Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — The "Yellow Fever in New York [ARTICLE]

The "Yellow Fever in New York

Society has the yellow fever. Not the scourge, but an insatiable taste for the color. The fancy has been raging for some time and still the Cry is more, Palms are displayed in windows, cornet’s and hallways, and in nothing but a yellow jardiniere is the beauty of color and foliage so effectively brought out. No cabinet is considered, relieved without a bit of yellow porcelain, and a drop lamp or pedestal burner of orange china, with trimmings of blackened iron, is the very acme of artistic taste. Then there is the king’s blue candlestick, with the candle of gilded yellow was; and how can you imagine a bunch of mignonette more poetic than when displayed in a smooth bowl of underglazed yellow? These craze colorists, who are a law unto themselves, go so far as to worship “that molten thing of beauty,” which the florists were obliged to force and which brings as good returns as the queen of flowers, the rose. But think of putting marigolds in a yellow bowl, and then say who dictates in chromatics. —New York Sun.