Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1926 — Page 14

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MOODS, OPINIONS SWAYED BY COLOR If You Are Grouchy Today It May Be Caused by the Kind of Wallpaper in Your Room.

By Eldora Field What colors most affect your disposition? Whether you know it or not, according to up-to-date psychologists, your emotions and opinions are greatly swayed by the colors which most frequently meet your eyes. If, then, you feel uneasy or unhappy and can’t account for it, it’s more than likely that the office wallpaper or the light that is rifting through certain-colored curtains are reaching your emotions and ruling them up. This new "science of colors” is called chromopathy and many persons insist that the changing of certain color arrangements and associations have vitally affected their mental outlook, even their health. "There is evidence that color as a curative (chromopathy) is far from being a subject for ridicule,” remarked Harry G. Hill, 52 N. Irvington Ave., local psychologist. "There is considerable interest in the subject, which is growing in this country; however, the people of India have gone far ahead in this understanding of the emotional effect of color. For instance, a Hindoo priest will almost invariably wear a yellow robe, lie feels that an appeal to the worshipping element in man Is aroused by clear yellow. All of us associate a few colors with certain emotions, as red for anger. There’s probably much more to this than we yet realize.” Concrete instances of the power of color are related by local chromopathy students. A woman who moved into a newly purchased house, developed an irascible temper in a very few months. Having always been a person of poised emotions, the change In her was not understood, until a friend suggested that the walls of her living room, where she spent much time, might be at fault. Now chromopathy lists mahogany as an Inciting and exciting color. A soft green was substituted for the original color scheme and the lady’s benignity and graciousness returned In a short time. A man who had been an invalid for two years, with no change for the better and no hope for physical improvement was moved into such a position iu his bedroom, that the light from a rose pink art glass fell across his form. No thought was given to this at the time, but the man’s whole disposition changed after a while. Where he had formerly been self engrossed and centered, with consequent peevishness and unreasonableness, .a pronounced unselfish interest and fellow feeling for others began to show forth. He developed a decided philanthropic turn, and was on the eve of becoming quite beloved, when a change in the housekeeping plans, put him into his original position In his bedroom. Almost immediately, he developed new nerves, seemed to lose Interest in his philanthopic

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