| Show THE RAGE FOR DINGY GREEN THE public exhibit some st striking freaks occasionally one of these ex is shown just now in the rage rae for painting outside woodwork in shades of dingy green pigment of this color is put upon all kinds of buildings without reference to its harmony or contrast with surroundings As a consequence some of the effects are so outrageous to a person with an eye to the beautiful and harmonious in tints that he is almost led to wish that he could be seized with temporary color blindness we presume that painters painters put on these pigments to order if jf in Is leftwitch left lett with them it shows they should have selected some other business than painting these incongruities in color are carried into interiors as well we call to mind one room the walls of which are the usual dincy dinsy green and the ceiling a tolerably decided blue the effect enned is so disagreeable that any person even if he be not a judge ludge of color harmony can observe that there is an incongruity although perhaps unable to tell what causes it it at once offends the eye when the surroundings are in unison the prevalent green does very well but when no regard is paid to adjacent conditions it is unsuitable it alway always 9 appears ap ears out of place upon a public building aiding the coloring on which should as a rule be subdued both on the exterior and interior venis this is especially the case with houses of worship |
