Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — A Crash of Colors. [ARTICLE]

A Crash of Colors.

“I can stand a lot,” said the artist, “but there are times when my patience is sorely tried. “The other evening I went into a restaurant where the walls are tinted a soft red, most pleasing to the eye. It is a place I frequent not so much because the cooking is good as that it has a most restful color scheme. I had been having a hard time at the studio, and I felt the need of a little relaxation. The band was playing a seductive air, and I was feeling at peace with the world, when I chanced to look across the room, and my evening was spoiled for me completely. “There against the red background was a woman in a glaring blue waist sipping a creme de menthe of vivid green under a hat of a most assertive shade of yellow!”—New York Press.