation
OF cane and beet sugar 10 our uses. we
adults would probably still be as eager
for fruit az children naturally are. II
u because we can satisfy our sweet
tooth in a quicker and more dlrec:
way that we do not write odes TO the
luscious ripe grape nowadays. II IL
were not for candy We should probably
demand as many fruit stands as we do
candy stores and then we would never
hear. as we do now. that large guam
titles OF apples were allowed To rot on
the ground or on the trees simply be-
cause t'e supply exceeded the demand
or OF that more woefuI situation. that
barrels Of apples and crates Of other
fruits had 10 be thrown into city har-
hors and rivers simply because they
had decsyed before there was any de-
mand FOR them.
Thanks for railroad transportation
and present storage facilities we can
stll set fresh fruit all the year round.
oranges are no longer LUXURY in
price and even grapefruit that were a
generation ago usually taken only on q
physicians orders aud were regarded
= something exotic and strange. are
within tn reacl of almost everybody.
TIsuanas are within the reach OF every
nody. and even war conditions do not
seem Lppreciahle 70 have raised their
price. And 81 as the weeks come and
go there are always fresh fruits TO be
had for the wishing fruits that seem
20 bring us magically distilled in their