Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — Color and the Electric Light. [ARTICLE]

Color and the Electric Light.

Some colors suffer by the electric light, notably yellow and pink. Heliotrope assumes a pinky hue, and many delicate gradations of shade are lost under the light of the modern illUminant. Pale blue also loses some of its glory, but green is vastly improved. Bright crimson looks well if artistically and effectively toned down, and some shades of primrose are especially beautiful! Wrinkles, it is said, are mercilessly shown up, and the complexion that is not of nature’s making becomes flat and ghastly in the truthful light. For this reason the electric light is not popular with many people, but the knowing hostess secures all its beautiful effects and makes everlasting friends of her lady guests by covering every lamp with a shade of yellow silk. The result is magical