Evening star., 1932-08-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The strange relationship between
color preferences and dispositions 1.
shown markedly in regard to flowers.
One gardener will like best blossoms
Of pink, while the next will prefer red
Another will take quite a fancy tc
blue flowers and never seem to get
enough Of them.
White petals exercise fascination
on other gardeners.
And it will be found that the con-
trary diSlikes hold good.
The gardener who likes pink flowers
in various shades and tintS, will not be
very enthusiastic about glowing reds.
The red enthusiast will feel inclined
to resent pink, because it might as well
be red.
Perhaps the majority Of flower grow
ers are what might be known as pink
lovers.
The appeal Of pink is universal.
There Is no rose, for instance, quite
as appealing to most people as the
pink rose. Since colors are vibrations,
1t might be found that the vibrations
OF pink happen to be those most pleas
ing to the average eye. No doubt there
A bowl of pink roses and gladioli-
where can anything more beautiful be
found?
Maybe the fascination Of this color
depends on its midway qualities. that
Is, it is colorful when compared with
white. the negation of color. but it is
colorless when compared with red.
Pink is color moderation.
Therefore 1t has more chance, with
out doubt, to appeal to more different
natures than the striking, glaring COL
ors, which are like bombastic men call
ing aloud for admiration.
Some human beings shine in such
reflected glory, and are always to be
found at the feet Of self -proclaiming
men.
Other natures resent the loud" man.
the powerfully hued flower. They feel
more at ease with something quiet and
modest. .
1t would seem as If Nature, in kind
ly mood. had realized the universal
fondness for pink flowers, for she has
provided them in the greatest abun-
dance.
There is scarcely a type, In any
genus and variety, which may not be
secured IN pink, in some shade. Some
6S.
the magenta tints which many gar
deners, especially feminine, once pro-
feSsed to ''despise."
What has become of the lady who
positively could not bear to cast her
eyes upon a magenta -hued posy?
Once she was everywhere.
At flower shows she turned away
from the most beautiful things. If they
were so unfortunate. as to be tinged in
the slightest degree with that horrid
magenta"
In recent years, however, the flower
loving world has heard less from her,
and therefore has lost that old obses-
sion.
Magenta has its place. too. Any one
who has seen a fine specimen Of
azalea glowing in the Springtime will
hesitate long before attacking its color
alton.
In fact, is there an ugly color In
fowerdom?
Given time and place, no tint can
be said to be ugly, or out Of place.
They are but different.
Whether any one particular observer
will admire this shade, or that hue,
depends upon inner constructions of
mind. nerves, blood, tissue, SO complex
as to defy analysis.
That he does not so admire means
merely that the exact combination
within him necessary for such admira-
tion is definitely lacking.
Yet 1t is the custom, here as else
where, for the person lacking in such
necessary combinations to blabber
loudly, "Oh, what an ugly, ugly color!"
There is no ugly color In nature.
Even greenish whites. properly
viewed, especially in relation to their