Queer Things About Colours
Did you Know this? Greenish stars shine more brightly than red ones. Blue things look a better colour hanging than they do lying flat. Yellow shows up most in sharpcornered shapes. Red is used as a' colour on ovtfr twothirds of tiic world's flags. Brown is known as the "earthcolour," because not only is it the colour of the ground, but it is actually made of earth. It is the cheapest of all the colours. Blue is the "official" colour of England, for uniforms, "Blue Books," and so on; but red is the official colour of Spain, green of Italy, yellow of France, and white of Germany.
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Northern Advocate, 28 July 1938, Page 11
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111Queer Things About Colours Northern Advocate, 28 July 1938, Page 11
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