Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1913 — Best Color for Schoolroom [ARTICLE]

Best Color for Schoolroom

Green Safeguards Scholars’ Eyes and la Said to Add Greatly to Their Mental Efficiency. Scientific selection of colors for the walls of schoolrooms to safeguard the school children’s ‘eyesight and to Increase their mental efficiency was the main topic before the convention of Master House Painters and Decorators’ association recently. The purpose of the discussion was to prepare the master painters for their part in the fight science Is making against the ravages of eye diseases among school children. Green is the color best suited for schoolrooms, declared A. C. Rapp of Pittsburg. “The experiments conducted by Dr. L. E. Landom of Los Angeles,” he said, "prove beyond doubt that both the eyesight and the mental efficiency of school children can be promoted or impaired by the oholoe of the colors by which they are surrounded. Red paper on wall or ceilings should never be used. Dr. Landom found, after subjecting ten children to Its Influ-

ence for five houra a day, that It stimulated mental activity 50 per cent foir the first hour and that after that it increased the heart action to a dangerous extent and was the cause of severe headaches. "In continuing his experiments with the other colors he' discovered that yellow caused the children to Increase their work 60 per cent, above the normal and also increased their vitality. Its drawback, however, was that It made them restless and mischievous.

“Green he found to be the ideal color for the study room, it promoted mental activity to its proper pitch, was responsible for more and better work than the other colors, and was the least fatiguing on the eyes and the nervous system. For the hospital the most soothing effect is obtained by light gray tints.”— Philadelphia North American. Character is property. It is the noblest 6f possessions. It la an estate in the general good will and respect of men.—Samuel Smiles.