Looking for Contrasts

Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3481, 9 August 1937, Page 7

Looking for Contrasts

The world gives us contrasts at every turn. Nature holds them out with lavish hand Look at the blank line of a rocky edge against the soft blue of a night sky; look at the lovely warm glow oil winter bracken against the grey stone of the hills; look at the flame of gold of a winter sunset mirrored in the black waters of a lake. There is light and shade; one end of the lake black and awesome, the other brilliant with reflected glory. Our cities give us contrasts. Evert in the dullest street a brightly-lit window shines out, and the apples and oranges in z. fruit shop look garish amid the surrounding gloom. Houses and rooms in the same street are so diverse that they might be in other places. Here is the modern room, all angles and bright colors; two doors away we may find the Victorian room, all mahogany and colors dimmed liy time into a pleasing mellowness. The passers-by In the street are so different. The woman with a pleasant smile, is followed by one with a haughty store, the cheery little person who wishes you good morning brightly and tells you that things are not so bad is followed by the gloomy person who sighs on the brightest days and sees nothing but rain clouds behind the blue sky. They tell us that in Soviet Russia all contrasts are forbidden, and a very clever descriptive writer gave us her impression of a drab, grey land. She told of a monotony which frightened uS a land in which all were the same, the conditions were equal, the clothes were uniform, and expressions were the same. Here we have tears and smiles, sighs and laughter. Surely we are better. There are smiles for everyone.

We must not strive for a happy medium in our lives. It tends to become dull monotony. "I envy the woman who is neither up nor down," said the contrasting type one day. "I don't," said another; "if I do have days of depression, I have days of joy to balance them.", It takes all kinds of folk to make a world, so do not let us lose our individuality to become commonplace. Nature "gives us contrasts In sky and hill and flower. Let us give contrasts in our daily lives.