The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-08-22
CREATE COLOR
CONSCIOUSNESS
LILLE M. SAUNDERS

90, Mother, just look at my nice,
clean dress-al covered with mud"
little Ann Stevens held out the tiny
skirt of the dress she was wearing
Her face expressed much concern.
Mrs. Stevens and a friend were in
the cozy living room of the formers
suburban home, visiting, and busy
with handwork.
"Why, Ann dear, how did you do
that?"
Buster and were playing ball, and
| nearly caught him, but he jumped
into a mud puddle-right in the mid
die Of it, with all four feet. He didn't
mean to though, cause he got all
muddy-like my dress did"
"Well, that's too bad," sympathized
the mother. "Come here, and I'll slip it
off. We don't want it to touch any
thing. There, it's off. Now, lay it on
the back porch and get clean one.
I'll rinse this out after while"
Mother, may l get my pink and
white dress?" the child paused to ask
as she was leaving the room.
"I'd rather you didn't, dear.
thought you would wear that tomor-
row when we go to visit Aunt Nell,
You'd better bring the lavender one"
Gall right, Mother. l will"
After Ann had left the room, the
visitor asked in surprise, "Does that
child know colors?"
"Why, of course she does, Clara,
nearly as we'll as you and | do. Why ?"
"Well-that's unusual, isn't it-for
a three year-old? Betty is five and she
doesn't know colors. | never thought
to teach her"
81 consider color very important
part of a child's home education for
many, many reasons"
81 pity a color-blind person! What |
meant was that Ann is SO young. Of
course Betty, too, will learn her col
ors in time"
eyes, but if she is not color-con-
scious now, she is losing so much en-
joyment. Some people never do have
the happiness of 'appreciating color.
They never see beauty in a sunset
glow, in the changing colors of the
sky or in the pleasing plumage of
birds-Don't laugh!-To them there
is no particular delight in the vari-
Gus shades of flowers, such as there
is to you, Clara. | know you love
the dainty pastel spring blossoms and
the deeper colors brought out by the
@id-Summer sun. I've watched you.
1t is odd you have not spoken Of their
loveliness to Betty"
81 suppose | did not think she was
old enough to understand" Then after
moment, "Do you suppose that
the reason some girls don't select more
becoming hats and dresses is because
they never have had the Importance of
color brought to their attention 2"
81 think that has much to do with
it, in the case of both girls and boys.
The other day, | saw middleaged
man on the street who had six bright
colors from his hat to his shoes; each
article clashed with the one next to
it. | felt sorry for him. Without a
doubt, he had missed one of the great
est joys of life: that of being color
conscious
eyes, man needs to be fully as
fastidious in the matter of hue-har-
mony as woman. He needs to make
even more careful selections, as a
rule, for he has much more limited
range of colors to choose from. His
taste in dressing means much in the
business world"
''You are quite right, Clara. | know
boy who applied for position, and
passed every test wonderfully until it
came to color test. He was color
ignorant. He needed that job badly,
but as colors were an immediate and
urgent necessity, he lost out"
90, here is Ann with her lavender
dressw