The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-25
EDITED BY NOBLE FOSTER HOCCSON
PRESIDENT HoCCsok BROTHERs BUuptRS

There is more than a modicum oi
truth in the assertion that color
are in some way related TO our in
ner beings. Some colors seem &c
vibrate sympathetically to our per
sonality; others disturb MS. The eli
feet is so subtle as to be hardly sub
consciousness. Often, colOrS which
appeal to our conscious sense, col
ors which seem to please the eye,
and for which we seem TO have a
preference, react disagreeably upon
our deeper individuality.
Color, which is perhaps one OF
the most potent and certainly one
of the most pleasing means of ex-
pressing IDEAS, is least understood,
writes Frank .Alvah Parsons in has
book on Interior Decoration. 1T
is OF all language forms the most
abused. This is partly due to the
fact that in this age, color is US
ually accepted as good because it
belonged to some period expression,
or because some particular person
used it, or, what is more lcmentable,
because some individual likes it for
personal reasons. The sentimental
aspect Of color, sensed anG used to-
the orgy for emotions II creates, has
done much to retard the scientific
and sensible understanding and use
of it. ii it is worth knowing at ali,
it is worth understanding as we'll as
feeling. and it is also worth using
to express with the utmost pertec-
tlon all that its component elements
can possibly tell.
Music, poetry and art are not the
only media for the expression OF
ideas which are 50 much a matt"r
of feeling. 1t is matter OF Scien-
tific record that color acts on the
retina of the eye through at
mospheric vibrations in the same
way thatsound acts on the drum ot
the ear. This tends to explain why
one person is disturbed. even made
Ill, in room which has blue wall
covering, while yet another person
may be soothed to mystic dreams
and repose, in the same room.
Two spheres in which choice ami
discrimination OF colors play an i'm
Dortant part are those o. personal
attire and the decoration and fur
lishing OF the home. The choice
II dress is 4 personal matter, with
II certain limitations, and the con-
'ort and cosiaeration of the indi-
tidual are among the more .mpor
ant points.
The home, though, is the garment
which the inhabitants can seleC,
With characteristics more in keep
ng with the inner being OF ;he oc-
,upants. A house, as Mr.. Parson,
points out, is but the normal eN-
preston OF ones intellectual con
ept OF fitness and his ideal OF what
) beautiful. The house : but the
xternalized individual -- expressed
II color, form. and texture.
There are no reasons Why homes |
md the rooms that maze up the |
lome, should not be tone poems OF
,olor. Rooms that jar and clash |
md janelc, which drive the nerve,
o agony should not be tolerated.
There are two ways in which one |
hould see the temperament idea m |
IS relation to the subject interior
decoration" declares Mr.. Parsons
III II is granted that certain color
ones produce. consciously and un-
certain impressions or
mental states in individuals living
inder their influence, then arises
he question whether the mental
tate the individual ENJOYS most is
he mental state in which he oughi
most often to be.
Ferishta in his History OF In
ia. tells Us that The Prince OF
lumayun fitted up seven houses OF
ntertainment. and named them aft
r the seven planets, ordering al !