Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1913 — AFFECT THE MIND STRANGELY [ARTICLE]

AFFECT THE MIND STRANGELY

Important Part That Various Colors Play In Life Has Not Been Sufficiently Recognized. Have you ever stopped to think of the important part that color plays in your life? Possibly not, but psychologists and some medical specialists—and they are paying more and more attention to the subject—say that some colors have all sorts of curious effects to answer for. After a revolutionary outbreak some years ago in Russia, the fact came out that the punishment meted out to several of the leaders of the rising was confinement in cells walls were painted violet. A few weeks spent in these cells turned keen-witted restless men into dull, stupid fellows, who moved and spoke as dying men do after they have lost the power over brain and body. The effect of red is even more strlking, red is said to produce restlessness and excitability, and no specialist will allow a highly nervous patient to remain long in a room that is either papered or furnished in that shade. And dressmakers complain that to work for any length of time upon a garment that is tinted red will cause the seamstress to become tired, have a headache, and feel nauseated. Perhaps that is why blue, brown and white have |helr turns as the "most popular color,” while red is always a matter of individual taste, except in the matter of occasional trimming.