COLOUR AND HEALTH
Brown for warmth, green for the eyes grey for comeliness, yellow for cheerfulness, red for the spirits, blue for.the unstable temperament, white for elegance and pink for the sentimental. '
This was the quaint but instructive colon;: chart given me (says a writer in the "Westminster Gazette") by an artist who has. become famous by reason of his daring schemes, for home decoration.l I iound a nerve specialist who has a blue suite in the West End, and he told irie< we , did not use enough blue in our ■homes. It was the colour for"the nerves The same afternoon a furnishing expert waxed furiously over blue, and declared it should share with green the monopoly of schools and prisons and public buildings. So. there is no finality in the matter of colour, aud therefore we must pass guarded judgment.- .
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 146, 17 December 1924, Page 15
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141COLOUR AND HEALTH Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 146, 17 December 1924, Page 15
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