Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1918 — Trl- Color Not of Equal Proportion. [ARTICLE]

Trl- Color Not of Equal Proportion.

It is evident from the appearance of the French flag as a pictorial decoration that many artists are unaware that the tri-color does not consist nf the three colors, blue, white and red, tn equal proportion. When the famous flag was adopted in the year that gave the United States its Constitution. 1789, it was complained* that due to an optical illusion, the white, in the middle, looked narrower at a distance, than the h’ue, which is next to the staff, and that the red, on the fly end of the flag, looked narrower than the white. After numerous experiments, the proportions of the colors were Or- , dered to be. as they are now, “in every 100 parts, blue to be 30, white, 33 and red 87.” - ■ ' r'i-' r 'I