Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — Sounds and Uolors. [ARTICLE]

Sounds and Uolors.

“A long white scream of joy." We used the phrase yesterday to describe a trainful of children off for a day in the country. And a correspondent protests. “A scream can be long, but how can it be white?” he asks. He rather misses the point But he also forgets the close association of sound and other. A blind boy once, when asked his idea of red, replied that it was like a trumpet, and really you can get no nearer to a definition of a primary color than by reference to another sense. Besides, every one knows that a hue is always associated with a cry!—London Chronicle.

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