MOURNING “COLOURS.”

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 39, 22 May 1917, Page 7

MOURNING “COLOURS.”

" It is one of those strange and Inexplicable contradictions in the World ,that the Christian nations ’h*** adopted black as their mournia* eni-

onr. J It is empty of any symbolism that! suggests comfort, or hope, or a bej lief in a resurrection and anotberj life-, and is therefore absolutely non- 1 , Christian. “Heathen” Chins uses' white, sug'gestive of hope, and now gloom. In some parts of JEnglsß® child-mourners at a little one’s ral wear white —the last survival w a beautiful custom. In Persia, paiflf brown, symbolising the fatten bio withered leaves cf a Ufc, ib the colour of mourning. la Bokhara. blue is worn. In Abyssinia as# opia greyish brown is tha colow, gestivo of the return to “c&Jtt.” fit Egypt and Burraab yellow- iv thw mourning colour, BynaoWißiag t “sere and yellow.’ leaf and its decays Royal mourning is purple, tbsst also is the mornnuu# colour hi key.

The only unsuitable colour, from evil y pout of view, is blank.